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Chair's Comments:
We thought you, as graduates with degrees in chemistry or physics, might be interested in knowing about the research that is currently taking place in the Department. Even though this newsletter may resemble a bibliography, if you take a few minutes to look at some of the titles of the grants, articles and presentations made by our faculty and students, you will be able to appreciate the nature and the extent of the research.
This year we have three active searches for new faculty: one in physics, one in geology, and one in science education. In addition, as one of the departments active in the Environmental Science Ph.D. program, we are participating in the search for Program Director.
I wish to thank Mark Draganjac for his initiative on this newsletter which we plan to publish annually.
Paul Nave
Ed Bennett - Physical Chemistry
William Burns - Physical Chemistry
David Chittenden - Environmental Chemistry
Ted Doughty - Geology
Mark Draganjac - Inorganic Chemistry
Gary Emmert - Analytical/ Environmental
David Jimerson - Inorganic Chemistry
Bruce Johnson - Physics
Bao-An Li - Physics
Larry Mink - Physics
Paul Nave - Organic Chemistry
Mike Panigot - Organic Chemistry
Scott Reeve - Chemical Physics
Ann Ross - Science Education
Jon Russ - Analytical/ Geochemistry
Andy Sustich - Physics
Norman Trautwein - Analytical Chemistry
William Wyatt - Physical Chemistry
Betty Pulford - Secretary
Ben Rougeau - Research Assistant/ Stockroom Manager
The Chemistry faculty would like to thank all of you that have contributed to the Department. With your contributions, we have purchased a Hitachi 1200 NMR Spectrometer, which is used by students in Inorganic, Organic, Physical Chemistry and Instrumentation labs. Students doing research projects with Panigot and Draganjac also use the NMR.
The Physics faculty truly appreciate alumni contributions to the Physics Foundation Fund. Some of your contributions were used to help send students to the university meeting of the AIP in Atlanta. Additionally, funds were used to help purchase physics computer accessories for use by physics majors.
Department News:
Can you say Ph.D.? The Department is playing a vital role in the new Ph.D. program in Environmental Science.
Several of the Faculty have received grants this year. Funding helps support research efforts in the department. Grants include:
Bao-An Li, Subcontract from Texas A&M Research Foundation "Probing the Quark-Gluon-Plasma with Relativistic Heavy-Ions", $10,000.
J. Russ (Principle Investigator) "Evaluating biogenic oxalate as a high resolution paleoclimate indicator." Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. Awarded July 1998, $30,000.
Andy Sustich, "Constructing Physics Understanding 1999" $58,870, Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
Andy Sustich, "Constructing Physics Understanding", $27,000, National Science Foundation - subcontracted through San Diego State University .
Arkansas Science and Technology Authority
Bao-An Li, "Theoretical Study of Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions",
$61,120.
Jon Russ, "Can biological residues from past lichen activity provide
information on climate change?", $54,164.
SURF SILO ( $1,250 in matching funds from Arkansas State University in addition to funds from the state): 1998: Sean Puckett and Gary Emmert, Development and Comparison of Analytical Methods for Measuring Chlorine Dioxide Concentrations in Water, $3600; Richard Rickman and J. Russ Stable carbon isotope analysis of lichen thalli and pruina, $3700. (Richard graduated with a BS in Chemistry June 1999, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at Texas A&M University); A. Ford and S. W. Reeve, Infrared Spectroscopy of Jet Cooled Organometallic Compounds, $2051. 1999: Mark Draganjac and Amanda Throgmartin, The Reaction of CpRu(PPh3)2+ with Potentially Chelating Heterocycles, $2547; Mike Panigot and Melissa Arnold, Efforts Toward the Preparation of C-Glycoside Dendrimers, $2,650; Jon Russ and Melanie Beazley, Analyzing for chitin in biogenic residues used as paleoclimate indicator, $2650; Bao-An Li and Matt Tilley, Computer Simulations of Relativistic Nuclear Reactions, $2650; Andy Sustich and Amanda Evans, Mechanical vs. Chemical Instability in Nuclear Matter, $2650.
Others grants:
Mike Panigot received $500 from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Faculty Travel Grant to attend the 36th National Organic Symposium in Madison, WI., June, 1999.
Automated Methods for Measuring Chlorine Dioxide in Drinking Water, Puckett, S.D. and Emmert, G.L, NASA-Arkansas Space Grant Consortium. $2798.
A Supported Capillary Membrane Sampler-Analyzer for Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water, Duty, C. and Emmert, G.L, NASA-Arkansas Space Grant Consortium. $2798.
Research Award for Mr. Sean Puckett, G. Emmert, Arkansas State University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, $400.
Standards for Trihalomethane Analysis, G. Emmert, Arkansas State University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, $444.
