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Fall 2016

Thomas, Bryce N

Transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution reactions are widely used for the selective formation of new bonds. This class of reaction has been extensively studied with a variety of nucleophiles and under optimized conditions that will furnish product in high yield and with high chemo-,...

Fall 2020

Dada, Raphael O.

Z-Alkenes are important functional moieties in biological molecules and serve as versatile units for chemical transformations in synthetic chemistry. Synthetic strategies to readily generate these less thermodynamically stable alkenes with high regio-, chemo- and stereocontrol remain challenging,...

Spring 2024

McNally, Jakub T

Hydrogen as a fuel has the potential to reduce tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles to near-zero, while also allowing for the generation of a hydrogen-based economy and lowering humanity's dependence upon oil. Hydrogen-diesel dual fuel combustion, where hydrogen and diesel are combusted...

Fall 2017

Cossio Kohler, Manuel G

Biochar has received significant attention as an innovative sorbent for treating heavy metal contamination due to its high surface reactivity and sorption capacity, ease of manufacture and low production cost. Most studies involving chromium removal from solution by biochar have focused on...

Spring 2024

Hauer, Bradley

This work aims to address the lack of clear theoretical foundations in computational lexical semantics, the sub-field of natural language processing pertaining to computing with the meaning of words. Semantic tasks are of interest for end-user applications (e.g. contextual translation),...