Starting from Dane's diene and methylcyclopentenedione, (+)-estrone is synthesized along the Quinkert-Dane route in 24% total yield. The key step is an enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction promoted by an amidinium catalyst as efficiently as by a traditional Ti-TADDOLate Lewis acid.

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: WHO: World Health Organization; ECLAC: Economic Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean; DANE: National Administrative Department of Statistics; RLCPD: Registry for the Location and Characterization of People with Disabilities; AAIDD: American Association of Intellectual Disabilities and Development; FQOLS: Family Quality of Lif...

Matthew W. Gorr, Dane J. Youtz, Clayton M. Eichenseer, Korbin E. Smith, Timothy D. Nelin, Estelle Cormet-Boyaka, and Loren E. Wold Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio Stat...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the differences in the classification accuracy obtained with raw EEG data and with data preprocessed with Independent Components Analysis (ICA). Our main research question is whether ICA is able to improve the classification accuracy not only in the case of a multichannel recording but also when EEG data are recorded only from a few channels. In order to answ...

OBJECTIVES In Dane County, Wisconsin, the black-white infant mortality gap started decreasing from 2000 and was eliminated from 2004 to 2007. Unfortunately, it has reappeared since 2008. This paper examines risk factors and levels of prenatal care to identify key contributors to the dramatic decline and recent increase in black infant mortality and extremely premature birth rates. METHODS Thi...

3 Casey A. Mueller 4 Warren W. Burggren 5 Dane A. Crossley II 6 7 Developmental Integrative Biology 8 Department of Biological Sciences 9 University of North Texas 10 Denton, Texas, USA 11 12 *Corresponding Author current address: Corresponding Author address for final article: 13 Department of Biological Sciences Department of Biology 14 University of North Texas McMaster University 15 1155 Un...

Abstract: A five-year-old, male Great Dane was referred to the Veterinary Hospital of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman for treatment of a painful swelling mass at the left upper part of the chest wall, between 9th till 12th intercostals space. Lethargy, depression, vomiting and abdominal pain in palpation of the mass were the main clinical observation with no response to antibiotic and anti-...