Interesting Scientific Articles And Links--chemistry, Biology, And Physics

Interesting Scientific Articles Updated 9/9/09

Chemistry: ACS Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation: Investigation of Exchange Energy Density Functional Accuracy for Interacting Molecules

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct900365q Quantum Mechanical Quantification of Weakly Interacting Complexes of Peptides with SingleWalled Carbon Nanotubes

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ct9002493 Coarse-Grained MD Simulations and Protein−Protein Interactions: The Cohesin−Dockerin System

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct900140w?prevSearch=&searchHistoryKey= Combining an Elastic Network With a Coarse-Grained Molecular Force Field: Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Recognition

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct9002114 Assembly of Viral Membrane Proteins

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct900185n Docking Ligands on Protein Surfaces: The Case Study of Prion Protein

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct900257t

ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry A: Exploring the Time-Scales of H-Atom Detachment from Photoexcited Phenol-h6 and Phenold5: Statistical vs Nonstatistical Decay

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp9031223 Highly Anisotropic Exchange Interactions in a Trigonal Bipyramidal Cyanide-Bridged NiII3OsIII2 Cluster

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp902197n Studies of Two-Photon Property of Intensely Luminescent Alkynyl−Phosphine Gold(I)−Copper(I) Complexes

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp9040452?prevSearch=&searchHistoryKey=

ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Exciting DNA

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp8101783 Relative pKa Values from First-Principles Molecular Dynamics: The Case of Histidine Deprotonation

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp056750i?prevSearch=&searchHistoryKe y=

Papers written by my research advisor: A Multifaceted Approach to the Interpretation of NMR Order Parameters: A Case Study of a Dynamic α-Helix

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp711160t?prevSearch=&searchHistoryK ey= Toward Quantitative Interpretation of Methyl Side-Chain Dynamics from NMR by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja075976r?prevSearch=&searchHistoryKey=

ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Dynamics of Thioether Molecular Rotors: Effects of Surface Interactions and Chain Flexibility

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp9017844

ACS Journal of Organic Chemistry: Paper written by another one of my professors: Reactions in Water: Alkyl Nitrile Coupling Reactions Using Fenton’s Reagent

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo7026905?prevSearch=&searchHistoryK ey=

ACS Nano: Polymer-Functionalized Nanodiamond Platforms as Vehicles for Gene Delivery

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn900865g?prevSearch=&searchHistoryKey=

JACS Communications: Efficient Energy Transfer within Self-Assembling Peptide Fibers: A Route to Light-Harvesting Nanomaterials

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja902825j One-Dimensional Organometallic Molecular Wires via Assembly of Rh(CO)2Cl(amine): Chemical Control of Interchain Distances and Optical Properties

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja904247e Improved Dienophilicity of Nitrocycloalkenes: Prospects for the Development of a transDiels−Alder Paradigm

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja9058926 Asymmetric Tandem Wittig Rearrangement/Aldol Reactions

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja905930s

Biology/ Evolution: Observations of altruistic and selfish behavior in bacteria: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1713/version/1/html

Good site for basic info and how evolution, remains relevant: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Hmmm... and We Use Evolution For What? (links): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/index.html

Evidences of Evolution (links): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/index.html

Evidence on the evolution of the eye: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/1/l_011_01.html

Evolution Since Darwin (links): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/06/index.html

Ken Miller's Evolution Page: http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/

Evolution of Man: http://www.onelife.com/evolve/manev.html

Links to other resources: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/index.html

Museums Fight For Evolution: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-museums-adapt-in-strugglewith-creationism

15 Answers To Creationist Questions/ Claims: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=15-answers-to-creationist

Science's Take On Ben Stein's Flop: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sciam-reviews-expelled

Very Interesting Video Involving the 'Watchmaker' Argument: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0

Video Simulation Concerning Tree Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIpxSoND6Q&watch_response

Why YEC Literal Interpretations of The Bible Are Foolish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUNmYNtavM

Take It From The Mouth of The Scientists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4_lVTVa6k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Ctl9nzEqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVaCmASYLDg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6_KtvBFOAg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X50lH-XxHI

Refuting Irreducible Complexity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_2lLG9EZM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_HVrjKcvrU&feature=related http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/paper/ev/behe/

Refuting William Dembski's Spin On 'Information Theory:'

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/information/dembski.html http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/234.html

Taking on I.D. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg

Physics/ Astronomy: Advanced article on the theory associated with the first second of the Big Bang: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0303/0303574v3.pdf

Advanced article on the empirical evidence of dark matter: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/media/paper.pdf

College professor’s website on special relativity: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/sr.shtml

Useful resource for learning about many topics in physics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

Introductory paper on supersymmetry in physics: http://hitoshi.berkeley.edu/public_html/susy/susy.html

What would a universe without the weak interaction look like: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-11795.pdf

The Large Hadron Collider’s Webpage: http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Article written on the ‘typicality’ of the Sun measured via chi2 considerations: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0805/0805.2962v3.pdf

Article on black hole production in massive stars:

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701083

Article on a couple techniques for identifying and observing quasars, etc.: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612443

Article on current-current interactions of bosons and fermions: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701817

Article on the possibility of dark matter halos being of a BoseEinstein condensate: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608526