Developing Improved Methods for Measuring Disinfectants in Drinking Water: G. Emmert Arkansas State University Scholarly Initiative Fund, $3550.
Materials for the Flow Injection Laboratory, G. Emmert, Arkansas State University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, $399.
Michael McCallum and J. Russ (November 1999) "Can lichen residues be used to reconstruct past climate change?" Arkansas Space Grant Consortium (NASA EPSCoR) Fellowship, $4400.
Andy Sustich, "Teacher Visit to Marshall Space Flight Center", $2,015, Arkansas Space Grant Consortium.
Bao-An Li, Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award: $800.
Computational Studies of Transition Metal Carbonyls and Related Compounds, S.W. Reeve, Arkansas State University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, $1300.
Construction of Raman Spectrometer, R. Jackson and S.W. Reeve, Arkansas State University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, $400.
Infrared Laser Spectroscopy of Jet Cooled Organometallic Compounds, P. Ramage and S.W. Reeve, Arkansas Space Grant Consortium, $3100.
William Burns, College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, 1998-99, $400, Spectroscopic Investigation of Cigarette Smoke.
William Burns, College of Arts and Sciences Spring 1999 Professional Development fund, $419, Construction of a Computer Automated Solution Calorimeter.
William Burns, College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Research Award, 1999-00, $400, Computational Investigation of Donor-Acceptor Complexes.
William Burns, Retention Review Task Force, $500, Chemistry/Biology/Freshman English Learning Community Pilot Proposal.
William Burns, ASU Faculty Research Grant, $2100, A Spectroscopic and Computational Investigation of Donor-Acceptor Complexes.
Publications: The faculty have also been busy publishing:
Mark Draganjac and former students, Mark Green and Yanjing Jiang had the paper "Synthesis and structure of [CpRu(1,4,7-S3C6H12]O3SCF3" published in J. of Chemical Crystallography, 29 (1999) 273-276.
Edwards, H. G. M., L. Drummond & Jon Russ (1999) Fourier transform Raman spectroscopic study of prehistoric rock paintings from the Big Bend region,Texas. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 30 (1999) 421-428.
Russ, J., W. D. Kaluarachchi, L. Drummond & H. G. M. Edwards The nature of a whewellite-rich rock crust associated with pictographs in southwestern Texas. Studies in Conservation, 44 (1999) 91-103.
Bailey, D; Crabb, A.; Panigot, M. Studies Toward the Preparation of C-Glycoside Dendrimers: Synthesis of a C-Glycoside Dendrimer Core Molecule and Investigations into Protecting Group Manipulation for the Preparation of Further Generations of Dendrimers. J. Proceedings of the Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, (1999).
Differential flow in heavy-ion collisions at balance energies. Bao-An Li and A.T. Sustich. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5004 (1999).
Doughty, P. Ted and Raymond A. Price (Queen's University), 1999, Tectonic evolution of the Priest River complex, northern Idaho and Washington: A reappraisal of the Newport fault with new insights on metamorphic core complex formation: Tectonics, v. 18, pp. 375-393.
Excitation function of nucleon and pion elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Bao-An Li, C.M. Ko, A.T. Sustich and B. Zhang. Phys. Rev. C60, 011901 (1999).
Elliptic flow in nuclear reactions at balance energies. Y.M. Zheng, C.M. Ko, Bao-An Li and B. Zhang. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2534 (1999).
Kaon differential flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Bao-An Li, B. Zhang, A.T. Sustich and C.M. Ko. Phys. Rev. C60, 034902 (1999).
Isospin dependence of nuclear collective flow. Bao-An Li and C.M. Ko. Nuclear Physics A654, 797 (1999).
Antikaon production and medium effects in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. G. Song, Bao-An Li and C.M. Ko. Nuclear Physics A646, 481 (1999).
Excitation function of collective flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Bao-An Li, C.M. Ko, R.A. Lacey, A.T. Sustich and B. Zhang. In book: "Heavy-Ion Physics from Bevalac to RHIC", Ed. R. Seto World Scientific (Singapore) (1999).
A transport model for heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. B. Zhang, C.M. Ko, Bao-An Li and Z. Lin. In book: "Heavy-Ion Physics from Bevalac to RHIC", Ed. R. Seto, World Scientific (Singapore) (1999).
An Infrared Diode Laser Spectrometer for the Study of Jet Cooled Gases, A. Bednar, E. Barnett, C. Lindsey, T. Heath, P. Williams, M. Draganjac, and S.W. Reeve, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences, 52, 17-27 (1999).
Using LabVIEW to Synchronize an Infrared Diode Laser Spectrometer with a Pulsed Supersonic Jet Expansion, P. Williams, A. Bednar, E. Barnett, and S.W. Reeve, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences, 52, 117-123 (1999).
