Hydnocarpin D was isolated from the flowering plant Hydnocarpus anthelminthic in family Flacourtiaceae, as a racemic mixture devoid of optical activities, in an extremely limited amount. Racemic Hydnocarpin D has been reported to have promising anti-p . . .

Aging and age-related diseases, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and cardiovascular diseases, are incredibly complex and result from multifactorial processes. However, a common hallmark in development of these diseases is the failure of the body’s antioxi . . .

This work addresses the application of capillary electrophoresis coupled to a hybrid mass spectrometer (CESI-MS/MS), to investigate agricultural related chemistry issues. Fumigations are routinely used on pre and post-harvest commodities. With the lat . . .

Second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS) consists of hundreds of toxins. Many of these toxins such as 1,3-Butadiene and Ethylene oxide are known to cause cancer. The health effects of SHS are well known; however, the effects of environmentally-aged sidestream . . .

Prostate cancer has continued to plague the globe as the second most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. To date, there are no effective treatments towards metastatic, advanced prostate cancer. Fisetin, a natural strawberry flavonoid, has been reveal . . .

Keto-enol tautomerism is a fundamental concept that examines the migration of a proton amongst two constitutional isomers, the keto and enol tautomer. β-diketones are a class of ketone compounds that exhibit this type of behavior. Acetylacetone (AcAc) . . .

Grewe' s synthesis of the morphine ring system has been applied by May to the synthesis of benzomorphan (2,3). In his scheme the diene which resulted from the treatment of a pyridinium salt with a Grignard reagent was catalyti- cally hyarogenate . . .

The Michaelis and Menten initial rate approach to enzyme kinetics using sucrose hydrolysis by invertase was first performed over 100 years ago. Their approach allows for the measurement of an enzyme’s binding affinity (KM), and the maximum rate of sub . . .

The development of the neoclassical interpretation in the study of stereochemical systems has been of interest to chemists ever since Winstein demonstrated stereochemical control by a neighboring bromine atom in the solvolysis of the diastereomeri . . .

The project consisted of two phases. The first phase was to construct a high pressure, high speed liquid chroma- tography system (HPLG). The HPLC system consists of a solvent reservoir, high pressure pump, pressure gauge, packed glass columns, . . .