The Chemistry Dissertations Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Chemistry Department doctoral and master's students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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EFFORTS TOWARD DIFUNCTIONALIZATION OF (HETERO)ARENES ENABLED BY VISIBLE LIGHT, Eric Allen

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MAGNETIC PROPERTIES AND BIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF SCORPIONATE-BASED TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES, Laxmi Devkota

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VISIBLE-LIGHT-DRIVEN REACTIONS FROM A SIX-COORDINATE NICKEL(II) COMPLEX, Lakmini Lochana Edirisinghe Arachchilage

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SYNTHETIC AND MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF RUTHENIUM CATALYZED C–N AND C–H BOND ACTIVATION REACTIONS, Krishna Prasad Gnyawali

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ELUCIDATING THE EFFECT OF SURFACE MODIFICATIONS ON NANOMATERIAL FUNCTION, Nicholas Langer

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PROBING CHARGE TRANSPORT MECHANISMS IN 2D SEMICONDUCTIVE METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWOKS, James Nyakuchena

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PRECISION DEUTERATION AND HYDROFUNCTIONALIZATION OF ARYL ALKYNES AND ALKENES, Samantha E. Sloane

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PRESSURE DEPENDENCE OF THE RATE COEFFICIENT OF OZONE USING MASTER EQUATION SIMULATIONS OF RECOMBINATION KINETICS, Adil Yermek

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Elucidating the Structure and Regulatory Interactions of the HOTAIR Non-Coding RNA and the Bacterial RNase P. Holoenzyme, Ainur Abzhanova

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METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS (MOFs) SUPPORTED SINGLE ATOM CATALYSTS (SACs) FOR SOLAR FUEL CONVERSION, Humphrey Chiromo

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METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS (MOFs) SUPPORTED SINGLE ATOM CATALYSTS (SACs) FOR SOLAR FUEL CONVERSION, Humphrey Chiromo

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Small Molecule Modulators of Protease-Activated Receptor-1, Jacob Thomas DeRousse

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Photophysical and Photocatalytic Properties of Covalent Organic Frameworks, Daniel Streater H.

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Probing Charge Transport Mechanisms in 2D Semiconductive Metal Organic Frameworks, James Nyakuchena

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Identification of the Autoregulatory Properties and Molecular Interactions of the Lysine-Specific Histone Demethylase 1 Enzyme, Dulmi Senanayaka

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Scope and Mechanistic Studies of Ruthenium Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Activation Reactions, Dulanjali Thennakoon

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Exploring New Techniques For Precision Deuteration of Alkenes and Alkynes, Zoua Pa Vang

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Kinetics of Isotope-Labeled Pathways in the Ozone Forming Recombination Reaction, Elizaveta Grushnikova

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Intrinsic Photodynamic Study on Photocatalytic Materials, Wenhui Hu

Application of Nanodisc Technology to a Membrane-Bound P450: Functional Studies and Resonance Raman Studies on CYP51A1, Yuanqi Jing

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Synthesis and Characterization of Biomimetic Co and Fe Complexes with Trispyrazolylborate Ligands, Praveen Kumar

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Synthesis and Characterization of Enantioenriched Deuterated and Fluorinated Small Molecules, Mitchell D. Mills

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Properties and Behavior of Tricarbonyl Manganese Scorpionate Complexes, Billy Shone

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Biochemical Analysis of Dual T-Loop RNA Motifs that Perform Shape Recognition of the tRNA Elbow, John Aparicio Aguirre

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Copper-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation, Deuteration, and Selective Transfer Hydrodeuteration of Aryl Alkynes, Kiera Behlow

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Toward Understanding the Origin of Mass-Independent Fractionation in Sulfur Allotropes and in Ozone, Igor Gayday

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Scope and Mechanistic Studies of Ruthenium Catalyzed C-N Bond Activation Reactions, Pandula Taepith Kirinde Arachchige

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Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters: A Study of the Elusive Anisole-Ammonia and Anisole-Water 1:1 Complexes, John Lawrence Loman

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Resonant Two-Photon Ionization and Velocity Mapped Ion Imaging Studies of Aromatic Van Der Waals Complexes, James T. Makuvaza

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Development of MQCT Method for Calculations of Collisional Energy Transfer for Astrochemistry and Planetary Atmospheres, Bikramaditya Mandal

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Synthesis of Composites from Cellulose, Chitosan, and Ciprofloxacin HCI Encapsulated in Sporopollenin Capsules, Mark Mitmoen

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Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Ruthenium Catalyzed C-C, C-H and C-N Bond Activation Reactions, Nuwan Asanka Pannilawithana

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Synthesis and Pharmacological Studies of Ph-Sensitive, Allosteric, and Bivalent Ligands As Modulators of GPCRs, Ricardo Rosas Jr.

