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Chemistry Dissertations

As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

Dissertations from 2024 2024

Synthesis And Characterization of Donor-Acceptor Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers by Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) and Suzuki Polycondensation (SPC), Hamid Ardolic Jr.

Nanoparticles for Applications in Specific Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Naxhije Berisha

Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Enantioenriched Secondary Alkyltricyclohexyltin Nucleophiles, Meruyert Binayeva

Rational Design of Peptide-Based Materials Informed by Multiscale Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Dhwanit Rahul Dave

Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions of Vinyl Triflates and An Investigation of the Synthesis and Reactivity of Activated Alkyltricyclohexylstannanes, Pejman Ghaemimohammadi

Studies of Oxidopyrylium Ylide Dimers and Their Utility in the Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Troponoids, Daniel V. Schiavone

Biomolecular Crystals as Functional Materials, Fahmeed Khan Sheehan

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Synthesis of Biologically Active Tropolones and Stereochemically Rich Compounds via Cross-Coupling Reactions, Nana B. Agyemang

Separation of Zr from Complex Matrices for Isotope Harvesting Applications, Jake A. Bence

Synthesis and Analysis of Novel Troponoid-Based Chemical Probes, Alex Berkowitz

Development of Chemical Probes for Two Pro-Metastatic Enzymes: Cysteine Cathepsins and Nek2 Kinase, Ashif I. Bhuiyan

Disordered Protein Aggregates Are Linked to Changes in the Histone Post-Translational Modification Landscape in Disease and Non-Disease Models, Samantha Cobos

Second Generation Phenyloxadiazolyl Methyl Sulfones for Thiol-Specific Bioconjugations, Guillaume Dewaele-Le Roi

Construction and Performance Optimization of Bioconjugated Nanosensors for Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Pro-inflammatory Diseases, Pooja Gaikwad

Design and Synthesis of Surface-Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Theranostics, Hailin Huang

Electrochemical Resistive-Pulse Sensing in Biological Systems, Rui Jia

SERS for the Detection of Trace Materials, Omari Kirkland

Stereospecific Cross-Coupling Reactions with Enantioenriched Electrophiles, Iv Kraja

Optimized Peptide Nanomaterials as Delivery Vehicles for Hydrophobic Metal-Based Anticancer Agents, Yaron Marciano

Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Hollow Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Aloka S. Paragoda Arachchilage

The Development of Novel Radioscandium and Hydroxypyridinonate Based Radiopharmaceuticals, Michael Phipps

Design and Applications of Fmoc-Histidine and Aspartic Acid Tripeptides as Proton Conductive Materials, Shejla S. Pollozi

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Based Complex Nanomaterials, Prashun G. Roy

Nanoscale Imaging of Electrocatalytic Nanomaterials by High-resolution Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Xiang Wang

Synthesis of Fluoroorganics and Applications of Novel Fluorinated Building Blocks, Wei Wei

Design, Synthesis, and Kinetic Study of the First Generation Phenyloxadiazole Compounds and the Second Generation Phenyloxadiazole Compounds and Highly Selective Hydroboration of Alkenes, Ketones and Aldehydes Catalyzed by a Well-Defined Manganese Complex, Haisu Zeng

Kinetics of Photochemical and Mechanochemical Organic Reactions on Surface, Yerzhan Zholdassov

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Understanding the Proton Transport in Non-Aqueous Histidine-Based Nanostructures, Jiang Bian

Visible Light Photocatalysis of Organic Reactions in H2O, Sankarsan Biswas

Conformation of the U12-U6atac snRNA Complex of the Minor Spliceosome and Binding by NTC-related Protein RBM22, Joanna Ciavarella

Biomimetic and Medical Applications of Hollow Nanoscale Structures, Justin Fang

Sensitized Photooxidation of Prenylated Compounds: Mechanisms of Downstream Dark Effects and Phototoxicity Priming, Shakeela Jabeen

Growth, Optimization, and Characterization of Topological Insulator Nanostructures by Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Ido Levy

Engineering Rare-Earth Based Color Centers in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Quantum and Nanoscale Applications, Gabriel I. López-Morales

Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed N1 Modifications of Inosine and 2'-Deoxyinosine and N-Directed Remote Aroylation of C6-Aryl Purine Nucleosides, Casina Malinchak

Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 3 Interactions with Structural Elements of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Untranslated Regions Reveal Details of a New Cap-Independent Translation Initiation Model, Paul S. Powell

Approach to Dual Base and Sugar Modification of Adenosine, Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions of Quinazolinones, and a Novel Entry to Carbazolones and Indolones, Dellamol Sebastian

Designing the Electrode Geometry and Electrolyte to Enhance the Product Selectivity and Activity in Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction, Samaneh Sharifi Golru

Development of Optical Nanomaterial for Enhanced Cerenkov Imaging, Qize Zhang

Application of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymers in Synthesis of Silica and Organosilica Nanomaterials, Shu Zhang

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition Reactions, Lauren P. Bejcek

Photosensitization and Analytical Study on Reactive Oxygen Intermediates: Self-sorting Surface Radicals and “On-off” Sensitizer Function Mechanisms, Sarah J. Belh

Conformation of the Protein-free Spliceosomal U2-U6 snRNA Complex and Remodeling by Mg2+ and Proteins, Huong Chu

Interactions of Organic Fluorophores with Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances, Robert J. Collison

Computational Modeling of Water and Proteins in Drug Discovery, Anthony Cruz Balberdy

Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Europium Based Perovskite Oxide Nanoparticles, Nasim Farahmand

Synthetic and Biological Studies on Benzazepine Derivatives as Dopamine Receptor Ligands, Rajan Giri

Emergent Photophysics In Diketopyrrolopyrrole Superstructures, Andrew Levine

Iron and Iodine-mediated Reactions, Xiaochen Liu

Role of Protonation State Changes and Hydrogen Bonding Around the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II, Divya Matta

Water-Responsive, Peptide-Based Crystals, Roxana Piotrowska

Developing Supramolecular Tripeptides with Sequence Tunable Visible Absorbance and Emission, Mona Tayarani Najjaran

Tools and Strategies for the Patterning of Bioactive Molecules and Macromolecules, Daniel J. Valles

Development of an LCMS Analytical Method with Applicability to Determination of Trace Level Explosives in Environmental Waters, Cristina I. Veresmortean

Enhanced Platinum (II) Drug Delivery for Anti-cancer Therapy, Marek T. Wlodarczyk

Automated Code Engine for Tensor HyperContraction: Derivation, Optimization and Implementation of Rank-reduced Coupled Cluster Theories, Yao Zhao

Dissertations from 2020 2020

PEO-PPO-PEO Surfactant Mixtures as Templates for Silicas With Very Large Cylindrical Mesopores at Ambient Temperature and With Helical Mesopores at Sub-Ambient Temperature, Laurance Beaton

Small Molecule Synthetic Carbohydrate Receptors, Marcelo F. Bravo Carranco

Computational Modeling of Charge and Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in Complex Environments, Ning Chen

Leveraging Antibodies for Positron Emission Tomography and Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Cancer, Kimberly C. Fung

The Reduction, Sequestration, and/or Coordination of Technetium-99 Utilizing Polyoxometalates and Nanomaterials, Colleen MB Gallagher

Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Potentially Tumor Targeting Analogues of the Tetrahydrofuran Containing Acetogenins, Patricia Gonzalez Periche

I. Selective Chlorination and Fluorination of Quinols II. Synthetic Study of Strongylophorine-26, Sihan Li

Nature-Inspired Electrode Materials For Next Generation Sustainable Energy Storage, Mikhail Miroshnikov

Hydrophobic Fluoropolymer Nano-Coatings: Study of Anti-Reflective and Anti-Soiling Properties and Applications, Illya Nayshevsky

Excitons in Self-Assembled Hybrid Systems of Molecular Aggregate Light-Harvesting Nanotubes: Charge-Transfer Substrates and Solution-Stabilized Nanocomposites, Kara Ng

