Submissions from 2016
A Remarkable Oxidative Cascade That Replaces the Riboflavin C8 Methyl with an Amino Group during Roseoflavin Biosynthesis, Isita Jhulki, Prem K. Chanani, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, and Tadhg P. Begley
From Wires to Cables: Attempted Synthesis of 1,3,5-Trifluorenylcyclohexane as a Platform for Molecular Cables, Marat R. Talipov, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Khushabu Thakur, Scott A. Reid, and Rajendra Rathore
Submissions from 2015
Pd/C catalyzed conversion of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone using alcohol as a hydrogen donor under microwave conditions, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Muhammad A. Hasan
NaOH catalyzed condensation reactions between levulinic acid and biomass derived furan-aldehydes in water, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Timila B. Singh, Eve Larkin, Muhammad A. Hasan, and Hau Jun Fan
Synthesis and Pyrolysis of Selected Metal Levulinates, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Dominique T. Sterling-Wells
Crystal structure of a polymeric calcium levulinate dihydrate: Catena-poly[[diaquacalcium]-bis(μ2-4-oxobutanoato)], Ananda S. Amarasekara, Dominique T. Sterling-Wells, Carlos Ordonez, Marie Josiane Ohoueu, Marina S. Fonari, and G. Smith
Acidic ionic liquid catalyzed liquefaction of cellulose in ethylene glycol; Identification of a new cellulose derived cyclopentenone derivative, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
γ-Valerolactone from pyrolysis of calcium salts of levulinic-formic acid mixtures derived from cellulose, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Bernard Wiredu, and Dre'Langala N. Edwards
Concise presentation of the Coulomb electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged cube, Orion Ciftja
Hartree-Fock energy of a finite two-dimensional electron gas system in a jellium background, Orion Ciftja
Properties of a finite fully spin-polarized free homogeneous one-dimensional electron gas, Orion Ciftja
Quantitative Analysis of Shape-Sensitive Interaction of a Charged Nanoplate and a Charged Nanowire, Orion Ciftja
Shape-dependent energy of an elliptical jellium background, Orion Ciftja, Ledarion Escamilla, and Ryan Mills
Non-canonical active site architecture of the radical SAM thiamin pyrimidine synthase, Michael K. Fenwick, Angad P. Mehta, Yang Zhang, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Tadhg P. Begley, and Steven E. Ealick
Molybdopterin biosynthesis - Mechanistic studies on a novel MoaA catalyzed insertion of a purine carbon into the ribose of GTP, Angad P. Mehta, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, and Tadhg P. Begley
Anaerobic 5-Hydroxybenzimidazole Formation from Aminoimidazole Ribotide: An Unanticipated Intersection of Thiamin and Vitamin B12 Biosynthesis, Angad P. Mehta, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Michael K. Fenwick, Amrita B. Hazra, Michiko E. Taga, Yang Zhang, Steven E. Ealick, and Tadhg P. Begley
Radical S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) enzymes in cofactor biosynthesis: A treasure trove of complex organic radical rearrangement reactions, Angad P. Mehta, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Nilkamal Mahanta, Dmytro Fedoseyenko, Benjamin Philmus, Lisa E. Cooper, Yiquan Liu, Isita Jhulki, Steven E. Ealick, and Tadhg P. Begley
1-(1-Propylsulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium chloride acidic ionic liquid catalyzed hydrolysis of cellulose in water: Effect of metal ion co-catalysts, Bernard Wiredu and Ananda S. Amarasekara
The effect of metal ions as co-catalysts on acidic ionic liquid catalyzed single-step saccharification of corn stover in water, Bernard Wiredu and Ananda S. Amarasekara
Submissions from 2014
1-(1-Alkylsulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium chloride Brönsted acidic ionic liquid catalyzed Skraup synthesis of quinolines under microwave heating, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Muhammad A. Hasan
Mechanism of 1-(1-propylsulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium chloride catalyzed transformation of d-glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in DMSO: An NMR study, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Ashfaqur Razzaq
Sol-gel synthesis, characterization and water vapor adsorption properties of 1,1′-(1,6-hexanediyl)-bis(imidazolium)dichloride-silica hybrid material, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Ashfaqur Razzaq, Robert Caballero, and Bernard Wiredu
Acidic Ionic Liquid Catalyzed One-Pot Conversion of Cellulose to Ethyl Levulinate and Levulinic Acid in Ethanol-Water Solvent System, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Single reactor conversion of corn stover biomass to C5-C20 furanic biocrude oil using sulfonic acid functionalized Brönsted acidic ionic liquid catalysts, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Theoretical aspects on pushing and engulfment of SiC particles during directional solidification experiments with molten silicon, Arjan Ciftja and Orion Ciftja
