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The Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectra of Cyclohexane, Cyclohexene, 1,4-Cyclohexadiene, Isotetralin, and Several Methyl Substituted Analogs

Description: A paucity of literature exists on the Independent System analysis of adjacent, parallel transition dipoles. Applying this theory and certain spectral information semiemperical calculations were made to predict absorption profiles and band intensities. To aid in the assignment of the 7*+7 absorption bands it was necessary to obtain the vacuum ultraviolet spectra of cyclohexane and cyclohexene. Because the spectra of these molecules contained sharp, atomic-like absorption bands a Rydberg series c… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Tidwell, Edgar Rhea
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Inhibitors of Dihydrofolate Reductase, 8-Oxapteridines

Description: The biological activities of some homeosterically related analogs of dihydrofolic acid have been examined involving pyrimido[4,5-b][l,4]oxazine (8-oxapteridine) derivatives. It is anticipated that these compounds might interfere with the essential intermediary metabolic functions of the vitamin and thus serve as potential chemotherapeutic agents. Preliminary toxicity studies in microbial assay systems were disappointing; however, inhibitory effects were demonstrated in cell free enzyme systems… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Lin, Shwu-Ching H.
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Isozymes and In Vivo Activity of Triosephosphate Isomerase

Description: The distribution of isozymes of triosephosphate isomerase was normal in all human tissues examined. This finding argues against the existence of tissue-specific isozymes. Normal distributions of isozymes were also found in patients with cri-du-chat syndrome. Thus it is unlikely that a gene for triosephosphate isomerase is located on the short arm of chromosome five in man. When triosephosphate isomerases from a wide range of species were examined by starch gel electrophoresis, definite evolutio… more
Date: May 1974
Creator: Snapka, Robert Morris
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Studies Concerning Asparagine Metabolism in Lactobacillus plantarum

Description: This study is concerned with the metabolism of L-asparagine in Lactobacillus plantarum (ATCC 8014). Theprimary area of investigation is the preliminary characterization of a previously unreported L-asparaginase enzyme in L. plantarum. This L-asparaginase was determined to be an inducible enzyme with variations in its activity level according to the L-asparagine level in the growth medium. L-Glutaminase could not be induced in this organism by L-glutamine, nor would L-glutamine induce the aspar… more
Date: May 1974
Creator: McCue, Bette Ann
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Properties of Molecular Rydberg States

Description: Many of the bands in the vapor-phase far-ultraviolet absorption spectra of simple molecules can often be fit to mathematical progressions referred to as molecular Rydberg series. The name Rydberg arises from the similarity between the Rydberg formula for the atomic hydrogen spectrum and the formulae for the progressions found in molecular spectra. The theories of molecular Rydberg transitions and states are discussed in terms of the inferences that have been made in the past from the available … more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Scott, John Delmoth
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Long-Range Carbon-13--Carbon-13 Spin-Spin Coupling Constants

Description: The study consists of three major areas of research. First, the dihedral angle dependence of vicinal carbon-carbon coupling constants is determined for aliphatic and alicyclic carboxylic acids wherein the formal hybridization and substituents are held constant. Second, the magnitudes and relative signs of long-range carbon-carbon coupling constants in a. triple- 13 C-labeled system are determined and compared with carbon-proton and/or proton-proton coupling constants in geometrically similar co… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Miller, Denis E.
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The Mechanism of Formation and Lifetimes of Halogenated Ketenes

Description: The investigation presented here is in two parts: a mechanistic study of the triethylamine dehydrohalogenation of ac-haloacid halides to form halogenated ketenes and a study of steric influence upon ketene lifetimes. The first part of this research deals with the mechanism of the dehydrohalogenation reaction. Two acid halides, isobutyryl chloride and a-chloropropionyl chloride, appeared to represent two mechanistic extremes for this reaction with triethylamine. Isobutyryl chloride reacted with … more
Date: August 1974
Creator: Scherubel, Gary
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Structure-Activity Studies of Halopyrethroids

Description: The structures of the new pyrethroids were elucidated utilizing nuclear magnetic spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The biological activity of the pyrethroids has been evaluated for houseflies and yellow fever mosquitoes. A correlation of increase in rapid knockdown and toxicity with decrease in size of halogen has been made. The most effective compound, the difluorovinyl ester, has a toxicity of 123 times greater than pyrethrins. This degree of toxicity has not previously been reported for a… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Brown, Dale Gordon
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