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SURVEY OF CATALYST AND REDUCTANT EFFECTS ON OXORHENIUM CATALYZED DEOXYDEHYDRATION OF GLYCOLS
(2015-02-06)
Sustainable and renewable carbon sources are of great interest for long term succession of humankind. The sugars and polyols derived from cellulosic biomass offer such a sustainable feedstock considering cellulosic biomass ...
Study of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
(2012)
Enhancement of molecular fluorescence is of great interest due to the widespread popularity of fluorescence-based detection techniques available today. Although fluorescence-based detection is considered to be more sensitive ...
Advancement of Natural Products: Optimization of Instrumentation and Examples of their Application to the Isolation of New Compounds
(2019)
The world of natural products has a long rich history dating back thousands of years and was the origin of medicine as we know it. Advancements in the field of natural products can be seen not only in the isolation of new ...
Solid Acid Catalyzed Polysaccharide Hydrolysis
(2012)
In addition to the rising costs of gasoline and the depletion of fossil fuels, air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels has increased the need to develop alternative renewable fuels. One possible alternative is the ...
SINGLE CELL METABOLOMICS USING MASS SPECTROMETRY: DEVICES, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
(2019-05-10)
Cells are basic functional components of eukaryotic organisms containing rich biological and physiological information. To investigate the nature of cells, a variety of fundamental and mechanistic studies of the cell ...
IN VIVO FLUORESCENCE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ESCHERICHIA COLI OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN FEPA
(2012)
Opportunistic microbial pathogens rely heavily on acquisition of nutrients to survive hostile environments. The complexity and redundancy of iron acquisition systems in bacteria illustrates the importance of iron in cellular ...
A STUDY OF HYPOSELENOCYANITE AND THE KINETICS AND MECHANISM OF THE LACTOPEROXIDASE SYSTEM
(2018-12-14)
The lactoperoxidase system, defined as lactoperoxidase in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and thiocyanate, is a powerful method of host defense, particularly in mammalian secretory mucosae. The product of this system, ...
Enhanced Sampling Methods for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins
(2018-12)
Due to the many folds existing in nature, proteins are able to perform a multitude of functions within cells. This relationship between structure and function is one of great importance and has added to the understanding ...
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, ELECTROCHEMISTRY, AND SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY OF GROUP 8 METALLOPORPHYRIN COMPLEXES
(2012)
This dissertation describes the investigations of nitric oxide (NO) and possible NO donors with group 8 metalloporphyrins.
Stereoselective Spirocyclizations Initiated by Metal Carbenes
(2019-05-10)
Within the field of drug design, there is a great interest in the development of synthetic libraries that mimic the structural complexity of natural product scaffolds. Recent cheminformatic analyses have revealed that 83% ...