Professor Kasey Clear published his third article in two years as part of a multi-university team exploring the oxidation of naphthoquinones. The article is titled Redox and Nucleophilic Reactions of Naphthoquinones with Small Thiols and Their Effects on Oxidization of Hydrogen Sulfide to Inorganic and Organic Hydropolysulfides and Thiosulfate and was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Click here for free access. Each year, research seems to get more interdisciplinary and this collaborative work is a good example of this: instead of being full of chemical structures, you'll find diagram after diagram of quantitative data; and instead of standard organic compounds, you'll find an amino acid (cysteine, the thiol), a small peptide (glutathione) - both from the domain of biochemistry - and even hydrogen sulfide which is an inorganic compound. But, don't worry, Clear is still our organic chemist as you can tell if you focus on this portion of the title "Nucleophilic Reactions of Naphthoquinones". Congratulations, Dr. Clear, on another interesting publication.
