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    Analytical strategies based on inductively coupled plasma sprectroscopy (ICP) and diffusive gradients in thin fims (DGT) techniques for the assessment of environmental pollution indicators 

    Colon i Bosch, Mireia (Date of defense: 2011-02-11)

    In this thesis, simple methods to determine sulfide at low levels (µg L-1) in aqueous samples and sediments by water free hydrogen sulfide vapor generation using a commercially available vapor generation accessory have ...

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

    López Lastra, Adrián (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Aproximacions a la síntesi estereoselectiva de noves heteroarilglicines 

    Serrat i Sitjas, Xavier (Date of defense: 1999-06-04)

    L'objectiu principal de la present tesi doctoral ha consistit fonamentalment en la síntesi de noves heteroarilglicines òpticament pures. Amb aquesta idea s'han desenvolupat dues estratègies diferents: síntesi estereoselectiva ...

    Aproximacions sintètiques per a la preparació en dissolució i fase sòlida de llibreries de sistemes herocíclics de 5 membres amb elevada diversitat molecular. Síntesi d'imidazolones, triazoles i imidazoxazoles 

    Heras i Corominas, Montserrat (Date of defense: 1999-07-27)

    According to a strategy based on an Aza-Wittig reaction type, an efficient methodology in solution toward the synthesis of libraries of 2-aminoimidazolones with high molecular diversity has been developed. The strategy is ...

    Aproximacions sintètiques per a la preparació estereoselectiva de noves quinolil i pirazolilglicines i per a la preparació en fase sòlida de llibreries de benzotiazoles, 1,2,4-triazines i benzimidazoles 

    Cabarrocas Duran, Gemma (Date of defense: 1999-12-17)

    El treball experimental que ha permès redactar la present Tesi Doctoral ha estat dividit en dues parts. A la primera part es presenten els resultats referents a la síntesi estereocontrolada de noves heteroarilglicines ...

    Arsenic and its speciation analysis in biological and environmental samples using ICP techniques 

    Bhowmick, Subhamoy (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)

    Arsenic (As) is one of the common cancers causing contaminant in groundwater of West Bengal, India along with other regions of the world. Scientists believe that As contamination in groundwater of these region are because ...

    Assessment of wastewater phytotechnologies for the attenuation of emerging organic contaminants and development of innovative analytical methods for their determination 

    Garcia Rodríguez, Aida (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)

    Emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), like pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds, are continuously introduced into the environment. Some 2/2 have been found in water bodies, posing a risk on human health and ...

    Bioinspired copper and nonheme iron models for oxygen activation: unprecedented reactivities 

    Serrano Plana, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    The oxidation of hydrocarbons is one of the most important processes in the chemical industry, and it is often related to highly toxic reagents that generate a big amount of undesired residues. In sharp contrast, oxygenase ...

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

    Gómez Martín, Laura (Date of defense: 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 iron models: from diiron complexes to supramolecular functionalized metallocavitands 

    Vidal Sánchez, Diego (Date of defense: 2019-07-24)

    The oxidation of hydrocarbons under soft and selective conditions is a reaction almost exclusively produced under these conditions by enzymes. A lot of these enzymes, posses iron in their metal center, responsible for the ...

    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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Characterization of adsorption processes for the removal of metal ions from waste effluents using biosorbents and graphene-based sorbents. Studies in Batch and in fixed-bed column 

    Ben Amar, Marwa (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)

    Wastewater discharged from industrial and agricultural activities contains relatively large amounts of toxic metal ions, especially including Cd(II), Cu(II), Pb (II), and Cr(VI). The removal of these pollutants is of ...

    Characterization of dissolved organic matter in wastewater using liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry 

    Verkh, Yaroslav (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)

    Individual hazardous chemicals and substance mixtures with synergistic toxicity ef-fects occur in the dissolved organic matter (DOM) of wastewater and negatively im-pact human health. Yet a large number of chemicals and ...

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

    Capdevila Güell, Lorena (Date of defense: 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 (Date of defense: 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 chemistry applied to hydrocarbon functionalization by iron catalysts, oxidation state characterization, and electrides design 

    Postils Ribó, Verònica (Date of defense: 2018-05-07)

    In this thesis, the three constituent areas of chemistry (in agreement with Jensen's quotation in his "Introduction to Computational Chemistry" book), which are construction, transformation, and properties of molecules, ...