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El Hamdi Lahfid, Majid (Fecha de defensa: 2013-10-15)
Structural isomers are molecules that have the same number and type of atoms but arranged in different manner. The isomerization energy is the energy difference between two isomers, i.e. the energy cost corresponding to ...
Horbatenko, Yevhen (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-13)
This thesis focuses on the study of hydrogen dynamic behavior in a series of proton sponge cations as well as in bis(silyl)hydride organometallic complexes. To understand the dynamic behavior, a new tool, i.e. the ...
Ramos Cordoba, Eloy (Fecha de defensa: 2014-04-11)
This thesis focuses in the development and application of new tools for the analysis of the electron distribution in molecules, focusing on the concepts of local spins, and oxidation state. The thesis can be divided into ...
Codolà Duch, Zoel (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-11)
Harness light from the sun is one of the 21st century’s major goals towards the substitution of fossil fuels for a renewable source of energy. Sustainable production of highly energetic molecules using sunlight as energy ...
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 ...
Font Molins, Marc (Fecha de defensa: 2015-02-13)
Aryl-Cu(III) species have been often implicated as the intermediate species that operate Ullmann-type couplings. However, such species have long remained elusive and the fundamental pathways that govern Ullmann-type ...
García Simón, Cristina (Fecha de defensa: 2015-04-10)
Coordination-driven self-assembly has led to the realization of an increasing number of elegant and sophisticated functional structures, the structural complexity of which would be difficult to achieve using conventional ...
García Borràs, Marc (Fecha de defensa: 2015-05-29)
It all started in 1985, when Kroto, Smalley and Curl discovered by serendipity a new carbon allotrope. They synthesized for the first time the C60 molecule, and named it as ”Buckminsterfullerene”, because of the similarity ...
Guillaumes Domènech, Laia (Fecha de defensa: 2015-06-15)
This thesis presents different studies on hydrogen bonds that occur between two molecules. It is because of the biological importance of DNA that the base pairs, and other compounds with similar hydrogen bonds as these ...
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 ...
Acuña-Parés, Ferran (Fecha de defensa: 2016-07-20)
One of the major current scientific goals is the development of renewable energy sources. An effective alternative to fossil fuels consists in the conversion of the sunlight energy into chemical fuels. The molecular hydrogen ...
Martínez López, Juan Pablo (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-18)
The physical and chemical properties of fullerenes and nanotubes can be conveniently tuned by the attachment of different functional groups to them. Therefore, the systematic understanding of different problems such as ...
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 ...
Vieta i Corcoy, Pep Anton (Fecha de defensa: 2017-02-07)
Throughout this thesis I was involved in different science communication projects where research and innovation have been applied to improve existing proposals and exploring new formats without forget the evaluation of the ...
Torres Antón, Òscar (Fecha de defensa: 2017-02-24)
Some of the most powerful methods for synthesizing complex organic molecules with high levels of chemo-, diastereo- and enantioselectivity rely on metal carbene chemistry. These compounds are versatile reaction intermediates ...
Rovira Coll, Mireia (Fecha de defensa: 2017-03-10)
Organometallic aryl-CuIII species have been proposed as key intermediates in Ullmann-type reactions. However, such species have long remained elusive and mechanistic investigations of a plausible catalytic cycle remained ...
Fernández Wang, Martí (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-20)
This doctoral thesis studies the involvement of challenging unsaturated substrates in the transition-metal catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction, as well as new catalytic systems for the reaction. First, Morita-Baylis-Hillman ...
Castro Aguilera, Abril Carolina (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-17)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an indispensable structural tool in the modern analytical arsenal of chemists and structural biologists. The present thesis is a computational study of the NMR shift constants ...
El Bakouri El Farri, Ouissam (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-22)
Aromaticity is a key concept in chemistry, used by chemists to explain the structure, stability, and reactivity of many compounds. Aromatic compounds are present in industrial processes as well as in living systems. ...
Cassú Ponsatí, Daniel (Fecha de defensa: 2018-04-20)
Transition metal-catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reactions involving unsaturated substrates represent one of the most elegant methods in organic chemistry to prepare functionalised cyclic compound. This doctoral thesis is ...