SOME PREVIOUS TALK TOPICS USED IN CHEM465

2-D NMR - Theory

A Biochemical Approach to Muscle Fatigue

A Better Way of Making Diazo-Ketones

A Novel Means for Synthesizing D-amino Acids

Air Pollution: Chemistry of Problems and Solutions

Alternative Fuels

Analysis of Drinking Water - EPA Method for Digestion & Distillation of Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen

Angiogenesis and Tumor Growth

Antipyrene

Application of Various Models of Water to the Study of the Water Dimer Using

Application of the Variational Method to the Particle-in-the-Box Problem

Artificial Blood & Its Problems with NO

Artificial Membranes

Aryl Coupling

Assaying of Lipids in Liquid Food Products

Basic Explosives

Biochemical Process of Fermentation

Biochemical Evolution

Biodegradable Plastics: New Developments & Products

Buckminster Fullerences C60, C70 Electrical Properties of

C60 the Buckyball

Capillary Zone Electrophoresis

Catalytic Converter

Challenge of Plastic Recycling

Chemical Abortion: Structure, Function, and Toxicity of RU486 and the Ethical

Chemical Warfare

Chemical Ionization of Mass Spectrometry

Chemisorption of CO on Pt 1A12O3 at High Temperatures

Chemistry in Agriculture: Insecticides

Chemistry of Leather Retanning

Chemistry of Insulin

Chemistry of Explosives

Chemistry of Cosmetics

Chemistry Industry/Business

Chemistry of Engine Knock Prevention

Chemistry of Photography

Chemistry and Crime

Chemistry of the Nuclear Fission Reactor

Chesapeake Bay

Chirality of Life: Racemic Mixture, Origin of Life and Practical Applications

Combination of GC/MS

Compare & Contrast the Lives of Two Biochemists (Nobel Prize Winners) Barry Beneceraf and Peter Medawar

Comparison of SCF HLPLC for Jet Fuels

Coordination Chemistry of Ce(III)

Cosmetics: What Does Chemistry Have to Do With It

Current Issues in Production of Lasers for Use in Fiber Optics Networks

Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease

Deposition of RuO2 on TiO2

Depression: (Brain Chemistry) Drugs That Treat it and Their Synthesis

Diabetes

Dioxin Toxicity: Past and Present Thoughts, Facts and Findings

Direct Determination of Manganese in Sea Water

Drinking Water - Composition, Treatment & Risks

Drug Testing in the Emergency Rooms

Effect of Oil Spills on the Environment Such as the Exxon Valdez and in Iraq

Electron Microscopy

Engineered Disulfide Bond in Proteins

Environmental Applications of Mass Spec

Extraction and Analysis of Priority Pollutants From Soils, Waters and Sludges

FDA - How It Works

Food Additives: Where Do They Come From? What Do They Do?

Forensic Chemistry

Formation of a Carbon-Carbon Bond via Zironecene Aldehyde Complexes

Formulations and Use of Polyurethanes

Fourier Transform (It's Uses and Advantages in Analytical Chemistry)

Fullerenes and Their Possible Applications in Industry

Gasoline Additives

General Chemistry Involved in Black and White Photography

HPLC

H2 Histamine Antagonists

Happy Hormones and What They Do

Hemoglobin, Structure and Function

HIV Virus

Hole in the Ozone - Chemicals Causing It and Things Being Done to Stop It.

HPLC and It's Use in Organic Chemistry

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type One Reverse Transcriptase

