A fundamental step in the further developments of comprehensive modelling of the diffusive processes in liquids requires the possibility of obtaining reliable and accurate experimental data of the diffusion and thermodiffusion coefficients of multicomponent liquid systems. In the present work, we perform an experimental investigation of the diffusive properties of binary and ternary liquid systems. Two experimental techniques, the ‘Open Ended Capillary’ technique and the ‘Transient Interferometric Technique’ have been developed. Those techniques have been used for the experimental characterization of several systems composed of 1,2, 3,4-Tetrahydrnaphtalene, Isobutylbenzene and Dodecane at ambient temperature. Those particular species were selected as a simplified multicomponent system modelling the fluids contained in natural crude oils reservoirs. <p>For each of these techniques, experimental set-ups were designed, implemented and calibrated. The procedures for identifying the ternary diffusion coefficients from the measured compositions fields were studied in details. <p>The Open Ended Capillary Technique was applied under gravity condition to study isothermal diffusion binary and ternary systems. Difficulties related to a new procedure for interpreting the data collected at short times of the experiments are highlighted and its implication in the generalization of the technique for the study of multicomponent systems is discussed.<p>The Transient Interferometric Technique was used to perform an experimental study of three binary systems under gravity conditions. It was also applied for the investigation of ternary systems under microgravity condition in the frame of the DSC on SODI experiment, which took place aboard the International Space Station in 2011. The experimental results are reported and the analysis of the accuracy of the technique is presented. The TIT is the first technique ever providing accurate experimental measurements of the complete set of diffusion and thermodiffusion coefficients for ternary liquid systems.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Due to environmental challenges, depleting oil resources, rising cost of oil and instability in oil-producing countries, biofuel production has attracted a lot of attention in recent decades. Biobutanol is one of the biofuels showing the most potential as an alternative for partly replacing petroleum-based fuels. Both researchers and industrialists are currently working at developing an energy-effective process to produce biobutanol at a large scale. Acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation is the biological process of biobutanol production and Clostridia are the most common bacteria used to produce biobutanol. However, there are several challenges in the butanol bioproduction process that should be addressed to make this process economically viable. The main challenge in the biobutanol production process is the low concentration of butanol in the ABE fermentation broth. It is therefore important to develop an efficient separation method. Several separation methods such as distillation, liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), pervaporation, gas stripping and adsorption have been considered to recover butanol from dilute solutions and ABE fermentation broths. Adsorption is considered as one of the most promising methods due to its high performance and energy efficiency for butanol separation. In this study, the focus was on developing an efficient separation method for butanol recovery from dilute model solution and fermentation broth using adsorption. A comprehensive adsorbent screening was first carried out to identify the best commercially available adsorbent among a series of potentially promising adsorbents. Activated carbon (AC) F-400 was selected for further experimentation since it showed high adsorption capacity and adsorption rate in addition to high selectivity toward butanol. AC F-400 was then tested extensively in packed adsorption column experiments for binary and ABE model solutions and fermentation broths to investigate the competitive adsorption between butanol and other components present in ABE broths. The results showed that the butanol adsorption capacity was not affected by the presence of ethanol, glucose and xylose while the presence of acetone led to a slight decrease in adsorption capacity at low butanol concentrations. On the other hand, the presence of acids (acetic acid and butyric acid) in the ABE broth showed a significant effect on the butanol adsorption capacity over a wide ii range of butanol concentration and this effect was more pronounced for butyric acid. At the end, different competitive adsorption isotherm models were also studied to appropriately represent the behaviour of the competitive adsorption. Desorption of butanol was subsequently investigated to evaluate both the desorption capacity of butanol and the capability of the adsorbent particles to be used for multiple adsorption-desorption cycles. The results of this set of experiments showed that AC F-400 can retain its initial adsorption capacity after 6 adsorption/desorption cycles. The recovery of butanol from butanol-water (1.5 wt%) binary and ABE model solutions was 84 and 80% with butanol adsorption capacity of 302 and 171 mg/g, respectively. The combination of adsorption and gas stripping techniques was also studied to investigate the performance of CO2 gas stripping of solvents from the model solutions and fermentation broths followed by adsorption. The results showed that the butanol adsorption capacity of the overall system for binary solutions (260 mg/g for a binary butanol-water solution of 15 g/L with vapour phase concentration of 5.8 mg/L), ABE model solutions (192 mg/g for a corresponding vapour concentration of 5.2 mg/L) and ABE fermentation broths (247 mg/g for a corresponding vapour phase concentration of 2.5 mg/L) was higher than what has been published in the literature. Finally, a model was developed and adequately validated the experimental data to predict the behaviour of the ABE compounds in a packed bed adsorption column for butanol separation from dilute solutions.

