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    New Ruthenium complexes containing N, P and S-donor type of ligands: coordination chemistry, characterization and application to asymetric and non-asymetric catalysis 

    Sala Román, Xavier (Date of defense: 2007-03-16)

    Síntesi de nous complexos de Ruteni amb lligands no quirals que tenen per fórmula [Ru(phen)([9]aneS3)X] (on X = H2O, py i MeCN). Caracterització espectroscòpica electroquímica i estructural d'aquesta família de complexos. ...

    Nous complexos de pal·ladi amb lligands macrocíclics triolefínics. Estructura i aplicacions 

    Masllorens i Llinàs, Judit (Date of defense: 2006-02-10)

    Aquesta Tesi Doctoral està dividida en diferents capítols tots ells basats en aplicacions de macrocicles nitrogenats triolefínics de 15 membres i dels seus complexos amb metalls de transició. En primer lloc es descriu ...

    Nous complexos mono- i dinuclears de ruteni amb lligands polipiridílics i de tipus fosfina. Síntesi, caracterització i aplicacions catalítiques 

    Mola i Marín, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2008-06-27)

    La Tesi descriu de manera completa una sèrie de complexos de ruteni amb lligands polipiridílics i lligands auxiliars de tipus fosfina, dmso, nitril o aquo. Es descriuen estudis d'isomerització (cis/trans o coordinació ...

    Nous formats en la comunicació de la química. Explorant el seu paper en el foment de la cultura i les vocacions científiques 

    Vieta i Corcoy, Pep Anton (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Novel developments in the Diffusive Gradient in Thin films (DGT) technique for the determination of bioavailable mercury and other trace metals in aquatic and terrestrial environments 

    Turull López, Marta (Date of defense: 2019-07-19)

    This thesis is focused on the use of the Diffusive Gradient in thin film (DGT) technique for the analysis of bioavailable mercury and other trace metals in water and soil. Homemade DGT devices using a selective ion-exchange ...

    Noves aproximacions a la síntesi i caracterització de poliglicols al·lílics, polihidrosiloxans i surfactants copolimèrics. Avaluació d'aquests surfactants en formulacions de poliuretà 

    Nadal i Soy, Josep (Date of defense: 2002-12-10)

    Els polímers són una sèrie de compostos que troben un ampli ventall d'aplicacions en la indústria actual. Un exemple són les espumes de poliuretà, estructures de tipus cel·lular obtingudes mitjançant la reacció química ...

    O2 activation at bioinspired complexes: dinuclear copper systems and mononuclear non-heme iron compounds. Mechanisms and catalytic applications in oxidative transformations 

    Company Casadevall, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-12-16)

    L'activació d'oxigen que té lloc en els éssers vius constitueix una font d'inspiració pel desenvolupament d'alternatives als oxidants tradicionals, considerats altament tòxics i nocius. En aquesta treball s'utilitzen ...

    Occurrence and behaviour of silver nanoparticles in the environment: analytical methodologies and laboratory studies 

    Torrent Fàbrega, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)

    The production of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) has grown in last years due to their special physicochemical properties in respect to their bulk counterparts, derived from their small size (1-100 nm). Among the existing ...

    On the use of energy decomposition analyses to unravel the origin of the relative stabilities of isomers 

    El Hamdi Lahfid, Majid (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Oxidation of unactivated C-H bonds catalyzed by manganese complexes: control over site-selectivity and enantioselectivity 

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

    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 ...

    Peptide conjugates containing chlorambucil or tetradentate aminopyridine ligands for anticancer treatment 

    Soler Vives, Marta (Date of defense: 2015-02-02)

    Nowadays, the search for new drugs against cancer is one of the major goals to improve the quality of life of patients. The development of more selective treatments against cancer cells may lead to a significant reduction ...

    Pèptids biarílics a partir de 4-iodofenilalanina o 3-iodotirosina per borilació i reacció de Suzuki-Miyaura en fase sòlida. Avaluació de l'activitat antimicrobiana 

    Afonso Afonso, Ana (Date of defense: 2011-07-22)

    En aquesta tesi doctoral es va estudiar la preparació de pèptids biarílics en fase sòlida. En primer lloc, es varen borilar residus de fenilalanina o tirosina presents a la seqüència peptídica a través d’una reacció de ...

    Pollution assessment of arsenic in groundwater: geochemistry and analytical aspects 

    Majumder, Santanu (Date of defense: 2013-10-30)

    Apart from the geological controls that can cause As mobilization in groundwater in the Bengal Delta Plain, local anthropogenic factors may also contribute to some extent. Investigations showed that As(III) get enriched ...

    Preparació de nous catalitzadors basats en complexos de Ru i Pd, i el seu ancorament a polímers conductors per a la fabricació de materials multifuncionals 

    Masllorens i Llinàs, Ester (Date of defense: 2006-03-10)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral es basa en l'estudi de l'aplicació en catàlisi de dos tipus de complexos organometallics basats en dos metalls de tansició diferents. Concretament s'estudien complexos macrocíclics triolefínics de ...

    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: 2019-02-08)

    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- ...

    Reaccions de cicloaddició [2+2+2] catalitzades per Rh(I) 

    Garcia López, Lídia (Date of defense: 2012-02-24)

    The development of new chemical processes and efficient catalysts for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds is an important topic in organic chemistry. In particular, the [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction involving different ...

    Reaction mechanisms involved in cross coupling processes catalysed by copper and nickel 

    Rovira Coll, Mireia (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Reactivity of fullerenes, endohedral metallofullerenes, and nanotubes, and their possible application in solar energy conversion 

    Martínez López, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 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 ...

    Reactivity of well-defined organometallic copper(III) complexes in carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions 

    Casitas Montero, Alícia (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)

    This thesis is focused on the unexplored field of organometallic copper(III) chemistry. Arylcopper(III) complexes have been proposed as key intermediates in Ullmann condensation reactions that consist in the coupling of ...

    Reduced density matrices: development and chemical applications 

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

    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 ...