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Exploring asymmetric catalytic transformationsGuduguntla, Sureshbabu

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Completing the PhD and writing this thesis was an amazing journey that

would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of

many outstanding people in one way or the other.

First and foremost, I sincerely convey and express my gratitude and love

to my beloved parents who stood by me throughout my life. I will never

forget their sacrifices and constant support in spite of odd circumstances.

Apart from them, Teachers, friends and my in-laws, also encouraged and

supported me while pursuing my PhD. I can never forget their help and

support for which I am deeply indebted to all of them.

I am thankful to all my teachers for imparting knowledge and guidance.

They constantly supported, encouraged and guided during my studies and

motivated me at difficult times. In particular my guru Dr. B. V. Ramana,

source of inspiration for undertaking PhD, he constantly motivated me by

illustrating great examples. I never forget his teachings, guidance and

concentration to pay more attention to minute details for the success. It

indeed changed my life and influenced my career extensively.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to Prof. B. L. Feringa for his

patience, guidance, enthusiastic encouragement and excellent critical

notes of this research work. It’s my great pleasure to have worked with

an enthusiastic boss. I really feel proud to have worked under your

supervision and I remember all the discussions we have had over the last

four years. I thank you very much for everything that you have done for

me.

Dear Ben, Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to do PhD

under your supervision. As I always said I never felt missing either my

family or home country because I felt almost same affection and

atmosphere in the group as well as in department and in Groningen. I will

never forget our visit to India for a conference and visiting an Indian

temple and discussing your broad views about religion and culture was

quite impressive. Finally I would say you are the best example for a great

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saying "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes

from an indomitable will."

I would also like to thank the members of the assessment committee for

the dedication to read, give suggestions and approval of my thesis: Prof.

W. R. Browne, Prof. S. R. Harutyunyan and Prof. F. P. J. T. Rutjes.

My heartfelt thanks are also extended to Dr. Martín FañanásMastral, for

his advices and assistance in early stages of my PhD and keeping my

progress on schedule. I would also like to thank Dr. ValentínHornillos

Gómez-Recueroand and Dr. Jean-Baptiste Gualtierotti for their constant

support and suggestions over the years.

I would like to express my very great appreciation to Dr. Shermin

Goh for her valuable and constructive suggestions during the planning

and development of the research work. Your willingness to spend your

time so generously to correct my chapters has been very much

appreciated. Also thanks for organizing a wonderful gift for my marriage.

Wesley, thank you so much for your valuable advices and help over the

years.

Tineke, thank you so much for your patience (like a mom) and kind help

over the years. Arranging appointments with Ben and helping to remind

for the corrections and always wishing us the success. Your constant

support and help is very much appreciated.

I would like to express my thanks to the analytical team. Theodora and

Monique for GC, HPLC and mass spectroscopy. Pieter and Wim for

NMR. Hans for elemental analysis.

I would also like to thank Annette, Cristina, Alphons and Hilda for your

help with the documentation.

Eswar Ana (elder brother), thank you so much for being one of my

paranymph. I really enjoyed your company and discussions about

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science, movies and astronomy. I thank you very much for your support

and help in my difficult times in the last four years. I have so many

memories to remember for the rest of my life. I hope you and Mounika

with your angel Brahmani will succeed in new faces of life.

Diederik, my friend, thank you so much for being one of my paranymph.

I really enjoyed over the years working with you. I still remember

together with Martin, we were making funny jokes and having beer in

borrels. Furthermore you were trying to teach me how to play foot ball

when we were at Ben’s barbeques. I hope you will have great success in

your PhD. I wish all the best to you and your wife.

Anne, you are amazing friend as well as very good lab mate. I will never

forget our discussions on autocatalysis, origin’s of life and many other

scientific topics. Thank you so much for your help and support over my

PhD. I wish you very success with new job in Shell and further future.

Depeng, I will never forget our scientific debates. You are a great

scientist and your enthusiasm in research was amazing. I learned a lot

from you and thank you so much for your support and help extended. I

wish you all the best for your future and wish you good luck to find a

suitable position in China.

Erik, thank you so much for your help with the Dutch summary, with

letters and in the lab. Good luck with your final year of your PhD. Many

thanks to village idiots group, Anne, JB, Kaja, Hugo, Erik, Shermin,

Brain, Iwan, Rolof and Natalie for having nice coffee breaks, dinner

parties and special borrels. Massimo, thanks a lot for your help and

teaching me in the lab at the starting of my PhD and also for your

guidance about the position at CAT center, etc.

Milon bhaiya, as time passed by, we became like own brothers. I don’t

know how to express my feelings; you were always there to help me at

any circumstances. Thank you so much for everything what you did

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bhaiya. I wish you all the very best and success with your position and

for your ambitions in life.

My sincere thanks goes to Aditya, Ashoka and Kiran for their help to

enter Netherlands and also for their care and hospitality during my first

year of PhD. They have made valuable suggestion and constant help till

date and I am thankful to all of them.

