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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

Calculation of the Coulomb electrostatic potential created by a uniformly charged square on its plane: Exact mathematical formulas, 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

Erratum: Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime II (Physica B: Condensed Matter (2009) 404 (2244-2246)), O. Ciftja

Erratum: Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime II (Physica B: Condensed Matter (2009) 404 (2244-2246)), O. Ciftja

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