Although pure electrochemical techniques can provide substantial knowledge about electrochemical reaction mechanisms, they lack the ability to provide direct molecular structure information about the species involved. ...

Two distinct overall research objectives are in this Master’s thesis. Very little relates the two chapters apart from the ligands. The first chapter addresses diastereoselective homogeneous copper catalyzed cyclopropanation ...

Noncoherent photon upconversion (NCPU) realized by means of triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) is of significant recent interest because of the possibility of using this phenomenon for increasing the efficiency of ...

A very good understanding of nanoparticle-ligand interactions is a key step toward obtaining mechanistic insight into the formation of ligand protected metal nanoparticles and their stability. Since a direct investigation ...

Single-molecule (SM) fluorescence spectroscopy has become a useful and important experimental approach for investigating the optical properties of chemical systems. In this thesis, four subprojects in the field of SM ...

Transition-metal K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) describes a group of techniques that are element specific and provide information about the chemical environments and structures in a material. X-ray Absorption ...

The electrical stimulation of biological cells has been studied intensively since Galvani’s experiment with a dead frog’s leg muscle. Medical advances such as the pacemaker and the cochlear implants utilize some of the ...

The initial motivation for crystallization of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) is an interest to understand how thiomolybdates interact with BSA and suppress copper intake from the food sources of cattle. The main objective of ...

UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM) is a flavoenzyme which catalyzes the interconversion of UDP-galactopyranose (UDP-Galp) and UDP-galactofuranose (UDPGalf). UDP-Galf is the active precursor of Galf residues. Glycoconjugates ...

Chemical investigation of the transformation of the crucifer phytoalexins brassinin, brassilexin and camalexin by the phytopathogenic fungus Alternaria brassicicola was carried out. The objectives of this study included: ...