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Scorpionate Supported And Unsupported Carbonyl And Ethylene Complexes Of Group 11 Metals
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2010-03-03)Carbon monoxide (CO) and small olefins represent perhaps the simplest, but most important ligand systems in coordination/organometallic chemistry. Simple carbonyl and ethylene compounds have started to appear in the field ... -
SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES: FROM FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN TO THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS
(2022-08-16)Supramolecular peptide-based biomaterials have attracted much attention from researchers in various science and engineering fields because of the ease of synthesis and precise control over structures and physicochemical ... -
SENSTIVE ENANTIOMERIC ANALYSIS OF N-ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONES IN BACTERIAL MATRICES
(2023-01-03)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 12/13/2024** ABSTRACT: Communication between unicellular organism has long been studied with many facets yet to be discovered. A specific type of communication in ... -
SEPARATION, DETECTION, AND QUANTITATION OF UNDERIVATIZED CARBOHYDRATES USING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY- ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION-TRIPLE QUADRUPOLE- TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY
(2018-08-10)Carbohydrate analysis has many important implications in health, consumer products, and industrial processes. Among many possible analytical techniques for their analysis, mass spectrometry (MS) is an attractive approach, ... -
Slowing DNA Translocation In A Biological Protein α-hemolysin Ion Channel
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2011-07-14)During the past decade, nanopore DNA sequencing has emerged as a revolutionary prospect towards a "$1000 genome" goal set by U.S. National Institute of Health. In the nanopore approach, electrophoretic movement of ... -
Solid State Light Source Based Analytical Measurement Systems For Atmospheric Particles
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2012-04-11)Solid-state light sources such as light-emitting diodes, use a solid semiconductor block instead of a conventional heated filament or discharge source. Such light sources are preferred in analytical instrumentation because ... -
Solution Combustion Synthesis Of Oxide Semiconductors
The quest for stable and efficient photocatalytic materials beyond TiO2 and WO3 has over the years led to the development of new materials that possess varied interfacial energetics. This dissertation study focused on using ... -
Speciation of Aluminum During the Formation of Aluminum Chlorohydrate: A Combined Kinetic and Mass Spectrometry Study
(2019-08-12)Abstract Speciation of Aluminum During the Formation of Aluminum Chlorohydrate: A Combined Kinetic and Mass Spectrometry Study Mohammad Fakrul Islam, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Arlington, 2019 Supervising Professor: ... -
Spectroscopic and mechanistic investigation of the enzyme mercaptopropionic acid dioxygenase (MDO), the role of the conserved outer-sphere 'catalytic triad' in directing promiscuous substrate-specificity
(2018-05-16)Mercaptopropionate dioxygenase (MDO) from Aztobacter Vinelandii is a non-heme mononuclear iron enzyme that catalyzes the oxygen dependent conversion of 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3mpa) to produce 3-sulfinopropinioic acid ... -
Stimuli-Responsive Peptide Self-Assembly for Therapeutic Delivery
(2022-08-16)Peptide self-assembly offers an effective method to generate supramolecular nanomaterials with much higher stability than traditional monomeric peptides. The materials exhibit well-organized hierarchical structures and ... -
Strategies for enhancing chromatographic efficiencies in chiral and achiral supercritical and liquid chromatography
(2020-09-01)The fundamental aim of chromatography has been to achieve baseline separation between the components of a mixture in the shortest possible time. Recently there has been a shift in the chromatographic focus of enantiomeric ... -
STRUCTURE AND PROPERTY CALCULATIONS OF AMORPHOUS CERAMICS AND GLASSES USING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS AND EMPIRICAL POTENTIAL MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS
The work in this thesis involves modeling amorphous ceramics and glasses using the tools of DFT and classical MD. Systems investigated include: metal-silicate glasses (in particular HfO2- SiO2), composite coatings (comprising ... -
Structure Modeling and Property Calculations of Amorphous Materials
(2019-05-16)The demand in discovery of novel materials for a seemingly infinite list of applications is growing year by year. Even though it’s not uncommon to find the application for the material after its discovery upon experimentally ... -
Structure-Activity Relationships of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes with Redox-Active Intercalating Ligands: Correlation between Redox Activity, DNA Cleavage Capability and Cytotoxicity
(2015-12-10)The investigation and development of transition metal complexes as cancer chemotherapeutics has gained a lot of interest in the past few decades and has become a promising area of research. Metal complexes of platinum and ... -
Studies in Liquid and Ion Chromatography
(2017-11-30)Height- and area-based quantitation approaches reduce two-dimensional data to a single value. For a calibration set, there is a single height- or area-based quantitation equation. We introduce a new quantitation method; a ... -
Studies Of Enantiomeric Separations Using Capillary Electrophoresis
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2009-09-16)The focus of this thesis is on using state-of-the-art capillary electrophoresis (CE) in enantiomeric separations. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to enantiomeric separations using CE. Chapters 2 through 5 presents ... -
STUDIES ON ENANTIOSELECTIVE DESYMMETRIZING ALKYNE HYDROSILYLATION
(2021-08-12)This research focuses on the design and synthesis of enantioselective desymmetrizing α-hydrosilylation of propargyl alcohols to provide α-hydroxy (E)-vinylsilanes. Transition metal-catalyzed, regio-and stereoselective ... -
Studies On Reductive Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Olefination Using Mixed Silyl Acetals
Homologation of esters to α,β-unsaturated esters is a useful transformation in organic synthesis. We have developed a new approach for the Ir-catalyzed reductive Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination of esters; a one-pot ... -
Studies Toward The Enantioselective Total Synthesis Of The Martinella Alkaloids
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2007-08-23)This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part describes the enantioselective total synthesis of martinellic acid. The Martinella alkaloids have attracted considerable attention in the synthetic community over the ... -
Studies Towards Bioactive Imidazoles
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2008-04-22)The work presented in this thesis focuses on the development of an enantioselective and practical route form the total synthesis of villagorgin via haplosleridamine imidazole alkaloid containing β- carboline moiety by ...