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The first part of this thesis describes the synthesis and characterization of several Mn, Fe and Mo complexes containing tridentate Schiff base and oxazoline ligands and their reactivities as catalysts in the oxidation of organic compounds like olefins and sulfides, as well. The crystal structures of newly prepared cis-dioxo-bis[2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazolinato]molybdenum(VI), cis-[MoO2(phox)2] and (N-hydroxyphenyl-salicylidenamine)(acetylacetonato)ethanol iron(III), [FeIII(N-OPh-sal)(acac)EtOH] complexes have been described by X-ray crystallography. Due to the difficulties in the preparation of suitable single crystals of novel... 

In this project, issues related to designing and fabricating active phase shifter blocks on the silicon substrate have been examined. Phase shifter circuits are designed in a way that have the most bandwidth and the less sensitivity to process characteristics changes and environmental conditions. The purpose of this research, is designing an active 6 bits phase shifter. The active phase shifter synthesizes the required phase using a phase interpolation process by adding quadrature phased input signals. It uses a new quadrature all-pass filter for quadrature signaling with a wide bandwidth. Also substitute structure has been suggested to this filter which is the main block in determining... 

Integration of radio transceivers results in developing low power low cost wireless systems and allows delivery of multimedia contents to battery-powered mobile terminals. Portable reception of digital video for hand-held devices is one of the applications, for which, some telecommunications standards have been developed in the recent years. This research deals with the integrated implementation of the radio frequency parts of the digital video receiver, especially the frequency synthesizer. The key aspects of the digital video reception system are the required signal to noise ratio, which is relatively high, wide band input signals and strong interferers in the receiving band.
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This thesis deals with the front-End of an Integrated RFID Reader operated in 860MHz to 960MHz, which integrates a RF transceiver including PA, LNA and Mixer. In the receiver part, a power amplifier was fabricated and measured and in the transmitter part, LNA and Mixer were designed. There is a growing interest in utilizing CMOS technologies for RF power amplifiers (PAs). Although several advances have been made recently to enable full integration of PAs in CMOS, it is still among the most difficult challenges in achieving a truly single-chip radio system in CMOS. This is exacerbated by supply voltage reduction due to CMOS technology scaling and on-chip passive losses due to the conductive... 

The selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides is an important method in organic synthesis because sulfoxides are useful synthetic intermediates for the construction of various chemically and biologically significant molecules. To date, the most important method of preparation involves the oxidation of sulfides. Various oxidizing agents are used for this purpose. Oxovanadium(IV)(Salen) and oxovanadium(V)(Salen)Cl were synthesised and screened in the vanadium-catalysed oxidation of sulfides to solfuxides with urea hydrogen peroxide(UHP) as terminal oxidant. Both complexes showed good activity and selectivity trough the catalytic reaction.characterized by elemental analyses, IR, 1H and 13C... 

Fully integrated frequency synthesizer is one of the important system-on-chips building blocks. Among this circuit’s remarkable applications, Bioelectronics field is very common. In these applications, advanced microelectronic circuits are used in order to diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The aim of this thesis is design and implementation a wideband frequency synthesizer in a 0.18um CMOS technology. The main usage of this circuit is in a fully integrated implantable biomedical sensory chip. This circuit generates two necessary local signals in sensory chip to stimulus cells and process the information.
Frequency synthesizer is based on phased locked loop (PLL) circuit and produce... 

The 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazoline ligand (Hphox) is generated from 1:1 condensation of methyl salicylate with 2-aminoethanol. Novel [Ru(Hphox)2(H2O)2] (Hphox = 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazoline ) complex has been synthesized and characterized by physic-chemical methods. Oxidation of sulfides catalyzed by the mixed-ligand ruthenium(II) complex [Ru(Hphox)2(H2O)2]using urea-hydrogen peroxide (UHP) as oxidant was investigated under mild condition within 1 h. The results showed that mixed-ligand ruthenium(II) complex was effective catalyst in oxidation of sulfides in whichsulfoxideswere the only products. Using this catalytic system in the oxidation of alkanes, ketones were obtained as the main... 

