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Contents Vol 75(2)

Determination of Sample Concentrations by PULCON NMR Spectroscopy

Jeffrey Y. W. Mak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8011-4539 A
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A Division of Chemistry and Structural Biology, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia. Email: j.mak@imb.uq.edu.au




Jeffrey Mak was awarded a University Medal (University of Queensland, UQ) before undertaking his PhD in total synthesis with Professor Craig Williams. He joined the Fairlie group at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, where his interests include biological chemistry, chemical biology, and medicinal chemistry. In 2014, he was part of a multidisciplinary Australian team that discovered the unstable microbial metabolites (e.g. 5-OP-RU) that potently activate mucosal associated invariant T cells. Dr Mak was selected as a CAS SciFinder Future Leader (2017), lectures undergraduate synthetic chemistry at UQ, and was recently promoted to Research Fellow.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 75(2) 160-164 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH21149
Submitted: 30 June 2021  Accepted: 13 October 2021   Published: 16 November 2021

Keywords: NMR spectroscopy, PULCON, assay, biological chemistry, medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, natural products, unstable molecules.


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