Publications

PUBLICATIONS: (Undergraduate authors are underlined and undergraduate presenters are asterisked)

1.       Floyd A. Beckford, Alyssa Stott, Antonio González-Sarrías and Navindra P. Seeram, “Novel microwave synthesis of half-sandwich [(h6-C6H6)Ru] complexes and an evaluation of the biological activity and biochemical reactivity”. Appl. Organometal. Chem. 2013, 27, 425–434 (DOI: 10.1002/aoc.3007) [PDF]

  1. 2.       Nerissa A. Lewis, Fang Liu, Luke Seymour, Anthony Magnusen, Travis R. Erves, Jessa Faye Arca, Floyd A. Beckford, Ramaiyer Venkatraman, Antonio González-Sarrías, Frank R. Fronczek, Don G. VanDerveer, Navindra P. Seeram, Aimin Liu, William L. Jarrett and Alvin A. Holder. “Synthesis, characterization and preliminary in vitro studies of vanadium(IV) complexes with a Schiff base and thiosemicarbazones as mixed-ligands”. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2012 4 664 – 677. (DOI:10.1002/ejic.201100898) [PDF]

3.       Floyd A. Beckford, Jeffery Thessing, Alyssa Stott, Alvin A Holder, Oleg Poluektov, Liya Li and Navindra P. Seeram. “Anticancer activity and biophysical reactivity of copper complexes of 2-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-ylmethylene)-N-alkylhydrazinecarbothioamides.” Inorg. Chem. Commun. 15 (2012) 225 – 229. (DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2011.10.032). PMC3579949 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579949/)

 

4.       Floyd A. Beckford, Marc-Andre LeBlanc, P. Canisius Mbarushimana, Antonio González-Sarrías and Navindra P. Seeram. “Coordination chemistry of polyaromatic thiosemicarbazones. 2. Synthesis and biological activity of zinc, cobalt and copper complexes of 1-(naphthalene-2-yl)ethanone thiosemicarbazone.” International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry Volume 2011, Article ID 624756 (DOI:10.1155/2011/624756). PMC3269312. [PDF]

 

5.       Beckford, F.A., Michael Shaloski, Jr., Jeffrey Thessing, Jason Woods, Diedra Dourth, Jacob Didion, Vernon Crowell, Nikolay Gerasimchuk, Antonio Gonzalez-Sarrías and Navindra P. Seeram. “Half-sandwich ruthenium-arene complexes with thiosemicarbazones: Synthesis and biological evaluation of [(h6-p-cymene)Ru(piperonal thiosemicarbazones)Cl]Cl”. J. Inorg. Biochem. 105 (2011) 1019 – 1029  (DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2011.04.008) PMC3111060 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111060/pdf/nihms293152.pdf

 

6.       Beckford, F.A., Jeffrey Thessing, Michael Shaloski, Jr., P. Canisius Mbarushimana, Alyssa Brock, Jacob Didion, Jason Woods, Antonio González-Sarrías and Navindra P. Seeram. Synthesis and characterization of mixed-ligand diimine-piperonal thiosemicarbazone complexes of ruthenium(II): Biophysical investigations and biological evaluation as anticancer and antibacterial agents. J. Mol. Struct. 992 (2011) 39 – 47. PMC3086094. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111060/

 

7.       Beckford, F.A., Jeffrey Thessing, Jason Woods, Jacob Didion, Nikolay Gerasimchuk, Antonio González-Sarrías and Navindra P. Seeram. “Synthesis and structure of [(η6-p-cymene)Ru(2-anthracen-9-ylmethylene-N-ethylhydrazinecarbothioamide)Cl]Cl; biological evaluation, topoisomerase II inhibition and reaction with DNA and human serum albumin”. Metallomics, 3(5) (2011) 491 – 502. PMCID:PMC3271380 [PDF]

 

