{"id":226,"date":"2017-07-06T22:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2021-05-23T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:53:54","slug":"dissertations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dissertations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ph.D. Theses<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>(1) &#8220;The characterization of fluorescent cyclodextrin derivatives and investigation of their binding properties&#8221; by Shelli McAlpine, August 1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(2) &#8220;Molecular mechanics, quantum mechanics and direct dynamics applied to the study of organic carbene reactivity&#8221; by Amy Keating, January 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(3) &#8220;Structural and electronic effects on quantum mechanical tunneling rates in the photoenolization of ortho-alkylarylketones&#8221; by Brent Johnson, May 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(4) &#8220;Photolysis of phenylalkyldiazoalkanes: excited state diazo reactivity, fast carbene reactions, and bystander effects on carbene 1,2-R shifts&#8221; by Krista R. Motschiedler, September 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(5) &#8220;Isotope effects of excited-state hydrogen abstraction in ortho-methyl diaryl carbenes and the photophysics of organic molecules absorbed into gadolinium exchanged zeolites&#8221; by Laura Sonnichsen, June 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(6) &#8220;Template- and structure-directed approaches for the preparation of tetraarylcyclobutanes&#8221; by Dafni Amirsakis, December 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(7) &#8220;Structural design, x-ray characterization, and photochemical investigation of organic molecules in highly ordered media: organic molecular rotors and reactive intermediates in crystals&#8221; by Hung Dang, September 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(8) &#8220;Photodecarbonylation of crystalline ketones and its application to the synthesis of tochuinyl acetate&#8221; by Zhe Yang, October 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(9) &#8220;Photochemical decarbonylation reactions of ketones in the solid state and applications to the stereoselective synthesis of vicinal quaternary centers in natural products&#8221; by Danny Ng, November 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(10) &#8220;Theoretical insights on product selectivity in diradical-mediated thermal rearrangements&#8221; by Christopher Suhrada, January 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(11) &#8220;Photodecarbonylation of crystalline beta,gamma-unsaturated ketones and its application to preparative scale synthesis of adjacent quaternary centers&#8221; by Christopher Mortko, November 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(12) &#8220;Theoretical investigations of the thermochemistry, structures, and internal rotation of conjugated polyynes&#8221; by Peter Jarowski, June 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(13) &#8220;Light-induced processes in organic chemistry: decarbonylations in crystals, quantum tunneling, and solar cells&#8221; by Luis M. Campos, June 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(14) &#8220;Design, synthesis, and solid state NMR studies of molecular gyroscopes&#8221; by Carlos Enrique Godinez, September 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(15) &#8220;Molecular compasses and gyroscopes: studies leading to addressable internal dynamics in the solid state&#8221; by Tinh A. Kuong, September 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(16) &#8220;Design, synthesis, and characterization of amphidynamic materials&#8221; by Steven Karlen, September 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(17) &#8220;Toposelective synthesis of a triply-bridged molecular gyroscope and polymorphogenic behavior of alkylated rotors&#8221; by Jose Eduardo Nunez, September 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(18) &#8220;Photophysical studies of fullerene derivatives and organic molecular nanocrystals and singlet oxygen in microheterogeneous media: direct characterization in zeolites, proteins, and immunoglobulins&#8221; by Khin Chin, September 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(19) &#8220;Photochemical decarbonylation of ketones in the solid state and in solution. Progress towards the synthesis of natural products&#8221; by Marino Resendiz, September 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(20) &#8220;Steady-State and Transient Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Photochemical Mechanisms in Crystalline Solids Utilizing Nanocrystalline Suspensions&#8221; by Gregory Kuzmanich, June 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(21) &#8220;Synthesis and Solid-State Photochemical Studies of Hexasubstituted Ketones and 1-Pyrazolines&#8221; by Saori Shiraki, June 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(22) &#8220;The Design, Synthesis, and Study of Solid-State Molecular Rotors: Structure\/Function Relationships for Condensed-Phase Anisotropic Dynamics&#8221; by Cortnie Vogelsberg, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(23) &#8220;Synthetic Strategies Towards the Synthesis of Twistacenes, Oligoacenes, Polydibenzophoshole and Pentiptycene Rotor Derivatives&#8221; by Miguel A. Jimenez, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(24) &#8220;Quantum Chain Reactions and delta-Hydrogen Abstraction of Aromatic Ketones: Insights into Solid to Solid Transformations and Efficiency in Crystals&#8221; by