Some of our earliest artisans were pioneers of nanoengineering, building the stained-glass windows of Notre-Dame before anyone knew to define the length scale. But, today, there are fewer nano-artisans than scientists studying life at the sub 10nm scale. In this dissertation, we…
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This thesis describes the synthesis, characterisation and reactivity of new manganese and rhenium(I) NHC complexes, which have been investigated both thermally and photochemically and the results contrasted with existing phosphine analogues in the literature. Cp’Mn(CO)2(NHC) (NH…
This thesis is presented as three independent sections, all dealing with the interaction of light with organic materials in the solid state. Section 1, consisting of chapters 1 and 2, deals with molecular gyroscopes: a class of amphidynamic materials. Molecular gyroscopes mimic …
Spectroscopy is a broad tool set that can be applied to further the understanding of many interdisciplinary questions. The technique of jet-cooling, laser-desorption, resonance-enhanced-multi-photon-ionization, mass spectrometry (LD-JC-REMPI-MS) was used to study the photodynami…
The first phase of this work sought to assess the causes of air quality deterioration in the south of the region over the Red Sea near the resort areas of Eilat and Aqaba. Accordingly, a coordinated Jordanian-Israeli study was performed during the month of November 2007 along th…
In the next few years, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), along with the construction of new ground-based observatories, will provide the opportunity to attempt atmospheric characterization of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of nearby M dwarf stars. …
While the field of organic chemistry has grown throughout the decades, its primary concern has always been on the generation, conversion, and study of molecular structures. Within that philosophy, the development of new reactions affords chemists the ability to overcome previous…
The plant genus Aglaia, native to the tropical rain forests of Indonesia and Malaysia, is the source of a unique group of densely functionalized natural products named the rocaglamides. This family of natural products may be divided into three distinct members. The rocaglamides …