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The chemical reactions accompanying any thermal treatment of soybean oil or palm olein must be carefully monitored in the food industries, to ensure the quality and healthiness of processed foods.

Analysis of the chitin synthase expression during Atta sexdens developmental stages.

It was studied the dissipation of insecticides residues in rice and the translocation of these insecticide residues in husked rice for 35 days. For that, the solid-liquid extraction methods with low temperature partition (SLE/LTP) method followed by gas chromatography with electron capture detection (GC-ECD) for unhulled and husked rice were optimized and validated.

Use of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis to identify the maturation time of Minas artisanal cheese.

Polymeric samples were exposed to non-thermal plasma, and roughness patterns were formed as a function of time. After extensive statistical analysis, it was observed that the patterns were repeated, and growth models could be proposed.

Biodegradation of 17-α-ethinylestradiol with laccase from fungi, using cocoa agro-industrial residue as inductor replacing the xylidine.

Determination of the absolute configuration of (−)-cubebin by means of a robust combination of theoretical and experimental methods.

A new methodology involving the gas diffusion microextraction was used for the analysis of volatile corrosion inhibitors. The inhibition efficiencies were evaluated by mass loss measurements using deliquescence NaCl crystal test.

Possible mechanisms involved in Cu²⁺, Cd²⁺ and Ni²⁺ adsorption on 3-n-propylimidazolium silsesquioxane chloride (SiImi⁺Cl^-).

In this study, a series of unsymmetrical N,N-disubstituted benzimidazolium salts were synthesized as N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) (2a-2j) and their Ag^I complexes (3a-3j).

Four screened xanthine oxidase inhibitors could effectively enhance cell viability and protect injury of gastric epithelial cell lines (GES-1 cells) from oxidative stress.

Cocoa beans analysis for the determination of inorganic constituents using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES) and previous sample preparation optimization employing multivariate analysis.

Starting from safrole, after three steps, we obtained cyclic imides with antifungal activity with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 0.17 µmol mL^-1.

Three anti-dengue active monoterpene indole alkaloids were isolated in just one-step directly from the leaf MeOH extract of Psychotria leiocarpa.

Virtual screening of a Velloziaceae family bank against Candida albicans, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella sp., using computational tools.

A polymeric deep eutectic solvent composed of DL-menthol and polyethylene glycol 400 was prepared and used as extraction solvent in vortex-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction method combined with high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector for the determination of parabens.

Illustration of the separation of the three main sugars found in nectar samples: fructose, glucose and sucrose by capillary electrophoresis.

Cytotoxic isoquinoline alkaloids were isolated from Hippeastrum goianum and had their absolute configurations determined by using vibrational circular dichroism (VCD).

Fast determination of bisphenol A in paper samples and estimation of exposure via handling papers.

By means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the investigation on the mechanism of the hydrogenation of diphenylacetylene (DPA) over Pd clusters was carried out at a molecular level.

A fast and effective method for the determination of 18 organic micro-pollutants of five different classes in environmental waters by disposable pipette extraction (DPX) using polypyrrole (PPy) as extraction phase and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) for separation and detection is developed.