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    • Inhibition of oxidative stress and skin aging-related enzymes by prenylated chalcones and other flavonoids from helichrysum teretifolium 

      Popoola, Olugbenga K.; Marnewick, Jeanine L.; Rautenbach, Fanie; Ameer, Farouk; Iwuoha, Emmanuel I.; Hussein, Ahmed A. (MDPI, 2015)
      Ten flavonoid-related structures viz. heliteretifolin (1), isoxanthohumol (2), 2',4',6'-trihydroxy-3'-prenylchalcone (3), isoglabranin (4), glabranin (5), 7-methoxyisoglabranin (6), quercetin (7), 4'-methoxyquercetin ...
    • Low-Cost feedstock conversion to biodiesel via ultrasound technology 

      Babajide, Omotola; Leslie, Petrik; Amigun, Bamikole; Ameer, Farouk (MDPI, 2009)
      Biodiesel has attracted increasing interest and has proved to be a good substitute for fossil-based fuels due to its environmental advantages and availability from renewable resources such as refined and waste vegetable ...
    • Marrubiin 

      Popoola, Olugbenga K.; Elbagory, Abdulrahman M.; Ameer, Farouk; Hussein, Ahmed A. (MDPI, 2013)
      The ethno-medicinal approach to drug discovery represents one of the most important sources of new and safe therapeutic agents to the challenges confronting modern medicine and daily life. Many of the traditionally ...
    • Novel zeolite Na-X synthesized from fly ash as a heterogeneous catalyst in biodiesel production 

      Babajide, Omotola; Petrik, Leslie; Musyoka, Nicholas; Ameer, Farouk (Elsevier, 2012)
      Several studies have been carried out on the production of biodiesel using different heterogeneous catalysts but this study has been able to demonstrate the prospect of utilizing South African class F fly ash as a raw ...
    • Use of coal fly ash as a catalyst in the production of biodiesel 

      Babajide, Omotola; Petrik, Leslie; Musyoka, Nicholas; Amigun, Bamikole; Ameer, Farouk (Slovnaft VÚRUP, 2010)
      South Africa is largely dependent on the combustion of coal for electricity production; Eskom’s coalfired power stations consume approximately 109 million tons of coal per annum, producing around 25 million tons of ash, ...