W. A. Burns, J. A. Phillips, M. Canagaratna, H. Goodfriend, K. R. Leopold "Partially Formed Bonds in HCN-SO3 and CH3CN-SO3: A Comparison Between Donor-Acceptor Complexes of SO3 and BF3." The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103, (1999), 7445-7453.
J. B. Johnson, R. D. Engelken, C. Barber, H. Jones, B. Latham, J. Parker, "Optimization of photoconductivity in vacuum-evaporated tin sulfide thin films," Semiconductor Science and Technology, 14:501-7 (1999).
J. Bruce Johnson, "Hydrostatic optical cell for temperatures below 350 K and pressures to 400 MPa," Review of Scientific Instruments, 70: 1349-51 (1999).
Party in New Orleans! Several faculty and students made presentations at the National ACS meeting in New Orleans as well as other meetings.
Presentations by the Emmert group:
Puckett, S.D.; Zhang, H.; Emmert, G.L. "Comparison of Colorimetric Methods for Measuring Chlorine Dioxide Concentrations in Drinking Water," 218th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Division of Environmental Chemistry, August 22-27, 1999 New Orleans, Louisiana.
Duty, C.N.; Emmert, G.L.; Wolcott, W.; Olson, D. "A Supported Capillary Membrane Sampler-Gas Chromatographic Method for Monitoring Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water," 218th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Division of Environmental Chemistry, August 22-27, 1999 New Orleans, Louisiana.
Puckett, S. D. and Emmert, G. L. "Development and Comparison of Analytical Methods for Measuring Chlorine Dioxide in Water," Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference and Space Grant Symposium, April 23-24, 1999, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Presentations by Mike Panigot and/or his students and colleagues:
Synthetic Efforts Toward the Stereoselective Synthesis of Beta Deuterated Amino Acids For Studies of Protein Structure by Multidimensional NMR. M. J. Panigot, K. L. Lawrence, M. J. Wooldridge, L. S. Benton, D. W. Barnett, R. W. Curley, Jr. Presented at the 36th National Organic Chemistry Symposium, Madison, WI.
Synthesis of (R)-[2-2H, 15N] Glycine. J. R. Walker, M. J. Panigot, R. W. Curley, Jr. Presented at the 31st American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting, Columbus, OH.
Unexpected Failure of Benzylmagnesium Chloride to Provide the Rearranged o-Tolyl Product Upon Alkylation of Acetobromogalactose. M. J. Panigot, R. W. Curley, Jr. Presented at the 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA.
Studies Toward the Synthesis of C-Glycoside Dendrimers: The Synthesis of a 1-C-Ethynyl Glucoside and Investigation of its Pd-Catalyzed Coupling to Polyhaloarenes. M. J. Panigot, A. Bailey, D. Bailey, J. Middleton. Presented at the 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA.
Toward a general approach to stereoselectively beta deuterated and 15N-labeled amino acids: Synthesis of (2S,3S)-[3-2H,15N] phenylalanine. D. W. Barnett, M. J. Panigot, R. W. Curley Jr. Presented at the 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA.
Studies Toward the Synthesis of C-Glycoside Dendrimers. M. J. Panigot, J. L. Faulkner, J. Middleton, D. Bailey. Presented at the 51st Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Knoxville, TN.
Efforts Toward the Preparation of Stereoselectively Beta Deuterated Leucine and Tryptophan. M. J. Panigot, M. McMasters, K. L. Lawrence, L. S. Benton. Presented at the 51st Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Knoxville, TN.
Presentations by Bao-An Li in 1999:
Uranium on uranium collisions at relativistic energies, Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, Oct. 20-23, 1999, Asilomar, California.
Probing the isospin-dependence of the nuclear equation of state using radioactive beams. International Workshop on New physics Opportunities with Radioactive Beams. Aug. 11-13, (1999), Beijing, China.
An invited series of 5 Lectures on Frontiers of Nuclear Physics. China Center of Advance Science and Technology, Aug. 9-11, Beijing, China.
Uranium-on-uranium collisions at relativistic energies, Cyclotron Institute Colloquium, July, 27, 1999, Texas A&M University, College Station.
ART: A relativistic transport model for RHIC.,International Workshop on Predictions for RHIC, July 8-16, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York.
A Multi-phase transport model for RHIC, XIV International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, May 10-15, 1999, Turin, Italy.
Isospin dependence of nuclear equation of state. International Conference on Future Directions for Nuclear Science. May 3-5, 1999, Houston, Texas.
Excitation function of collective flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Symposium on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, American Physical Society meeting, March 20-26, 1999, Atlanta.
