Exhaled Breath Analysis of Emergency Room Patients with Diabetes and Respiratory Illnesses

First Total Synthesis of ()- and ()-Actinophyllic Acid and First Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Condylocarpine-Type Alkaloids

Catalytic Synthesis of Various 3-Dimentional Polymers Based on Chain-Walking Polymerization (CWP)

Applications of Combinatorial Libraries to the Discovery of Chemically Reactive Peptide Tags

Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Batrachotoxinin A

Rhenium(VII) Catalysis of Prins Cyclization Reactions

Biomimetic Modular Polymers with Advanced Mechanical Properties

Novel Cross-Linking Reagents for Efficient Detection of Cross-Linked Peptides by Mass Spectrometry

Lanthanide Hydride Reduction Chemistry Including New Routes to Lanthanide Metallocene Dinitrogen Complexes

Lanthanide Hydride Reduction Chemistry Including New Routes to Lanthanide Metallocene Dinitrogen Complexes Speaker: Benjamin M. Schmiege University of California, Irvine Abstract: Although the lanthanides have many applications in polymerization catalysts, strong magnets, petroleum refining catalysts, optical lenses and light-emitting diodes, their chemistry remains underdeveloped.

A beta-Oxyanionic Organolithium-Weinreb Amide Coupling Strategy Towards the Syntheses of Aculeatins A, B, D and Strevertene A"

UCI Department of Chemistry

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