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Solvent Effects on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Aromatic Carbonyls : A Raman and Computational study
(2017-12-16)
Solvent effects play diverse roles in myriads of chemical, physical and biological processes. The solvent interacts with the solute by: i) non-specific (Coulombic, van der Waals interactions) and ii) specific interactions ...
The Effect of Substituents and Solvents on the Deiodination Reactions of Thyroid Hormones by Iodothyronine Deiodinase Mimics
(2017-12-07)
Thyroid hormones (THs; T4 and T3), secreted from thyroid gland, play an important role in human growth and development. T3 (3,5,3′-triiodothyronine) is the active hormone and the conversion of T4 (3,3′,5,5′-tetraiodothyronine) ...
Electrocatalysis using Ceramic Nitride and Oxide Nanostructures
(2017-12-15)
Global warming and depletion in fossil fuels have forced the society to search for alternate, clean sustainable energy sources. An obvious solution to the aforesaid problem lies in electrochemical energy storage systems ...
An Architectural Exploration in Coordination Driven Self-Assembly & Fluorescent Imidazolium Salts as Picric Acid Receptors
(2017-10-11)
Nature has always remained a constant source of inspiration for chemists for synthesizing natural products, mimicking enzymatic reactions or to construct molecular architectures resembling biological assemblies. With the ...
Serendipitous Assembly Of 3d Metal-Ion Polyclusters : Structures, Magnetic Behavior And Theoretical Studies
(2017-02-22)
The last two decades have seen extensive growth in interest in metal-ion assemblies, especially for building new polynuclear exchange-coupled magnetic systems. However, the concept of designing polynuclear extended structures ...
Mechanistic Insights Into Small Molecule (Amine-Boranes, Hydrogen, Methane, Formic Acid Carbon dioxide) Activation Using Electrophilic Ru(II)-Complexes
(2017-11-09)
Current fossil fuels (Coal and Petroleum) based economy is not sustainable in the long run because of its dwindling resources, and increasing concerns of climate change due to excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. To ...
Synthesis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanosponges for Hydrogen Storage and Catalytic Applications
(2017-11-28)
Nanoporous metal represents a particular form of a metal, which combines the characteristics of metals, such as good thermal and electrical conductivity, catalytic activity with the materials properties characteristic of ...
Influence of Ancillary Ligands in the Chemistry of Transition Metal σ-Complexes
(2017-09-27)
This thesis work is based on an investigation of intermediates involved in various metal mediated catalytic reactions such as hydrogenation, hydroboration, functionalization of methane etc. An intermediate dictates the ...
Organic Imine Cages : Self-Sorting and Application
(2017-11-14)
Biological systems have the incredible ability to accomplish uncommon chemical transformations with supreme delicacy. Many of those chemical transformations take place within the pocket of enzymes, which provide unique ...