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Synthesis and Characterisation of Core-shell Gold Nanoparticles

Cook, Michelle Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Technology developed at Victoria University of Wellington by Professor James H. Johnston and Dr Kerstin Lucas allows for the colouring of high quality wool fibres using spherical gold nanoparticles. Gold nanoparticles have ...
Synthesis and Characterisation of Photocatalyst Silver/Silver Halide Nanocomposites

Tate, Eldon Warwick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The photochemical activity of silver halides forms the basis of photography and latent image formation. More recently it has been used to create hybrid silver/silver halide nanoparticles. These are formed through partial ...
Synthesis and Reactivity of Group 12 β-Diketiminate Coordination Complexes

Webb, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The variable β-diketiminate ligand poses as a suitable chemical environment to explore unknown reactivity and functionality of metal centres. Variants on the β-diketiminate ligand can provide appropriate steric and electronic ...
Synthesis and Thermal Treatment of Lithium- and Magnesium-Containing Geopolymers

O'Connor, Sean (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Geopolymers are a class of cementitious aluminosilicate materials that are receiving an increasing amount of attention due to their potential applications in toxic waste remediation and as construction materials. They are ...
Synthesis of 2-C-Branched Sugars

Moore, Peter William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

A range of unnatural carbohydrates (sugars) with an unusual 2-C-bromomethylene branch have been synthesised by reaction of the 1,2-cyclopropanated carbohydrate 52 with different nucleophiles. Initial work to optimise the ...
The Synthesis of Aigialomycin D Analogues

Ting, Samuel Z.Y. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Aigialomycin D is a fungal natural product possessing kinase inhibition properties. It is a member of a class of compounds known as the resorcylic acid lactones, a expansive group containing compounds exhibiting a vast ...
Synthesis of Antimycobacterial Agents that Harness Mycothiol and Cysteine conjugate β-lyase Metabolic Pathways

Riordan, Scott W. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills approximately two million people each year and is second only to HIV/AIDs in terms of death from infectious disease. The most pertinent problem in regards to Mycobacterium tuberculosis today ...
The Synthesis of Carbohydrate Probes for the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

Santoso, Kristiana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurologically debilitating disease which typically affects people in the age bracket of 27-40 years old. Currently, little is known about the mechanism of the disease, which is partly due to ...
Synthesis of deoxymannojirimycin using a Ruthenium-catalysed hydrogen borrowing reaction

Skinner, Victoria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

1-Deoxymannojirimycin (DMJ) has been investigated as a potential anti-cancer therapy due to its specific inhibition of class I α-mannosidase enzymes, which has been shown to trigger ER stress and the Unfolded Protein ...
The Synthesis of Malonganenone Analogues for Antiparasitic Structure-Activity Relationship Analyses

Andreassend, Sarah Kateyln (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The most lethal causative species of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, has been reported as developing resistance against current antimalarial drugs in South-East Asia. New antimalarial drugs, especially those with novel ...
The Synthesis of Modified Trehalose Glycolipids: Towards Understanding Mincle and MCL Binding

Bird, Jessica Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Trehalose glycolipids are a diverse family of long-chain fatty acid diesters isolated from the cell walls of bacteria, in particular Mycobacterium species including M. tuberculosis. These molecules possess an array of ...
Synthesis of N-Glycans and Azasugars to Target Disease

Moggré, Gert-Jan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In this thesis two aspects of carbohydrate research will be discussed. First, the total synthesis of N-glycans found on allergens that are known to stimulate an allergic immune response and second, the synthesis of iminosugars ...
Synthesis of N-glycans implicated in asthma and allergy

Haslett, Gregory William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Asthma and allergies affect a large number of people, with over 300 million people worldwide suffering from asthma alone. Although, on the ‟macroscopic‟ level, it is known how allergens trigger allergic reactions, it is ...
Synthesis of N-Glycans Implicated in Asthma and Allergy

Haslett, Gregory William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Asthma and allergies affect a large number of people, with over 300 million people worldwide suffering from asthma alone. Although, on the ‟macroscopic‟ level, it is known how allergens trigger allergic reactions, it is ...
The Synthesis of Novel Gallium Carbenes, Nitrenes, Phosphinidenes and Alkoxides

Cummins, Struan John Wright (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

In the present study, synthetic routes to formal double bonds between gallium and carbon (fig 1), nitrogen (fig 2), and phosphorus (fig 3) have been investigated. These synthetic routes utilised the monoanionic, four ...
Synthesis of Novel Pyran Fragments to Incorporate into Peloruside Analogues

Bayley, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Cancer is currently the second largest cause of death globally, leading to a high demand for new and effective chemotherapeutics. For years, natural products have been used as a source of new bioactive compounds; of ...
Synthesis of sign and speech in a New Zealand Sign Language-target session: Oral channel variation of hearing bimodal bilingual children of Deaf parents

Smith, Kaitlyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis investigates the uniquely “bimodal” bilingual language production of some of the New Zealand Deaf community’s youngest members—hearing and cochlear-implanted Deaf children who have Deaf signing parents. These ...
Synthetic Approaches to the Incorporation of Gallium and Germanium into Inorganic Polymer Structures

Durant, Andrew Timothy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

New sol-gel and solid-state synthesis methods and combinations of these were developed for the preparation of several new inorganic polymers related to aluminosilicate inorganic polymers, attempting to substitute gallium ...
A systematic revision of the New Zealand Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) with studies on larvae, life histories, distribution, variation, paleogeography, hybrid-zones, mimicry, and environmental melanism

Harris, Anthony Clifford (Victoria University of Wellington, 1974)

Eleven species are recognised from New Zealand. They belong to two subfamilies, Pepsinae and Pompilinae, and to three genera - Priocnemis Schiodte, Cryptochelius Panzer, and Epipompilus Kohl. Chrysocurgus Haupt and ...
Systematic studies on the Holothuroidea of the New Zealand region

Pawson, David Leo (Victoria University of Wellington, 1961)

A systematic account of the holothurians of the New Zealand region is given, together with diagnoses of orders, families, sub-families, genera and species. The report is based on a total of 970 specimens, which comprise ...