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Acetone

Known as: acetones, 2-Propanone, Dimethyl Formaldehyde 
A colorless, volatile, flammable organic solvent. Acetone occurs naturally in plants, trees, forest fires, vehicle exhaust and as a breakdown product… 
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2000
2000
Reconstructing Aldolase Antibodies to Alter Their Substrate Specificity and Turnover
Fujie Tanaka, Richard A. Lerner,* and Carlos F. Barbas, III*The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and theDepartment of… 
1991
1991
Spectroscopic investigations of specific interactions in amorphous polymer-polymer blends: poly(vinylphenol) and poly(vinyl methyl ketone)
The IR absorptions of the OH group in poly(4-vinylphenol)(PVPh) and the ketone carbonyl moiety in poly(vinylmethylketone)(PVMK… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Production of n-butanol from whey filtrate using clostridium acetobutylicum N.C.I.B. 2951
SummarySulphuric acid whey filtrate has been shown to be a useful substrate for the production of n-butanol by fermentation… 
1979
1979
Microbial Oxidation of Gaseous Hydrocarbons: Production of Methyl Ketones from Their Corresponding Secondary Alcohols by Methane- and Methanol-Grown Microbes
Cultures of methane- or methanol-utilizing microbes, including obligate (both types I and II) and facultative methylotrophic… 
1974
1974
Isolation and identification of a stabilized derivative of aldophosphamide, a major metabolite of cyclophosphamide.
Aldophosphamide semicarbazone was synthesized from 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide and characterized by infrared and proton magnetic… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Plasma aggregating factor (bovine) for human platelets: a marker for study of antihemophilic and von Willebrand Factors.
The human-platelet aggregating factor in preparations of bovine plasma and bovine antihemophilic factor has been reported to be… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Local vascular changes induced by the cocarcinogen, phorbol myristate acetate.
Summary One µg of phorbol myristate acetate, an active tumor-promoting agent from croton oil, produces a severe, local vascular… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
The biosynthesis of mannosyl-1-phosphoryl-polyisoprenol in Micrococcus lysodeikticus and its role in mannan synthesis.
Previous studies from this laboratory have shown that crude, cell-free extracts of Micrococcus lysodeikticus catalyze the… 
1963
1963
Fatty acid oxidation by spores of Penicillium roqueforti.
When 1 mum sodium octanoate was the substrate for spores, most of the molecule was recovered as CO(2) and no ketone was produced… 
Highly Cited
1940
Highly Cited
1940
‘Coupling’ of Phosphorylation with Oxidation of Pyruvic Acid in Brain Tissue
LIPMANN1 found that, although adenylic acid does not influence the rate of oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvic acid by…