Activació d'O2, HOOH i t-BuOOH amb complexos de Cu i Fe amb lligands N-heterocíclics aromàtics i macrocíclics per l'oxidació de substrats orgànics i inorgànics en condicions suaus 

    Costas Salgueiro, Miquel (Fecha de defensa: 1999-02-26)

    This thesis is organized in seven independent chapters: I) a description of the structure and reactivity of the metalloproteins of copper and iron which deal with the oxygen processing into living organisms; II) an study ...

    Aplicación de la técnica GPC al análisis de polímeros de interés industrial 

    López Lastra, Adrián (Fecha de defensa: 2020-07-28)

    Polymers are one of the most used compounds in the chemical industry because they have application in a wide variety of products for daily use. Polymer preparation and its analysis is a very active field of research in ...

    Aprofitament de residus vegetals per a la concentració i separació d'ions metàl·lics de solucions aquoses 

    Fiol Santaló, Núria (Fecha de defensa: 2005-02-08)

    La adsorció sobre carbó actiu és un tractament habitual para a l'eliminació de metalls contaminants d'afluents aquosos. Amb la finalitat de reduir el cost dels tractament actuals s'està estudiant la utilització d'adsorbents ...

    Avaluació de la toxicitat de metalls pesants i arsènic en diferents models biològics 

    Fulladosa i Tomàs, Elena (Fecha de defensa: 2004-07-19)

    En aquest estudi, la toxicitat de diversos metalls pesants i l'arsènic va ser analitzada utilitzant diferents models biològics.<br/>En la primera part d'aquest treball, el bioassaig de toxicitat Microtox, el qual està basat ...

    Bioinspired iron and manganese catalysts for the effective and selective oxidation of alkanes and alkenes 

    Gómez Martín, Laura (Fecha de defensa: 2010-06-04)

    La gran eficiència, selectivitat i les condicions suaus exhibides per les reaccions que tenen lloc al centre actiu de les metal·looxigenases són la font d'inspiració per la present dissertació. Amb l'objectiu de dissenyar ...

    Bioinspired ligands and model substrates for the mechanistic elucidation of oxygen activation and cross-coupling reactions mediated by first-row transition metals 

    Magallón Gubau, Carla (Fecha de defensa: 2022-05-16)

    Nowadays, one of the main goals in organic chemistry and fine industry is the development of new synthetic methodologies for the preparation of life-relevant products in a sustainable manner. The use of first-row ...

    Bioinspired metal-based oxidants: selectivity in catalytic hydroxylation of aliphatic C-H bonds and insight into the reactivity of oxoiron species 

    Dantignana, Valeria (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-03)

    Selective oxidation of C-H bonds is an important reaction, as it can disclose novel synthetic strategies to get functionalized products through efficient paths. Nonetheless, due to the inert character of C-H bonds, the use ...

    Bioinspired non-heme iron catalysts for challenging oxidative transformations: mechanistic studies and catalytic applications on selective alkane hydroxylation and alkene cis-dihydroxilation 

    Prat Casellas, Irene (Fecha de defensa: 2013-06-14)

    The functionalization of hydrocarbons in a sustainable manner is one of the main challenges for chemists. Their abundance in nature as natural gas or crude oil makes them the most convenient chemical feedstock. The oxidation ...

    Carborane compounds as efficient light-driven in oxidation catalysis 

    Guerrero Troyano, Isabel (Fecha de defensa: 2022-03-13)

    This thesis studies the behavior of different metallacarboranes such as Na[Co(C2B9H11)2] Na[1] and their chlorinated derivatives, Na[3,3’-Co(8-Cl-1,2-C2B9H10)2] Na[Cl2-1] i Na[3,3’-Co(8,9,12-Cl3-1,2-C2B9H8)2] Na[Cl6-1], ...

    Carboxylic acids as directing groups for intramolecular catalytic oxidation of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds with bioinspired catalysts 

    Cianfanelli, Marco (Fecha de defensa: 2021-12-03)

    In this thesis we developed a protocol for the intramolecular oxidation of prochiral secondary C-H bonds in which carboxylic acids, acting as directing groups for the oxidant species, promoted a highly site-selective and ...

    Chelation-assisted metal-catalyzed functionalization of strong Csp2-H/Heteroatom bonds: trapping intermediate species and unveiling mechanistic details 

    Capdevila Güell, Lorena (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-22)

    The development of new methodologies for the construction of complex molecules is one of the principal objectives in synthetic organic chemistry. Although huge advances have been made on cross-coupling reactions, there is ...

    Cobalt-catalyzed C-H functionalization: from mechanistic studies to synthetic methodologies 

    Planas Fàbrega, Oriol (Fecha de defensa: 2018-02-23)

    This Ph.D. dissertation describes the synthesis and characterization of bench-top stable aryl-Co(III) organometallic species using commercially available cobalt(II) salts and a macrocyclic model substrate. Special attention ...

    Computational mechanistic studies of C-H and C-X activated organometallic species with first-row transition metals 

    Roldán Gómez, Steven (Fecha de defensa: 2020-01-14)

    During the last decades, computational chemistry has become a resourceful tool in the quest to understand and predict the mechanism and the reactivity of chemical systems. This is especially true in the area of ...

    Development of highly structured non-heme iron catalysts for selective C-H group oxidations 

    Canta i Roldós, Mercè (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-29)

    Catalytic oxidation reactions of hydrocarbons that occur in the active site of metalloenzymes exhibit high efficiency and exquisite regio- and stereoselectivity under mild experimental conditions. We describe the efficient ...

    Development of new reusable materials based on Ru complexes with catalytic activity for olefin epoxidation and nitrile hydration 

    Ferrer Vall-llosada, Íngrid (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-16)

    In this thesis we present the synthesis and characterization of different types of ruthenium complexes containing N-donor ligands together with dmso, Cl and H2O ligands, along with their complete characterization through ...

    Development of new transition metal complexes for their use in sustainable catalytic processes and as antitumoral agents 

    Manrique Salas, Ester (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-22)

    In this thesis we present the synthesis and characterization of different types of ruthenium complexes containing N-donor ligands together with monodentate ligands, along with their complete characterization through s ...

    Development of structurally and electronally versatile aminopyridine cobalt complexes for photo-(electro) reduction of water and ketones 

    Call Quintana, Arnau (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-13)

    The increasing need for more efficient synthetic methods and sustainable processes for fuel and high-value organic molecules production can be seen as one of the major challenging goals for the future. Nature has developed ...

    Gold complexes based on (N,C) and (N,C,C) chelating ligands: ligand design and reactivity studies in cross-coupling catalysis 

    Font Rubio, Pau (Fecha de defensa: 2023-10-06)

    Homogeneous reactions catalyzed by gold have mainly been developed in the past two decades, stemming from the proneness of Au(I) and Au(III) complexes to coordinate and activate carbon-carbon multiple bonds towards a ...

    High-valent iron complexes supported with tetradentate and pentadentate ligands based on the triazacyclononane scaffold 

    Sabeña Vila, Gerard (Fecha de defensa: 2017-06-23)

    In this work we have prepared octahedral non - heme iron species in high oxidation states. Iron (IV) - oxo and iron (IV) - imido complexes based on triazacyclononane scaffold had been synthesised and all of them had been ...

    Highly enantioselective epoxidation with hydrogen peroxide and biologically inspired iron and manganese catalysts 

    Cussó Forest, Olaf (Fecha de defensa: 2016-06-20)

    Asymmetric epoxidation is one of the most important reactions in synthetic organic chemistry, because chiral epoxides act as versatile electrophiles which can be converted in a number of interesting and useful chiral ...