This thesis investigates two aspects of phytoalexin metabolism by the phytopathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib) de Bary: (i) determination of detoxification pathways of structurally different molecules; (ii) ...

The thesis presented here describes the steps that were taken in an attempt to solve the protein structure of MenD via molecular replacement and multiple wavelength anomalous dispersion. The introduction provides background ...

Noncoherent photon upconversion (NCPU) realized by means of triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) is of significant recent interest because of the possibility of using this phenomenon for increasing the efficiency of ...

Three new aluminum and gallium dichlorides equipped with the ligands Pytsi-SiMe2 [Pytsi-SiMe2 = -C(SiMe3)2(C6H4N-2)], Pytsi-2SiMe3 [Pytsi-2SiMe3 = -CH2(SiMe2C6H4N-2)], and Mx (Mx = 4,6-di-tBu2-2-Me2N-C6H3) were synthesized ...

The search for antifungal secondary metabolites from cruciferous plants exhibiting resistance to pathogenic fungi led to the investigation of Eruca sativa (rocket). Chemical analysis of extracts showed arvelexin (51) as ...

Two distinct overall research objectives are in this Master’s thesis. Very little relates the two chapters apart from the ligands. The first chapter addresses diastereoselective homogeneous copper catalyzed cyclopropanation ...

UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM) is a flavoenzyme which catalyzes the interconversion of UDP-galactopyranose (UDP-Galp) and UDP-galactofuranose (UDPGalf). UDP-Galf is the active precursor of Galf residues. Glycoconjugates ...

The initial motivation for crystallization of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) is an interest to understand how thiomolybdates interact with BSA and suppress copper intake from the food sources of cattle. The main objective of ...

In this thesis, two aspects of research in soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy chemistry are explored. The first objective was to measure the natural circular dichroism of small chiral organic molecules at soft X-ray ...

The goal of this work is to provide a detailed description of the freezing mechanism in gold clusters. This is accomplished by using constrained Monte Carlo simulations combined with parallel tempering algorithms to evaluate ...