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Fall 2018
Total dissolved gases generated downstream of hydropower dams pose an environmental risk to fish species. The objective of this study was to understand total dissolved gas generation mechanisms at Hugh L. Keenleyside Dam along the Columbia River near Castlegar, BC. This was in an effort to...
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Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy to Study Bitumen and Clay Interaction in Oil Sands Tailings
DownloadFall 2016
Oil sands tailings management remains to be a major challenge for oil industry in Canada. Promoting quick settling of fines in tailings ponds is the key to its treatment. Bitumen lost to tailings during oil sands extraction is also believed to hinder settling and consolidation of clays in...
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Fall 2017
Chapter 1 describes the total synthesis of (+)-ipalbidine. The indolizidine core structure was formed by use of an unusual 6-exo-trigonal radical cyclization as a key step. I started from the chiral pool using L-proline and obtained ipalbidine with an ee of >99.6%. Chapter 2 describes synthetic...