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Spring 2023

Rygus, Jason P. G.

Catalysis is essential to the modern chemical industry. Catalytic strategies can enable new synthetic methods with improved atom economy and reduced chemical waste under mild conditions, representing an indispensable approach to the development of green chemical processes with improved...

Fall 2023

Hazrah, Arsh S.

Atmospheric aerosols consist of solid or liquid particles suspended in air with sizes ranging from a few nanometers to several micrometers. Aerosols have the ability to both scatter and absorb incoming solar radiation, directly influencing Earth’s energy budget and resulting in either cooling or...

Fall 2023

Tran, Hanh-Thuc T

The human immune system is a network that is crucial to fight against infections and foreign pathogens. It is divided into innate system, which is the first line of defense, and adaptive immune system, which is more specific. The specificity and long-lasting nature of the adaptive immune system...

Fall 2023

Bsharat, Odey Falah

Isotope labeling of small molecules is a crucial tool for drug discovery and understanding biochemical processes. Expanding the toolbox of a radiochemist with methods that allow late-stage labeling is therefore important. Of the methods that have been developed, the use of isotopically labeled...

Fall 2023

Murphy, Elizabeth A

Three new Re(I) photocatalysts were prepared by synthesizing imidazole and imidazolium dyes based on carbazolyl dicyanobenzene derivatives and physically linking them to a Re metal centre for the photochemical reduction of CO2. The imidazolium dyes were of interest because they are precursors to...

Fall 2023

Liu, Jinkun

The combustion of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases into our living atmosphere, which traps heating and causes global warming. Renewable energy, however, can help solve the problem above by producing far fewer greenhouse gases. Renewable energy is a general...

Spring 2023

Mishra, Vidyanshu

In this thesis, rare-earth-containing chalcogenides and oxychalcogenides were sought with the aim to identify new crystal structures and to evaluate their potential as optical and thermoelectric materials. They were synthesized in the form of pure microcrystalline powders and single crystals...

Spring 2023

Chu, Thu

Glycosylation is one of the most abundant and diverse post-translational modifications. Glycans participate in various key biological functions and processes including immunity, cell adhesion, endocytosis, exocytosis, molecular trafficking, and signal transduction. Previous work from our lab...

Fall 2023

Moazeni, Amin

This PhD thesis shows the application of different spectroscopic and theoretical tools to probe the extent and possible interaction between various Lewis acids (halogen bond donor) and Lewis bases (halogen bond acceptors). Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) that is the chiral version of...

Fall 2023

Mumbaraddi, Dundappa

This thesis describes the synthesis, structures, and properties of two broad classes of inorganic solids, chalcohalides and intermetallics, with the common theme that they contain rare-earth (RE) elements, which belong to the set of critical minerals essential for many technological...