Diego Ardura
National University of Distance Education
32 Papers
170 Citations
Diego Ardura is an academic researcher from National University of Distance Education. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 25 publications. Previous affiliations of Diego Ardura include University of Toronto & University of Oviedo.
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Papers
Relative Gibbs Energies in Solution through Continuum Models: Effect of the Loss of Translational Degrees of Freedom in Bimolecular Reactions on Gibbs Energy Barriers
TL;DR: In this paper, a cell model for evaluating Gibbs energy barriers corresponding to bimolecular reactions (or processes of larger molecularity) in which a loss of translational degrees of freedom takes place along the reaction coordinate is presented.
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The effect of motivation on the choice of chemistry in secondary schools: adaptation and validation of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II to Spanish students
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the effect of motivational variables and previous academic achievement on students' future choice of chemistry once this subject becomes optional in the educational system and find that career motivation was the best predictor of students' retention in physics and chemistry before previous academic achievements and the rest of the motivational variables.
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Self-association of naphthalene at the air-ice interface.
TL;DR: The results suggest that self-association of the molecules is more likely to take place on the ice surface than on the water surface, due to more favorable interactions between naphthalene molecules on liquid water surfaces than on ice surfaces.
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Where does acid hydrolysis take place
Diego Ardura,D. J. Donaldson +1 more
TL;DR: Whereas dissociation to ions is always spontaneous in the bulk, it is found that acid molecules confined to the water surface dissociate only with the participation of two additional water molecules, forming a "critical cluster" about the solute.
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A Theoretical Study of Rhodium(I) Catalyzed Carbonylative Ring Expansion of Aziridines to β-Lactams: Crucial Activation of the Breaking C−N Bond by Hyperconjugation
TL;DR: The regioselectivity and enantiospecificity of the [Rh(CO)2Cl]2-catalyzed carbonylative ring expansions of N-tert-butyl-2-phenylaziridine to yield 2-azetidinone and the lack of reactivity along this process were investigated at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) (LANL2DZ for Rh) theory level.
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