Aim: To explore the ability of GRNN as a tool of structural elucidation in predicting the substituent types on myrcane, one of the representative skeletons of monoterpenoids. Methodology: Generalized regression neural network (GRNN) was used in the study. Carbon-13 (13C) NMR chem...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11441
Laboratory synthesized 1-phenyl naphthoic acid systems (substituted naphthalenes or lignans) were evaluated for their antioxidant and antimicrobial potential. All the phenyl naphthoic acids showed significant to moderate antioxidant activity in DPPH (2, 2-diphenyl- 1-picrylhydra...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7460
Heavy metal contents of some crops and farm soil irrigated along the Bindare stream in Chikaji Zaria were investigated. The results of the analysis indicate that the crops contained substantial amount of heavy metals (Pb, Cr, Zn and Fe) compared to similar crops irrigated far d...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11858
The corrosion inhibition of mild steel is of technological importance due to the increase of industrial requirements. This study reports the corrosion inhibition of mild steel in acidic solution of 0.1 M H2SO4 using Anarcadium occidentale gum, also known as Cashew gum by way of g...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/9499
The flow problem presented in the paper is a study on boundary layer flow of a nanofluid through a porous medium subjected to a magnetic field, thermal radiation, viscous dissipation and chemical reaction effects. The effects of porosity, thermal radiation, magnetic field, viscou...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11082
Monitoring and evalution of exotherms as temperature rises were investigated using various foam formulations from two types of polyols with variations in blow indices as volume of water added. It was observed that exotherms increase linearly with blow index. The results also sh...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11361
Aim: To assess contamination of borehole water by heavy metals (Fe, Zn, Pb, Cr, Cu, Ni, Mn). Study Design: Water samples collected from fifty two boreholes in twelve Local Government Areas (L.G.A) of Nasarawa State were analyzed for the heavy metal concentrations. Place and Durat...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10553
An age-old question remains as an open research problem in the field of chemoinformatics, which is how much could the proposed approach enhance the effectiveness of lead-discovery programmes? Answering that question is a target of any new virtual screening approach. The current r...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10175
In this work, the structural, surface potential, and antimicrobial aspects of a set of recently synthesized and published complexes of five transition metals(II) are investigated using the semiempirical PM6 and B3LYP/6-31G* methods. The complexes ML2 [M = Ni, Cu, and Zn] are main...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10427
Interaction of 5,6-dimethyl-3,4-dihydrothieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine-4-one (1), -thione(2) with alkylation agents (methyl-, ethyl-, n-propyl-, n-butyl iodides, allylbromide, benzyl chloride) in different conditions (in the presence of catalyst and/or without catalyst) were investigated...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/10495