PUBLICATIONS


Recent Publications

  • A New Motif in Halogen Bonding: Cooperative Intermolecular S---Br···O, O···F, and F···F Associations in the Crystal Packing of α,ω-Di(sulfonyl bromide) Perfluoroalkanes Max Wacha, David L. Helm, Megan M. Smart, Colin D. McMillen*, Leah B. Casabianca*, Rakesh Sachdeva, Catherine R. Urick, London P. Wilson, and Joseph S. Thrasher*, Chem-Asian J, 2023, e202300012 (2023).

  • Binding Between Antibiotics and Polystyrene Nanoparticles Examined by NMR Saduni S. Arachchi, Stephanie P. Palma, Charlotte I. Sanders, Hui Xu, Rajshree Ghosh Biswas, Ronald Soong, André J. Simpson and Leah B. Casabianca*, ACS Environmental Au, 3, 47-55 (2023).

  • Comprehensive Multiphase NMR Examination of Amino Acids Binding to the Dynamic Shell of Polystyrene Nanoparticles to Understand Environmental Hazards Associated with Nanoscale Plastic Rajshree Ghosh Biswas, Ronald Soong, Daniel Schmidig, Peter De Castro, Stephan Graf, Falko Busse, André J. Simpson* and Leah B. Casabianca*, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, 16519-16527 (2022).

  • Quantum mechanical study of interactions between sunscreen ingredients and nucleotide bases Kyle R. Volk and Leah B. Casabianca, Journal of Molecular Modeling, 28, 243 (2022).

  • Dual Fluorescence and NMR Study for the Interaction Between Xanthene Dyes and Nanoparticles Hui Xu and Leah B. Casabianca, Langmuir, 37, 385-390 (2021).

  • Probing Driving Forces for Binding Between Nanoparticles and Amino Acids by Saturation-Transfer Difference NMR Hui Xu and Leah B. Casabianca, Scientific Reports, 10, 1251 (2020).

  • Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance studies of nanoparticles Leah B. Casabianca, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 107, 101664 (2020).

  • Calculating Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shifts in Solvated Systems Leah B. Casabianca, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 58, 611-624 (2020).

  • 13C Saturation-Transfer Difference (STD)-NMR Experiments Using INEPT Polarization Transfer Hui Xu, Danielle Lustig and Leah B. Casabianca, Applied Magnetic Resonance, 51, 277-286 (2020).

  • Dehydration of fructose over thiol- and sulfonic- modified alumina in a continuous reactor for 5-HMF production: Study of catalyst stability by NMR Francisco Jose Morales-Leal, Javier Rivera de la Rosa, Carlos J. Lucio-Ortiz, David A. De Haro-Del Rio, Carolina Solis Maldonado, Sungsool Wi, Leah B. Casabianca and Carlos D. Garcia, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 224, 250-261 (2019).

  • Probing Amino Acid Interaction with a Polystyrene Nanoparticle Surface Using Saturation-Transfer Difference (STD)-NMR Yunzhi Zhang and Leah B. Casabianca, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 6921-6925 (2018).

  • Key-and-lock commodity self-healing copolymers Marek W. Urban, Dmitriy Davydovich, Ying Yang, Tugba Demir, Yunzhi Zhang and Leah Casabianca, Science, 362, 220-225 (2018).

  • Interaction Between Cyanine Dye IR-783 and Polystyrene Nanoparticles in Solution Yunzhi Zhang, Hui Xu and Leah B. Casabianca, Magn. Reson. Chem., 56, 1054-1060 (2018).

  • Examining Binding to Nanoparticle Surfaces Using Saturation Transfer Difference (STD)-NMR Spectroscopy Yunzhi Zhang, Hui Xu, Austin M. Parsons and Leah B. Casabianca, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 24678-24686 (2017).

  • Interplay Between π-Stacking and Hydrogen Bonding in the Self-Association of Different Isomers of Naphthalenedicarboxylic Acid Paul D. Greenstein and Leah B. Casabianca, J. Phys. Chem. B, 121, 5086-5093 (2017).

  • Effect of Curvature on Carbon Chemical Shielding in Extended Carbon Systems Leah B. Casabianca, J. Phys. Chem. A, 120, 7011-7019 (2016).

  • BDPA-Doped Polystyrene Beads as Polarization Agents for DNP-NMR Yunzhi Zhang, Phillip J. Baker and Leah B. Casabianca, J. Phys. Chem. B, 120, 18-24 (2016).

  • Single-Sided Stray-Field NMR Profiling Using Chirped Radiofrequency Pulses Leah B. Casabianca, Yifat Sarda, Elad Bergman, Uri Nevo and Lucio Frydman, Appl. Magn. Reson., 46, 909-919 (2015).

  • Chirped CPMG for well-logging NMR applications Leah B. Casabianca, Daniel Mohr, Soumyajit Mandal, Yi-Qiao Song and Lucio Frydman, J. Magn. Reson., 242, 197-202 (2014).

  • Chemical structures of hydrazine-treated graphene oxide and generation of aromatic nitrogen doping Sungjin Park, Yichen Hu, Jin Ok Hwang, Eui-Sup Lee, Leah B. Casabianca, Weiwei Cai, Jeffrey R. Potts, Hyung-Wook Ha, Shanshan Chen, Junghoon Oh, Sang Ouk Kim, Yong-Hyun Kim, Yoshitaka Ishii and Rodney S. Ruoff, Nature Communications, 3, 638 (2012).