Inert gold become catalytically active when dispersed in the form of nanoparticles. Isolated gold nanoparticles have demonstrated high catalytic activity for both oxidation and reduction reactions. In order to obtain high catalytic activity, gold nanoparticles are generally dispersed on support materials, among which oxides are commonly used. However, a substantial decrease in activity and selectivity of the immobilized catalysts is frequently observed due to the heterogeneous nature of these support materials in reaction media. In the course of our study on the metal-based catalysis for synthesis of organic compounds, we herein report that rod-shaped Au nanoparticles in aqua solution... 

This thesisconsiders new fundamental approaches to yield heterogeneous catalysts in to three sections. The first section described the immobilization of the molybdenum-Schiff base complexes in pores of SBA-15 in two different methodologies depending on the actual structure of the complexes., (i) stepwise formation of the complex by initial covalent anchoring of one of the components and consecutive solid phase synthesis consisting of the condensation of the other components of the salen complex (iii) one-step complex immobilization by covalent binding through the ligand.Based on the first methodology, we report the preparation of ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15 containing a molybdenum... 

In nature, catalysis is of vital importance in a wide variety of biochemical processes catalyzed by metalloenzymes. The functions performed by the metalloenzymes and their significance have inspired a range of biomimetic studies, and intense efforts have been concentrated on the synthesis of low molecular weight complexes to model the spectroscopic features of such enzymes. Concomitantly, a challenging frontier in the field of biomimetic chemistry is the development of highly reactive model compounds that are able to effect rapid and selective substrate conversion. Some important catalytic transformations that have gained attention in recent years involve the carbon-carbon coupling, olefin... 

In this work, synthesized Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles andcoated with SiO2 to prepare magnetic core-shell nanoparticles. Then immobilized Schiff baseof iron and vanadium complexes on magnetic core-shell nanoparticles was prepared as a recoverable magnetic nano catalysts. These catalysts were named Fe3O4@SiO2@L1@Fe, Fe3O4@SiO2@L2@Fe and Fe3O4@SiO2@L3@V. Furthermore,olefines epoxidation, sulfides and alcohols oxidation were studied with using iron and vanadium magnetic nano catalysts. The supported catalysts were characterized by atomic absorption, FT-IR and UV–Vis spectra.The catalytic performance of the synthesized iron catalyst was tested for the epoxidation of cyclohexene, styrene and... 

In this research, synthesis of new heterogeneous catalysts has been studied. These catalysts were prepared in three different areas of the synthesis of coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks, supported palladium nanoparticles on these polymers, and production of metal oxide nanoparticles. At first, metal organic frameworks of cobalt and manganese transition metals were synthesized through hydrothermal method. In order to prepare these frameworks, 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (terephthalic acid) and 2-amino-1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid ligands were utilized as spacer ligands. X-ray analysis indicated that the structure of polymers is composed of secondary building units (SBUs) of... 

In this project a new molybdenum (VI) complex with tetradentate Schiff base ligand which was soluble in water was synthesized and characterized. In the first step of ligand synthesis, the reaction was performed between salicylaldehyde and aniline, and then used concentrated sulfuric acid for sulfonation. In the next step 5- sulfosalicylaldehyde sodium salt was formed by removing of aniline with heating and using sodium carbonate. In the presence of ethylendiamine and bis (acetylacetonato) dioxomolybdenum(VI) the final product, cis-dioxo sodium (N,N-bis (5-sulfonatosalicyldene)1,2-diaminoethane) molybdenum (VI) complex was synthesized. The complex was characterized by (CHN) elemental... 

