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BabcockHall

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  1. In my experience with linear phosphonates (no metal ion was present), the three-bond coupling constants are often larger than the two-bond coupling constants.  I don't know enough about phosphines or the cyclopentadienyl system to have any expectation one way or another.

  2. There are some true statements within what you have written, but I also sense some possible misconceptions.  When we ingest dietary fat, lipase enzymes break them down, but then triglycerides are reformed and packaged as chylomicron particles, which are taken up by other tissues.  There are other kinds of lipoprotein particles besides chylomicrons, however, and cells have the ability to bind to these particles.  Adipocytes do produce free fatty acids (not sure about monoacylglycerols), but in the bloodstream they are complexed to fatty acid binding proteins (they are not soluble enough on their own).

  3. Although I think that the concept of a high energy bond can mislead the unwary, I think that you are on the right track.  The free energies of hydrolysis of esters vary quite a bit from one to another.  I don't have a table that provides this value for an acylcarnitine ester; however, my recollection is that it is relatively high in energy.

  4. femz and anum,

    It is an entirely reasonable policy for the forum to provide help but not answers.  Providing help can take time; therefore, waiting until it becomes "urgent" is not a good strategy.

    femz, "thanks guys, i actually don't know it atall. so,i waited to get more answer so i can compare" is basically stating that you want us to provide you with multiple answers to a question that you have not thought about in the slightest.

    anum,  Please don't post the same question in a different thread.

     

     

  5. At my institution an Honor's thesis covers novel research done by the undergraduate over the course of about a year.    Obviously, the amount of research is much less than a Ph.D. thesis.

  6. swansont,

    My experience is in chemistry, and things may be different.  Based on your description of your master's degree in physics, I would call it a coursework-based master's degree.  Maybe I should have used a different term in my first post, such as "research-based masters" for one that has original research as one of the requirements.  Revising my terminology, I would say that a thesis-based master's could either be research-based or literature-based (in which one writes an extensive review of the literature on some topic).

  7. A thesis-based master's degree must involve novel work.  A literature-based master's degree may involve an extensive review of the literature.  Any one department may offer only one or the other option.

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