López Lastra, Adrián (Date of defense: 2020-07-28)
Polymers are one of the most used compounds in the chemical industry because they have application in a wide variety of products for daily use. Polymer preparation and its analysis is a very active field ...
Dantignana, Valeria (Date of defense: 2020-12-03)
Selective oxidation of C-H bonds is an important reaction, as it can disclose novel synthetic strategies to get functionalized products through efficient paths. Nonetheless, due to the inert character ...
Artigas Ruf, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Fullerenes are a group of spherical molecules with outstanding 2/1 physicochemical properties that make them important materials in a variety of fields, ranging from biomedicine to photovoltaics. ...
Fuertes Espinosa, Carles (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The use of self-assembly to bring simple building blocks together into complex product, has led to the preparation of an increasing number of sophisticated and functional 3D supramolecular nanocapsules. ...
Čelić, Mira (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
The main objective of this thesis is to evaluate the impact of wastewater discharges on receiving riverine and coastal ecosystems by studying the occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants (ECs). Since ...
Oliveras Rovira, Àngel (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
Nowadays, around a third of the agricultural production is lost due to the damage caused by pests, resulting in a significant economic impact. It is estimated that about a third of these losses are ...
Gusmaroli, Lucia (Date of defense: 2020-05-25)
The presence of xenobiotics - such as pharmaceutically active compounds, endocrine disrupting compounds and pesticides - in the aquatic environment has risen great environmental concern due to their ...
Roldán Gómez, Steven (Date of defense: 2020-01-14)
During the last decades, computational chemistry has become a resourceful tool in the quest to understand and predict the mechanism and the reactivity of chemical systems. This is especially true in ...
Arbusé Font, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
Macrocyclic ligands and its complexes have been studied in a wide variety of fields, among them bioinorganic chemistry. In this work it is reported three studies of macrocyclic species under three ...