Part I: Palladium-catalyzed alkylation of alkenes using epoxides. Part II: Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric wacker-type anti-attack of alkenes by Teng, Shenghan

“…This dissertation describes two types of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions that achieve alkene functionalization. …”
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Development of electroless plating processes for low cost plastic-metallization and area-selective metal coating of three-dimensional structures by Zhan, Jing

“…In the third project, the author achieved area-selective electroless palladium deposition by separating the reducing agents and metal salts with thermosensitive liposome. …”
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Developing synthetic strategies and studying potential applications of buckybowl corannulene polymers by Zhang, Zhuang

“…In the fourth chapter, corannulene is used as a monomer in palladium-catalyzed Stille polycondensation process to access network geometry. …”
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Noble metal nanomaterials with unconventional crystal phases for heterogeneous catalysis by Huang, Jingtao

“…In particular, plasmonic noble metals such as gold (Au) and silver (Ag) as well as catalytic noble metals such as palladium (Pd) and platinum (Pt) were centered on for investigating their structure-property relationships and elaborating on their structure-dictated catalytic performances. …”
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Part I. Synthesis of chiral 3-substituted indanones via transition-metal-catalyzed reductive heck reaction. Part II. Tert-butyl peroxybenzoate promoted oxidative coupling between h... by Lei, Kaining

“…A new approach to chiral 3-substituted indanones via palladium-catalyzed reductive Heck reaction with excellent yields (>80%) and enantioselectivities (>90% ee) had been developed. …”
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Development of C-P and N-P bond formation reactions by Balázs, László Bertalan

“…The generated chiral phosphines were applied in cyclometalation to obtain optically pure N-C(sp3)-E (E=S,O) type pincer complexes; coordination studies for chiral bimetallic palladium complex synthesis; and derivatization resulted in the formation of enantioenriched P-chiral diarylphosphinates. …”
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Syntheses and characterizations of unconventional azaarenes with nonlinear shapes and novel functional groups by Zhao, Kexiang

“…In the third result, a series of novel imide-fused diazatetracenes were synthesized via Buchwald-Hartwig C-N coupling with a highly active palladium source. The obtained diazatetracenes were characterized by NMR, HRMS, UV-Vis and cyclic voltammetry. …”
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Synthesis and properties of novel polycyclic (Hetero)aromatic systems by Rahman, Md Shafiqur

“…Secondly, this chapter describes the palladium-catalyzed annulation of 1-halo-8-arylnapthalenes and alkynes leading to heptagon-embedded aromatic systems with all sp2 carbon center. …”
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Engineering of two-dimensional materials for energy storage and conversion by Koh, See Wee

“…Moreover, an unprecedented palladium phosphoronitride-based ORR catalyst is produced by a simple annealing of Pd3P2S8. …”
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Synthesis and structural control of multidimensional metal nitride nanostructures by Li, Yun

“…Characteristic timescale analysis of laser-induced unary palladium metal nanoparticles for millisecond timescale suggests the nanoparticle growth is dominated by Brownian coagulation and Ostwald ripening mechanisms. …”
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Coordination engineering of noble-metal clusters or single atoms supported on carbon for electrocatalytic water splitting by Wang, Qilun

“…Subsequently, to maximize the atomic efficiency of noble metal, I synthesized and compared HER activities of noble metal (including rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, palladium, and platinum)-based single-atom catalysts with various coordination environment (N, P and S), in which the Rh single-atom catalyst coordinated with both N and P (Rh1/NPG) exhibited the lowest overpotential due to its optimal H binding energy. …”
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Potentiometric heavy metal sensing integrated with paper-based microfluidic solution sampling by Silva Mahamalage Rochelle Udani

“…Potentiometric responses of Pb2+-ISEs coupled with gold, platinum and palladium coated paper substrates were investigated. …”
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Noble metal nanowires : synthetic control, morphology induced properties and application in electrochemical catalysis by Su, Dongmeng

“…In chapter 4, we reported the successful preparation of gold in palladium core-shell nanowire (Au@Pd NW) with advantages provided by its morphology induced property to spontaneously enhance both catalytic activity and operation durability that may significantly enhance the performance of anode reaction in DEFCs. …”
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