Storage of Information Using Small Organic Molecules

Mechanochemical synthesis of small organic molecules

With the growing interest in renewable energy and global warming, it is important to minimize the usage of hazardous chemicals in both academic and industrial research, elimination of waste, and possibly recycle them to obtain better results in greener fashion. The studies under the area of mechanochemistry which cover the grinding chemistry to ball milling, sonication, etc. are certainly of in...

ORGANIC SYNTHESIS Synthesis of many different types of organic small molecules using one automated process

Small-molecule synthesis usually relies on procedures that are highly customized for each target. A broadly applicable automated process could greatly increase the accessibility of this class of compounds to enable investigations of their practical potential. Here we report the synthesis of 14 distinct classes of small molecules using the same fully automated process. This was achieved by strat...

INTERACTION OF PROTEINS WITH SMALL MOLECULES

Unusual assembly of small organic building molecules in common solvent.

During the process of self-association, reaching a thermodynamic equilibrium state in dilute solution is usually very fast, taking at most seconds for small organic (such as surfactants) solutions and hours for polymer solutions. It is very rare that days are necessary for soluble small organic molecules to reach thermodynamic stability in dilute solutions. This work reports such an unusually s...

Microfluidic Systems for Continuous Crystallization of Small Organic Molecules

This thesis presents one of the first demonstrations of continuous crystallization in microfluidic devices, and illustrates their use for various applications related to crystallization of small organic molecules. Crystallization is an important process in a number of industries, including specialty chemicals, food, cosmetics, nutraceuticals and, most importantly, pharmaceuticals. Most small mo...