Finite clusters of fast-rotating spinless bosons in a harmonic trap, Orion Ciftja
Mathematical expressions for a system of two identical uniformly charged rods, Orion Ciftja, Giancarlo Paredes, and Myegan Griffin
Effects of Al-Mn co-doping on magnetic properties of semiconducting oxide thin films, Nguyen Hoa Hong, Viacheslav Shaidiuk, Timur Sh Atabaev, Orion Ciftja, Makio Kurisu, Hyung Kook Kim, and Yoon Hwae Hwang
Molybdopterin biosynthesis: Trapping of intermediates for the MoaA-catalyzed reaction using 2′-deoxyGTP and 2′-chloroGTP as substrate analogues., Angad P. Mehta, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Hui Xu, and Tadhg P. Begley
Synthesis of a silica-immobilized Brönsted acidic ionic liquid catalyst and hydrolysis of cellulose in water under mild conditions, Bernard Wiredu and Ananda S. Amarasekara
Submissions from 2013
Handbook of Cellulosic Ethanol, Ananda S. Amarasekara
Degradation of Untreated Switchgrass Biomass into Reducing Sugars in 1-(Alkylsulfonic)-3-Methylimidazolium Brönsted Acidic Ionic Liquid Medium Under Mild Conditions, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Preethi Shanbhag
Analytic formulas for small systems of electrons at odd denominator filling factors of the lowest Landau level, Orion Ciftja
Anisotropy in a high Landau level due to effective electron-electron interactions, Orion Ciftja
Preface, Orion Ciftja
Properties of confined small systems of electrons in a parabolic quantum dot, Orion Ciftja
Quantum dots: Applications, synthesis and characterization, Orion Ciftja
Two-dimensional motion of a parabolically confined charged particle in a perpendicular magnetic field, Orion Ciftja
Understanding electronic systems in semiconductor quantum dots, Orion Ciftja
Anisotropic quantum hall liquids at intermediate magnetic fields, Orion Ciftja, Chidera Ozurumba, and Francis Ujeyah
Energy in a finite two-dimensional spinless electron gas, Orion Ciftja, Bradley Sutton, and Ashley Way
In vitro reconstitution of the radical S-adenosylmethionine enzyme MqnC involved in the biosynthesis of futalosine-derived menaquinone, Lisa E. Cooper, Dmytro Fedoseyenko, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Soong Hyun Kim, Tohru Dairi, and Tadhg P. Begley
Ferrite nanoparticles for future heart diagnostics, Nguyen Hoa Hong, A. T. Raghavender, O. Ciftja, M. H. Phan, K. Stojak, H. Srikanth, and Yin Hua Zhang
Molybdopterin biosynthesis: Trapping an unusual purine ribose adduct in the MoaA-catalyzed reaction, Angad P. Mehta, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, and Tadhg P. Begley
Catalysis of a new ribose carbon-insertion reaction by the molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic enzyme MoaA, Angad P. Mehta, Jeremiah W. Hanes, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, David G. Hilmey, Petra Hänzelmann, and Tadhg P. Begley
Computational of optical micro-/nanoprism, Sarhan M. Musa and Orion Ciftja
Submissions from 2012
Synthesis and characterization of branched polymeric ionic liquids with imidazolium chloride segments, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Brandon Callis, and Bernard Wiredu
A comparison of dilute aqueous p-toluenesulfonic and sulfuric acid pretreatments and saccharification of corn stover at moderate temperatures and pressures, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Aryl sulfonic acid catalyzed hydrolysis of cellulose in water, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Vanillin based polymers: I. An electrochemical route to polyvanillin, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Bernard Wiredu, and Ashfaqur Razzaq
Approximate circularly symmetric confining potentials for square patterned quantum dot nanostructures, Orion Ciftja
Coulomb self-energy of a uniformly charged three-dimensional cylinder, Orion Ciftja
Quantum hall edge physics and its one-dimensional luttinger liquid description, Orion Ciftja
Confinement of electrons in a geometrically patterned non-circular two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dot, Orion Ciftja, Torrance Rasco, Guillermo Vargas, and Stevonnise Dunn
Room temperature ferromagnetism in monoclinic Mn-doped ZrO 2 thin films, Nguyen Hoa Hong, C. K. Park, A. T. Raghavender, O. Ciftja, N. S. Bingham, M. H. Phan, and H. Srikanth
Identification of the product of toxoflavin lyase: Degradation via a baeyer-villiger oxidation, Benjamin Philmus, Sameh Abdelwahed, Howard J. Williams, Michael K. Fenwick, Steven E. Ealick, and Tadhg P. Begley
Electrochemistry and electrogenerated chemiluminescence of π-stacked poly(fluorenemethylene) oligomers. multiple, interacting electron transfers, Honglan Qi, Jinho Chang, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Khushabu Thakur, Rajendra Rathore, and Allen J. Bard
Submissions from 2011
5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Based Polymers, Ananda S. Amarasekara
Synthesis of levulinic acid-glycerol ketal-ester oligomers and structural characterization using NMR spectroscopy, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Steven A. Hawkins
Thermal properties of sulfonic acid group functionalized Brönsted acidic ionic liquids, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Onome S. Owereh
