Division of Chemical Sciences: Recent submissions
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MOCVD Of Carbonaceous MnO Coating : Electrochemical And Charge Transport Studies
(2011-01-17)Metalorganic Chemical Vapour Deposition (MOCVD) is a versatile technique for the deposition of thin films of oxide materials as it offers advantages, such as deposition over large surface area, conformal coverage, selective ... -
Ancillary Ligand Effects On The Anticancer Activity Of Ruthenium(II) Piano Stool Complexes
(2011-01-17)The thesis “Ancillary Ligand Effects on the Anticancer Activity of Ruthenium (II) Piano Stool Complexes” is an effort to design better antitumor metallodrugs based on ruthenium(II) complexes with various H-bond donor/acceptor ... -
Multifunctionalities Of Telllurite And Borate Based Glasses Comprising Nano/Micro Crystals Of Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze-Type Ferroelectric Oxides
(2011-01-17)Transparent glasses embedded with TTB structured ferroelectric nano/micro crystals (K3Li2Nb5O15, Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30) were fabricated in various tellurite and borate based glass matrices and characterized for their physical ... -
Novel Strategies Towards Condenced Triazoles, Ferrocene Aminoacids, Conjugates And Selenosulfides
(2011-01-17)Chapter 1: Facile entry into triazole fused tetrahydropyrazinones from amines and amino acids. In this chapter, A practical and high yielding regioselective synthesis of several new, enantiopure 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro[1,2, ... -
Metallo-β-Lactamase, Phosphotriesterase And Their Functional Mimics
(2011-01-11)Metallohydrolases with dinuclear-zinc active sites perform many important biological hydrolytic reactions on a variety of substrates. In this regard, metallo-β-lactamases (mβ1, class B) represent a unique subset of zine ... -
Synthetic Antioxidants : Structure-Activity Correlation Studies Of Glutathione Peroxidase Mimics And Peroxynitrite Scavengers
(2011-01-11)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide radical anion (O2•¯), hydroxylradical (OH•), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and peroxynitrite (ONOO-) that are produced during the metabolism of oxygen under oxidative stress in ... -
Computational Studies On Macropolyhedral Boranes And Metallaboranes
(2011-01-11)The analysis of nature of bonding in non-classical structures is always an intriguing area of research. Typical examples of such systems are polyhedral boranes that exhibit fascinating cluster bonding where the traditional ... -
Room Temperature Molten Liquids Based On Amides : Electrolytes For Rechargeable Batteries, Capacitors And Medium For Nanostructures
(2011-01-10)Room temperature molten liquids are proposed to be good alternates for volatile and harmful organic compounds. They are useful in varied areas of applications ranging from synthesis, catalysis to energy storage molten ... -
Functional Noble Metal, Bimetallic And Hybrid Nanostructures By Controlled Aggregation Of Ultrafine Building Blocks
(2010-12-30)Functional nanomaterials are gaining attention due to their excellent shape and size dependent optical, electrical and catalytic properties. Synthesizing nanoparticles is no longer novel with the availability of a host of ... -
Aspects Of The Chemistry Of Iron Complexes Showing DNA Photo-cleavage Activity
(2010-12-30)The present thesis deals with different aspects of the chemistry of iron complexes, their interaction with DNA and photo-induced cleavage of double-stranded DNA. Chapter I presents a general introduction on metal-based ... -
Synthesis And Characterization Of One-Dimensional Oxide Nanostructures
(2010-12-08)Nanostructured materials especially, one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures have unique physical, chemical, mechanical properties and are the building blocks for a range of nanoscale devices. The procedure employed for the ... -
Molten-salt Synthesis Of Nanocrystalline Strontium Antimony Manganese Oxide (Sr2SbMnO6) : A Gaint Dielectric Constant Material
(2010-12-03)High dielectric constant materials are of technological importance as they lead to the miniaturization of the electronic devices. For instance, in the case of memory devices based on capacitive components, such as static ... -
Total Synthesis Of Sesquiterpenes, Seychellene, Trachyopsanes And Bisepoxysecocalamenenes
(2010-12-02)Among Nature's creation, terpenoids are more versatile and exciting natural products. In a remarkable display of synthetic ingenuity and creativity, nature has endowed terpenes with a bewildering array of carbocyclic ... -
Rotational Spectroscopic And Ab Initio Studies On The Weakly Bound Complexes Containing 0-H...π And S-H...π Interactions
(2010-11-22)Work reported in this thesis mainly comprises of the assignments and analysis of the rotational spectra and structures of three weakly bound complexes: C2H4•••H2S, C6H5CCH•••H2O and C6H5CCH•••H2S. All the data have been ... -
Studies Of MnO2 As Active Material For Electrochemical Supercapacitors
(2010-11-02)Electrical double-layer formed at the interface between an electrode and an electrolyte has been a topic of innumerable studies. The electrical interface plays a crucial role in kinetics, mechanisms and applications in ... -
Studies Of NIS Mediated Cyclopropane Ring Opening Reactions In Carbohydrate Chemistry
(2010-10-28)The thesis entitled ‘Studies of NIS Mediated Cyclopropane Ring Opening Reactions in Carbohydrate Chemistry’ is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1: Section 1: Efficient Synthesis of Fused Perhydrofuro[2,3-b]pyrans ... -
Reductive And Metathetic Coupling Reactions Mediated By Group (IV) Metal Alkoxides
(2010-10-19)Several organic transformations are mediated by group(IV) metal alkoxides. The reactivity is based on the basic nature of alkoxide group, Lewis acidic nature of the group(IV) metals, insertion of unsaturated molecules into ... -
Synthesis And Studies Of Poly(Propyl Ether Imine) (PETIM) Dendrimers
(2010-10-14)Dendrimers are hyperbranched macromolecules, with branches-upon-branches architectures, precise constitutions and molecular weights of several kiloDaltons (Figure 1). The dendritic structure remains to be an influential ... -
Synthesis, Structure And Photocatalysis Of Orthovanadates, Novel Approaches For The Crystallization Of Anhydrous Nucleobases And Ab Initio Structure Determination Of A Drug Intermediate From Powder X-ray Diffraction Data
(2010-10-13)The thesis begins with a brief introduction and relevant literature references. The novelty of synthesis, methodology and results of the work reported in the thesis and highlighted subsequently. The thesis consist of three ... -
Antioxidant Activity Of The Anti-Inflammatory Compound Ebselen And Its Analogues : Role Of Nonbonded Interactions
(2010-10-05)Although considered as a poison for long time, the importance of selenium as an essential trace element is now well recognized. In proteins, the redox active selenium moiety is incorportated as selenocysteine (Sec), the ...