| This research includes two projects with Mufeed Basti
(A&T, physical chemist) and two graduate students. Both cases involve
the structure determination from Nuclear Overhauser Effect constraints
obtained from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance measurements. The first molecule,
1-[2-[bis(4-fluorophenyl)methoxy]ethyl]-4-(3-phenylpropyl)piperazine,
is a drug that showed promising results in the treatment of cocaine addiction.
The second molecule is an RNA consisting of three guanidine and three
pentose groups. Later, the reaction of the latter RNA with mercury will
be studied.
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