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Fall 2017
The field of organic chemistry has seen remarkable advances throughout the decades. Of all advances, catalysis is playing a crucial role, since it can lower the activation energy of normally inert starting materials for further chemical reactions. In this context, the catalytic direct activation...
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Spring 2023
Modern civilization has become dependent on fossil fuels as a source of energy and chemicals. As a result, the rapid industrial development and growing energy demand are pushing toward two imminent problems, the depletion of fossil fuel reserves and the negative impact on global climate....
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Spring 2023
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...
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Expanding the Scope of Boronic Acid Catalysis: New and Improved Reactivity, Asymmetric Transformation
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Catalysis is one of the 12 Principles of green chemistry and offers numerous advantages over the conventional stoichiometric chemical procedures, such as reduction of waste, better atom economy, and lower energy consumption. Furthermore, the ability to lower the activation energy allows direct...
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Localization Model description of interfacial dynamics of free-standing nanoparticles and thin films, and nanoparticle on supporting interacting substrate
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Localization model (LM) relates, without any free parameter, slow dynamics of α-relaxation time (τα) to fast dynamics of Debye-Waller Factor (DWF) or ⟨u2⟩, which is the mean square displacement of particles at a caging time on the order of picoseconds. Moreover, localization model can also...
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Fall 2019
The work presented in this thesis describes the isolation of novel low-valent Group 12 and p-block element-containing molecules. Some of these molecules are shown to exhibit reactivity which mimics that of the transition metals; specifically, with respect to strong bond activation and catalysis....
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Spring 2022
The work in this Thesis outlines the use of N-heterocyclic olefins (NHOs) as organocatalysts, as supporting ligands in palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, and the development of anionic NHOs as ligands for main group element and transition metal centers. N-Heterocyclic olefin-hydridodiborane...
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Fall 2018
Transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions are a broad set of tools that enable the generation of molecular complexity by coupling together molecular pieces. This is done by the use of activating groups on the molecular pieces and a metal-based catalyst. These methods are widely used in...
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Spring 2020
Polyhydroxylated compounds such as carbohydrates, glycerols and diols play an important role in biological chemistry and as pharmaceutical agents. Furthermore, diols are often useful starting materials and intermediates to prepare stereochemically complex molecules. However, hydroxy group...
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Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Cobalt: Hydrodeoxygenation of Aromatic Ketones by Cobalt Clusters
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Cobalt phosphoranimide clusters [Co(NPPh3)(OSiMe3)(THF)]2, [Co(NPPh3)(OtBu)(THF)]2 and [Co(NPiPr3)2]3 were synthesized. Salt metathesis between CoBr2 and NaNPPh3 and a subsequent in situ reaction with KOSiMe3 provides a convenient and scalable preparation of [Co(NPPh3)(OSiMe3)(THF)]2. The same...