8.       Beckford, F.A., “Reaction of the anticancer organometallic ruthenium compound, [(h6-p-cymene)Ru(ATSC)Cl]PF6, with human serum albumin”. International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 2010, Article ID 975756 (doi:1010.1155/2010/975756) PMC2911368 [PDF]

 

9.       Beckford, F.A., M. Shaloski, Jr., G. Leblanc, J. Thessing, L. C. Lewis-Alleyne, A.A. Holder, L. Li and N.P. Seeram. Microwave synthesis of mixed ligand diimine-thiosemicarbazone complexes of ruthenium(II): biophysical reactivity and cytotoxicity. Dalton Trans., 2009, 10757-10764. PMC2814159 [PDF]

 

10.   Beckford, F.A., G. Leblanc, J. Thessing, M. Shaloski, Jr., B. J. Frost, L. Li and N.P. Seeram. Organometallic ruthenium complexes with thiosemicarbazone ligands: Synthesis, structure and cytotoxicity of [(h6-p-cymene)Ru(NS)Cl]+ (NS = 9-anthraldehyde thiosemicarbazones), Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2009, 12(11), 1094. PMC2769075 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769075/

 

11.   Beckford, F.A., Harness, R. and Robertson, C. Thiosemicarbazone complexes of group 12 elements. 1.  An investigation of the thiosemicarbazone from p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde. Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research 2008, 7(3), 92. [PDF]

 

12.   Beckford, F.A., and Holt, A.  Coordination Chemistry of Polycyclic Thiosemicarbazones. I. Reactions of the thiosemicarbazone from 9-anthraldehyde. Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research 2007, 6, 173. [PDF]

 

13.   Beckford, F.A., Dasgupta, T.P., Maragh, P.T., Lui-Lyn, J., Stedman, G. Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reaction Between the Di-m-cyanobis[tetracyanoferrate(III)] ion and Sulfite in Aqueous Solution. Inorg. Chim. Acta 2007, 360, 2284. [PDF]

 

14.   Beckford, F.A., and Holt, A.  Organometallic Ruthenium Complexes of Novel Thiosemicarbazones. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences 2006, 60, 27. [PDF]

 

15.   Beckford, F.A., Rinke, D., and Bashari, V. “Synthesis, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Activity of Organometallic Ruthenium(II) Complexes.” Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research 2006, 5, 99. [PDF]

 

16.   Beckford, F.A., and Bashari, V. “Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Aromatic Dithiocarbamates and Their Transition Metal Complexes”. Proceeding Journal of the 2005 Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, 159.

 

17.   Beckford, F.A., Mason, M.R., Kirschbaum, K., and Goreck, B.J. “Fortuitous formation of [(LiCl)6(Me2NCH2C8H5N)3P)2]: an amine-ligated hexameric lithium chloride aggregate”, Inorg.  Comm. 2005, 8, 331. [PDF]

 

18.   Beckford, F.A., Darensbourg, D.J., Reibenspies, J.H.  “Water-soluble organometallic compounds. 8. Synthesis, Spectral Properties and crystal Structures of 1,3,5-Triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA) Derivatives of Metal Carbonyl Clusters: Ru3(CO)9(PTA)3 and Ir4(CO)7(PTA)5.” J. Cluster Sci. 2000, 11, 1.

 

19.   Beckford, F.A., Bennet, D., Dasgupta, T.P., Stedman, G. “Redox chemistry of [Fe2(CN)10]4-. Part 4. Reaction with L-cysteine”. J. Chem. Res. (S). 1998, 90.

 

20.   Beckford, F.A., Dasgupta, T.P., Stedman, G. “Redox chemistry of [Fe2(CN)10]4-. Part 3. Reaction with L-ascorbic acid”. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1995, 2561.

 

21.   Beckford, F.A., Dasgupta, T.P., Stedman, G. “Redox chemistry of [Fe2(CN)10]4-. Part 2. Reaction with thiosulfate”. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1993, 3605.