Ethylene oxide, for example, is converted to ethylene glycol, which is used in the synthesis of polyester fibres and films and as the main component of automobile antifreeze.
In the presence of an acid catalyst, the monomer 2-methylpropene (C4H8), for example, is converted to a mixture of C8H16 alkenes (dimers) suitable for subsequent conversion to 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (isooctane).
Reckson, for example, is converting a 169,405-square-foot industrial building at 50 Marcus Drive in Melville, which had been vacant for several years, into the Melville Technology Center with a Aug. 1 occupancy target.
You can see how this could, for example, be converted into a bigger A/B testing business.
A major part of the remaining relatively low-value bottom-of-the-barrel fractions (HGO and VGO in this example) are converted to desired products by the actions of the FCC catalyst, in which molecules are cracked to form high-octane rating products.
For example, if an existing model is converted to use SBML compartments, this would mean assigning all species to a compartment, so an appropriate patch would represent the entire model changing.
It may take some time before all examples are converted, but in the process we are also able to make occasional small corrections.
Some drugs interact with alcohol to form more dangerous substances – for example, cocaine is converted to cocaethylene, which is more toxic to the heart.
For example, Gly is converted to Ser by reacting with formate in the presence of pyridoxal phosphate [ 9, 45- 47].
In the Japanese apricot (Prunus mume), for example, phenylacetaldoxime is converted into the cyanogenic glycosides prunasin and amygdalin [ 36].
In ribosomal protein S11, for example, aspartate is converted into isoaspartate within minutes, suggesting (but by no means proving) that this isomerisation might belong to the normal function of the protein (David et al. 1999).
