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Authors: Idahosa, Kenudi C , Molefe, Duduzile M , Pakade, Vusumzi E , Brown, Michael E
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6574 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004137
Description: DABCO-catalyzed reaction of 3-methoxy-2-nitrobenzaldehyde with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) affords a mixture of products, comprising the ‘normal’ Baylis-Hillman adduct, theMVKdimer and a pair of diastereomeric bis-(MVK)Baylis-Hillman adducts. 1HNMRspectroscopy-based kinetic studies have provided clear insights into the competing pathways and product distribution in this complex reaction.
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Date Issued: 2011

Authors: Brown, Michael E , Cosser, Ronald C , Davies-Coleman, Michael T , Kaye, Perry T , Klein, Rosalyn , Lamprecht, Emmanuel , Lobb, Kevin A , Nyokong, Tebello , Sewry, Joyce D , Tshentu, Zenixole R , Van der Zeyde, Tino , Watkins, Gareth M
Date: 2010
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449360 , vital:74814 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1021/ed8001539"
Description: A majority of chemistry graduates seek employment in a rapidly changing chemical industry. Our attempts to provide the graduates with skills in entrepreneurship and the ability to understand and communicate with their chemical engineering colleagues, in addition to their fundamental knowledge of chemistry, are described. This is done at second-year level with practical projects in which student teams formulate and prepare relatively simple chemical products for marketing, followed a year later by a more advanced study of the feasibility of producing and marketing a fine chemical on a commercial scale.
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Date Issued: 2010

Authors: Lamprecht, Emmanuel , Watkins, Gareth M , Brown, Michael E
Date: 2006
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6577 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004140
Description: DSC, TG and TG-FT-IR, and XRPD have been used to examine the effects of supposedly inert atmospheres of argon and nitrogen on the mechanism of the thermal decomposition of copper(II) oxalate. The DSC curves in pure argon at 10 °C min[superscript −1] show a broad endotherm with onset at about 280 °C and maximum at about 295 °C. In mixtures of argon and nitrogen, as the proportion of argon gas is decreased, the endothermic character of the decomposition decreases until, when nitrogen is the main component, the decomposition exhibits a complex broad exothermic character. XRPD studies showed that, regardless of the proportions of nitrogen and argon, the DSC residues consisted of mainly copper metal with small amounts of copper(I) oxide (cuprite) and, under some conditions, traces of copper(II) oxide (tenorite). Various explanations for this behaviour are discussed and a possible answer lies in the disproportionation of CO[subscript 2](g) to form small quantities of O[subscript 2](g) or monatomic oxygen. The possibility exists that the exothermicity in nitrogen could be explained by reaction of the nitrogen with atomic oxygen to form N[subscript 2]O(g), but this product could not be detected using TG-FT-IR.
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Date Issued: 2006

Authors: Brown, Michael E , Eve, Desmond John , Kaye, Perry T , Rivett, Douglas E A , Watkins, Gareth M
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6564 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004123
Description: The history of Grahamstown is well documented and two books deal with the history of Rhodes University.1,2 Although the Chemistry Department was one of the founding departments, coverage in the official histories is minimal and sometimes inaccurate or misleading. The Rhodes University Centenary is an appropriate time to look back on some of the achievements of the department and some of its graduates over the past 100 years.
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Date Issued: 2004

Authors: Brown, Michael E , Antunes, Edith M , Glass, Beverley M , Lebete, Mosimotsana L , Walker, Roderick B
Date: 1999
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184367 , vital:44212 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010150305542"
Description: Differential scanning calorimetry was used to examine the thermal behaviour of mixtures of the drug prochlorperazine with standard excipients, to assess potential interactions, and of mixtures with cyclodextrins, to investigate inclusion complexation which could increase the photostability of the drug. For most of the excipients (magnesium stearate, stearic acid, Explotab®, Ac-Di-Sol®, Encompress® and Ludipress®, lactose and Starch 1500) disappearance or broadening of the melting endotherm of the drug indicated interactions. Lubritab® was the only 'inert' excipient tested. Mixtures of prochlorperazine and the cyclodextrins gave incomplete inclusion complexation as shown by only partial disappearance of the melting endotherm of the drug.
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Date Issued: 1999

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