A presente dissertação de mestrado descreve estudos sobre as reações multicomponentes A3 na versão assimétrica. Diversas metodologias foram empregadas visando a obtenção de propargilaminas opticamente ativas, que são blocos sintéticos versáteis na preparação de compostos bioativos. O trabalho foi dividido em duas partes. Na primeira parte, estudou-se a utilização de aminas opticamente puras como materiais de partida para a reação tricomponente A3. Neste caso, foi utilizada a 2-metilpropan-2-sulfinamida como amina principal, no entanto, o produto de acoplamento não foi obtido, mesmo em diversas condições testadas. Outras aminas opticamente puras, como a (S)- metilbenzilamina e aminas derivadas de amino ácidos, também foram testadas. Os resultados, quanto às razões diastereoisoméricas e rendimento, foram satisfatórios quando aminas derivadas de amino ácidos foram utilizadas, principalmente quando o éster metílico da L-polina foi empregado como fonte de amina, que levou a formação do produto em bom rendimento e uma razão enantiomérica de 15:85. Na segunda parte do trabalho estudou-se a utilização de auxiliares quirais, na reação de A3, como indutores de assimetria. Para tanto, diversos compostos foram testados como oxazolinas opticamente puras e derivados de L-prolina. / This masters thesis describes studies for the asymmetric version of A3 multicomponent reactions. Several methodologies were employed in order to obtain optically active propargylamines, which are versatile synthetic building blocks on the preparation of bioactive compounds. The work was divided into two parts. In the first part, we investigated the use of optically pure amines as starting materials for the A3-coupling reaction. In this case, we used the 2-methylpropan-2-sulfinamide as the main amine, however, the coupling product was not obtained, even under several reaction conditions. Other optically pure amines such as (S)-methylbenzylamine and amines derived from amino acids, were also tested. The yields and diastereomeric excess were satisfactory when amines derived from amino acids were employed, especially when the methyl ester of L-poline was used as amine source, which led to the formation of the product in good yield and diastereoisomeric ratio. In the second part we studied the use of chiral auxiliaries in the A3-coupling reaction to induce the asymmetry. Therefore, several compounds were tested as optically pure oxazolines and L-proline derivatives.