Hydride Reduction of Cyclohexanones via the Axial Attack

Hydrocarbon Processing

Interfacially Active Enzyme Catalysis

Iodine Speciation in Sea Water

Ion Channels: Structure & Function

Ion Channels in Neurons

Isolation of Taste Depressing Ziziphins

Isoprenoid Compounds

Isoprenoid: B Carotine - Structure, Synthesis, Reactions

Lab Safety - Focus - Waste Disposal

Latex Binding Technology

Lead Poison in Drinking Water

Lead - Toxicological Effects

Living Polymerization

Luminescence

Magnetic Properties of Monolayers

Manufacture of Paper

Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption

Mechanism of Conjugate Addition to Enones by Cuprate Reagents

Mechanism of CO Insertion in Organometallics

Mechanisms Which Govern Protein Folding

Method of Rh-Mediated Intramolecular C-H Insertions in Organic Synthesis

Method of Determining the Mechanism of RNA Polymerase

Methods and Procedures Used in Drug Screening

Microbial Agents Fighting the Oil Spills/Federal Superfund Program-Hazardous

Molecular Modelling: Uses, Pros/Cons, Mathematical Background Info

Multiple Mmma Problem on Conformational Searching

National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program; their Conclusions on the Acid Neural

Neurotransmitters and the Effect of Mind Altering Drugs

Nir Spectroscopy

Nitrite Hydratase: -Fe and Co Centered Enzymes Found in Nature

NMR Imaging

NO, the Neurotransmitter

Nuclear and Radio Chemistry

Occupational Epidemiology/Industrial Hygiene

Organic Additive in Polymers as Nucleators and Clearators

Ozone - Chemistry of Depletion, Formation, Causes and Effects

Peptide Sequence Analysis with Mass Spectrometry/Maldi

Perfluoroalkyl Acrylates as Water Repellants

Pesticides

Pheromones

Phosphate Chemistry

Phosphates

Phosphonate Containing Heterocycles

Photograph, Then the Specific Chemistry Involved

Photographic Image Stability in Chromogenic Films and Paper

Physiological Activity of Poisons (Arsenic, Cyanide and Others)

Pigment Disbursements

Polymer Property Modification by Resins in Adhesives

Polymer Chemistry and Some Thermal Plastic Elastomers

Preparation of an Enantioselective Catalyst

Problem of Smog in Large Cities Especially in California

Problems with DNA Fingerprinting Technology

Propene to Cyclopropane

Purge and Trap Chromatographic Analysis

Purification of Proteins

PVC Resins

Quantitative Analysis of Peroxides by HPLC

Radio Chemical Assays Vitamin Binding Proteins

Radioactive Dating

Radioactive Tracers, Methods and Applications

Rain Problem in the USA

Recent Breakthroughs in Biochem Medical Technology

Recent Advances in Epoxy Molding Compounds

Recent Aspirin Discoveries: Aspirin and Its Affects on Colon Cancer

Reduction of Cyclohexanone via Axial Attack

Rheology and Its Application on Polymer Science

Riboflavin Tracing and Deficiencies

Riboflavin-Binding Protein

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Sequential Kinetic Proofreading

Sick Building Syndrome

Sickle Cell Anemia

Small Pox

Solar Decomposition of Toxic Wastes

Something Organic

Specialized Ribosomes

Stereoselective Construction of 3-Alkyl-1,2-diols

Stereoselective Hydride Reduction of Cyclohexanes

Superconductors: A Review and Theory Behind It

Supercritical Fluid Chromatography

Surfactants

Synthesis of Glycols as an Alternate Substrate for Hexokinase

Taxol

The Active Site HIV-1 RT

The Coordination Chemistry of Polydentate Ligands

The Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Prophyrins

The Chemistry of Art Conservation

The Tuskegee Syphillis Experiments

Theory and Application of Orthogonal Chromatography in Polymer Analysis

Thrombosis - New Therapeutic Treatments

Tosylhydrazone Reduction for Stereoselective Ring Closure

Toxicity of Coinage Metals

Trace Metal Clean Techniques in the Marine Environment

Tuberculosis

Use of Anti-Sense RNA and DNA as a Tool in Genetic Analysis

Use of Ethanol and Reformulated

Use of Ozone vs. Chlorine Based Agents in Paper Production

Use of Diels Alder Reaction in the synthesis of Inostitol Phosphates

UV Light Stabilizers in Automotive Finishes

Varnishes

Vitamin A and Macular Degeneration

Vitamin C and It's Immunological Impact

Waste Site Cleanup

Waste Resistant Polymers

Water Quality

Wilson's Disease: Copper Precipitation in the Human Body

X-Ray Crystallography

Zeolites