1985_10 The Daily Collegian October 1985

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FEATURE
Oct. 16,1985
Oct. 16, 1985
FEATURE/NEWS
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Student compound
may aid research
CS U F student Kaly Ciula has created a
chemical compound that could aid re¬
searchers working on projects as diverse
as purifying drugs for human consum¬
ption and improving the effectiveness of
insecticide for farm crops.
But creating the compound is onlv^he
first step for Ciula. who is working toward
a master's degree in chemistry. Her next
step is to test the compound to see if it is
effective in separating enantiomers in
ketones and aldehydes.
Ciula explained that enantiomers are
colecules that come in pairs, identical in
every way except that they cannot be
'superimposed. She said this situation is
similar to the left and right hands. The
hands are mirror images of each other and
match perfectly with palsm together, but
they do not match when one hand is
placed plam down on top of the other. The
right and left hand are non-superimpos-
able mirror images, and so are the
Although the
pounds are not connected, it is difficult to
isolate them, to draw out all the "left-
handed" enantiomers and leave all the
"right-handed" enantiomers behind.
"When you have a set of enantiomers,
you need to do something to them to make
I them separable," Ciula said. The goal in
separating the enantidmer pairs is to sludy
them independently to "see how they
work and what they do," she said.
Ketones and aldehydes are being used
in the research, Ciula said, because both
of these compounds generally contain
enantiomers. Trie chemical that she has
created is called a resolving agent, and its
purpose is to create two new compounds
when introduced to a ketone of aldehyde.
When these two compounds are form¬
ed, the test of success is that the "left-
handed" enantiomers go exclusively to
one compound and the "right-handed"
enantiomers to ihe other, she said. These
compouonds can then be broken down to
isolate the "left-handed" and "right-han¬
ded "enantiomers for testing..
"The importance of this is that mole¬
cules in our body are enantiomers," Ciula
said. She said that all amino acids, which
are used to create proteins, and all body
sugars contain enantiomer pairs, but only
one of the pair is used by the body.
"Our body can only use one enantiomer
of an amino-acid and one of sugar," she
said. "If you ingest an amino acid, one will
be passed and the other used."
By separating the "left-handed" from
the "right-handed" enanliomers, they can
be tested to determine their effects on the
body apart  from  the influence of Ihe
For example, it might be discovered
through testing that one of a pair of
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The CSUF Enology Society will sponsor Mr.
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The doors of Room 200, on the 2nd floor of tbe
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Donation of SI at the door.
Research
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body, but that the'other has a positive or
neutral effect, Ciula said.
This was found to be the case with a
sedative that was commonly given to
pregnant women until it was discovered to
cause birth defects, she said. The sedative
contained a chemical called Thalidomide
and it was discovered that one of the
enantiomers in the chemical was contrib¬
uting to the birth defects but that the other
enantiomer was harmless.
One of the benefits if isolating enan¬
tiomers then is to "essentially remove a
harmful effect from a drug," Ciula said.
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Once it is determined which of the
enantiomers in a substance is harmful to
the body, it can be removed, making the
substance safe for consumption.
This ability to isolate enantiomers
could be used to improve the effectiveness
of insecticides, Ciula said. She said that
insects react instinctively to substances
called pheromones that are secreted by
insects ofthe same species. When an insect
comes into contact with a particular
pheroraone, it has a preceded plan of
action that it follows.
If the active enantiomer in the phero-
mone used as a means of warning can be
isolated, it can be combined with an
insecticide to that insects programmed to
respond to this pheromone will instinc¬
tively stay away from the crop.
Tickets
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For students tq have adequate time to
the ticket money together, and for ade-
publicity time. Love said postponing the
distribution decision until next week
would be detrimental.
"If we don't get this done today...
there's going to be a lot of upset students,"
Love said.
The matter of ticket distribution was
brought to the attention of the Public
Affairs Committee so late for no par¬
ticular reason, Hansen said. No one
realized how few days were left for action
In the end, the need for speedy action
outweighed concerns about liability and
the half^nd-half distribution method was
The Public Affairs Committee had been
assigned to study the liability questions
and work out distribution details.
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