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EXPLORATION INTO THE SCOPE AND MECHANISM OF THE PLATINUM-CATALYZED ACYLATION OF 2-(ARYLOXY)PYRIDINES
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-11)
Transition metal catalysts have played a key role in direct C-H bond functionalization. However, one main drawback of these reactions is that oxidants and additives are often required to regenerate the active catalyst, ...
Computational Investigation of Calcium Binding Proteins Annexin A1 and Cardiac Troponin C
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-15)
Calcium binding proteins are vital for many biological functions. Many undergo calcium induced conformation changes through sensing motifs, resulting in functional changes for the proteins. In this study computational ...
THE IMPACT OF GLYCOSYLATION ON ACTIVE SITE STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITY IN THE FUNGUS ENZYME MOLOX
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)
Lipoxygenases from pathogenic fungi belong to the lipoxygenase family that catalyze the C-H activation of polyunsaturated fatty acids to form diverse hydroperoxides. While the lipoxygenase catalytic domains are structurally ...
Developing Novel Chemotherapeutics: A Structure-Activity Study of Anandamide Analogs and their Cytotoxic Profiles
(East Carolina University, 2020-01-06)
Many epithelial cancers have been shown to overexpress the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), an enzyme responsible for both the metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA) to prostaglandins and arachidonoyl ethanolamine (AEA) to ...
Platinum Catalyzed Synthesis of Alpha-Ketoester via C-H Functionalization
(East Carolina University, 2019-12-16)
Alpha-ketoesters have proven to be useful in a variety of fields. They have found wide spread applications in pharmaceuticals, photochemistry, and biology. Additionally, they are of great interest in synthetic chemistry ...
Development of Green Subcritical Water Separation Technology
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-19)
Theoretically speaking, water under temperature and pressure conditions below its critical point is called subcritical water. However, the term “subcritical water” normally refers to hot water up to 374 C and pressure up ...
Theoretical Probe to the Mechanism of Pt-catalyzed C-H Acylation Reaction: Possible Pathways for the Key Acylation Reaction of Platinacycles
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-23)
Transition metal-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization offers a variety of desirable transformations of simple hydrocarbons to more complex compounds with applications being applied in pharmaceuticals to material sciences. ...
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT FIDELITY OF IMPLEMENTATION IN INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS LABORATORIES: IMPACT ON SCIENCE PRACTICE PROFICIENCY
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This study reports the fidelity of implementation of the Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) instructional model by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in introductory chemistry and introductory physics laboratories at East ...
Modern and Classic Quantum Chemistry: Modeling Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroacylation with Advanced Tools and the Development and Application of Software to Examine Simple Bonding Interactions in a Basis of Molecular Fragments
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
In this dissertation, both modern and classic computational methods are utilized to examine two problems of interest in the field of chemistry. The first problem involves a complex rhodium-catalyzed hydroacylation reaction ...
Identifying compensatory genomic changes due to nickel (Ni2+) exposure: electrochemistry and quantifying DNA damage
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-24)
Nickel is a toxic heavy metal that has been shown to cause adverse healthconditions in organisms. DNA damage has been observed in nematodes in response to nickel exposure. Nematodes originating from environments with high ...