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Theses and Dissertations (Chemistry): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Malaria remains a global burden, specifically affecting developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Oceania. To address the high mortality rates associated with severe malaria, researchers at the Council of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The high costs associated with the synthesis of Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) owing to the expensive raw materials have significantly attributed to the lack of large-scale production of MOFs regardless of their appealing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Organic pollutants in water are a significant environmental problem, as they can have harmful effects on both human health and the ecosystem. Atrazine and phenanthrene are two common organic pollutants that are often found ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Environmental protection and the search for cleaner, more sustainable fuels are two of the most important concerns modern society is facing. This research aims to determine whether a transition from fossil fuels to the use ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)A subset of plants used in South African traditional medicine was selected from the University of Pretoria Plant Repository (Biodiscovery Lab). These were extracted with organic solvents and fractionated using a ppSPE ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Direct monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from industrial sources and the monitoring of ambient levels thereof in the atmosphere, play an essential role in providing data for various legislative ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Indigenous medicine is a common form of healthcare in the rural parts of Africa, South Africa not excluded. Traditional healers have ethnomedicinal reports documented or passed from one generation to another by word of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Two non-daphnane diterpenoids were isolated as biomarkers and later identified using one and two dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (1D and 2D NMR) as lasioerin and lasiocephalin. The preparative purification of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The great breakthroughs in modern malaria drug discovery and development were a result of studies of medicinal plants used to treat malaria such as Cinchona by the Incas and Artemisia annua by the Chinese. South Africa is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Research has recently focused on the adaptation of environmentally benign routes for porous aterials synthesis. Porous carbon materials have found applications on gas storage, water purification, catalyst supports, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The synthesis and development of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) within the pharmaceutical industry has been achieved using traditional batch production methods for more than a century now. Batch production chemistry ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-12)Supramolecular complex formation using donor and acceptor macrocycles are important field of research in solar energy harvesting. In this study, multiwalled carbon nanotubes is used as an acceptor and its associative ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-02)Powerful arguments recently advocate introducing systems thinking in chemistry education to equip graduates to address sustainability challenges. This study focused on developing teaching and assessment materials to foster ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Samples of biogenic VOCs are varied and complex, presenting a significant challenge to analytical scrutiny. This dual study investigates the applicability of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)In this study, we investigated the pheromones of Gonipterus species 2 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and Nudaurelia clarki (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). These insects are two South African plantation pests that have caused ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-07-29)The burden of tuberculosis (TB) on the world has been explored in recent literature and described as a major source of human suffering. More specifically, the socio-economic implications of TB on South Africa were described ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Optical trapping is a venerable topic and has been an invaluable and pioneering tool in biological research, but it has been mostly unexplored by the analytical science community. This study lays the groundwork for a novel ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious, airborne bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is one of the leading causes of death in our country; South Africa has the third highest number of TB incidents in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-05)In this study single solvent system extraction, sequential extraction and supercritical fluid extraction were used to prepare several extracts which were initially selectively investigated for their inhibition of selected ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-02)Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly contagious chronic pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb). Early detection of this deadly disease using a simple and effective method at the point of care is not yet ...
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