Propranolol Blog Post 8
Samyu Y -
This week, I was able to get my code working and ran it on the D2O, also known as heavy water, samples from before. One of the problems I had encountered was that the date I had utilized to sort my the samples that I specifically ran were different from the actual date I had ran the machine on. Therefore the samples that I was trying to analyze came from a solution that someone else had run which was totally different from the Propranolol D2O solution that I was looking for. I probably spent several hours looking at the graph and wondering why the peaks of the graphs were not matching the prediction my code gave me. I only found out the reason by manually comparing the energy I expected to see with the Y axis location of the peak and thereby determining which element the peak corresponded to. After doing so, I realized that this was not the solution I had put in and corrected the date which fixed the problem and gave me the results I was looking for. I now have a baseline to which I can compare the other solutions against. As this week was spring break at ASU, my mentor was not at the lab so I was unable to run any more samples. I plan to run a ANOVA calculation as my final statistical test as I could not get the t-test working. This week, I plan to develop the code for the normal distribution which is a necessary prerequisite before running ANOVA. I have already developed the code for ANOVA so running is relatively easy.