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Sodium Borohydride Reduction Of Quinicine, David Arthur Dunnette Jan 1969

Sodium Borohydride Reduction Of Quinicine, David Arthur Dunnette

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Prom the dawn of history man has searched among the natural products of his environment for substances to com- bat his ills. The most widespread of these ills, malaria, today afflicts some 300 million people each year (1). The causative parasite, a protoza, in a somber of the Plasmodium genus and is transmitted through the saliva of the female Anopheles mosquito.