La méthodologie MAC consiste à employer des réactifs umpolung pour permettre l’insertion formelle d’une fonction carbonyle entre un électrophile et un nucléophile. Cette thèse est consacrée à l’oxyhomologation diastéréosélective de la L-sérine grâce à un développement significatif de la méthodologie MAC à trois composants en one-pot, conduisant à l’obtention de dérivés orthogonalement protégés de l’acide α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutyrique. Ce dernier est une brique moléculaire acyclique à 4 atomes de carbone hautement fonctionnalisée qui est souvent intégrée dans les squelettes de molécules biologiquement actives.Nous avons tout d’abord étudié la synthèse de réactifs MAC silylés à partir du malononitrile. La synthèse du H-MAC-TBS a été optimisée et deux nouveaux réactifs MAC silylés, le H-MAC-TES et le H-MAC-TBDPS, ont été préparés.Dans un premier temps, nous avons étudié l’oxyhomologation du N-Boc-O-Bn-L-sérinal avec le H-MAC-TBS en présence de différents alcools dans des conditions réactionnelles douces. En présence de méthanol, des α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutanoates de méthyle orthogonalement protégés ont été préparés avec des bons rendements et avec un ratio diastéréoisomérique syn/anti = 80/20.L’utilisation du H-MAC-TBDPS a permis d’améliorer la diastéréosélectivité de la réaction MAC (syn/anti = 90/10). L’étude des différents modes de cyclisation des α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutanoates de méthyle a été réalisée par la suite. Des hétérocycles fonctionnalisés à 3, 5 et 6 chaînons ont été ainsi sélectivement synthétisés.De nouvelles oxazolidinones et oxazolines hautement fonctionnalisées ont été préparées de cette façon. En revanche, malgré nos efforts approfondis, une cyclisation pour donner un hétérocycle à 4 chaînons n’a pas été réalisée.L’absence de réactivité de la fonction alcool libre en α de ces esters N-protégés et γ activés a été inattendue.Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons étudié l’oxyhomologation de l’aldéhyde de Garner, un dérivé cyclique N,O-protégé du L-sérinal, par des réactions MAC. En présence de divers nucléophiles, cette réaction a conduit diastéréosélectivement à des esters et des amides protégés de l’acide α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutyrique avec des bons rendements et avec une diastéréoselectivité anti, allant jusqu’à un ratio diastéréoisomérique syn/anti = 10/90 en utilisant le H-MAC-TBDPS. Il s’agit des premiers exemples de diastéréosélectivité antiobservée pour une réaction MAC. Des hétérocycles fonctionnalisés à 3 et 5 chaînons ont été sélectivement synthétisés et, grâce à une oxydation sélective en position γ, des dérivés de l’acide érythro-β-hydroxyaspartique et de l’érythro-β-hydroxyasparagine orthogonalement protégés ont été préparés. / MAC methodology is a synthetic technique which employs an umpolung reagent to formally insert a carbonyl function between an electrophile and a nucleophile. This thesis is devoted to the diastereoselective oxyhomologation of L-serine thanks to a significant development of 3-component one pot MAC methodology, providing a synthesis of orthogonally-protected derivatives of α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutyric acid. This latter is a highly functionalized, acyclic, 4-carbon molecular building block which is a constituent part of various biologically active molecules.The synthesis of silylated MAC reagents from malononitrile was first studied. H-MAC-TBS’s synthesis was optimized and two new silylated MAC reagents, H-MAC-TES and H-MACTBDPS,were prepared.In a first study, the oxyhomologation of N-Boc-O-Bn-L-serinal was examined using H-MACTBS and a panel of alcohols in mild conditions.Methyl esters of orthogonally-protected α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutanoic acid were prepared in good yields and with a diastereoisomeric ratio syn/anti = 80/20. The use of H-MAC-TBDPS improved the diastereoselectivity of the MAC reaction to syn/anti = 90/10.Subsequently, different cyclization modes of methyl α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutanoate were investigated, leading to the selective synthesis of functionalized 3-, 5- and 6-membered ring heterocycles, including new highly functionalized oxazolidinones et oxazolines. In contrast, despite considerable efforts, we were unable to induce cyclisation to forma a 4-membered ring heterocycle, due to the surprising lack of nucleophilicity of the free alcohol function in the acyclic precursors.In a second study, we examined the oxyhomologation of Garners aldehyde, a cyclicN,O-protected derivative of L-serinal, using a selection of nucleophiles via one-pot MAC methodology. These reactions furnished protected ester and amide derivatives of α, γ-dihydroxy-β-aminobutyric acid in good yields with an anti diastereoselectivity with a ratio as high as syn/anti = 10/90 when H-MAC-TBDPS was used as the MAC reagent. These are the first known examples of MAC reactions which proceed with anti diastereoselectivity.Functionalized 3- and 5-membered ring heterocycles were prepared from these adducts,and via selective oxidation at the γ-position,orthogonally-protected derivatives of erythro-β-hydroxyaspartic acid and erythro-β-hydroxyasparagine were prepared.