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Design and Synthesis of Selective Estrogen Receptor Agonists, Edward Edward Wetzel

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Synthesis and Evaluation of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Pyruvate Carboxylase, Daniel John Burkett

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Photophysical Properties and Excited State Dynamics of Porous Organic Materials, Korlan Duisenova

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1. DFT-Guided Discovery of Hybrid Catalysts for C-C Bond Formation; 2. Synthesis of a Reported PDI Inhibitor, Eric Greve

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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Non-Covalent Interactions in S-Nitrosothiols and Thio-Carboxylic Acids, Niloufar Hendinejad

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Hybrid Metal/Covalent Organic Frameworks for Solar Fuel Conversion, sizhuo yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Synthesis and Reactivity of Silver Complexes of Nitrogen Confused Scorpionate Ligands, Fathiya Jahan

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The Alpha-Activator Complex, Cellular Maturation, and Catalytic Mechanism of Iron-Type Nitrile Hydratase, Wasantha Lankathilaka Karunagala Pathiranage

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Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Macrocyclic Arenes: Experimental and Computational Insights, Saber Mirzaei

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Investigation of the Active Site Maturation and Catalytic Mechanism of Nitrile Hydratases (NHase, E.C.4.2.1.84), Irene Anyango Ogutu

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Hybrid Catalysis for the Direct Addition of Unactivated Aldehydes and Ketones to Alkenes and Alkynes, Jacob Porter

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Characterization of Metal Binding Sites Within the Protein Only RNase P, Ganga Nilmini Kumari Wijesinghe Mudiyanselage

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Design and Synthesis of Simplified Analogs of the Natural Product Sordarin As Potential Antifungal Agents, Yibiao Wu

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Structure and Mechanisms of Metalloenzymes for Incorporation of Water Across CN and C-Cl Bonds, Xinhang Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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NADPH-Cytochrome P450 Oxidoreductase: Extraction of the Full-Length Protein and Methyl-TROSY NMR of the Soluble Mutants, Sara Ali Jamal Arafeh

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Synthesis and Characterization of Biomimetic Models of Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Dioxygenases and Their Reactive Intermediates, Anne Alyse Fischer

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Dynamics and Interactions of Membrane Proteins, Azamat Galiakhmetov

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Strategies for the Modulation of Protease Activated Receptors (PARs), Disha M. Gandhi

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Design, Synthesis and Study of Redox and Optoelectronic Properties of Aromatic Oxidants and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain

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Photochemical Expulsion of Leaving Groups from a Naphthothiophene-2-Carboxamide Linked to a Chromophore, Lingzi Li

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Photoremovable Protecting Groups Based on Electrocyclization with Leaving Group Expulsion Via a Proposed Zwitterion, Gilbert Ndzeidze

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The Photodynamic and Structural Analyses of Advanced Materials for Solar Fuel Conversion, Brian Pattengale

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Synthesis and Study of the Electrochemical and Optoelectronic Properties of π-Conjugated Poly-P-Phenylene-Based Molecular Wires, Anitha Boddeda

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Computational Modeling of S-Thiolation Reaction: Toward Discovering the Enzymatic Mechanisms of Endogenous HNO Formation, Elena Ivanova

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On the Structure and Properties of S-Nitrosated Cysteine Models: A Computational Study, Dmitry Khomyakov

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Ruthenium Catalyzed Deaminative Coupling Reaction of Amines Via C-N Bond Activation, Pandula T. Kirinde Arachchige

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Ruthenium-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative and Dehydrative C-H Coupling Reactions of Arenes with Alcohols and Carbonyl Compounds, Hanbin Lee

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Functional and Structural Studies of Cytochromes P450 by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy, Yilin Liu

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Spin Crossover Behavior of N-Confused C-Scorpionate Complexes of Iron(II) Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Kristin Joy Meise

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Design and Synthesis of Selective Estrogen Receptor β Agonists and Their Pharmacology, K. L. Iresha Sampathi Perera

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Redox and Spectroscopic Properties of Protonated Species of Iron Porphyrin Nitroxlys and Their Analogues, Md. Hafizur Rahman

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Mixed Quantum/Classical Theory (MQCT) for Rotationally and Vibrationally Inelastic Scattering and Its Application to the Molecules of Astrochemical Importance, Alexander Semenov

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Nucleotide-Dependent Preferential Localization of Ras in Model Membranes with Lipid Raft Nanodomains, Anna Shishina

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Theoretical Study of Ozone Forming Recombination Reaction and Anomalous Isotope Effect Associated with It, Alexander Teplukhin