Amy Nielsen, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(25) &#8220;Synthetic Modifications and Solid State Structural Analysis of Bridged Molecular Gyroscopes and a-Santonin&#8221; by Patrick Commins, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(26) &#8220;Quantum Chain Reactions and \u03b4-Hydrogen Abstraction of Aromatic Ketones: Insights into Solid to Solid Transformations and Efficiency in Crystals&#8221; by Amy Nielsen, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(27) &#8220;Synthesis and Characterization of Salicylideneaniline Functionalized Molecular Rotors&#8221; by Ira Staehle, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(28) &#8220;Photochemistry and Photophysics of Highly Ordered Materials in the Solid State: Synthesis and Dynamics of Molecular Rotors, Photodegradation of Bird Feathers, Studies of Photodecarbonylation by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy&#8221; by Melissa Hughs, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(29) &#8220;The Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Crystalline Molecular Machines with High Structural and Dynamic Complexities&#8221; by Xing Jiang, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(30) &#8220;Synthesis and Design of Small Molecule-Based Functional materials: Applications in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Molecular Machines &#8220;by Geeta Vadehra, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(31) &#8220;Kinetics, Mechanism, and Specificity of Photo-induced Denitrogenation Reactions in D2-1,2,3-Triazolines and 2-Azidobiphenyls in Solution and in the Solid-State&#8221; by Tim S. Chung, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(32) &#8220;Steady-State and Excited State Kinetics, Photochromism, and Mechanistic Implications of Spiropyrans in Solution and in Nanocrystalline Suspensions and the Solution and Solid State Transient Kinetics of a 1,1\u2019-Biphenyl-2-Phenyl Diazomethane&#8221; by Vanessa M. Breslin, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(33) &#8220;Photochemistry and Kinetic Analysis of Radical Pairs from \u03b1-aryl-substituted Ketones in Solution and in Nanocrystalline Suspensions&#8221; by Jin Park, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(34) &#8220;Fluorescence and Rotational Dynamics of Amphidynamic Crystals&#8221; by Morgan Howe, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(35) &#8220;Taming Radicals in the Crystalline Solid State: Discovery and Total Synthesis of Psychotriadine&#8221; by Jordan J. Dotson, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(36) &#8220;Fundamental Properties of Organic Nanocrystals and Photochemical Intermediates in their Crystal Lattices&#8221; by Vincent Hipwell, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(37) &#8220;Engineering and Characterizing Dynamics in Crystalline Solids: Progress Towards Coupling Molecular Rotors via Mechanical or Electromagnetic Interactions&#8221; by Marcus J. Jellen, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(38) &#8220;Computational and Experimental Studies of Correlated Dynamics in Molecular Gears, and Crystalline Polarized Rotors in Pillared\u2013Paddlewheel Metal\u2013Organic Frameworks&#8221; by Ieva Liepuoniute, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">M.Sc. Theses<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>(1) &#8220;Photochemical investigations on the origin of non-trappable carbenes: inter- and intramolecular triplet sensitization of arylalkyl diazo compounds&#8221; by Krista R. Motschiedler, September 1994<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(2) &#8220;Synthesis and solid state photochemical reactivity of selected cyclopentanones&#8221; by Krisztina Peterfy, November 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(3) &#8220;Synthetic strategies and spectroscopic studies of organic compounds with freely rotating chromophores with potentially interesting electro-optical properties&#8221; by Carlos Enrique Godinez, June 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(4) &#8220;Towards molecular machines and switches in the solid state: the synthesis and characterization of molecular rotors and a molecular crankshaft employing substituted triarylmethyl groups&#8221; by Tinh A. Khuong, June 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(5) &#8220;Studies toward the enantiospecific photochemical decarbonylation of crystalline ketones&#8221; by Martha Ellison, January 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(6) &#8220;Design, synthesis, and characterization of molecular gyroscopes with benzyloxy diphenyl based stators&#8221; by Howing Leung, September 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(7) &#8220;Synthesis, photophysics, and rotational dynamics of a crystalline molecular dirotor for optoelectronic applications&#8221; Alexander Henry Penades Parenzan, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dissertations Ph.D. Theses (1) &#8220;The characterization of fluorescent cyclodextrin derivatives and investigation of their binding properties&#8221; by Shelli McAlpine, August 1997 (2) &#8220;Molecular mechanics, quantum mechanics and direct dynamics applied to the study of organic carbene reactivity&#8221; by Amy Keating, January 1998 (3) &#8220;Structural and electronic effects on quantum mechanical tunneling rates in the photoenolization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-226","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/226\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgg.chem.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}