A two-part study explored the maintenance effect of Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) featuring multi-component treatments by examining one year follow-up data from a larger study. Participants were ten parents of children (ages 3-5) with developmental disabilities and severe problem behaviors. Parents were also identified as having high levels of pessimism. BPT featuring multi-component treatments was provided in two conditions: Positive Behavior Support (PBS) and Positive Family Intervention (PFI). PBS included a standardized protocol to teach parents how to conduct a functional assessment, develop and implement a multi-component treatment, which includes the following strategies: prevention, teaching replacement skills, and managing consequences. PFI embedded optimism training in the same protocol used in PBS. Optimism training included presenting parents with their negative self-talk and having them practice using more positive self-talk throughout all sessions. In the first study, improvements in child behavior were observed after treatment, which maintained one year later for both conditions. The second study further revealed that participants in the PBS condition frequently used passive strategies vs. participants in the PFI condition who frequently used proactive strategies during post and one year follow-up. The current study did not reveal a specific treatment component to be responsible for behavior change and maintenance, but provided some insight as to the type of prevention strategies pessimistic parents are likely to use depending on whether or not they received optimism training. Suggestions for future research in assessing the remaining treatment components are discussed.

Multicomponent signals are complex stimuli directed to receptors of only single modality. Colourful ornaments of animals are multicomponent signals. In this thesis I present results of studies on the origin of coloration in turtles and squamate reptiles together with notes on relativistic view of the functionality of animal coloration. The results show that turtle coloration, which have been studied only marginally until now, is shaped by sexual selection. It is shown that turtles share mechanisms of coloration by vertical organization of different pigment cell types together with squamate reptiles. Turtles also produce colour by organization of collagen fibres which share trait with birds and mammals. Mechanisms of body coloration differ dramatically between closely related turtle species studied even though the individual constituting components are shared among these species. On the example of polymorphic lizards, it is shown that qualitative categorical difference between groups of individuals of the same population are maintained based on quantitative changes in pigment contents regulated by ancient loci shared by different species. The turtles and reptiles are valuable source of our knowledge on the evolution of multicomponent visual signalling due to their intriguing composition of skin....

The goal of this work was to evaluate the electrochemical properties of TiZrNbTa thin films deposited by magnetron sputtering using an industrial physical vapor deposition system. Samples were deposited on both Si(001) and 316L stainless steel. The samples deposited on Si(001) were either crystalline (bcc reflections) or amorphous, depending on the sputtering parameters. The crystalline films were composed of thin films with two different layers. The upper layer was nanocolumnar composed of elongated nanocolumns, while the lower was dense. The amorphous films had only one nanocolumnar layer and higher porosity. Polarization curves revealed that all samples had low corrosion current densities, in the order of 10-8 A/cm2. The samples showed an extended passive region up to 3.0 V vs Ag/AgCl due to the growth of a passivating oxide. The surface of the samples consisted of Nb2O5, ZrO2, TiO2 and Ta2O5. The chronoamperometry tests showed current oscillations, related to a break-down and reformation of the passive film. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy revealed that all samples behaved similarly in all three electrolytes, and the simulated electrical circuits were indicating no corrosion reactions. A decrease in capacitance values after polarization was observed and was related to the formed surface oxide. Samples deposited on 316L stainless steel showed a passive regime for a shorter potential window, probably related to surface defects of the films. Heat treatments at 400 and 800 Celsius for 20 hours could not trigger the phase transformation from single bcc to hcp or dual bcc, as predicted by the Thermo-Calc software.

