Selected Publications

Murray, D.H. Chapter 3: Environmental Fridays – A Case Study in Environmental Education and Community Engagement. In Creating Healthy Communities; Charles, S., Ed.; Nova Science Publishers, New York, In Progress, 2026.

Austin Carter, Daniel Wright, Giavanna Alongi, Christopher G. Hamaker, Shawn R. Hitchcock, and Desmond H. Murray. Synthesis of 1,2,4-oxadiazoles via an ambient temperature, one-pot DMAP catalyzed amidoxime O-acylation/cyclization pathway. Synthetic preparation of Ataluren. Synthetic Communications, August 19, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/00397911.2025.2548309.

Desmond Hartwell Murray, “The Other IP,” The Journal of Adventist Education 86:4, 3, 48, 49, 2024. https://doi.org/10.55668/jae0093.

Desmond Hartwell Murray, “Environmental Fridays: From Awareness to Action—Addressing the Lamentations of Nature,” The Journal of Adventist Education 85:2, 25-32, 2023. https://doi.org/10.55668/jae0039.

Desmond Hartwell Murray. “Can Research Be Sacred Ministry? Part 1.” The Journal of Adventist Education, 84:1, 27-34, 2022. https://doi.org/10.55668/AUFN1282.

Desmond Murray, “Community Engagement Council Initiatives,” FOCUS Magazine, Winter 2019, 22-23.

Desmond H. Murray, Sherine Obare, and James Hageman. (Editors) “The Power and Promise of Early Research.”  ACS Symposium Series Vol. 1231. 2016.

Hamstra, D., Kemsley, J. N., Murray, D. H., Randall, D. W. "Integrating Webinar and Blogging Technologies into Chemistry Seminar." J. Chem. Ed. 2011, 88, 1085-1089.

Chandrima De, Tova A. Samuels, Tajay L. Haywood, Ginger Anderson, Keith Campbell, Desmond H. Murray, Sherine O. Obare. “Dual Colorimetric and Electrochemical Sensing of Organothiophosphorus Pesticides by an Azastilbene,” Tetrahedron Letters, 51, 2010, 1754.

Sherine O. Obare, Chandrima De, Wen Guo, Tajay L. Haywood, Tova A. Samuels, Clara P. Adams, Noah O. Masika, Desmond H. Murray, Ginger A. Anderson, Keith Campbell, and Kenneth Fletcher. “Fluorescent Chemosensors for Toxic Organophosphorus Pesticides: A Review,” Sensors, 2010, 10, 7018.

Martin, V. A., Murray, D. H., Pratt, N. E., Zhao, Y., Albizati, K. F. "Chemistry of Aldolate Dianions. The Effect of β-Heteroatom Substituents on Ketone Enolization." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 6965-6978.

Murray, D. H., Albizati, K. F. "Ambiphilic Reactivity of α,α-Dimethoxyacetone." Tetrahedron Lett. 1990, 31, 4109.