Division of Chemical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Molecular Construction Using Carbene and Diboron Systems: Catalytic Transformation of C-C and C-Hetero Atom Bonds
The thesis presents an unconventional approach for the molecular construction using carbenes as the carbon source, and water as the hydrogen source. A gold-catalyst has been used to transfer the carbenes to effect ... -
Alluaudite Class of High-Voltage Cathodes for Sodium-Ion Battery Applications: A Synthesis, Structure, Property Correlation Study
The work presented in this thesis demonstrates alluaudites as a niche class of compounds forming the rich treasure house of sodium insertion hosts. The potential of this open frame-worked alluaudites is immense and ... -
Design and Synthesis of Cyclic Diselenides and Selenenyl Sulfides for Biomimetic Applications
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) plays important roles in cell signaling and redox reactions. However, elevated levels of H2O2 and organic peroxides induce oxidative stress, resulting in damage to biomolecules such as DNA, ... -
High-Resolution Charge Density Studies on Electronic Nature of Weak Interactions and Correlation of Molecular Conformation with Packing in Solid State
The thesis entitled “High-Resolution Charge Density Studies on Electronic Nature of Weak Interactions and Correlation of Molecular Conformation with Packing in Solid State” consist of five chapters. Chapter 1 is a brief ... -
Protein Folding, Function and Aggregation Role of Co-solvents and Topological Frustration
Proteins are biological macromolecules formed by sequentially joining natural amino acids through peptide bonds. The sequence of amino acids in a protein chain determines its three dimensional structure under physiological ... -
The Effect of Gamma Radiation on Protein Structure and Dynamics
Gamma radiation being the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation has applications in number of different fields such as in medicine for treating cancer, food sterilization and in astronomy for studying phenomenon ... -
Interpretation of 2-Dimensional NMR spectra of small molecules
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has had an enormous effect in numerous areas of chemistry, biology, and medicine. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy is a unique analytical technique that permits ... -
Oxidation of CO Catalysed by Nanometric Mono and Bi-Noble Metals on Various Oxide Supports
Air pollution results mainly from the injurious smoke emitted by cars, buses, trucks, factories etc. This smoke contains carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen and sulphur. In case of cars, catalytic ... -
Structure - Property Correlation in MA1-yFAyPbX3 (X = I, Br) Perovskites
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites (HOIP) are represented by APbX3, where A is the methylammonium cation (MA: (CH3NH3)+) or the formamidinium cation (FA: (CH(NH2)2)+), X is halide anion. HOIP have emerged as ... -
Exploring Topological Phases of Matter using Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning Approaches
Topological phases of matter such as topological insulator (TI), quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI), nodal line semimetal (NLSM), and triple point metal (TPM) can be realized by manipulating the spin-orbit coupling ... -
From collective relaxation phenomena to phase separation in binary mixtures and some contributions to the hydration dynamics in the vicinity of biologically active molecules
The thesis presents detailed results of theoretical analyses based on extensive computer simulation studies with an aim to explore, quantify whenever possible, and understand the collective excitations, relaxation processes ... -
Platinum(II)-BODIPY Conjugates for Organelle Targeted Photodynamic Therapy in Red Light
The serendipitous discovery of Cisplatin (CP, Peyrone's chloride) as an anticancer agent in 1965 by Barnett Rosenberg led to the evolution of other platinum-based anticancer drugs, namely, Carboplatin in 1989 and Oxaliplatin ... -
Design of Novel Protocols for Chiral Analysis and Exploring Hydrogen Bond Directed Conformations
The research work reported in this thesis is focused on the chiral analysis and exploring hydrogen bonding. In chiral analysis, the study is aimed at the introduction of new versatile chiral solvating agents (CSA) and also ... -
Engineered Nanomaterials: Array-based Sensing of Biological and Chemical Analytes
Array-based sensing, also known as chemical nose/tongue analysis, offers an alternative platform for simultaneous differentiation of a wide range of analytes using a fixed number of cross-reactive receptors. The sensor ... -
Cobalt-nhc Complexes and Diazabutadienes in Activation of Mono/Diboron Compounds and Their Application in C-b Coupling Reactions
Boronic acid(esters) have been well recognized as an indispensable coupling partner in the Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling reactions producing a vast spectrum of molecules, applicable in the diverse field ranging from medicinal ... -
Manipulation of Spin Dynamics and Multifaceted Applications of NMR Spectroscopy to Small Molecules
The investigations have been carried out in the thesis entitled as “Manipulation of Spin Dynamics and Multifaceted Applications of NMR Spectroscopy to Small Molecules” to address the challenging problems encountered in ... -
Determining Functional Parameters of Hybrid Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Storage and Conversion Applications
Generating global-scale sustainable energy systems and preserving our environment for the future at the same time are the biggest challenges. Therefore, the search for diverse energy sources which will reduce our dependency ... -
Construction of C-C bonds by C-H Activation: Rh(III)-Catalyzed reactions of Arenes and Heteroarenes with Maleimides and Allylic Alcohols
The thesis presents a few Rh-catalyzed C-H activations for the construction of C-C bonds. The difficulty of substitution or the arylation at the maleimide's double bond under C-H activation conditions prompted a detailed ... -
Novel and Fundamental Studies of Separation Methods Leading to Very High Degree of Separation of Molecular Mixtures and Related Studies
Separation of molecular mixtures will often require in chemistry, biology, physics and material science. Existing methods of separation can at best yield a separation factor of 10^4 . They also incur huge expenditure of ... -
Design of Novel NMR Methodologies to address diverse challenging problems in Chemistry
The thesis entitled “Design of Novel NMR Methodologies to address diverse challenging problems in Chemistry” discusses the design of number of novel NMR methodologies which have broader utility and, also the extensive ...