• Design, preparation and characterization of polymer inclusion membranes as an emerging technique for preconcentration and speciation measurements 

  Vera Chamorro, Ruben (Date of defense: 15-03-2019)

  Water is essential for humankind not only for its direct consumption but also for its multiple applications in industry or agriculture, among others. The presence of undesirable substances or pollutants directly affects ...
• Rational design of bioinspired iron and manganese catalysts for the effective and selective epoxidation of alkenes and oxidation of alkanes 

  Clarasó Petit, Carlota (Date of defense: 08-02-2019)

  Metalloenzymes are a fundamental source of inspiration for synthetic chemists. Oxidation metalloenzymes catalyze oxidation reactions with high efficiency under very mild experimental conditions exhibiting exquisite regio- ...
• Oxidation of unactivated C-H bonds catalyzed by manganese complexes: control over site-selectivity and enantioselectivity 

  Milan, Michela (Date of defense: 30-10-2018)

  The oxidation of aliphatic C-H bonds is a very powerful reaction because it allows the functionalization of inert C-H bonds, converting them into a suitable sites for further chemical elaboration. It also represents one ...
• Gold complexes for homogeneous cross-coupling catalysis and migratory insertion reactions 

  Serra Parareda, Jordi (Date of defense: 21-06-2018)

  Most of the different homogeneous reactions catalyzed by gold have been developed in the past fifteen years and stem from the ability of both Au(I) and Au(III) complexes to coordinate and activate multiple carbon-carbon ...
• Reduced density matrices: development and chemical applications 

  Rodríguez Mayorga, Mauricio (Date of defense: 24-07-2018)

  In this thesis, we focused on the alternative methodologies that are based on the reconstruction of density matrices. While in DFT several benchmarks can be found in the literature, for the rest of alternative methodologies ...

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