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The palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution using seven different phosphano-oxazoline ligands at various ligand-to-metal ratios was also studied.112 An aluminum block containing 27 wells was placed in a dry box in which the reactions were carried out in parallel. Analyses were performed by conventional chiral GC equipped with an autosampler. Such a setup allowed about 33 catalyst evaluations per day. Apparently, only a few dozen were carried out in the study, resulting in the identification of a catalyst showing an ee-value of 74% in the reaction of 4-acyloxy-2-pentene with malonate.112 It is not clear whether further ligand diversification would lead to catalysts more selective than the record set in this case by the Trost-catalyst (92% ee).113... 

METABOLIC PROFILING APPROACH SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION AND PARALLEL ANALYSES... 

Figure 3.2 Our approach to surmounting the metabolome obstacles of chemical complexity and dynamic range employs sequential extraction followed by parallel analyses. Segregation of the metabolome into subclasses helps minimize chemical interferences, while parallel analyses help to visualize a greater portion of the metabolome.

The tests to determine the number of factors to retain are given in table for both the fine and coarse fractions. For the fine fraction there appear to be three strong sources and two weaker ones. The coarse fraction results do not give a clear indication of the number of factors and parallel analyses with and 5 retained factors were performed until it was found that sources gave the best results. 

A series of four standard soils, which are certified reference materials from the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Ottawa, was analyzed by the AAS/fusion procedure to assure that it gave satisfactory results. Excellent agreement with recommended values was obtained. Intercalibration of the two laboratories used for the source materials analyses was accomplished by the parallel analyses of K. Again, excellent agreement was achieved. 

The sightings of simultaneous, bunches of neutrinos in the KII [6] and IMB [7] detectors some three or four hours before optical observations of SN1987a is surely as good a demonstration of the existence of gravitational collapse supernovae as we can desire. The very short time between neutrinos and optical visibility is a surprise, speaking to the small size and unusual nature of the progenitor. We have performed [5] one of the many parallel analyses of these neutrinos [23-28]. 

Liquid chromatography is now a mature technique. Instruments are reliable and increasingly computer assisted. Column-to-column reproducibility is ensured by most manufacturers. The quest for the universal detector is about to end with the advent of a sophisticated and miniaturized MS detector. Development of a method can be achieved in a rather short period with available software. The emphasis is on validation more than on how to handle it. Capillary columns are sure to improve, and the trend will be toward many parallel analyses. 

Figure 9.9 Chiral separations of FITC-baclofen and HTC-norfcncfrinc on a two-channel chip, (a) Parallel analyses of FITC-baclofen in 2 mM y-CD and (b) chiral separations of FITC-baclofen and FITC-norfenefrine in 2mM y-CD and 2mM DM-y-CD, respectively [27].

Many methods of determination of TAC have been automated. Automatization of the ORAC assay by using the COBAS Fara II analyzer with fluorescence and robotic attachment permits 24 parallel analyses per mn (C15). A semiautomated version of the ORAC assay has been proposed for determination of 45 simultaneous analyses (Cl). 

Information rich detection. A large number of quantitative or qualitative results can be obtained from a single analytical HPLC-MS/MS run, since due to the fast ion selection electronics, multiparametric, quasi parallel analyses can be performed with a mass spectrometer. 

Significant immunogenicity and protection against systemic or nasal challenge with live strains of GAS in mice was observed (Sabharwal et al. 2006) when subjected to subcutaneous and intranasal immunization with GAS CHO conjugated to tetanus toxoid. In parallel, analyses of serum samples and throat cultures from Mexican children revealed an inverse relationship between high serum titers of anti-GAS CHO antibodies and the presence of GAS in the throat. Moreover, no cross-reactivity of anti-GAS CHO antibodies with human tissues or cytoskeletal proteins was observed. 