  • Factors Affecting DNP NMR in Polycrystalline Diamond Samples Leah B. Casabianca, Alexander I. Shames, Alexander M. Panich, Olga Shenderova and Lucio Frydman, J. Phys. Chem. C, 115, 19041-19048 (2011).

  • The hydroxyl functionality and a rigid proximal N are required for forming a novel non-covalent quinine-heme complex John N. Alumasa, Alexander P. Gorka, Leah B. Casabianca, Erica Comstock, Angel C. de Dios and Paul D. Roepe, J. Inorg. Biochem., 105, 467-475 (2011).

  • NMR-Based Structural Modeling of Graphite Oxide Using Multidimensional 13C Solid-State NMR and ab Initio Chemical Shift Calculations Leah B. Casabianca, Medhat A. Shaibat, Weiwei W. Cai, Sungjin Park, Richard Piner, Rodney S. Ruoff and Yoshitaka Ishii, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 5672-5676 (2010).

  • Distinguishing Polymorphs of the Semiconducting Pigment Copper Phthalocyanine by Solid-State NMR and Raman Spectroscopy Medhat A. Shaibat, Leah B. Casabianca, Diana Y. Siberio-Perez, Adam J. Matzger and Yoshitaka Ishii, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 4400-4406 (2010).

  • Synthesis and Structural Determination of Two Triphenyltin Thiosalicylates Russell Knighton, Xueqing Song, Robert Pike, Angel C. de Dios, Leah Casabianca and George Eng, J. Coord. Chem., 62, 3110-3116 (2009).

  • Antimalarial drugs and heme in detergent micelles: An NMR study Leah B. Casabianca, Joye B. Kallgren, Jayakumar K. Natarajan, John N. Alumasa, Paul D. Roepe, Christian Wolf and Angel C. de Dios, J. Inorg. Biochem., 103, 745-748 (2009).

  • Quinine and Chloroquine Differentially Perturb Heme Monomer-Dimer Equilibrium Leah B. Casabianca, David An, Jayakumar K. Natarajan, John N. Alumasa, Paul D. Roepe, Christian Wolf and Angel C. de Dios, Inorg. Chem., 47, 6077-6081 (2008).

  • 4-N-, 4-S-, and 4-O-Chloroquine Analogues: Influence of Side Chain Length and Quinolyl Nitrogen pKa on Activity vs Chloroquine Resistant Malaria Jayakumar K. Natarajan, John N. Alumasa, Kimberly Yearick, Kekeli A. Ekoue Kovi, Leah B. Casabianca, Angel C. de Dios, Christian Wolf and Paul D. Roepe, J. Med. Chem., 51, 3466-3479 (2008).

  • Ab initio calculations of NMR chemical shifts Leah B. Casabianca and Angel C. de Dios, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 052201 (2008).

  • Progress in 13C and 1H Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Paramagnetic Systems under Very Fast Magic Angle Spinning Nalinda P. Wickramasinghe, Medhat A. Shaibat, Christopher R. Jones, Leah B. Casabianca, Angel C. de Dios, John S. Harwood and Yoshitaka Ishii, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 052210 (2008).

  • Characterization of Polymorphs and Solid-State Reactions for Paramagnetic Systems by 13C Solid-State NMR and ab Initio Calculations Medhat A. Shaibat, Leah B. Casabianca, Nalinda P. Wickramasinghe, Stephen Guggenheim, Angel C. de Dios and Yoshitaka Ishii, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 10968-10969 (2007).

  • Synthesis, Larvicidal, QSAR and Structural Studies of Some Triorganotin 2,2,3,3-tetramethylcyclopropanecarboxylates Xueqing Song, Alejandra Zapata, Jana Hoerner, Angel C. de Dios, Leah Casabianca and George Eng, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 21, 545-550 (2007).

  • Synthesis, Structural and Larvicidal Studies of Some Triorganotin 2-(p-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyrates George Eng, Xueqing Song, Alejandra Zapata, Angel C. de Dios, Leah Casabianca and Robert D. Pike, J. Organometallic Chem., 692, 1398-1404 (2007).

  • Relationship between NMR Shielding and Heme Binding Strength for a Series of 7-Substituted Quinolines Leah B. Casabianca and Angel C. de Dios, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 7787-7792 (2006).

  • Interactions between pairs of antimalarial drugs studied by experimental and ab initio13C NMR chemical shifts Leah B. Casabianca and Angel C. de Dios, Mag. Reson. Chem., 44, 276-282 (2006).

  • Carbon Chemical Shift Tensor Components in Quinolines and Quinoline N-Oxides Leah B. Casabianca, Caitlyn M. Faller and Angel C. de Dios, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 234-240 (2006).

  • Structure of the Amodiaquine-FPIX mu-Oxo Dimer Solution Complex at Atomic Resolution Angel C. de Dios, Leah B. Casabianca, Andrew Kosar and Paul D. Roepe, Inorg. Chem., 43, 8078-8084 (2004).

  • 13C NMR Study of the Self-Association of Chloroquine, Amodiaquine, and Quinine Leah B. Casabianca and Angel C. de Dios, J. Phys. Chem. A, 108, 8505-8513 (2004).