Implementación de manual de organización y funciones MOF

First of all I would like to thank my supervisor Paul Kamer who gave me the opportunity to work on this interesting project. I am really grateful that he let me (do my) work on this project - Thank you Paul!

I am also grateful to the University of St Andrews for a good working environment. Thanks to all group members I got to know for all the fruitful (sometimes even about chemistry) discussions (mostly) during lunch & tea breaks.

Thanks to the following people with whom I shared the lab at some point:

Wouter (“the devil”) Laan - although you tried to poison us once you have been a great labmate, really helpful and one of the most unstressed people I know! Peter (my predecessor) for giving me advice and useful input for the project from the beginning till the end. Phil (the penguin): The best labmate I will probably ever have (although you tried to kill me – paranoid people would probably begin to see a pattern). Don't grow up! Some people refer to the next group of people as “research students” - but I don't like this euphemism and I guess they got used to be called “slaves”. Thanks for all your input & output. Ian - if you aren't a millionaire yet: Go for the Jackpot! Jaap: All the best. Esther: Remember the two rules I taught and *bamm* don't be so jumpy. Michael: Your music taste will get you far.

Besides “my” lab there's always been the large PCJK-lab – thanks to:

Michiel – Congratulations to your title. Jason (“of course”) - keep inventing more useful equations! Christine – hope you finally listened to my advice and stopped working 24/7. Tanja – good luck back in the Netherlands and all the best in finding a job! Upu – Stop drinking that much booze! Oh, you still claim not to drink? Well, then stop sighing. Thanks for the free food (although way too mild, I like it hot... NOT). Amanda, Megan & Andy – All the best to the “new generation” and good luck with those nasty artificial metalloenzymes! Dave: Seems I am the overall Looooooser as you already finished. Dave's “slave” Annika: Thanks for the castle trips. Roy: Good luck in Glasgow. The “group slaves”: Torben, Lee & Paul S.: Your presence forced me to read quite a lot about frustrated lewis pairs. I enjoyed it. Special thanks to Frank & Amanda (although she's not been part of the “other lab”) for a great last year with wisky, B&B, nice trips

and chemistry.

I always considered the DJCH-group as part of our group. Especially while Peter was still around I saw them roughly as often as the rest of my group (during lunch & tea breaks). Jan: Hope I managed to improve your table foottball skills. Ruben: Are you proud of your young Padawan? Thanks for chess, B&B and a nice time in general. Hope you know how to pronounce “Apfelmus” by now. Tina (although technically not DJCH): Take a deep breath and relax. Marc: Chess, B&B, castles, herring, golf,...,Jenny – Unlike most of the rest I will still see you on a regular basis I guess – thanks anyway! “Holiday”-Stu: Football (both active and passive), interesting literature and a nice last year in general. Special thanks to Peter. Your presence and all the (funny) stories during tea breaks were highly appreciated! Barthel (+wife) for a nice trip to the isle of Skye - stop snoring ;-) A big THANK YOU to Patrizia, Jacorien (+ William) – you were some of the few people in the ever changing environment who have been around during my whole time in St Andrews (although that's not completely accurate it felt as if). Also thanks to Dominik, Rosa, Thomas, Sabrina and those I forgot to list.

I also spent a lot of time in the biology labs and would like to thank everyone with whom I got in contact. Special thanks to Helen, Lei, Jude & Louise who were always helpful. Extra super überspecial thanks to Jane – I cannot imagine another person half as friendly, nice and helpful.

A very big thank you to Emma who managed to grow and get (refined) crystal structures of the mutant(s) (I can only imagine how much work it must have been) – also thanks for being at work during the weirdest hours (so I felt less weird). I will not mention any stories involving seagulls.

While writing about weird working hours I also have to mention and thank Stephanie – no matter when I was in it was highly likely that you were around as well.

Thanks Bobby - in the end there was only a small time gap before I actually understood what you just said. I guess you were just having pity with the retarded German and spoke with the poshest british accent possible. Whenever I had a serious problem you found the time to fix it as soon as possible – I won't mention the not so serious problems. ICP-MS: Sylvia & Lorna. Thank you so much for the hard work you put into the ICP analysis. I really appreciate it! LC/ESI-MS: Sally & Catherine: You were

always friendly and helpful - thanks a lot! Dr. José Antonio Fuentes García is greatly acknowledged for his help and supervision regarding the HPLC analysis. I am also grateful to the following groups for providing me with some of the metal precursors used in this thesis: SPN, PK, MC and DJCH. I am grateful to the following biology groups for letting me use their equipment: JHN, TKS, GLT, TMG, RRR, US and MFW. Special thanks to the GLT-group whose workspace & equipment I was using & blocking throughout all these years. Nevertheless you always treated me really nice.

Almost forgot them - but thanks to the USIC-organisaton team: Brian, César, Phil. Special Thanks to Siobhan who “translated” and corrected all of my grant applications. It was an awful lot of work but it was also a great conference which was mainly thanks to our (plenary) speakers: Professor Fraser Armstrong, Dr. Victor F. Quiroga Norambuena. and Professor Dominic Wright. In addition to the plenary speakers I am grateful to Paul Bane, Professor David J. Cole-Hamilton and Professor Derek Woollins who did entertain us (or at least me) during all of our conference dinners

Thanks to all the people who managed to visit me during my diaspora: Flock, Thorsten, my brother and my parents, Flo, Jelly, Hanna, Raf, Jenny.

I also want to thank everyone who will actually read my thesis and everyone I forgot to mention.

While lab-work was mostly fun and enjoyable I would have struggled to actually write this thesis without the following people (and companies): Ritter Sport & Choceur (chocolate companies) as well as various wisky companies (especially Lagavullin DE). Without these necessities I would have gone crazy! Any errors you spot result from too little wisky consumed while writing. Special thanks to Flock who managed to distract me on a regularly basis (which was not too complicated I have to admit). I am also grateful to the people who developed/improved the following (free to use) software: Pymol, APBS, Gimp, Open Office, Zotero, Wincoot, Firemath and everyone who wrote tutorials and such on how to use certain features. Thanks to my parents for providing a place to sleep and food. Last but not least I want to thank my dad for proofreading the fragments in the beginning – as well as the final thesis.