UNCA DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
SENIOR CELEBRATION SYMPOSIUM
SATURDAY APRIL 26, 2008
HIGHSMITH UNION 224

Presenter

Title

Time

Ms. Erin Enstice

Reinvestigation of the Mechanism for the Unimolecular Decomposition of CF3CH2Cl Through Analysis of CF2ClCH2F

10:15 am

Ms. Georgiana Lanius

Ethinyl Estradiol, Norelgestromin, Medroxyprogesterone Acetate and Resulting Health Issues

10:50 am

Mr. Jacob Nix

Progress Towards a Novel Synthesis of Physostigmine and Theoretical Investigations of Diels-Alder Reactions on Vinylpyrrole Species

11:25 am

Ms. Rachael Beach

Type 2 Diabetes: Small Molecule vs. Large Molecule Drugs

12:00 pm

Lunch

HIGHSMITH UNION 221/222

12:35 pm

Mr. Jeremy Fitzpatrick

Expression of the Orexin-1 Receptor for Use in Binding Studies with a Psychoactive Drug

1:15 pm

Mr. Larry Spear

The Aziridination of N-methyl-2-vinyl Pyrrole

1:50 pm

Ms. Laura Brandt

A Theoretical Study of Unimolecular Hydrogen Halide Eliminations of Substituted Alkanes

2:25 pm

Mr. Alex Graettinger

Aziridination of the Olefinic Bridge in Combretastatin

3:00 pm

Break

HIGHSMITH UNION 224

3:35 pm

Ms. Sarah Burns

Elucidating the Reaction Mechanism for Hydrogen Generation from Ethanol over a Palladium Catalyst: A Periodic DFT Investigation

3:50 pm

Mr. Thomas Graham

Toward the Synthesis of an Indole-based CA4 Analogue

4:25 pm

Mr. Anthony Ranieri

A Theoretical Study of Transition Metal Adsorption onto Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

5:00 pm

Ms. Marissa Aubrey

Synthesis of Heterocyclic Chalcone Derivatives

5:35 pm