Many thanks to Appu Ana and Pavani for treating me as like your family

member. Sandeep tammudu it was an amazing time living with you and

Eswar in the same house. I really enjoyed with our cooking, partying and

watching movies all together almost every day. Many special thanks to

other Indian friends Shiva, Shivasankar, Vijay, Deepika, Rama,

Rajendra, Shilpa, Divya, Sasanka,Sai, Raja, Saisree, Akshay, Spoorthi,

Praneeth, Sindhu, Gopi, Ganesh, Goutam, Pranov, Kayum, Milind, Arun,

Swapnil, Amol, Anand, Selva, Gurudas, Abishek, Malli,Vikram,

Shodhan, Siddesh, Saisreekanth, Tushar, Jasmine, Rajendra Kumar

Chauhan, LalithaKhayum, Ranajith, Madavachari, Arijit, Kumar,

Siddarth, Soma, Goutam, Ajay, Raj, Ravi, Varsha, Hemanth,Sumith,

Anand, Pranav, Vishali, Nobina, Mannathan and many other friends

whom I have missed to mention.

Many thanks to GISA-2014 team; Asish, Dipayan, Nilesh, Nobina and

me. It was a great experience as a member involved to organize several

events with great success.

Playing cricket (ZICS) on weekends in the summer was also one of the

social activities I enjoyed. I would like to thank Jacob, Afzal, Mohamed,

Brad, Ameya and many friends whom I have failed to mention. To Appu

Ana and Sandeep tammudu, my special thanks for making me part in our

intense squash practice, jogging, yoga and other sport activities.

Tizi, many thanks for importing my favourite limoncello (homemade)

from Italy almost on every holiday break. I really wonder about your

curiosity to know Indian culture, history and social life. I really enjoyed

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our discussions in last four years. I hope you and Ugo find a suitable

position and all the very best to both of you. Fra, thanks for the nice

Christmas gifts. I wish you and Richard all the very best. I like to extend

my thanks to Miri, Matea, Kris, Seb, and Claudia for your interest to

have Indian cooking sessions. I really enjoyed those moments.

Many thanks to the present and past group members; Dorus, Filippo,

Tom, Wen-Hao, Anouk, Stefano, Peter, Mickel, Henrieke, Wojciech,

Jinling, Michael, Yuchen, Filippo, Dusan, Carlos, Thomas, Wiktor,

Beatrice, Derk Jan, Petra, Kuang-Yen, Jos, Thom, Jort, Wim, Maria,

Tati, Lili, Xiaoyan, Binmao, Jochem, Yange, Friederike, Sander, Marco,

Anirban, Jiawen, Michael, Jana, Gosia and many others for their help and

nice and amazing working environment.

I would also like thank to the present and past colleagues from other

groups; Syuzi’s group (Juanfer, Mamen, Pablo, Francesco, Tilde, Simone

and Xingchen and others), Katalin’s group (Zhuohua, Tao, Giovanni and

others), Roelfes’s group (Sambika, Ruben, Ana, Jeffery Bos, Ivana,

Liliana, Shreyans, Dowine, Manuela, Lara, Cora, Reinderand others),

Wesley’s group (Hans, Tjallng, Juan, Luuk, Pat, Duenpen, Emma, JiaJia

and others), Edwin’s group (Raquel, Linda and others), Sijbren’s group

(Boris, Andreas, Giulia, Gael and others), Adri’s group (Dany, Flex,

Jeffery butter, Bea, Manuel, Peter, Niek, Mira, Nabil and others), Anna’s

group (Alwin, Leticia, Yagiz and others), Martin’s group (Jonas and

others) and Marthe’s group.

I would like to thank my masters supervisor Prof. Rodney. A. Fernandes

and other faculty members Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan and Prof. Kotha

Sambasivarao for their help and encouragement to move to abroad for the

PhD.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to my uncles, Chennaiah and

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Nageswara rao and Sri Vasavi Vysya Students home and Shree Kasi

Annapurna Vasavi Arya Vysya Vruddhaashramam And Nityannasatram

trust for their enormous financial support for my education. Without their

support I would not have reached to this stage.

I would like to thank my friends in India: Venki, Teja, Satti, Kiran, Shiva

and Sinu for their constant support.

I would also like to thank my new collegues at CAT center for their help

and nice working environment. I would extend my thanks to new friends

Kishore, Pratap and Sharath in Aachen for their help.

My heartfelt thanks and appreciation to my better half Sneha, who

contributed significantly in completing my thesis. She stood by me at the

need of the hour and motivated me to complete the PhD.

I am fully aware that my short term memory is so bad that I am not able

to recall all the names of you (there are too many of you), who made my

life pleasant and joyful during my PhD. If I forgot to mention your name

please accept my apologies and thank you very much for everything you

did for me.

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