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Application of ball milling for highly selective mechanochemical polymorph transformations
(American Chemical Society, 2018-06-07)Milling is an important secondary processing technique in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, primarily used as a particle size reduction process. p-Aminobenzoic acid (PABA), m-aminobenzoic acid (MABA), o-aminobenzoic acid ... -
Application of vibrational spectroscopy to study solid-state transformations of pharmaceuticals
(2016-09-01)Understanding the properties, stability and transformations of the solid-state forms of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in the development pipeline is of crucial importance for process-development, formulation ... -
Applications of raman spectroscopy in biopharmaceutical manufacturing: A short review
(Sage Publications, 2017-05-23)The production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is currently undergoing its biggest transformation in a century. The changes are based on the rapid and dramatic introduction of protein- and macromolecule-based ... -
Assessing the predictions of a NOx kinetic mechanism on recent hydrogen and syngas experimental data
(Elsevier, 2017-05-02)A detailed chemical kinetic mechanism has been developed to describe the pyrolysis and oxidation of the hydrogen/NOx and syngas/NOx systems. The thermodynamic data of nitrogenous compounds have been updated based on the ... -
Atomistic study of zwitterionic peptoid antifouling brushes
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-03)Simulation files, analysis scripts, and output data to accompany article: Cheung, David L., & Lau, King Hang Aaron. (2018). Atomistic Study of Zwitterionic Peptoid Antifouling Brushes. Langmuir. doi: 10.1021/acs.langm ... -
Atomistic study of zwitterionic peptoid antifouling brushes
(American Chemical Society, 2018-08-24)Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we study the molecular behavior and hydration properties of a set of zwitterionic peptoid brushes, grafted on a rutile surface, that has been previously reported to exhibit ... -
Autoignition characteristics of oxygenated gasolines
(Elsevier, 2017-08-14)Gasoline anti-knock quality, defined by the research and motor octane numbers (RON and MON), is important for increasing spark ignition (SI) engine efficiency. Gasoline knock resistance can be increased using a number of ... -
Autoignition of ethanol in a rapid compression machine
(Elsevier, 2013-12-09)Ethanol is a renewable source of energy and significant attention has been directed to the development of a validated chemical kinetic mechanism for this fuel. The experimental data for the autoignition of ethanol in the ... -
Bi- to tetravalent glycoclusters presenting GlcNAc/GalNAc as inhibitors: from plant agglutinins to human macrophage galactose-type lectin (CD301) and galectins
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015-02-17)Emerging insights into the functional spectrum of tissue lectins leads to identification of new targets for the custom-made design of potent inhibitors, providing a challenge for synthetic chemistry. The affinity and ... -
Bi- to tetravalent glycoclusters: synthesis, structure-activity profiles as lectin inhibitors and impact of combining both valency and headgroup tailoring on selectivity.
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-06-29)The emerging functional versatility of cellular glycans makes research on the design of synthetic inhibitors a timely topic. In detail, the combination of ligand (or headgroup or contact site) structure with spatial ... -
Bioelectrochemical Haber-Bosch process: An ammonia-producing H-2/N-2 fuel cell
(Wiley, 2017-02-03)Nitrogenases are the only enzymes known to reduce molecular nitrogen (N-2) to ammonia (NH3). By using methyl viologen (N, N'-dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridinium) to shuttle electrons to nitrogenase, N-2 reduction to NH3 can be ... -
Bodipy-ruthenium(II) tris-bipyridyl dyads for homogeneous photochemical oxidations
(Elsevier, 2014-10-28)Two Bodipy-ruthenium(II) tris-bipyridyl dyads were synthesized for use as sensitizers in photochemical oxidation reactions of organic substrates. The synthetic strategy involved the use of a simple ‘click’ CuAAC reaction ... -
A Bpp-based dinuclear ruthenium photocatalyst for visible light-driven oxidation reactions
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019-11-05)A diruthenium dyad molecule consisting of a 2,2-(1H-pyrazole-3,5-diyl)dipyridine (Hbpp) bridging ligand with the formula out-/in-[(bpy)2Ru(bpp)Ru(L)(tpy)]n+ (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine, tpy = 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine, L = Cl, ... -
Building blocks from monosaccharides for synthesis of scaffolds, including macrocycles. Application of allylic azide rearrangement, azide-alkyne cycloaddition and ring closing metathesis
(Elsevier, 2020-09-18)Synthesis of compounds with characteristics of natural products are required to increase the diversity and biological relevance of compounds for screening. These include new frameworks/scaffolds, with multiple stereogenic ... -
Calibration, standardization, and quantitative analysis of multidimensional fluorescence (MDF) measurements on complex mixtures (IUPAC Technical Report)
(De Gruyter, 2017-11-15)This IUPAC Technical Report describes and compares the currently applied methods for the calibration and standardization of multi-dimensional fluorescence (MDF) spectroscopy data as well as recommendations on the correct ... -
Calixarene-mediated assembly of a small antifungal protein
(International Union of Crystallography, 2019-02-05)Synthetic macrocycles such as calixarenes and cucurbiturils are increasingly applied as mediators of protein assembly and crystallization. The macrocycle can facilitate assembly by providing a surface on which two or more ... -
Cell culture media analysis using rapid spectroscopic methods
(Elsevier, 2018-09-24)Cell culture media (CCM) used in industrial biotechnology are complex mixtures of molecules and elements that are inherently difficult to analyze comprehensively. CCM quality analysis is of utmost importance for efficient ... -
Cell cycle-dependent mobility of Cdc45 in living cells determined by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Eukaryotic DNA replication is a dynamic process requiring the co-operation of specific replication proteins. We measured the mobility of eGFP-Cdc45 by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) in vivo in asynchronous ... -
Chain transfer to solvent in the radical polymerization of structurally diverse acrylamide monomers using straight-chain and branched alcohols as solvents
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-01-02)Chain transfer to solvent in conventional radical polymerizations of N-tert-butylacrylamide (TBAM) and N-(2-morpholin-4-ylethyl) acrylamide (MEA) in a range of alcohol solvents is investigated. Mayo analysis of polymerization ... -
Characterization of Lysozyme PEGylation products using polarized Excitation Emission Matrix (pEEM) spectroscopy
(Wiley, 2020-07-07)The growing use of therapeutic proteins requires accurate measurement techniques for measuring biophysical and structural changes during manufacturing. This is particularly true for PEGylation of proteins, because ...