Clariana Orduña, Maria (Date of defense: 2011-12-16)
High pressure processing is a food preservation technique which can be an alternative to heat treatment. Pressurization, in theory, produces changes in organoleptic properties and antioxidant compounds ...
Garcia Bosch, Isaac (Date of defense: 2011-12-20)
Enzymes are high-weight molecules which catalyze most of the metabolic processes in living organisms. Very often, these proteins contain one or more 1st row transition metal ions in their active center ...
Guillaumes Domènech, Laia (Date of defense: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ruiz-Barragán, Sergi (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
Conical Intersections (CI) are points in Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) of two or more states that have the same energy. They are fundamental to understand photo-chemical processes. These points are ...