Interactions of D-cellobiose with p-toluenesulfonic acid in aqueous solution: A 13C NMR study, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Onome S. Owereh, and Brian Ezeh
Synthesis and characterization of polymeric ionic liquid poly(imidazolium chloride-1,3-diylbutane-1,4-diyl), Ananda S. Amarasekara and Preethi Shanbhag
Degradation of cellulose in dilute aqueous solutions of acidic ionic liquid 1-(1-propylsulfonic)-3-methylimidazolium chloride, and p-toluenesulfonic acid at moderate temperatures and pressures, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Bernard Wiredu
Semi-Classical Model of Strongly Correlated Coulomb Systems in Weak Magnetic Field, O. Ciftja
Semi-Classical Model of Strongly Correlated Coulomb Systems in Weak Magnetic Field, O. Ciftja
Coulomb self-energy of a uniformly charged three-dimensional cube, Orion Ciftja
Electric potential of a uniformly charged square on its plane, Orion Ciftja
Exact results for finite quantum Hall systems of electrons at filling factor one: Disk geometry, Orion Ciftja
Finite-size Monte Carlo results for anisotropic quantum Hall liquids, Orion Ciftja, Brittney Cornelius, Kesha Brown, and Emery Taylor
The electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged disk as the source of novel mathematical identities, Orion Ciftja and Irena Hysi
Introduction to computational methods in nanotechnology, Orion Ciftja and Sarhan M. Musa
One-particle density of laughlin states at finite N, Orion Ciftja, Nicole Ockleberry, and Chiko Okolo
Submissions from 2010
X-ray crystallography and computational studies of the structure of bis-nitrone, 2,5-bis{[methyl(oxido)imino]phenyl}-furan, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Diamond Lewis, Shravana L. Nayani, Tatiana V. Timofeeva, and Hau Jun Fan
Synthesis of a sulfonic acid functionalized acidic ionic liquid modified silica catalyst and applications in the hydrolysis of cellulose, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Onome S. Owereh
A Radical dance in thiamin biosynthesis: Mechanistic analysis of the bacterial hydroxymethylpyrimidine phosphate synthase, Abhishek Chatterjee, Amrita B. Hazra, Sameh Abdelwahed, David G. Hilmey, and Tadhg P. Begley
Effective interaction potentials in the uppermost landau level, O. Ciftja and J. Quintanilla
Effective interaction potentials in the uppermost landau level, O. Ciftja and J. Quintanilla
Analytic wave functions for the half-filled lowest Landau level, Orion Ciftja
Anisotropy of quantum Hall phases at filling factor =9/2, Orion Ciftja
Coulomb self-energy and electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged square in two dimensions, Orion Ciftja
Magnetic properties of small molecular clusters, Orion Ciftja
Catalysis of a flavoenzyme-mediated amide hydrolysis, Tathagata Mukherjee, Yang Zhang, Sameh Abdelwahed, Steven E. Ealick, and Tadhg P. Begley
Crossover from single-step tunneling to multistep hopping for molecular triplet energy transfer, Josh Vura-Weis, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Ruchi Shukla, Rajendra Rathore, Mark A. Ratner, and Michael R. Wasielewski
Submissions from 2009
Zinc chloride mediated degradation of cellulose at 200 °C and identification of the products, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Chidinma C. Ebede
Renewable resources based polymers: Synthesis and characterization of 2,5-diformylfuran-urea resin, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Dalkeith Green, and La Toya D. Williams
Homogeneous phase synthesis of cellulose carbamate silica hybrid materials using 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquid medium, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Onome S. Owereh
Hydrolysis and decomposition of cellulose in bron̈sted acidic ionic liquids under mild conditions, Ananda S. Amarasekara and Onome S. Owereh
Synthesis of 4-acylpyrazolone Schiff base ligand grafted silica and selectivity in adsorption of lanthanides from aqueous solutions, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Onome S. Owereh, and Sukesh K. Aghara
Synthesis of functionalized polysiloxane 4-acylpyrazolone Schiff base ligand system and its applications in the adsorption of lanthanide ions from aqueous solutions, Ananda S. Amarasekara, Onome S. Owereh, and Sukesh K. Aghara
Structural tautomerism of 4-acylpyrazolone schiff bases and crystal structure of 5-methyl-2-phenyl-4-{1-[(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)-amino]-ethylidene}-2,4-dihydro-pyrazol-3-one, A. S. Amarasekara, O. S. Owereh, K. A. Lyssenko, and T. V. Timofeeva
Classical behavior of few-electron parabolic quantum dots, O. Ciftja
Classical behavior of few-electron parabolic quantum dots, O. Ciftja
Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime, O. Ciftja
Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime, O. Ciftja
Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime II, O. Ciftja
Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime II, O. Ciftja
A Jastrow correlation factor for two-dimensional parabolic quantum dot, Orion Ciftja