Alberto Romão Dias
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Alberto Romão Dias is a full professor of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Graduation in Industrial-Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (1964). Ph. D. (Chemistry) Oxford University, U.K. (1970). Agregation, Instituto Superior Técnico (1979).
Research interests are in the area of inorganic chemistry, in particular chemistry of coordination compounds and the organometallic chemistry of transition metals. In this latter area work has been on mono and polynuclear complex containing the fragment M(h5-C5H5)2.
Other topics in which he is currently interested include the synthesis of complexes with p ligands, reactions of metal vapors with different substracts aiming at the synthesis of new compounds and/or the preparation of species with catalytic polimerization of olefins with transition metal complexes.
Current research in this group includes the synthesis of new organometallic compounds (some of them with nonlinear optical properties), their characterization (including the X-ray determination of the molecular structure), the study of their reactivity and of their redox behaviour, the determination of the metal-ligand bond energies from data obtained by calorimetry and the study of chemical bond using molecular orbital theory.
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