Parallel analyses by IR, thin-layer chromatography (TLC), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) of organic remains adhering to shards of ancient amphoras excavated in the harbor of Carthage (Tunisia) identified these remains as pine pitches. Capillary GC of methylated acid fractions showed abietic acid, dehydroabietic acid, and 7-ketodehydroabietic acid as the principal components. Two-dimensional TLC of untreated ether extracts revealed abietic acid in 12 of 31 samples and dehydroabietic acid in 26 of 31 samples. IR spectra of solid, raw samples indicated the presence of isopropyl groups, characteristic of the abietane skeleton, in 80% of the samples. Rapid and convenient analysis by TLC and IR was, in most cases, sufficient to identify pine resin products even after extensive pyrolytic and oxidative degradation. 

SPR is a representative physical phenomenon that is widely utilized for label-free characterization of molecules on thin metal films. The basic principle and operation of SPR has been described in more detail in several review articles [77, 78]. The reports on SPR-based immune sensors have steeply increased for detection of analytes with low molecular weights in recent years. SPR detection in microfluidic systems can provide various advantages. Immunoreactions are completed within a short time due to small sample volumes down to the nanolitre scale. Kim et al. developed a simple and versatile miniaturized SPR immunosensor enabling parallel analyses of multiple analytes [79]. Their SPR sensor was claimed to exhibit good stability and reusability for 40 cycles and more than 35 days. Feltis et al. demonstrated a low-cost handheld SPR-based immunosensor for the toxin Ricin [80]. Springer et al. reported a dispersion-free microfluidic system with a four-channel SPR sensor platform, which considerably improved the response time and sensitivity [81]. The sensor was able to detect short sequences of nucleic acids down to a femtomole level for 4 min. Waswa et al. demonstrated the immunological detection of E. coli 0157 H7 in milk, apple juice, and meat juice extracted from... 

Numerous proteomic technologies that are available have been described elsewhere (Jain, 2003). Protein purification and expression profiling, which facilitates parallel analyses of expressed proteins, dynamic descriptions of protein regulation and detailed biochemical characterization of protein function, all provide important information on novel targets for drug discovery. Technologies that are useful for drug discovery are listed in Table... 

To date, the comprehensive measurement of all species in a single live cell over time remains a vision. Nevertheless, conceptual and technical developments in the last decade have enabled progress in two complementary directions. On the one hand, parallel analyses of thousands of species are possible thanks to mass spectrometry and microarrays. Yet, these technologies have the drawbacks that cells have to be disrupted to extract the analytes, and single-cell analyses are still limited by insufficient sensitivity or unspecific interactions, respectively. On the other hand, real-time imaging techniques deliver precise measurements at a single molecule level over time and with high spatial resolution, but are limited to the observations of only a few species at the time (mostly proteins). In both cases, we expect the bottlenecks to be (partially) relieved in the future. 

Matrix spike (an actual sample to which a known amount— the spike—of the radionuclide of interest has been added) To check yield by comparing the results of parallel analyses for the spiked and unspiked matrix. The amount of added spike is taken 1-20 times that of the radionuchde of interest to permit precise measurement of both. 

Testing of each component of the library, one at a time, is the desired goal of any screening method but has constraints of time and resources. One way to increase the sample throughput is to perform several parallel analyses. An alternative approach to speed up the screening process is to reduce the number of samples for analysis by selecting only a random number of library members [87]. An improvement over this protocol is iterative deconvolution [88]. In one such approach, called the mimotope approach [89], a pool of compounds of soluble libraries is tested first based on this outcome, a smaller pool of compounds is synthesized and sublibraries are retested. The process is repeated until a compound with the highest activity is identified. 

If the influence of matrices is to be examined, 10 parallel analyses should be made from 3 real samples with different concentration levels. This should be done for both methods for the matrix-free calibration function and for the calibration function of the standard addition, making a total of 4 series. 

It was shown by Brauner and Moalem Maron that linear stability analysis is insufficient to predict the stratified flow boundaries [40]. Parallel analyses on the stability as well as on the well-posedness of the (hyperbolic) equations which govern the stratified flow has been invoked. It has been shown that the departure from stratified configuration is associated with a buffer zone confined between the conditions derived from stability analysis (a lowerbound) and those obtained by requiring well-posedness of the transient governing equations (an upper-bound). These two bounds form a basis for the construction of the complete stratified/non-stratified transitional boundary to the various bounding flow patterns. 

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