Division of Chemical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Bile Salts in Supramolecular Chemistry: Synthesis of Fluorescent Nanoclusters, Oxide Nanoflowers, and Anion Effect on Metallogels
In summary, we have explored an interesting pH-dependent sensitization of Tb(III) using methyl salicylate (MS) as a sensitizer in aqueous media. Methyl salicylate was found to be a specific sensitizer for Tb(III) but not ... -
Regioselective C-H Amidation Reactions using Directing Group Strategy and its Application in Organic Synthesis
The thesis represents an approach for the C-H bond activation using directing group strategy. The C-H activation happens through five/six-membered metallacycle through concerted metallation deprotonation. Further ... -
Harvesting Solar Photon Using TiO2-CdS Nanostructured Semiconductor Assemblies
Abstract The present Thesis discusses various Titanium dioxide (TiO2) - Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) assemblies for efficient harvesting of the solar photon. Inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals such as CdS have attracted ... -
Investigations of Borocarbonitrides and Nanocarbons
The thesis consists of three parts of which Part 1 describes the investigations of borocarbonitrides. In this Part, Section 1.1 provides the synthesis and characterization of different compositions of borocarbonitrides. ... -
Studies on Alkaline Iron Electrodes for Nickel-Iron Accumulators
A battery is a companion whose interests are world-wide and whose society has never-ending interests. Batteries have applications in cars to space and there is ever growing addiction to batteries. A battery consists of two ... -
Investigating the Role of Domain Swapping in Aggregation of Globular Proteins
The broad objective of this thesis involves computationally modeling protein aggregation with special emphasis on the role of cosolvents and misfolded states. Chapter 1 contrasts the effect of biologically relevant co-solvents ... -
Properties and Applications of Metal Cholate Hydrogels
This thesis presents a detailed study on the unusual properties of silver cholate, applications of lanthanide cholate gels, enhanced luminescence of lanthanides by water, and the mechanism of formation of these gels. ... -
Organic Transformations in the Confined Cavity of Self-Assembled Pd(II) Molecular Containers
Biological systems utilize its extraordinary ability to develop complex and functional molecular assemblies employing reversible non-covalent interactions. These natural aesthetic examples motivated synthetic chemists ... -
Transport, Relaxation and Line shape in Quantum Dissipative Systems with Applications to Photosynthesis and Conjugated Polymers
The thesis entitled as “Transport, Relaxation and Line shape in Quantum Dissipative Systems with Applications to Photosynthesis and Conjugated Polymers” has been divided into five major parts and ten chapters. In Part ... -
Computational Studies of Hydrophobic Force Law, Dynamics in Model Asymmetric Binary Mixtures, and Contribution to One and Two Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
Depending on the system and phenomena of interest, the thesis has been partitioned into three major parts. The first part is on the theoretical infrared spectroscopic studies and vibrational phase relaxation of supercritical ... -
New Class of Tricoordinate Boron Based Donor-Acceptor (D-A) Systems Exhibiting External Stimuli Responsive Properties, Delayed Emission and Room Temperature Phosphorescence
The main thrust of this thesis is the design and development of a new class of boron-based acceptors, with a substituent which maintains good electronic coupling between boron and the other substitutes on boron, without ... -
Spontaneous Light Emission from Molecular Junctions
Abstract: The study of light emission [1] from a molecular junction is recently gaining research interest. This has direct relevance to develop novel optoelectronic devices [2] and to understand light-matter interaction ... -
Charge and Heat Transport in Low-dimensional Quantum Systems
Transport of electrons through low-dimensional quantum conductors like nano-junctions has been actively pursued research area for the last few decades. Experimental studies on nano-junctions are nowadays routinely carried ... -
Raman and IR Spectroscopic Studies of Bacteria, Endotoxin, DNA and Lipoproteins
In the past few decades, vibrational spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful technique in biomedical research. Raman and IR spectroscopy, which are based on signatures specific to molecular vibrations, has found a wide ... -
Protein-Nanomaterial Interactions: Structural And Dynamic Aspects
Owing to their unique properties, the noble metallic nanoparticles and graphenic nanomaterials find their applications in diverse fields of science. Particularly in the field of biomedicine, nanomaterials are being used ... -
Electrochemical Conversion of Methyl Ketones to Esters
The need for sustainable and efficient organic synthesis has inspired chemists to embrace classic technologies like electrochemistry and photochemistry. In addition to being an environmentally benign method to synthesize ... -
Studies on Quinoidal Diketopyrrolopyrrole Derivatives and their Applications
Quinoidal π-conjugated molecules have endowed significant attention over the years especially due to inherent high electron affinity and amphiprotic redox behavior, establishing their application as versatile active material ... -
New Avenues to Transition Metal-Based Water Splitting Electrocatalysts
Solar energy is by far the most abundant renewable resource available to mankind. However, it is diffused and intermittent, and often geographically separated from that of the production results in underwhelming utilization ... -
Investigations on the Pi Distortivity Problem and On the Use of Single Atom Thick Layers as Filters
It has traditionally been believed that pi-electrons stabilize the D6h structure of benzene. However, this was questioned both using theoretical arguments, as well as circumstantial, experimental evidence. The theoretical ... -
A Mitsunobu-Michael Reaction Sequence to N-Heterocyclic Variants and Ti(III)-Mediated Synthesis of Terpenoids and N-Fused Indoles
The research work delineates a flexible and novel route for the diastereoselective construction of diversely substituted N-heterocyclic variants as valuable scaffolds for natural products and pharmaceuticals, starting from ...