García Borràs, Marc (Date of defense: 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 ...
Cassú Ponsatí, Daniel (Date of defense: 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 ...