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Spring 2013
The five-membered carbocyclic framework is a prevailing structural motif found in natural products and bioactive compounds. Over the years, the Nazarov reaction has been continuously refined as a versatile protocol to access cyclopentanoid products. In this dissertation, several projects built...
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Fall 2015
Petroleum samples consist of hundreds to thousands of components and require well-designed experiments to accurately determine quality and composition. The challenges with petroleum samples in this thesis are three-fold, focusing on: alkyl phosphate contamination, group-type composition, and...
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Spring 2019
DNA-templated reactions have been utilized in many applications from the detection of a nucleic acid target to applications in nanotechnology. This thesis explores developing bioanalytical strategies based on DNA-templated ligation reactions for sensitive, rapid single nucleotide polymorphism...
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Spring 2011
The lymphocyte function associated antigen-I (LFA-1) is important to a variety of immune cell processes including immune synapse formation and lymphocyte homing. Studies have shown that lymphocytes exhibit increased adhesion upon sialic acid removal by neuraminidase. Recent studies of β1 integrin...
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Spring 2010
New methods to fabricate nanometer sized structures will be a major driving force in transforming nanoscience to nanotechnology. There are numerous examples of the incorporation of nanoscale structures or materials enhancing the functionality of a device. Graphitic carbon is a widely used...