Other presentations:
Richard Rickman and J. Russ (August 1999) The validity of radiocarbon ages of biogenic oxalate. Poster presented at the National American Chemical Society Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Richard Rickman and J. Russ (April 1999) Testing the reliability of 14C dates of lichen residues as a paleoclimate indicator, 1999 Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference and Space Grant Symposium, Henderson State College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
Analyzing Cigarette Smoke Using Infrared Spectroscopy. Richard Lester, William Burns, 218 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA.
Ligand Substitution Reactions of [CpRu(PPh3)(tht)2]OTfl. Molecular Structure of [CpRu(PPh3)(pms)2]OTfl C2H4Cl2, pms = pentamethyelene sulfide. Paul Nave, Mark Draganjac, A. W. Cordes, Tosha M. Barclay. 83rd Meeting, Ark. Acad. Sci., Russellville, AR, Apr. 2-3, 1999.
Infrared Laser Spectroscopy of Jet-cooled Organometallic Compounds. Alan Ford, S. Reeve, M. Draganjac. 6th Annual Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference. Arkadelphia, AR, Apr. 24, 1999.
Synthesis and Structure of a Ruthenium Bisthietane Complex. M. Draganjac, P. M. Nave, A. W. Cordes, T. M. Barclay, T. Cundari. 218th National Meeting, Am. Chem. Soc., New Orleans, LA, Aug. 22, 1999.
Infrared Laser Spectroscopy of Jet-cooled Organometallic Compounds. S. Reeve, A. Ford, M. Draganjac. 218th National Meeting, Am. Chem. Soc., New Orleans, LA, Aug. 25, 1999.
Andy Sustich, "Differential Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions at Balance Energies", American Physical Society Centennial Meeting, March 20-26, 1999.
S.W. Reeve, Missouri Western State College Chemistry Department Seminar, Infrared Spectroscopy of Jet Cooled Gases, St. Joseph, MO, March 5, 1999.
R. Jackson and S.W. Reeve, 6th Annual Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, Arkadelphia, AR, Laser Spectroscopy of Organometallic Compounds, April 24, 1999.
The chemistry of the stratospheric aerosol at 20 km during April 1993, Joseph Scott and David Chittenden, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Rochester, NY, April 8, 1999.
A Rotational-Vibrational analysis of several components of Tobacco Smoke: An Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Experiment. William Burns, 1999 Sigma Xi Forum, November 4-5, 1999, Minneapolis, MN.
Congratulations to Dr. Ann Ross and Dr. Gary Emmert, both completing their doctorates last year.
Retirements this upcoming year include Ed Bennett, David Chittenden and Larry Mink. They will be missed in the classroom and in the department.
Ted Doughty and student Trey Smith went to New Mexico over the Christmas break to do field mapping of the Sand Hill fault zone. Their goal was to gather enough data to investigate the impact of the fault on ground water flow and for funding next year.
Paul Nave and Ted Doughty traveled recently to Memphis to meet with staff at the University of Memphis in order to explore the possibility of expanding ASU's earthquake monitoring seismic network. Together with Ben Rougeau, they hope to have 3 seismic stations up and running by the summer. If you feel a tremor, give Ted a call!
Mark Draganjac, currently President-elect, will begin his term as President of the Arkansas Academy of Science in April. The state of Arkansas could be in trouble. Mark is also ASU's representative on the state's EPSCoR committee, as well as the Official Chemistry Professor of ROCK103, Memphis.
Student Affiliates, American Chemical Society:
The Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society continue to be active. As examples, over the past year, the students provided a workshop to enable Boy Scouts to obtain their Chemistry Merit Badge, performed the Halloween Magic Show at ASU and at local schools, hosted several seminars from visiting scholars and conducted a workshop titled "What can I do with a Chemistry Degree?" The workshop was attended by two Chemistry alumni Drs. Tim Hightower and Warren Jackson. In other news, the SAACS would also like to thank Dr. Scott Reeve for his guidance to the SAACS. Scott stepped down as advisor last spring. His insightful comments will be missed. Dr. Gary Emmert took over as advisor in Fall 99.
We would like to hear from you. Tell us what you are doing now and we'll include it in the newsletter. Write, call or e-mail us.
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"Missing" recent graduates:
Where are they? What are they doing?
What is their address? Phone number? E-mail address?
Help us locate some of our recent graduates. If you know where
any of the following are, contact either Mark Draganjac or Paul Nave (pnave@astate.edu)
Christina Wargel '98
Elizabeth Jane King '97
Jennifer Spurlock '97
Yolanda Williams '96
Randy Gillespie '96
Jennifer Davis '95
Kevin Thomas '95
Billie Gray '94
Terri Hayden '94
Check out the Department webpage - Go to the ASU webpage at www.astate.edu Then go through Arts and Sciences down to the Chemistry page or click on the title of the Newsletter. We hope to have home pages for all the faculty so you can keep up with what we are doing. Future newsletters will focus on you, the alumni of the Department of Chemistry and Physics.