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Alberto Vela

Alberto Vela

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Chemistry

D-Index
42
Citations
7872
World Ranking
17426
National Ranking
18

Overview

Alberto Vela is affiliated with the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico. Their primary research contributions are situated at the intersection of materials science and chemistry, focusing extensively on materials chemistry and atomic and molecular physics within optics. Their scholarly output also touches upon organic chemistry, nutrition and dietetics, and molecular biology.

Their body of work covers a diverse range of scientific topics. Key areas include advanced chemical physics studies, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, machine learning applications in materials science, trace elements in health, and investigations related to prion diseases and protein misfolding.

Alberto Vela has contributed to multiple publications in prestigious venues. Frequent places where their research appears include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Notable recent papers authored by or associated with their research include:

  • "Conceptual density functional theory: status, prospects, issues" (2020) in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
  • "DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science" (2022) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Tryptophan regulates Drosophila zinc stores" (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Generalized gradient approximations with local parameters" (2020) in Physical Review B
  • "Study of organic reactions using chemical reactivity descriptors derived through a temperature-dependent approach" (2020) in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including José L. Gázquez, Diego Plaza-Lozano, David Ramírez-Palma, Juan Olguín, and Paul W. Ayers. These partnerships have contributed to a substantial volume of joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Electrodonating and electroaccepting powers.

    José L. Gázquez;and Andrés Cedillo;Alberto Vela

  • Conceptual density functional theory: status, prospects, issues

    Paul Geerlings;Eduardo Chamorro;Pratim Kumar Chattaraj;Frank De Proft

  • Quantum Chemical Study of the Inhibitive Properties of 2-Pyridyl-Azoles

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  • Recent advances in planar tetracoordinate carbon chemistry

    Gabriel Merino;Miguel A. Méndez-Rojas;Alberto Vela;Thomas Heine

  • A relationship between the static dipole polarizability, the global softness, and the fukui function

    Alberto Vela;Jose L. Gazquez

  • Description of electron delocalization via the analysis of molecular fields.

    Gabriel Merino;and Alberto Vela;Thomas Heine

  • Charge-Transfer Complexes: Stringent Tests for Widely Used Density Functionals

    Eliseo Ruiz;and Dennis R. Salahub;Alberto Vela

  • Chemical reactivity in spin-polarized density functional theory

    Marcelo Galvan;Alberto Vela;Jose L. Gazquez

  • Troubleshooting time-dependent density-functional theory for photochemical applications: Oxirane

    Felipe Cordova;L. Joubert Doriol;Andrei Ipatov;Mark E. Casida

  • Defining the Domain of Density Functionals: Charge-Transfer Complexes

    Eliseo Ruiz;Dennis R. Salahub;Alberto Vela

  • Planar tetracoordinate carbon in extended systems.

    Pattath D. Pancharatna;Miguel Angel Méndez-Rojas, ,‡;Gabriel Merino;and Alberto Vela

  • Determining and extending the domain of exchange and correlation functionals

    E. I. Proynov;E. Ruiz;A. Vela;D. R. Salahub

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  • Theoretical Analysis of the Smallest Carbon Cluster Containing a Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon

    Gabriel Merino;Miguel A. Méndez-Rojas;Hiram I. Beltrán;Clemence Corminboeuf

  • Non-empirical improvement of PBE and its hybrid PBE0 for general description of molecular properties

    Jorge M. del Campo;José L. Gázquez;S. B. Trickey;Alberto Vela

  • The Implications of Symmetry of the External Potential on Bond Paths

    Erick Cerpa;Andreas Krapp;Alberto Vela;Gabriel Merino

  • (C5M2-n)n- (M = Li, Na, K, and n = 0, 1, 2). A New Family of Molecules Containing Planar Tetracoordinate Carbons

    Gabriel Merino;Miguel A. Mendez-Rojas;Alberto Vela

  • Stereoelectronic Interpretation for the Anomalous 1H NMR Chemical Shifts and One-Bond C-H Coupling Constants (Perlin Effects) in 1,3-Dioxanes, 1,3-Oxathianes, and 1,3-Dithianes. Spectroscopic and Theoretical Observations

    Eusebio Juaristi;Gabriel Cuevas;Alberto Vela

  • Molecular Quadrupole Moments for the Series of Fluoro- and Chlorobenzenes

    Jesús Hernández-Trujillo;Alberto Vela

  • Revisiting the definition of the electronic chemical potential, chemical hardness, and softness at finite temperatures

    Marco Franco-Pérez;José L. Gázquez;Paul W. Ayers;Alberto Vela

  • Nonlocal correlation functional involving the Laplacian of the density

    E.I. Proynov;A. Vela;D.R. Salahub

  • Extended Hueckel parameters from density functional theory

    Alberto Vela;Jose L. Gazquez

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Merino
Gabriel Merino Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Paul W. Ayers
Paul W. Ayers McMaster University
Thomas Heine
Thomas Heine TU Dresden
Ana Martínez
Ana Martínez Spanish National Research Council
Dennis R. Salahub
Dennis R. Salahub University of Calgary
Eliseo Ruiz
Eliseo Ruiz University of Barcelona
Nino Russo
Nino Russo University of Calabria
Imre Pápai
Imre Pápai Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Pratim K. Chattaraj
Pratim K. Chattaraj Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Jacques Weber
Jacques Weber University of Geneva

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