Student theses

Recent theses published by our graduates

Recently completed PhD theses:

• Alya Arabi, Density Functional Theory: Dispersion Interactions & Biological Applications
  
• Jennifer Black, The Role of Charge Redistribution in the Self-discharge of Electrochemical Capacitor Electrodes
  
• Hugo Bohorquez, Local Quantum Chemistry
  
• Diane Botelho, Urine Proteomics for the Purpose of Biomarker Discovery
  
• Yuen-ying Carpenter, Investigations into the Reactivity and Structure of Phosphinophosphonium Cations and Related Species
  
• Kevin Hesp, Late Transition Metal Complexes for E-H Bond Activation and Additions to Multiple Bonds
• Gavin Heverly-Coulson, Computational model of the catalytic cycle of organoselenium anitoxidants  
  
• Siyuan Hou, Improved Projection Methods for Exploratory Data Analysis in Chemistry
  
• Rylan Lundgren, Design and Application of P,N-Ligands for Platinum-Group Metal Catalyzed Reactions
• Jennifer MacDonald, A Study of the Chemical Interactions at the Interface Between Polymeric Powder/Fibre and White Cement
  
• Vincent Martin, Composition and Structure Dependence of the Photoelastic Response of Oxide Glass
• Vanessa Marx, Development of the Interrupted Nazarov Cyclization of Allenyl Vinyl Ketones, with Application to the Total Synthesis of the Cyclooctane Natural Product Roseadione
  
• Autumn Meek, The In Silico Search for an Endogenous Anti-Alzheimer's Therapeutic
• Kelly Resmer, Metabolic Studies of Fusobacterium varium Using NMR Spectroscopy
  
• Andrew Ritchie, Characterization of Na-Loaded Type II Si and Ge Clathrates: A Systematic Structure–Property Evaluation of Thermoelectric Materials
• Cheryl Saunders, Isolation of Lead-Amino Acid and Mercury-Amino Acid Complexes with Characterization in the Solid State, the Solution State, and the Gas Phase
  
• Bennett Tardiff, Palladium-Catalyzed amine synthesis: chemoselectivity and reactivity under aqueous conditions
  
• Alexis Taylor, Theoretical Investigations of Non-Covalent Interactions: From Small Water Clusters to Large DNA Quadruplexes
  
• Mark Wall, Towards the Development of a Proteomics Workflow for High-throughput Protein Biomarker Discovery
  
• Andrew Van Bommel, Lithium-Rich Transition Metal Oxides as Positive Electrode Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries
  

Recently completed MSc theses:

• Stephen Beaton, Evaluation and Synthesis of Sugar 1-Phosphate Substrates for Nucleotidylyltransferases
• Joseph Boutilier, Strategies to Improve Quantitative Proteomics: Implications of Dimethyl Labelling and Novel Peptide Detection
• Anthony Cerqueira, Synthesis and Thermodynamic Investigation of Boron Allotropes
• Stephanie Dupuis, Precursor-Directed Biosynthesis of Novel Jadomycins and Expansion of the Jadomycin Library
• Shayla Fitzsimmons, Development of Techniques for Removal of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate for Enhanced Protein Identification and Characterization
  
• Sarah Goertzen, Characterization of Electrode Materials for Aqueous-Based Electrochemical Capacitors Using Spectroscopy, the Boehm Titration and Spectroelectrochemistry
  
• Dane Knackstedt, Investigations of Phosphenium Insertion into Phosphorus-Phosphorus Bonds
  
• Fang Liu, Assessment of Universal Approaches to Proteome Prefractionation
  
• Mark MacDonald, X-ray Spectroscopic Studies of Gold-thiolate Nanoclusters
  
• Erin Martin, The behaviour of neurologic water during axonal and synaptic neurotransmission: An in silico study
  
• Sarah Ward, The Development of Exogenous Anticonvulsants and Endogenous Uracil-Based Antiepileptic Agents