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Fall 2011
In the Introduction of this thesis, consideration is given to historical and ongoing value of investing research efforts in the total synthesis of natural products. Following this discussion is an explanation of the factors that guided the selection of palmerolide A as a synthetic target. The...
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Spring 2021
A thorough overview of esters and their reductions is presented. A large focus was placed on reductions via homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation. Although several ester hydrogenation systems have been developed, the production of highly enantioenriched alcohols has generally relied upon the usage...
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Parsimonious Contaminated Shifted Asymmetric Laplace Mixtures: Unsupervised Learning with Outlier Identification for Asymmetric Clusters in High Dimensions
DownloadFall 2021
A family of parsimonious contaminated shifted asymmetric Laplace mixtures is developed for asymmetric clusters in the presence of outliers and noise (referred to as bad points herein). A series of constraints are applied to a modified factor analyzer structure of the scale matrix parameters,...