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Record W4251595491 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.7950

Characterizing Chiral Molecules Deposited onto a Silicon Surface

2017· article· en· W4251595491 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Stephen Gauthier

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicAnalytical Chemistry and Chromatography
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMoleculeX-ray photoelectron spectroscopySiliconMaterials scienceLayer (electronics)Deposition (geology)Surface roughnessChemical engineeringAnalytical Chemistry (journal)NanotechnologyChemistryChromatographyOrganic chemistryOptoelectronicsComposite material

Abstract

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We report here on the characterization of two types of chiral molecules deposited onto a silicon surface. Chiral molecules are non­superimposable mirror images of each other. Other than the way they interact with biological systems, chiral molecules have the same physical properties which make them hard to separate. Since many important drug molecules are chiral, effective separation methods are required by industry. We are building a model system to study one separation method called chiral chromatography. In chiral chromatography, separation is achieved by immobilizing a chiral compound along a column and passing the desired chiral mixture through. One of the mirror image molecules of the mixture has a higher attraction to the immobilized phase which causes it to exit the column at a later time. In the model being studied, propranolol is the sample drug molecule and phenylethylpropylurea (PEPU) is the selector molecule. Derivatives of these compounds were deposited onto a flat silicon surface. The resulting samples were studied in order to gain insight into the surface morphology and characteristics of the assembled layers. Using a combination of infra red (IR) spectroscopy and computational analysis it was possible to infer the average bulk molecular orientation of the deposited propranolol molecules. Atomic force microscopy was used to ensure a uniform deposition as well as to quantify the surface roughness. Through X­ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis it was shown that an average layer thickness of four molecules was deposited onto the silicon

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.276 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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