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Spectral Characterization of Cytochromes P450 Active Sites Using NMR and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy, Remigio Usai

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Probing the Effects of Nano-Domains on the Redox Products in Molecular Solvents-RTILs Mixtures, Abderrahman Atifi

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Synthesis and Characterization of Biologically Relevant Fe(II) Complexes Containing Redox-Active (Hydro)quinone Ligands, Amanda Elizabeth Baum

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Novel Numerical Models of Electrostatic Interactions and Their Application to S-Nitrosothiol Simulations, Maxim Vadimovich Ivanov

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Photochemical Electrocyclic Ring Closure and Elimination Reactions of N-(Oxothioxanthenyl)Naphthothiophene Carboxamides, Himali Devika Jayasekara

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Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Ruthenium Catalyzed C-C and C-O Bond Activation Reactions, Junghwa Kim

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Development of New Ligand Scaffolds for the Preparation of Heterobimetallic Complexes, Alexander Richard Treleven

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An Investigation of the Requirements for Excimer Formation and Charge Stabilization in Model Pi-Stacked Assemblies, Brandon Uhler

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Resonance Raman Studies of Oxygenated Forms of Myoglobin and CYP2B4 and Their Mutants, Ying Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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S-Nitrosothiols: Electronic Structure and Substituent Effects, Matthew Flister

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Mixed Valent Metal Pincer Complexes and Reactivity of Metal Complexes of Extended Pincer Ligands, Jeewantha Sampath Hewage

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Toward Electronic Materials Based on Metal Pincer-Type Complexes, Jeewantha Sampath Hewage

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Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Ruthenium Catalyzed C-C, C-N and C-O Bond Activation Reactions, Nishantha Kumara Kalutharage

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Towards Reliable Modeling of S-Nitrosothiol Chemistry: Explicitly-Correlated Coupled Cluster and DFT Studies, Dmitry Khomyakov

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Synthesis and Characterization of Low Valent Metalloporphyrins, Nagabhushanam Kundakarla

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With Vibrationally Excited Thiophosgene Molecule and Double-Well Ion Traps, Dmytro Shyshlov

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Ligand Frameworks for Transition-Metal Complexes That Model Metalloenzyme Active, Denan Wang

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Spectral Characterization of Cytochromes CYP11A1 (aka P450scc) Active Site and Catalytic Intermediates, Qianhong Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Investigations of Synthetic Models of Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Dioxygenases, Michael Bittner

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Generation Of Diverse Molecular Complexity From Cyclooctatetraene, Mohamed Fawzy El Mansy

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Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity Studies of Fe(II) Complexes With Relevance to the Radical SAM Enzymes, Xixi Hong

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Photochemical Elimination Reactions that Proceed via Triplet Excited State Electrocyclic Ring Closures, Himali Devika Jayasekara

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Supramolecular Biopolymeric Composite Materials: Green Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, Tamutsiwa Moven Mututuvari

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Resonant two-photon ionization studies of non covalent interactions in halo aromatic clusters and spin-orbit coupling modeling in mono-halocarbenes, Silver Nyambo

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Supramolecular Polysaccharide Composite Materials: Green And Recyclable Synthesis, Characterization, Analytical And Biomedical Applications, Simon Duri

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MATRIX-ISOLATION AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF TRANSIENT POLYHALOGENATED INTERMEDIATES AND WEAKLY-BOUND COMPLEXES., AIMABLE KALUME

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Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Two-Dimensional Layered Metal Hydroxides for Environmental Remediation Purposes, Cleopas Machingauta

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Preparation Of Cyclohexenones From Acyclic (pentadienyl)iron(1+) Cations: Synthesis Of Carvone Metabolites And Synthetic Studies Directed Toward Dihydrotachysterols, Charles Felix Manful

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"MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS OF REACTIVE CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES STUDIED USING LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (LIF), SINGLE VIBRONIC LEVEL (SVL) EMISSION AND RESONANCE ENHANCED MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION (REMPI) SPECTROMETRY.", Lloyd Godfrey Muzangwa

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NMR and Computational Characterization of Protein Structure and Ligand Binding, Terrence Neumann

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Expulsion of Leaving Groups from Zwitterionic Intermediates Generated via Photochemical Electrocyclic Ring Closure Reactions and an Investigation on TPE Oligomers, Tasnuva Shahrin

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Syntheses and Structures of Iron(II) and Cobalt(II) Complexes of Substituted Tetra(pyrazolyl)lutidine Derivatives, Heidi Marie Tatlock

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Molecular Tweezers: Studies Directed Towards the Preparation of Effective Charge Transport Materials, Khushabu Thakur