{"id":1048361,"date":"2011-05-08T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/chemistry\/evan-curtin-is-the-may-2011-rsc-ons-challenge-winner.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:55:03","slug":"evan-curtin-is-the-may-2011-rsc-ons-challenge-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chemistry\/evan-curtin-is-the-may-2011-rsc-ons-challenge-winner.php","title":{"rendered":"Evan Curtin is the May 2011 RSC ONS Challenge Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Curtin<\/a>, a chemistry freshman student working under the supervision of Jean-Claude Bradley at Drexel University, is the May 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Open Notebook Science Challenge Award<\/a> winner. He wins a cash prize from the RSC.<\/p>

Evan's primary focus has centered on synthesizing aromatic imines<\/a> and measuring their solubility in a number of organic solvents. This will allow us to generate Abraham descriptors for this class of compounds in order to predict their solubility in 70+ solvents. Coupled with our new model to include temperature dependent solubility<\/a>, this should greatly facilitate optimal solvent prediction for this and related reactions.<\/p>

Imine formation is of particular interest to the UsefulChem<\/a> group because it is the first step of the Ugi reaction<\/a>, which we have used to synthesize compounds with anti-malarial activity<\/a>. But it is also a simple convenient reaction in itself to test our Solvent Selector<\/a>'s ability to predict optimal conditions (solvent and temperature) for isolation of products by precipitation.<\/p>

Evan's synthesis experiments are available here:<\/span>
http:\/\/usefulchem.wikispaces.com\/Exp263<\/a>
http:\/\/usefulchem.wikispaces.com\/Exp262<\/a>
http:\/\/usefulchem.wikispaces.com\/Exp261<\/a><\/p>


and his solubility experiments are listed here:<\/span>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp207<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp206<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp205<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp204<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp201<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp198<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/Exp197<\/a><\/p>

Three more RSC ONS Awards will be made during 2011. Submissions from students in the US and the UK are still welcome.
For more information see:
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com<\/a>
http:\/\/onschallenge.wikispaces.com\/RSCAwards2010<\/a><\/p>

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