En esta tesis doctoral se ha estudiado los iluros de azometino generados in situ en reacciones de cicloadición 1,3-dipolar y diferentes dipolarófilos para la síntesis multicomponente (libre de metales) de derivados de indolizidina a partir de pipecolinatos, aldehídos y dipolarofilos de forma térmica, y también a partir de ácido pipecólico de forma descarboxilada. También se ha estudiado la reacción de cicloadición 1,3-dipolar térmica multicomponente entre iluros de azometino no activados generados in situ a partir de aminas, aldehídos aromáticos y alquenos electrofílicos para generar derivados de pirrolidina.Además, se describe la síntesis de pirrolizidinas diastereoméricamente enriquecidas a partir de nitroprolinatos enantioméricamente puros a través de una cicloadición 1,3- dipolar multicomponente catalizada por una sal de plata y, por otro lado, una reacción de Amina-Aldehído-Dienófilo (AAD) para sintetizar estructuras ciclohex-2-en-1-ilprolinato como diastereoisómero enantiopuro único de forma multicomponente y libre de metales.

Se ha llevado a cabo la síntesis multicomponente de una serie de 1-aminoindolizinas y pirrolo[1,2-a]quinolonas de manera efectiva a partir de derivados de 2-piridincarbaldehído, aminas secundarias y alquinos terminales utilizando CuNPs/C como catalizador en diclorometano a 70 ºC. La metodología se ha aplicado a una variedad de aminas y alquinos, los últimos incluyendo arilacetilenos así como alquilacetilenos, con rendimientos de moderados a altos. Dicho catalizador ha demostrado ser superior a una serie de catalizadores de cobre comerciales. Finalmente, se ha propuesto un mecanismo de reacción basado en la probada participación de aminas propargílicas como intermedios de reacción. Se han sintetizado indolizidinas a través de la hidrogenación catalítica heterogénea de indolizinas usando PtO2 como catalizador en ácido acético como disolvente y a una presión de 3,7 atm. Las indolizidinas se han obtenido con una elevada diastereoselectividad, incluso en el caso de poseer cuatro estereocentros. Se ha demostrado experimentalmente que la hidrogenación de la indolizina se produce a través del intermedio pirrólico 5,6,7,8-tetrahidroindolizina. Además, estas indolizidinas se han podido mono- o di-desbencilar usando un catalizador diferente. Se ha sintetizado una nueva familia de compuestos orgánicos por reacción de las indolizinas en medio ácido. Estos productos son tintes de indolizina de color violeta-rojizos que tienen una estructura D-A-π-A bien definida. La estructura de los tintes de indolizina se ha establecido mediante análisis de rayos X en estado sólido, pero se pueden distinguir dos rotámeros en disolución. Se ha propuesto un mecanismo de reacción en el que la propia indolizina actúa como nucleófilo y electrófilo; en éste, una molécula sufre hidrólisis en medio ácido y la adición Michael de la segunda molécula de indolizina. Un estudio de las características ópticas de estos tintes ha revelado un cambio de color dependiente del tamaño de partícula, un alto poder de coloración y un carácter solvatocrómico (es decir, que el color de la disolución del compuesto depende de la polaridad del disolvente usado), también en materiales plásticos. Finalmente, se ha estudiado la reactividad de las indolizinas con nitrosocompuestos, obteniendo dos productos diferentes según el sustituyente en la posición tres de éstas. En el caso de poseer un sustituyente aromático se obtienen β-enaminonas. Se ha realizado un estudio del alcance de esta metodología cambiando los sustituyentes 1, 3 y 6 de las indolizinas y usando compuestos nitrosoaromáticos con distintos sustituyentes en orto y para, obteniendo las correspondientes β-enaminonas con rendimientos aislados de moderados a buenos. El uso de esta metodología ha demostrado ser el más apropiado para obtener ese tipo de regioisómero, comparado con las