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Mid-south
Inorganic Chemists Association |
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Mid-south
Inorganic Chemists Association |
Past Meetings:
| October 13, 2007 | Harding University | Presentations |
| March 3, 2007 | Missouri State University | Presentations |
| November 4, 2006 | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | Presentations |
| March 11, 2006 | University of Arkansas, Little Rock | Presentations |
| October 1, 2005 | Univ. of Central Arkansas | Presentations |
| March 5, 2005 | University of Memphis | Presentations |
| October 2, 2004 | Lyon College, Batesville | Presentations |
| April 3, 2004 | Arkansas State University | Presentations |
| September 20, 2003 | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | Presentations |
| March 15, 2003, noon - 3 | Univ. of Central Arkansas | Presentations |
| October 5, 2002, noon - 3 | University of Memphis | Presentations |
| March 2, 2002, 3:30 pm | University of Memphis | Organizational Meeting |
Schedule – Saturday October 13, 2007
9:00 Welcome – Burt Hollandsworth (Harding University)
9:05 Daniel Word (Harding University) "Strategies for the Synthesis of Lunar Dust Additives"
9:15 Thermite Reaction Demonstration
9:20 Fumiya Wanatabe (University of Arkansas-Little Rock) "Instrumentation at the Nanotechnology Center at UALR"
9:40 Anindya Ghosh (University of Arkansas-Little Rock) "Oxygen activation Using Fe-TAML"
10:00 Kyle Felling (University of Central Arkansas) "Use of SF4 as a Fluorinating Agent”
10:20 Micah Abrams (University of Central Arkansas) "Inorganic Spectroscopy with DFT: Rationalization or Prediction"
10:40 Pat Desrochers (University of Central Arkansas) "Reversible Ammonia Binding at Nickel: Potential for Sensor Applications"
11:00 20 minute Break
11:20 Theodore Burkey (University of Memphis) “IR spectroscopy of a Photochromic Organometallic: Picosecond linkage Isomerization”
11:40 Edwin Webster (University of Memphis) "Computational Insights into Degenerate Ethylene Exchange with a Grubbs-Type Catalyst”
12:00 Lunch Break – Drive to The Rib Crib, Race Street, Searcy, AR
1:20 Garrett Glover (Missouri State University) “Synthesis and Characterization of Monovalent Salts of Nitrosodicyanmethanide, M{ONC(CN)2} [where M=K, Ag, Tl]”
1:40 Daniela Marcano (Missouri State University) “Pyridylcyanoximes and their Metal Complexes”
2:00 Carl Cheadle (Missouri State University) “Coordination Compounds of several Acetamide-Cyanoximes”
2:20 Nikolay Gerasimchuk (Missouri State University) “Silver(I) Cyanoximates: Synthesis, Properties and Applications”
March 11, 2006 Meeting
| 10 am | Organizing Informal Student Chalk-talk Seminars | Patrick Desrochers, University of Central Arkansas |
| 10:20 am | To PP or not to PP? | Mark Draganjac, Arkansas State University |
| 10:40 am | Direct Fluorination of Organic Molecules | Kyle Felling, University of Central Arkansas |
| 11:00 am | Teaching Inorganic Preparations class at MS | Nickolay Gerasimchuk, Missouri State University |
| 11:20 am | Rainbow Hues of Vanadium | Joslyn Holtfort, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| 12:00 pm | LUNCH | |
| 12:50 pm | Color Effects of Ligand Fields | Karen Wilson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| 1:10 pm | Where the Wolfram Things Are: Mo and W Enzymes | David Lindquist, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
October 1, 2005 Meeting
| Merritt Smith, Kaitlyn Stambaugh, Don Perry, UCA | Surface-enhanced Infrared Study of Nitroaniline Isomers |
| Bill Durham, UA | An expensive means to making a simple complex |
| Nikolay Gerasimchuk, MSU | An excursion into coordination chemistry of Thallium: oxime-based double-strtanded one-dimensional coordination polymers |
| David Lindquist, UALR | Giant Dragonflies and Dead Zones: Organisms and Element Cycles in the Geological Past and Present |
| Pat Desrochers, UCA | Methane activation using cheap chemicals |
March 5, 2005 Meeting
| Mark Draganjac, ASU | Glycoside Dendrimers as Potential Chelating Agents |
| Shannon Gittermann, U of M | Reaction Enthalpies and Volumes for a Variety of Ligands Determined by Photoacoustic Calorimetry |
| Don Perry, UCA | An Introduction to Quantum Mechanical Calculations for Undergraduates |
| Charlie Duke, U of M | Photochemical studies on a-methylthio-substituted acetophenonechromium carbonyl complexes |
| Karin Pruessner, UALR | What can Transmission Electron Microscopy do for you? |
| Bill Durham, UA | The Use of Luminescent Metal Complexes to Probe the Electrospray Process |
| Tung To, U of M | New Photochromic Orgaometallics Based on Ultrafast Chelation of Cymantrene Derivatives with Tethered Functional Group |
| David Lindquist, UALR | Martyr Boltzmann: Physicists Come to Believe in Atoms 100 Years after Dalton |
| Pat Desrochers, UCA | You Lost Me at "Atoms..." Effective Less-technical Writing by Senior Chemistry Majors |
September 20th MICA meeting followed the Networking Arkansas Institutions of Higher Education Conference/ 2003 BRIN Research Symposium - Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences September 19-20, 2003 - University of Arkansas
March 15th Schedule of Presentations: Laney Building Room 103
| Ted Burkey, The University of Memphis | 1. "Synthesis of methylbenzoate chromium tricarbonyl: an alternative to mesitylene molybdenum tricarbonyl in inorganic lab" |
| Mark Draganjac,
Arkansas
State University |
2. "Synthesis and characterization of ruthenium complexes" |
| Bill Durham, University of Arkansas | 3. "Mass spectrometry in inorganic lab" |
| Patrick Desrochers, Univ. of Central Arkansas | 4. "Materials science physics/chemistry experiments" |
October 5th Schedule of Presentations: Smith Building Room 206
| Paul
M. Nave, Mark Draganjac, Michael J. Panigot. Robert W.
Curley, Jr. and Charles Cottrell, Arkansas State University |
1. "The nature of nonequivalence of the alpha hydrogens of the complex [CpRu(PPh3)(pms)2]OTf: Diastereotopic hydrogens or axial-equatorial exchange?" |
| Tung To and Ted Burkey, The University of Memphis | 2. "Design and preparation of cylopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl derivatives for photochromic materials" |
| Patrick Desrochers,Univ. of Central Arkansas, | 3. "Chalcogen Selectivity by Nickel in Biochemical Systems" |
| David Lindquist, University of Arkansas, Little Rock | 4. "Ceramic studies with porous alumina and oxide ion conductors" |
| Bill Durham, University of Arkansas | 5. "Electrostatically Bound Metal Complexes for the Study of Electron Transfer in Metalloproteins". |
| Shannon Gittermann and Ted Burkey, University of Memphis | 6. "Photoacoustic calorimetery studies of metal-ligand and metal-solvent bond energies" |
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Mark Draganjac
Department of Chemistry and Physics
Arkansas State University
State University, AR 72467
Office: (870) 972-3272
Fax: (870) 972-3089
mdraganj@astate.edu
Title image of muscovite (mineral class: mica) from the Mineral Gallery
Revised: 10/18/07