Browsing Honours Theses by Author "Clyburne, Jason A. C. (Jason Alexander Cameron), 1968-"

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Comparing mercury, arsenic, and selenium in several fish species from two Nova Scotia lakes

Kickbush, Jocelyn Consuelo (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

The environmental increase of mercury and arsenic - two contaminants with no biological functions - due to anthropogenic activities is a complex and growing issue. Both mercury and arsenic, in particular methylmercury and ...
Early-Earth small molecule reactions : an experimental survey of submarine alkaline hydrothermal vent chemistry

Goulding, Liam Sean (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

Alkaline hydrothermal vents provide a variety of chemical reagents and conditions that may provide insight as to how life emerged on Earth. This study examined small molecule chemistry under conditions found at these vents. ...
New electron-rich diketiminate ligands : an experimental and computational investigation on the isolation of reactive species

Land, Michael Alexander (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

Boron analogues of NHCs have long eluded detection, likely due to their predicted low singlet-to-triplet energy gap. Two new N,N’-chelating ligands have been prepared and investigations into their reactivity and coordinative ...
The reactions of carbon disulfide and sulfur dioxide with small carboxylate anions

Paula, Zoe Anne (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

In one form or another both acid gases and carboxylates have existed from prebiotic earth all the way to the present day. Here we have studied the reactions of carbon disulfide (CS[subscript 2]) and sulfur dioxide (SO[subscript ...
The [sigma]-hole interaction of 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolidine [SiPr] with iodine-containing small molecules

Greene, Bradley H. C. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

Iodine-containing small molecules, such as R-CC-I and I-CC-I, can form halogen bonds, interactions that arise from the electrostatic forces between a halogen and Lewis base. This interaction arises from the presence of a ...