Study of Reaction Dynamics of Protonated/Deprotonated and Radical Cations of Guanine in Nucleobases and Nucleosides: Singlet Oxygen Oxidation, C8-Water Addition, Cross-Linking with Lysine and Base-Pair Dissociation, Yan Sun

Asymmetric alpha-Stannylation of Heterocycles and Their Subsequent Use in Cross-coupling Reactions, Haoran Zhao

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Development of Highly Efficient Catalyst and Reactions for Organic Synthesis: Monophosphine-Coordinated Palladacycle Complexes for Cross-Coupling Reactions/Polymerizations, Jie Dong

Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Iodine-124 Labeled Nucleoside Analogs as Pet Imaging Agents to Predict Response to Gemcitabine Therapy, Kishore Kumar Gangangari

Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Forensic Analysis: Case Studies on the Identification of Illicit Substances and Artist Pigments, Abed Haddad

Electrochemical Carbon Nanoprobes for Biological and Chemical System Studies, Keke Hu

Novel Heterocyclic Methodology for the Construction of Natural Products, Robert C. Lapo

Synthesis and Characterization of Multifunctional Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles through a Modified Sol-Gel Method with Application in Energy Storage, Julien Lombardi

Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy Utilizing the Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction, Rosemery Membreno

An Investigation of Alkylboron Transmetallation in Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki Reactions, Benjamin Murray

Synthesis and Characterization of Dielectric and Multiferroic Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Oxide Materials and Nanocomposites, Frederick A. Pearsall

Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng

Preparation of Enantioenriched Alkyltin Species and their Application in Stereospecific Transformations, Glenn O. Ralph

Probing the Gelation Phenomena in Molecular and Seed-Based Gels, Malick Samateh

Design and Application of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures, Jiye Son

A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry, Justin H. Walsh

Peptide Mediated Co-assembly of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials for Light Harvesting and Catalysis, WSM Nadeesha K. Wijerathne

Heterocycle Synthesis from Quinols, Jing Wu

Bisthioether Stapled Peptides Targeting Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Gene Repression, Gan Zhang

Potential Degradation of Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) in Sediments: Stereoisomer Specific Reaction of HBCDD with Reduced Sulfur Species or Fe(II) Bound to Iron Oxides, Xianmiao Zhang

Mild Synthesis of Perylene Tetracarboxylic Monoanhydrides with Potential Applications in Organic Optoelectronics, Xizhe Zhao

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Organic Photochemistry: Remote Delivery of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates via a Heterogeneous Approach, Niluksha Walalawela Abeykoon

Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed Modifications of Nucleosides, Synthesis of Hippadine, and Deuterated 1,2,3-Triazoles, Hari K. Akula

PARP PET Imaging Agents, Brandon Carney

The Development of Novel Platforms for the Imaging of Cancer by Positron Emission Tomography, Brendon E. Cook

Discovery and Development of a Three-Component Oxidopyrylium Cycloaddition and Its Application Towards alpha-Hydroxytropolone Synthesis, Michael P. D'Erasmo

Flexible and Versatile Soft Templates for Mesoporous Silicas and Organosilicas Based on Pluronic Block Copolymer Surfactants and their Mixtures, George Farid

Fundamental Chemistry Related to the Separations and Coordination of Actinium-225, Thorium-227, and Technetium-99, Jasmine L. Hatcher

Synthesis and Evaluation of Densely-Functionalized Troponoids, Danielle R. Hirsch

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids and Garnet-Type Li7La3Zr2O12, Shen Lai

Nanoporous Carbon-based CO2 Reduction Catalysts: Exploring the Combined Effects of Surface Chemistry and Porosity, Wanlu Li

Singlet Oxygen Oxidation of Guanine, 9-Methylguanine and Guanine-Cytosine Base Pair: Dynamics and Kinetics Revealed by Parallel Gas- and Solution-Phase Experiments and Computations, Wenchao Lu

Synthesis and Characterization of Cytocompatible Sponge-Mimetic Scaffolds and Biomedical Polymers, Kamia Punia

Iron Oxide Nanomagnets in Polymer Matrices – Synthesis and Characterization, Shenjie Qiu