Editorial 

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| Vol. 43 | n. 3 | 2018 | 

 

 
 

 

Editorial 

 

 

The Editor is pleased to announce the third issue of Eclética Química Journal of 2018, 

which contains original articles covering different aspects of theoretical, analytical, 

environmental chemistry and physical-chemistry. In accordance with the scope of EQJ, the 

following subjects are being presented: the correlation between electronic structure and antitumor 

activity of a selective focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitors, being the FAK responsible to 

phosphorylate other enzymes associated with signal transduction and it is found overexpressed in 

the organism during metastasis; evaluation in vitro antioxidant capacity of Melissa extract and its 

protective effect on peroxyl radical-induced oxidative damage in erythrocytes; analytical 

methodology for quantifying personal care products, many of them with biological activity in the 

aquatic environment; determination of rare-earth elements in phosphogypsum stacks, being the 

phosphogypsum a by-product of phosphate fertilizer industry known as agricultural gypsum; 

removal of 5G blue reactive dye by means of biosorption using the rice husk residue as a 

biosorbent. 

The Editor and his team wish to express their sincere thanks to the authors and reviewers 

for their outstanding collaboration. 

 

 

Assis Vicente Benedetti 

Editor-in-Chief of EQJ 

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