ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my class teacher Ms.Kavitha C.M as well as our principal Ms.Anila M. Jayachandran who gave me the golden opportunity to do an investigatory project in chemistry. It has helped me in doing a lot of research and know aout so many new things. I would also like to t hank my pa rents and friends who helped me a lot in finishing this project within the limited time. I also take this opportunity to exp ress my profound gratitude to all the latechnicians of the A mala Cancer !esearch Centre for allowing us to use some of their e"uipments and machines for this project. #ast$ ut not the least$ I would lik e to thank %od$ w ho made all the thing s possile. 1