New dioxomolybdenum(VI) complex has been synthesized by reacting N-hydroxyphenyl-[5-(triphenylphosphonium)methyl]salicylideneamine chloride (PPh3-H2sap) as a water soluble ligand and [MoO2(acac)2] in ethanolic solution. The water soluble ligand (PPh3-H2sap) was prepared by reaction of 2-aminophenol with (3-formyl-4-hydroxybenzyl)triphenylphosphonium chloride as a water solublesalicylaldehyde derivative. The resulting complex with the formula [MoO2(PPh3-H2sap)(EtOH)] which contains an ethanol molecule in sixth site of coordination, was characterized by elemental analyses, 1H NMR,31P NMR, IR and UV-Vis spectroscopic studies. This complex was tested as a catalyst for the homogeneous... 

In most radio receivers like superheterodyne receivers, a weak desired incoming signal is accompanied with many interferer signals that are much more powerful than the desired signal itself. These interferers, also called blockers, can cause a great disturbance in the functionality of the receiver. Due to gain compression and an increase in the noise figure (NF) of the receiver, the blockers should be filtered before the arrival at the output of the LNA. Because of the low quality factors of the available on chip inductors and in order to eliminate the out of band interferer signals and image frequency (in superheterodyne receivers), usually an external surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter is... 

In this study a new Ni(II)-¬oxazoline complex was synthesized by reaction of Ni(CH3COO)2.4H2O and 2-(2׳-hydroxyphenyl)-2-oxazoline ligand in MeOH solvent. The resulting complex bis[2-(2׳-hydroxyphenyl)-2-oxazolinato]Ni(II), was characterized by different spectroscopic methods. X-ray diffraction showed that this complex is four coordinated with a square planner geometry. The complex was applied as an efficient homogeneous catalyst in C-C coupling Heck reaction of arylhalides with olefins such as methylacrylate. Investigation of the catalytic activity of the complex in Heck reaction between arylhalides and olefins showed high yield and selectivity. For example reaction between iodobenzene and... 

A web-based system is designed and implemented at cira.civil.sharif.edu as a risk communication tool to incentivize the society to take seismic risk mitigation measures. Risk denotes the expected monetary and social losses herein. The objective of this system is to raise the awareness of two groups of audience, i.e., the general public and policymakers,about the significant seismic risk in Iran. To address the general public, the system employs the notion of risk perception to put the results of sophisticated earthquake engineering risk analyses into perspective. The system also treats the epistemic uncertainty in the user input due to general public’s lack of technical knowledge through the... 

The objective of this thesis is to prioritize a portfolio of buildings for seismic retrofit. A new set of sensitivity measures is proposed to rank the buildings in accordance with the reduction in the loss of the entire portfolio. To this end, various risk measures are differentiated with respect to the cost of retrofit for each building. These risk measures are the moments of the portfolio cost probability distribution which imply the risk-neutral and risk-averse decision making. Two costs are considered: Construction cost due to retrofit and repair cost due to structural and non-structural damage. To quantify the risk, reliability methods are employed in which many interacting... 

A new dioxomolybdenum(VI) complex, (Cis-[MoO2(L)])n, has been synthesized by reacting 4-bromo-2-((2-hydroxy-5-methylphenylimino)methyl)phenol as a ligand and [MoO2(acac)2] in methanolic solution. For characterization and structure determination of the synthesized complex, different techniques were performed such as elemental analyses, 1H NMR, IR, UV-Vis and X-ray crystallography. The complex was tested as a catalyst for the homogeneous epoxidation of olefins, using tert-butyl hydperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidant. The catalytic system showed high yield, selectivity and turnover number in olefin epoxidation reactions under atmospheric conditions. For example, when the molar ratio of catalyst,... 

Two new copper(II) complexes, [CuL2] and [Cu(phox)2], were synthesized by reaction of 1-((4-bromophenylimino)methyl)naphthalen-2-ol, HL, and 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-2-oxazoline, Hphox, as ligands and copper(II) acetate mono-hydrate with the ratio 2:1 (ligand:metal), respectively. For characterization and structure determination of synthesized complexes, different techniques were performed such as FT-IR, elemental analyses (CHN), and X-ray crystallography. The geometry around Cu atom is almost square planar in both complexes. The catalytic activity of the complexes was evaluated in azide–alkyne cycloaddition reaction in water without need of any additional agent. The reaction conditions for the...