metodologías clásicas de condensación de compuestos 1,3-dicarbonilos con aminas que dan el regioisómero opuesto. Para sustituyentes alifáticos, se han obtenido pirroles tetrasustituidos con rendimientos de moderados a buenos, variando los cuatro sustituyentes en la estructura de pirrol. Se han llevado a cabo varios experimentos para elucidar el mecanismo de reacción. Se ha demostrado que proceden vía iónica, no radicalaria. La presencia de agua es beneficiosa para la obtención de β-enaminonas, en cambio, una atmósfera de oxígeno o de argón no lo son. Con todo ello, se ha propuesto un mecanismo para la obtención de éstas en el que participa una estructura de isooxazol como intermedio. En el caso de los pirroles, se ha demostrado que hay una migración de la dibencilamina en la estructura. Tras varios experimentos, enfocados en la obtención de un posible intermedio de reacción, se ha propuesto la secuencia del mecanismo para la obtención de pirroles. En primer lugar, se ha propuesto el ataque nucleófilo al nitrosocompuesto, abriendo la estructura y perdiendo dibencilamina, formando así una cetona α,β-insaturada, seguido del ataque de la dibencialamina y posterior ciclación para la obtención del pirrol.

Les travaux de cette thèse ont porté sur le développement de nouvelles méthodes de synthèse autour de la chimie des réactions multicomposants et des réactions de Tsuji-Trost des dérivés nitrés et phosphorylés. Dans le chapitre I, nous avons développé une nouvelle voie d’accès aux indoles propargyliques impliquant des adduits A3 et une réaction d’élimination d’amine en présence du 1,2-dibromoethane. Dans le chapitre II, nous avons démontré la possibilité d’exploiter des réactions de Tsuji-Trost par la formation de produits O-allylés issus des α-hydroxyphosphonates. La méthatèse cyclisante appliquée sur une gamme d’α-hydroxyphosphonates O-allylés a permis de synthétiser des phosphono-oxahétérocycles. Par ailleurs nous avons aussi démontré l’intérêt des α-hydroxyphosphonates du cinnamaldehyde pour des tandems Tsuji-Trost/ Claisen par la formation de dérivés d’acides α allylés. Dans le chapitre III, nous avons décrit un couplage entre les acides boroniques et les nitronates silylés pour aboutir à des oximes α, β insaturés. Par la suite nous avons convertis les oximes α,β-insaturés obtenus en isoxazoles par une cyclisation oxydante . Finalement dans le chapitre IV, nous avons poursuivi sur les réactions de Tsuji-Trost en mettant au point une synthèse de diènes à partir de dérivés nitrés allyliques. Cette réaction a été élargie à la synthèse des naphatlènes substitués en position 1. / The work of this thesis focused on the development of new synthesis methods around the chemistry of multicomponent reactions and Tsuji-Trost reactions of nitro and phosphorylated derivatives. In Chapter I, we developed a new pathway to propargylic indoles involving A3 adducts and an amine removal reaction in the presence of 1,2-dibromoethane. In Chapter II, we demonstrated the possibility of exploiting Tsuji-Trost reactions by the formation of O-allyl products from α-hydroxyphosphonates. The ring closing metathesis applied to a range of O-allylated α-hydroxyphosphonates allowed phosphono-oxaheterocycles to be synthesized. Furthermore, we also demonstrated the interest of α-hydroxyphosphonates from cinnamaldehyde for Tsuji-Trost / Claisen tandems by the formation of α-allylated acid derivatives. In Chapter III, we described a coupling between boronic acids and silylated nitronates to produce α, β-unsaturated oximes. Subsequently we converted the α, β-unsaturated oximes obtained in isoxazoles by an oxidizing cyclization. Finally, in Chapter IV, we continued the reactions of Tsuji-trost by developing a synthesis of dienes from allylic nitro derivatives. This reaction has been extended to the synthesis of naphatlene substituted at the 1-position.