On Wednesday, July, 25th, we went to NJIT to do mass spectrometry on a few samples of curcuminoids and curcuminoid complex we had prepared the day prior. We were greeted by Dr. Zhang, a research professor, and his post-doctoral assistant. They brought us to a Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry machine to complete the experiments which would identify the masses of fragments of our samples.
We learned that, with the method used, the complex would not appear at its hypothesized molecular weight, and that the mass of one curcumin and one iron appeared to be the most stable fragment. An ongoing topic of interest is the phase, gaseous, or solvated, of the complex.
-Alexander Czechowicz
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