Dr. Beulah Narendrapurapu

Education

• B.S. St. Anns College, Hyderabad, India (2006)
• M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India (2008)
• Ph.D. University of Georgia (2013)

Courses Taught

• CHEM 1211 K Principles of Chemistry I
• CHEM 1212 K Principles of Chemistry I
• CHEM 1151 Survey of Chemistry I
• CHEM 1310 Comprehensive General Chemistry
• CHEM 3502 Intro to Quantum Chem

Research

• Affordable materials for CHEM 1310 course
• Animations for chemistry concepts
• Interventions for increasing success in chemistry courses

Selected Publications

• “Dibridged, Monobridged, Vinylidene-Like, and Linear Structures for the Alkaline Earth Dihydrides Be₂H₂, Mg₂H₂, Ca₂H₂, Sr₂H₂, and Ba₂H₂. Proposals for Observations”, B. S. Narendrapurapu, M. C. Bowman, Y. Xie, H. F. Schaefer, N. V. Tkachenko, A. I. Boldyrev, G. Li, Inorganic Chemistry, 59, 15, 10404 (2020)
• “Investigating the Effects of Basis Set on Metal-Metal and Metal-Ligand Bond Distances in Stable Transition Metal Carbonyls: Performance of Correlation Consistent Basis Sets with 35 Density Functionals”, B. S. Narendrapurapu, N. A. Richardson, A. V. Copan, M. L. Estep, Y. Zheyue and H. F. Schaefer, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 9, 2930 (2013).
• “Combustion Chemistry: Important Features of the C₃H₅ Potential Energy Surface, Including Allyl Radical, Propargyl + H₂, Allene + H, and Eight Transition States”, B. S. Narendrapurapu, A. C. Simmonett and H. F. Schaefer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 14209 (2011).
• “Exploring the Effects of H-Bonding in Synthetic Analogues of Nickel Superoxide Dismutase (Ni-SOD): Experimental and Theoretical Implications for Protection of the Ni-SCys Bond”, E. M. Gale, B. S. Narendrapurapu, A. C. Simmonett, H. F. Schaefer and T. C. Harrop, Inorg. Chem., 49, 7080 (2010).

Last updated: 8/22/2024