Fantastic Leaves and What's Inside Them: Chemistry and
Biochemical Imaging of Natural Products in Western Australian
Plants

Rajagopalan, Aswin

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Authors

Rajagopalan, Aswin

Date

2021

Supervisor

Alan Payne

Mark Hackett

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Science and Engineering

School

School of Molecular and Life Sciences

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88826

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

Natural products are used in a wide variety of fields ranging from pharmaceuticals to agriculture. 6-Hydroxycaryophyllenes are a class of natural product isolated from the leaf resin of Scaevola crassifolia Labill. This study investigated the utility of vibrational spectroscopy for the spectroscopic mapping of natural products, like 6-hydroxycaryophyllenes, in plant tissue. The chemistry of 6-hydroxycaryophyllenes was explored, including cationic rearrangements and oxidation chemistry.