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Synthesis and utility of electronically diverse polycyclic aromatics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This dissertation examines the synthesis of electronically diverse polycyclic aromatics within discrete molecular regimes and as incorporated into robust conjugated polymers. We have pursued two strategies for obtaining ...
Dynamics and spectra in condensed phases : single molecule spectroscopy, electron transfer, and excitation energy transfer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In this thesis, several problems regarding dynamics and spectra in condensed phases are theoretically analyzed via analytical models. The thesis consists of four main topics. First, a theoretical description of single ...
Detection and spectroscopy of single CdSe nanocrystallite quantum dots
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Semiconductor nanocrystallites, with size dependent optical properties that have generated considerable interest over the past 10 years, are intrinsically difficult to study due to inhomogeneities in ensemble samples. In ...
Design and application of chiral ligands for the improvement of metal-catalyzed asymmetric transformations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
Asymmetric organic synthesis using organoboron compounds
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
I. Synthesis of mycarose from an acyclic precursor ; II. studies toward the sysnthesis of Roridin E
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Asymmetric intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Study of long range potentials in excited states of diatomic sodium using modulated gain spectroscopy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
Elucidation of the quinone methide tautomer of riboflavin and generation of a flavin nitroxyl radical
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Spectroscopic signatures of isomnerization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis explores spectroscopic signatures of isomerization, especially new patterns that emerge and report on chemically relevant portions of the potential energy surface, such as the transition state. The most important ...