The primary focus of the work presented in this Thesis involved a major re-evaluation of detailed chemical kinetic models describing alkane oxidation under combustion conditions. Combined experimental and theoretical ...

1,2-cis aminoglycosides are considered difficult to prepare in a highly stereoselective manner. Some strategies have been developed to date including the preparation of 2-azido, 2-benzylidine and 2,3-oxazolidinone glycosyl ...

According to the “Real Map of Ireland” published by Marine Institute, Ireland, the Nation marine territory has ten times more area than its land mass. Despite the well-studied and reported biodiversity present in Irish ...

Chapter 1 is a general introduction with a description of conventional radical polymerization and reversible deactivation radical polymerizations for controlled/living techniques. In particular, the use of Reversible ...

Chapter 1: Introduction to the reactive intermediates used in this thesis, namely acyl radicals and N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) is presented, along with an assessment of the anti-cancer activity of literature bioreductive ...

Energy, in any form, plays the most important role in the modern world. We have been dependent on conventional energy sources such as coal and petroleum product for quite a long time. Therefore, there is an alarming need ...

The objective of this thesis was to investigate the integration of enzymes and redox mediators capable of transferring electrons between enzymes and electrodes. This was done with a view to developing a semi- or fully ...

This study presents an experimental and modelling investigation of the ignition of hydrogen and natural gas mixtures. These mixtures were chosen due to their relevancy to the gas turbine industry. A detailed chemical ...

A chemical kinetic mechanism for the combustion of acetone has been developed and compared with a range of experimental data from the literature and with species concentration profiles measured in this study in the Princeton ...

The use of methylmagnesium chloride (MeMgCl) as a non-nucleophilic base is explored in this thesis. Grignard reagents react in nucleophilic addition reactions with nitriles yielding a ketone upon work-up, but in the ...