Ph.D.'s Awarded 1994-95

Samir Anz Time of Flight Ion Scattering Studies of: Rainbow Scattering for Surface Characterization and the Nucleation and Growth of Thin Films (Professor R. S. Williams)
Ellen E. Burns The Synthesis of Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Compounds through Novel Metathesis Reactions of Fischer Chromium Carbene Complexes with Isonitriles (Professor C. A. Merlic)
Larry Carter Theoretical Studies of Reaction Dynamics and Structure at Semiconductor Surfaces (Professor E. A. Carter)
David Feiler The Pulsed Laser Deposition and Characterization of Thin Films (Professor R. S. Williams)
Brian Fraser Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition and Growth Studies of Late Transition Metals and Their Intermetallic Alloys (Professor H. D. Kaesz)
Yulan Fu Singlet Oxygen Dimol-Sensitized Luminescence of Tetra-tert-butylphthalocyanine and the Photooxidation of A New Antidiabetic Drug (CS-045) (Professor C. S. Foote)
Stephen Duncan Hanna The Analysis and Application of Unusual Spectroscopic Properties of Metal Containing Complexes (Professor J. I. Zink)
Heidi Heitkamp Synthetic Approaches to Reiswigins A and B (Professor M. E. Jung)
Richard Jacubinas Rapid Solid-State Metathetical Synthesis of Intermetallic Alloys (Professor R. B. Kaner)
Joseph Khoury Metallic Nanocrystals Passivated by Self-Assembled Monolayers (Professors W. M. Gelbart and R. L. Whetten)
Duncan MacLaren Human and Mouse L-isoaspartyl/D-aspartyl protein methyltransferase genetics, protein structure, and knockout mouse phenotype (Professor S. G. Clarke)
Beth Noelle Marbois Study of Ubiquinone Biosynthetic Genes Isolation and Analysis of the Coq7 Gene in Saccharomyces Serevisiae and of the Coq3 Gene Homologue in the Rat (Professor C. F. Clarke)
Carl Miller Actin Mutants: What Does it Take to Move (Professor E. Reisler)
Kianoush Motesharei Functionalized Organic Monolayer Surfaces: New Sensors and Mechanistic Probes (Professor D. C. Myles)
Jim Na Theoretical Investigations of Antibody-Catalyzed Reactions (Professor K. N. Houk)
Lilian Parra Analysis of the processing pathway of a polyprotein precursor of two mitochondrial enzymes (Professor R. L. Weiss)
Thomas Poon trans-Cyclooctene as a Mechanistic Tool in the Ene Reactions of Singlet Oxygen and Triazolinediones and Photophysical Properties of Metallated Fullerenes (Professor C. S. Foote)
Wallace Pringle Asymmetric Amplification via Prochiral Auxiliaries (Professor C. A. Merlic)
Matthew Redinbo X-ray Crystallographic Analyses of Plastocyanin and Human Amyloid A4 Peptide (Professor T. O. Yeates)
Marlene Sisemore Reactivitiy of Metalloperoxide Porphyroh Complexes (Professor J. S. Valentine)
Laurie S. Starkey Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Piperazinomycin and Preparation of o-Aryloxyphenols via Cyclohexanone Oxide (Professor M. E. Jung)
William Kibbey Stovall Deposition of tungsten and molybdenum thin films from organometallic precursors (Professor H. D. Kaesz)
Timothy Su Fundamental Studies of Endohedral Metal Fullerene Complexes and Polyaniline Membranes (Professor R. B. Kaner)
Yin Tintut Role of Escherichia coli sigma 54 in binding core RNA polymerase and directing transcription initiation (Professor J. D. Gralla)
Jonathan Wang Interaction of anti-cancer drug cisplatin with nucleic acid and properties of enhancer independent E. coli sigma 54 mutants (Professor J. D. Gralla)
Zhiping Zheng Anti-Crown Chemistry: Electrophilic Metallacyclic Hosts Supported by Carborane Cages (Professor M. F. Hawthorne)


The Department would like to thank the following for financial contributions to our Graduate program: Ralph & Charlene Bauer, Chemistry Advisory Council Fund, The Clorox Company, E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, George Gregory, the James D. McCullough Prize Fund, Products Research and Chemical Corporation, the Donald Cram Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Association of Chemists and Biochemists, The Upjohn Company, the SG Fellowship, and Sylvia Winstein.