This thesis presents our recent study of few interesting problems involving activated processes. This chapter gives an overview of the thesis. It is now possible to do single molecule experiments involving enzyme molecules. ...

Crystallographically solids with well defined crystal structures are normally assumed to be highly ordered. However, it is not uncommon to find considerable degree of disorder amongst many of these crystalline substances. ...

The interest in conjugated polymers has been two-fold. A rich variety of intriguing physical phenomena, combined with its immense technological implications in the area of molecular electronics, sensors etc. has inspired ...

The thesis entitled "Synthesis of Natural Products Based on Cyclohexadienes" consists of two chapters. Chapter 1 is divided into two parts. Part I gives a brief introduction to the structure, synthesis, biosynthesis and ...

Chapter 1. Introduction to Molecular Tweezers Whitlock and Zimmerman developed a class of molecular hosts, popularly known as molecular tweezers, which sandwich aromatic guests by ii=ii interaction. Chapter 1 summarizes ...

Recent years have seen a dramatic expansion in synthetic and structural molybdenum - sulfur chemistry. The amplest binary Mo-S moiety in MO$ ion. The thromolybdates derived by sulfur substitution from the 0x0 analogue have ...

he thesis entitled "Theoretical Studies of pie-Facial Selectivity in Organic Reactions" involve a computational examination of a suitable reactivity problem in organic chemistry. Systematic and efficient -procedures have ...

Fullerenes, the highly symmetric molecular carbon clusters, have been in the limelight of scientific research since their discovery by Kroto and coworkers [1]. The focus of experimental and theoretical studies has centered ...

The thesis entitled Cholic Acid Bused New Chiral Auxiliaries: Development And Applications has been divided into three chapters. Chapter-I describes the synthesis of chiral auxiliaries (1.3) from cholic acid and Diets-Alder ...

Troger's base was the first amine to be resolved where the chirality was due to solely very high inversion barrier around nitrogen atom. Though the molecule was known for over a century, work done during the past decade ...