Yan Sun (Liu group) was awarded CUNY Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship in the Sciences for 2019-2020 |
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Faculty opening for Assistant Professor in Computational Materials Chemistry
The Department has a tenure-track opening at the rank of Assistant Professor starting Fall 2020. We seek candidates with a research focus on inorganic or bio-inorganic materials as well as nanomaterials, and who have expertise in any of large scale computational modeling, ab-initio calculations, or machine learning approaches for materials research and design. Further details are available and applications must be submitted through the website https://cuny.jobs/ in the box under “job title, keywords” enter 21299, click on the opening, and then click on the “Apply Now” button.
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Recent Publications
Chen group
Liu, X.; Hong, D.; Sapir, N. G.; Yang, W.; Hersh, W. H.; Leung, P.-H.; Yang, D.; Chen, Y. "Iron- Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation in Aged N- Methyl- 2- pyrrolidone: Reductive Ring- Opening of 3, 5- Disubstituted Isoxazoles and Isoxazolines" J. Org. Chem.2019
Yang, W.; Chen, Y.; Yao, Y.; Lin, Q.; Yang, D."Iron-Promoted Reductive Ring- Opening and Isomerization Reactions of C4- Alkynylisoxazoles Leading to 2- Alkynylenaminones and Polysubstituted Furans" Adv. Synth. Catal. 2019
Li, X.-R.; Chen, H. J.; Wang, W.; Ma, M.; Chen, Y.; Li, Y.; Pullarkat, S. A.; Leung, P.-H. "Palladacycle promoted asymmetric hydrophosphination of α,β-unsaturated sulfonylfluorides" J. Organomet. Chem. 2019, 899, 120912.
Wen Yang, Yu Chen, Yongqi Yao, Xin Yang, Qifu Lin, and Dingqiao Yang "ICl/AgNO3 Co-Catalyzed Radical Oxidation of Diaryl- and Alkylarylalkynes into 1,2-Diketones" J. Org. Chem. 2019
Xi‐Rui Li, Yu Chen, Benjamin Piaoxiang Pang, Jaeyu Tan, Yongxin Li, Sumod A. Pullarkat, Pak‐Hing Leung "Efficient Synthesis of Malonate Functionalized Chiral Phosphapalladacycles and their Catalytic Evaluation in Asymmetric Hydrophosphination of Chalcone" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 4385–90.
Xiaochen Liu, Dongsub Hong, Zhigang Shea, William H.Hersh, Barney Yoo, Yu Chen "Complementary regioselective synthesis of 3,5-disubstituted isoxazoles from ynones" Tetrahedron 2018, 74, 6593-6606.
Jang group
Seogjoo J. Jang "Fourth order expressions for the electronic absorption lineshape of molecular excitons" Journal of Chemical Physics 151, 044110 (2019).
Marta Kowalczyk, Ning Chen, Seogjoo J. Jang "Comparative Computational Study of Electronic Excitations of Neutral and Charged Small Oligothiophenes and Their Extrapolations Based on Simple Models" ACS Omega 2019, 4, 5758-5767.
Seogjoo J. Jang "Effects of Donor-Acceptor Quantum Coherence and Non-Markovian Bath on the Distance Dependence of Resonance Energy" J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 5767-5775.
Seogjoo J. Jang, Benedetta Mennucci "Delocalized excitons in natural light-harvesting complexes" Reviews of Modern Physics 2018, 90, 035003.
Ji Hyun Bak, Seogjoo J. Jang, Changbong Hyeon "Implications for human odor sensing revealed from the statistics of odorant-receptor interactions," PLOS Computational Biology 2018, 14(5): e1006175.
Seogjoo J. Jang "Robust and Fragile Quantum Effects in the the Transfer Kinetics of Delocalized Excitons between B850 Units of LH2 Complexes" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9 (22), pp 6576–6583.
Liu group Jianbo Liu, Wenjing Zhou, Steven D. Chambreau, Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani "Computational study of the reaction of 1-methyl-4-amino-1,2,4-triazolium dicyanamide with NO2: From reaction dynamics to potential surfaces, kinetics and spectroscopy" J. Phys. Chem. B. 2019
Yan Sun, Wenjing Zhou, May Myat Moe, Jianbo Liu "Reactions of water with radical cations of guanine, 9-methylguanine, 2'-deoxyguanosine and guanosine: Keto-enol Isomerization, C8-hydroxylation, and effects of N9-Substitution" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 2018, 20, 27510-27522.
Wenchao Lu, Yan Sun, Midas Tsai, Wenjing Zhou, and Jianbo Liu "Singlet O2 oxidation of deprotonated guanine-cytosine base pair and its entangling with intra-base-pair proton transfer" ChemPhysChem 2018, 19, 2645-2654.
Wenchao Lu, Yan Sun, Wenjing Zhou, Jianbo Liu "pH-Dependent Singlet O2 Oxidation Kinetics of Guanine and 9-Methylguanine: An Online Mass Spectrometry and Spectroscopy Study Combined with Theoretical Exploration" J. Phys. Chem. B 2018, 122, 40−53.
Mirkin Group Tong Sun, Dengchao Wang, Michael V. Mirkin "Electrochemistry at a single nano particle..." Faraday Discussions 2018, 210, 173-188.
Tong Sun, Dengchao Wang, Michael V. Mirkin "Tunneling Mode of SECM: Probing Electrochemical Processes at Single Nanoparticles" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 7463-7467.
Min Zhou, Dengchao Wang, Michael Mirkin "Electrochemical Evaluation of the Number of Au Atoms ..." Anal Chem. 2018, 90: 8285-9.
Pathak group Dibyendu Dana, Jeremy Garcia, Ashif I.Bhuiyan, Pratikkumar Rathod, Laura Joo, Daniel A.Novoa, Suneeta Paroly, Karl R.Fath, Emmanuel J.Chang, Sanjai K.Pathak "Cell penetrable, clickable and tagless activity-based probe of human cathepsin L" Bioorganic Chemistry 2019, 85, 505.
Sanjai K. Pathak "Highly Efficient Cell-Penetrating Probes of Protein Arginine Deiminases for Functional Proteomics" ChemBioChem 2018, 19, 1806.
Rotenberg group Ela Markovsky, Elisa de Stanchina, Aryeh Itzkowitz, Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman, Susan A.Rotenberg "Phosphorylation state of Ser165 in alpha-tubulin is a toggle switch that controls proliferating breast tumors" Cellular Signalling 2018, 52, 74-82.
Wang group
Yishu Jiang, Chen Wang, Cameron R. Rogers, Mohamad S. Kodaimati & Emily A. Weiss "Regio- and diastereoselective intermolecular [2+2] cycloadditions photocatalysed by quantum dots" Nature Chemistry Volume 11 , 1034-1040 2019, 52, 74-82.
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The Queens College Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry offers American Chemical Society-certified courses in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Our undergraduate and graduate programs include existing BA, BA/MA and MA degrees in Chemistry with specializations in Chemistry and in Biochemistry, and pending thesis-based M.S. degrees in these disciplines. We strive to offer an integrated, broad-based, challenging educational experience to imbue students with the intellectual, experimental, and on-line interactive skills necessary to perform effectively in any field related to the chemical and biochemical sciences. The educational goals and pre-professional training of our programs are designed to deepen a student’s molecular perspective of the natural world with modern, quantitative and mechanism-based approaches, and to equip the student with the skills needed to thrive in the workplace.
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