We also like to present our work at the many intramural opportunities that present themselves.

Tardie, W.; Luciano, M.; Brückner, C. ‘The Mending and Breaking of Porphyrins to Expand a Pyrrolic Building Block’ Poster #38, Undergraduate Research Symposium of the ACS Connecticut Valley Section, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 4/2016. This poster won the Best Poster award!

Kaesmann, E.; Li, R.; JZ student, Zhao, J.; Nimthong-Roldán, A.; Zeller, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Old Reaction, New Insights: All Regioisomers of Oxo- and Dioxochlorins’ Poster #20, Undergraduate Research Symposium of the ACS Connecticut Valley Section, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 4/2016.

Zhu, H.; Luciano, M.; Brückner, C. ‘Toward Water-soluble Quinoline-annulated Porphyrins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 7/2014.

Kaesmann, E.; Liu, R.; Brückner, C. ‘Octaethylporphyrin-based Chlorin Ketones, Bacterio-, and Isobacteriochlorin Diketones’ Poster Presentation, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2014.

Chen, Y.; Akhigbe, J.; Samankumara, L.; Brückner, C. ‘Modifications of Indaphyrins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2013.

Hartt, A.; Meehan, E.; Brückner, C. ‘Functionalization of Oxazolochlorins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2013.

Ticho, A.; Samankumara, L.; Brückner, C. ‘Metallomorpholinochlorins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A., 8/2011.

Meehan, E.; Ogikubo, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Bisalkyloxazolochlorins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A., 8/2011.

Panther, K.; Hyland, M. A.; Brückner, C. ‘Porphyrins as Optical pH Sensors’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A., 8/2011.

Haskoor, J.; Akhigbe, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Step-wise Replacement of a β,β’-Double Bond in Porphyrins by a Lactam Moiety’ 15th Annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2011.

Haskoor, J.; Akhigbe, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Step-wise Replacement of a β,β’-Double Bond in Porphyrins by a Lactam Moiety’ Poster, R.T. Major Lecture Series, UConn Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT, 4/2011.

Page, S.; Samankumara, L.; Brückner, C. Synthesis of Novel Bacteriochlorin-type Chromo­phores: Toward Porphyrinoids Absorbing in the Near-IR’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU Programs in Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A., 8/2010.

Haskoor, J. P.; Akhigbe, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Reactivity of Porpholactones with Hydrazine: Pathway to Novel Pyrrole-modified Porphyrins’ (Poster #98), 13th Annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2010.

Rubenstein, R.; Akhigbe, J.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Soluble Tetraarylchlorins and Bacteriochorins’, Poster, REU at UConn Symposium, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2008.

Mooney, D. M.; Dean, M. L.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Pyrazinochlorins: Formal Replacement of a Pyrrole Moiety in Porphyrins by a Pyrazole’ Poster and Oral Presentation, REU at UConn Symposium, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2008.

Akhigbe, J.; Zarate, G.; Jia, W.; Lei, Y.; Brückner, C. ‘The Fluorescence Detection of TNT and other Nitroaromatics Using a Library of Structurally Diverse Porphyrinoids’ Poster, R.T. Major Lecture Series, UConn Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT, 8/2007.

Zarate, G.; Akhigbe, J.; Lei, Y.; Brückner, C. ‘Differentiation of Nitroaromatics by a Library of Porphyrinoids – Towards an Electronic Nose’ Poster, Oral and Poster Presentations, UConn REU Programs, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2007.

King, M.; Crundwell, G.; Brückner, C. ‘Porpholactones: Synthesis and Characterization’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2006.

Arntsen, C.; Ryppa, C.; Brückner, C. ‘Base-Catalyzed Synthesis of Dipyrro­methanes and meso-Tetraphenylporphyrins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2006.

Rossi, A.; Brückner, C. ‘Dipyrromethanes and Dipyrrins as Precursors to Corroles and Porphyrins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2006.

Morozowich, N. L.; Ryppa, C.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesizing and Examining Pyrrole-modified Octaalkylporphyrins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2006.

Porto, M.; Lim, N.; Freake, H.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Zinc-Selective Chemosensors’ Oral and Poster Presentations, Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2004

Porto, M.; Lim, N. C.; Yao, L.; Freake, H. C.; Brückner, C. ‘Biological Evaluation of Zinc-selective Chemosensors in Live Cells’ Poster, Frontiers in Undergraduate Research in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities (FURASH 2004), University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2004.

Rinaldo, C. K.; Lara, K.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of meso-Tetraaryldithiachlorins, the First Examples of Heterochlorins’ Oral and Poster Presentation, NSF-REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2003.

Foss, P.; Crundwell, G.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of meso-Tetrathienyl-porphyrins and -chlorins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2003.

Daniell, H. W.; Brückner, C.; Birge, R. R. ‘Studies on Photosynthetic Reaction Centers’ Oral Presentation, Biology Undergraduate Research Colloquium, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 5/2003.

Capetta, S. H.; Brückner, C. ‘Silver(II) as Removable Template in Synthetic Porphyrin Chemistry’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2002.

Schuster, J.; Lim, C. N.; Brückner, C. ‘Toward Coumarin-Based Chemosensors for Zinc’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2002.

Daniell, H. W.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis and CD Spectroscopy of Chiral Homoporphyrins’ Poster, Frontiers in Undergraduate Research in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities (FURASH 2002), University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2002.

Capetta, S. H.; Brückner, C. ‘Silver(II) as Removable Template in Synthetic Porphyrin Chemistry’ Poster, Frontiers in Undergraduate Research in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities (FURASH 2002), University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2002.

Barta, C. A.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of [meso-Tetraarylcorrolato]Ag(III) – A Stable Silver(III) Complex’ Oral and Poster Presentations, REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2001.

Daniell, H. W.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of 2,3-Derivatized meso-Tetraphenyl-porphyrins and -chlorins’ Poster, Frontiers in Undergraduate Research in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities (FURASH 2001), University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 4/2001.

Williams, S. C.; Brückner, C. ‘Oxidation of 2,3-Dihydroxy-meso-tetraphenylchlorin’ Oral and Poster Presentations, NSF-REU in Chemistry Program, University of Connecticut–Storrs, CT, 8/2000.

Daniell, H. W.; Brückner, C. ‘Synthesis of Non-Metallated (Free Base) Homoporphyrins’ Poster, Summer Undergraduate Research Program, UConn Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT, 8/2000.

Melfi, P.; Brückner, C. ‘β,β’-Bond Cleavage of Porphyrins’ Oral and Poster Presentations, NSF-REU in Chemistry Program, UConn Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT, 8/1999.