Microwave heating instructions for three products (chicken nuggets, turkey pot-pies and mashed potato) were developed and validated based on end point temperatures using two microwave ovens (2,459 MHz; 700 W and 1,350 W). Heating instructions for chicken nuggets were validated u…
Conjugated enynes are common carbon moieties in natural products, pharmaceuticals, and in industrial ingredients. The recent success of Suzuki type reactions involving potassium organotrifluoroborates salts in cross-coupling chemistry attracts us to explore C-H activation of alk…
Aromatic nitration is a very important synthetic process in pharmaceuticals, dyes and other industries. Classical synthesis of these aromatic nitro compounds uses nitric acid as the nitrite source with sulfuric acid as catalyst. In new methodology, transition metal-catalyzed cro…
This research project presents the design and development of a high frequency surface mount package (SMT) for high power microwave/millimeter-wave applications using liquid crystalline polymer (LCP). As microwave frequencies, the demand for greater power output is rapidly increa…
Comparative studies were carried out on the curing kinetics, physical and mechanical properties of conventionally and microwave cured epoxy resins. Epoxy resins Araldite LY 5052 and DLS 772 were used for this study. 4 4' Diaminodiphenyl sulfone was used as a hardener in the prep…
The use of patterned metallic surfaces for the control of the transmission of microwave radiation has been reinvigorated in recent years due to the success and interest in metamaterial research. These metallic periodic structures, commonly referred to as frequency selective scre…
In this thesis paper, three new procedures for benzoylation reactions were developed using microwave heating. Benzoylation is an important organic transformation and has many applications for developing cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (…