Joshua+Derrer+Log

10/1/2009 Begin to ask questions to narrow down to a unique topic for instance:

Is there any material in existence that would weigh more than a tonne per cubed cm under normal air pressure? Can the formation of this material be achieved by todays technology?
 * [You'll find the answer if you search "metal density" on WolframAlpha JCB]**
 * [You could do a project on controlling density with chemistry - that would relate to polymer and materials chemistry JCB]**

There are certain types of liquids which produce their own light independently, or when mixed, If this liquid light was compressed, then would the light become stronger e.g. 5x compression = 5x light intensity
 * [try searching chemiluminescence on Wikipedia first JCB]**

Do artificial pheromones work on the human brain?
 * [Pheromones would make an interesting project JCB]**

10/5/2009

Decided to go with the route on artificial Pheromones in humans, specifically sexual pheromones.

whitten effect...

Plan to analyze artifical phermones on the molecular level and their interations and behavioral effects on biological systems.

more details to come...

10/8/2009

Peggy Dominy Ph: 215-895-2754 email: dominymf@drexel.edu the science librarian at drexel is giving a lecture on drexel resources to information.

Im getting an issue with SciFinder when i try to get the full page document of a report it uses chemport to located the document, then chemport says see your library resources i click it and it says "page not found"
 * [This is exactly the kind of problem Peggy can help with - send her an email JCB]**

10/15/2009

11/5/2009

Article Summary:

A pheromone according to definition is defined as: “A substance excreted by an animal, to the outside of that individual, which is then received by another individual, classically of the same species, which then elicits some behavioral or developmental response related to the survival of the species” To generalized this statement, the chemical product produced by one body in a species and that chemical is received by another body of the same species, upon the chemical interpreted by the receiving species illicit a sexual response to instigate reproductive action. There exists 4 classes of pheromones; opposite-sex attractants, same-sex repellants, mother-infant bonding attractants, and pheromones that signal the time a reproducing bodies’ fertility. There exist 2 neural pathways that direct and process the pheromones received by the body. The Vomeronasal organ does not process the “attractive” sexual pheromones, the Vomeronasal organ will process timing and repellant pheromones while the olfactory epithelium will process the sexual attracting pheromones. In a controlled study a pheromones collected from the secretions found under arms of young male adults, was frozen and then thawed after 1 year and the pheromones were extracted. The collected pheromone was placed above the top lip but under the nose. The case study showed that women receiving the pheromone increased accuracy of the woman’s timing of her menstrual cycle, and the women engaged in increased sexual intercourse when compared to the woman using the placebo. The case study showed that not only did the pheromones increase the accuracy of a woman’s timing of her menstrual cycle but also altered her menstrual cycle by delaying ovulation by 1.7 days This is to achieve a baseline using natural human pheromones. Dr. Cutler of UPENN will attempt to investigate the similarities and effects of a synthesized pheromone.

Reference: [|Pheromonal influences on sociosexual behavior in young women] Norma L. McCoy and Lisa Pitino Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132-4168, USA
 * [Full Marks JCB]**

11/12/2009

tert-butyl hydroquinone


 * Melting Point
 * 127 - 129 ºC [|Chemspider]
 * 127 - 129 ºC [|Wikipedia]
 * 128 ºC [|WolframAlpha]
 * 127 ºC [|MSDS]
 * 126.5 - 128.5 ºC [|Chemical Land]
 * Boiling Point
 * 295 ºC [|Chemspider]
 * 273 ºC [|Wikipedia]
 * 273 ºC [|WolframAlpha]
 * Decomposes [|MSDS]
 * 273 ºC
 * Flash Point
 * 171 ºC [|Chemspider]
 * 43 ºC [|Chemical Land]
 * Density
 * 1.086 g/cm^3 [|Chemspider Predicted]
 * 1.05 g/cm^3 [|WolframAlpha]
 * Enthalpy of Vaporization
 * 55.2 KJ/mol [|Chemspider Predicted]

Key Points to my paper:
 * Question
 * how do pheromones, specifically "opposite-sex attractant" pheromones, increase the sexual appeal of men and woman. And can pheromones derived in a laboratory lead to an increase in romantic interaction with the opposite sex?
 * Hypothesis
 * To research how pheromones are interpreted by humans and to prove that synthetically manufactured sex pheromones will alter sociosexual behavior in men and women to increase the romantic interaction between the user of the synthetic sex pheromone and the opposite sex.
 * Paper title
 * Love Science: Olfaction of synthetic sex pheromones and it's effect on sociosexual behavior in men and woman.