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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, is a terriorial animal and although it is not generally accepted, it is believed that it defines its territory by scent marking, using interdigital and preorbital ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to use tin-mediated reactions to differentiate between the four zones in the myo-inositol ring that consists of five contiguous equatorial and one axial hydroxyl groups. It ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Even capillary gas chromatography does not always give complete separation of the components of complex mixtures. During the last few decades several two-dimensional gas chromatographic techniques were ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The photo-mineralization of organic compounds (in the combined presence of a Ti02 based semiconductor catalyst, UV radiation and molecular oxygen) represents an advanced oxidation technology with ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present study was initiated by the wine industry of South Africa to overcome the lack of available information on the flavor and aroma of South African wines. The aim was to develop new analytical ...

This study comprises the preparation and full characterisation of new carbene complexes of group 10 metals (Ni, Pd or Pt), the group 9 metal, rhodium, as well as group 6 metals (Cr and/or W). N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The wine industry is an important sector of agriculture and wine analysis forms the basis of assessing compliance of its commodities with regulatory standards and research in this field. Liquid ...

This study describes the exploitation of numerous donor ligand possibilities presented by selected nitrogen-rich heterocyclic ligands towards gold(I). The preparation and structural characterisation of novel gold(I) ...

Due to numerous accidents involving munitions, recent interest has focused on the development and use of insensitive munitions (IM). Polymeric materials are used in insensitive munitions as binders or plasticizers. Most ...