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Recent Publications
Chen group
Domaradzki, M. E.; Liu, X.; Ong, J.; Yu, G.; Zhang, G.; Simantov, A.; Perl, E.; Chen, Y. "Triflic Acid Mediated Sequential Cyclization of ortho-Alkynylarylesters with Ammonium Acetate", Tetrahedron 2020
Yang, W.; Liu, X; Leung, P.-H.; Li, Y.; Yang, D.; Chen, Y. "Iron-Mediated Ring-Opening and Rearrangement Cascade Synthesis of Polysubstituted Pyrroles from 4-Alkenylisoxazoles" Adv. Synth. Catal. 2020
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
Jang group
Ning Chen, Murali Devi, Seogjoo J. Jang "Computational modeling of charge hopping dynamics along a disordered one-dimensional wire with energy gradients in quantum environments" Journal of Chemical Physics 153, 054109 (2020).
Seogjoo J. Jang "Dynamics of Molecular Excitons" Nanophotonics Series (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2020).
Lei Yang and Seogjoo J. Jang "Theoretical investigation of non-Förster exciton transfer mechanisms in perylene diimide donor, phenylene bridge, and terrylene diimide acceptor systems" Journal of Chemical Physics 153, 144305 (2020).
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.
Liu group
May Myat Moe, Midas Tsai, and J Liu "Singlet oxygen oxidation of the radical cations of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanoisne and its 9-methyl analogue: Dynamics, potential enegry surface and products mediated by C5-O2-addition" ChemPlusChem 2021
Yan Sun, Midas Tsai, May Myat Moe, and J Liu "Dynamics and Multiconfiguration Potential Energy Surface for the Singlet O2 Reactions with Radical Cations of Guanine, 9-Methylguanine, 2′-Deoxyguanosine, and Guanosine" J. Phys. Chem. A. (Cheuk-Yiu Ng Festschrift) 2021, 125, 1564-1576.
May Myat Moe, Jonathan Benny, Yan Sun, and J Liu "Experimental and theoretical assessment of protonated Hoogsteen 9-methylguanine-1-methylcytosine base-pair dissociation: Kinetics within a statistical reaction framework" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 9365-9380.
Wenjing Zhou, J Liu*, Steven D. Chambreau, and Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani "Molecular dynamics simulations, reaction pathway and mechanism dissection, and kinetics modeling of the nitric acid oxidation of dicyanamide (DCA-) and dicyanoborohydride (DCBH-) anion" J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 11175-11188.
Yan Sun, May Myat Moe, and J Liu* "Is non-statistical dissociation a general feature of guanine-cytosine base-pair ions? Collision-induced dissociation of protonated 9-methylguanine-1-methylcytosine Watson-Crick base pair, and comparison with its deprotonated and radical cation analogues" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 2020, 22, 24986-25000.
Yan Sun, May Myat Moe, and J Liu* "Mass spectrometry and computational study of collision-induced dissociation of 9-methylguanine-1-methylcytosine base-pair radical cation: Intra-base-pair proton transfer and hydrogen transfer, non-statistical dissociation, and reaction with a water ligand" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 2020, 22, 14875-14888.
J Liu*, Wenjing Zhou, Steven D. Chambreau, and Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani "Molecular dynamics simulations and product vibrational spectral analysis for the reactions of NO2 with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide (EMIM+DCA-), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide (BMIM+DCA-) and 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide (AMIM+DCA-)"" J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 4304-4325.
Yan Sun, Midas Tsai, Wenjing Zhou, Wenchao Lu, and J Liu* "Reaction kinetics, product branching and potential energy surfaces of 1O2-induced 9-methylguanine—lysine cross-linking: A combined mass spectrometry, spectroscopy and computational study" J. Phys. Chem. B, 2019, 123, 10410-10423.
Mirkin Group
Pathak group Dibyendu Dana and Sanjai K.Pathak "A review of small molecule inhibitors and functional probes of human Cathepsin L" Molecules 2020, 25, 698.
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.
Rotenberg group
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.
Samuni group
S.S. Shah, C.N. Cultrara, J.A. Ramos, U. Samuni, J. Zilberberg, D. Sabatino "Bifunctional Au-templated RNA nanoparticles enable direct cell uptake detection and GRP75 knockdown in prostate cancer" J. Mater. Chem. B. 2020, 8, 2169-2176.
C.N. Cultrara, S. Shah, G. Antuono, C.J. Heller, J.A. Ramos, U. Samuni, J. Zilberberg, D. Sabatino "Size Matters: Arginine-Derived Peptides Targeting the PSMA Receptor Can Efficiently Complex but Not Transfect siRNA" Mol. Ther. Acids. 2019, 18, 863-870.
R. Pan, K. Hu, D. Jiang, U. Samuni, M. V Mirkin "Electrochemical Resistive-Pulse Sensing" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 19555-19559.
About Us
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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