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Carles Bo is affiliated with Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, focusing primarily on research within the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their work encompasses several subfields, notably Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

Their research contributions span various main topics including:

  • Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Carles Bo has published extensively in several scientific venues with the most frequent publication outlets listed as:

  • ioChem-BD Computational Chemistry Datasets
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Science
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Effect of an Al(III) Complex on the Regio- and Stereoisomeric Formation of Bicyclic Organic Carbonates" (2020, Organometallics)
  • "Organocatalytic Trapping of Elusive Carbon Dioxide Based Heterocycles by a Kinetically Controlled Cascade Process" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "New Tools for Taming Complex Reaction Networks: The Unimolecular Decomposition of Indole Revisited" (2022, ACS Physical Chemistry Au)
  • "Nucleation mechanisms and speciation of metal oxide clusters" (2020, Chemical Science)
  • "Ni-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Silylation of Alkynyl Carbonates: Access to Chiral Allenes via Enantiospecific Conversions" (2022, Organic Letters)

Collaboration forms a significant part of Carles Bo's research, having worked frequently with several co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Mireia Segado
  • Enric Petrus
  • Diego Garay-Ruiz
  • Arjan W. Kleij
  • Alba Villar-Yanez

Best Publications

  • Managing the Computational Chemistry Big Data Problem: The ioChem-BD Platform

    M. Álvarez-Moreno;C. de Graaf;N. López;F. Maseras

  • Structure, properties and reactivity of polyoxometalates: a theoretical perspective

    Xavier López;Jorge J. Carbó;Carles Bo;Josep M. Poblet

  • A DFT study on the mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction of CO2 to epoxides catalyzed by Zn(salphen) complexes.

    Fernando Castro-Gómez;Giovanni Salassa;Arjan W. Kleij;Carles Bo

  • Electronic properties of polyoxometalates: electron and proton affinity of mixed-addenda Keggin and Wells-Dawson anions.

    Xavier López;Carles Bo;Josep M Poblet

  • Electronic Effect on Rhodium Diphosphine Catalyzed Hydroformylation: The Bite Angle Effect Reconsidered

    Lars A. van der Veen;Maarten D. K. Boele;Frank R. Bregman;Paul C. J. Kamer

  • Ab initio and DFT modelling of complex materials: towards the understanding of electronic and magnetic properties of polyoxometalates.

    Josep M. Poblet;Xavier López;Carles Bo

  • Transition-Metal-Free Diboration Reaction by Activation of Diboron Compounds with Simple Lewis Bases

    Amadeu Bonet;Cristina Pubill-Ulldemolins;Carles Bo;Henrik Gulyás

  • Electronic and Magnetic Properties of α-Keggin Anions: A DFT Study of [XM12O40]n-, (M = W, Mo; X = AlIII, SiIV, PV, FeIII, CoII, CoIII ) and [SiM11VO40]m- (M = Mo and W)

    Joan Miquel Maestre;Xavier Lopez;Carles Bo;Josep-M. Poblet, ,† and

  • Bonding within the Endohedral Fullerenes Sc3N@C78 and Sc3N@C80 as Determined by Density Functional Calculations and Reexamination of the Crystal Structure of {Sc3N@C78}·Co(OEP)}·1.5(C6H6)·0.3(CHCl3)

    Josep M. Campanera;Carles Bo;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Alan L. Balch

  • Electronic properties of polyoxometalates: a DFT study of alpha/beta-[XM(12)O(40)](n-) relative stability (M=W, Mo and X a main group element).

    Xavier López;Joan Miquel Maestre;Carles Bo;Josep-M. Poblet

  • Polyoxometalates with internal cavities: redox activity, basicity, and cation encapsulation in [Xn+P5W30O110](15-n)- Preyssler complexes, with X = Na+, Ca2+, Y3+, La3+, Ce3+, and Th4+.

    Jorge A. Fernández;Xavier López;Carles Bo;Coen de Graaf

  • General rule for the stabilization of fullerene cages encapsulating trimetallic nitride templates.

    Josep M. Campanera;Carles Bo;Josep M. Poblet

  • Water oxidation at a tetraruthenate core stabilized by polyoxometalate ligands: experimental and computational evidence to trace the competent intermediates.

    Andrea Sartorel;Pere Miró;Enrico Salvadori;Sophie Romain

  • A high performance grid-based algorithm for computing QTAIM properties

    Juan I. Rodríguez;Richard F.W. Bader;Paul W. Ayers;Carine Michel

  • Highly active aluminium catalysts for the formation of organic carbonates from CO2 and oxiranes.

    Christopher J. Whiteoak;Nicola Kielland;Victor Laserna;Fernando Castro-Gómez

  • Unraveling the Origin of Regioselectivity in Rhodium Diphosphine Catalyzed Hydroformylation. A DFT QM/MM Study

    Jorge J. Carbó;Feliu Maseras;Carles Bo, ,‡ and;Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen

  • Activation of diboron reagents with Brønsted bases and alcohols: an experimental and theoretical perspective of the organocatalytic boron conjugate addition reaction.

    Cristina Pubill-Ulldemolins;Amadeu Bonet;Carles Bo;Henrik Gulyás

  • A Metal‐Free Synthesis of N‐Aryl Carbamates under Ambient Conditions

    Wusheng Guo;Joan Gónzalez‐Fabra;Nuno A. G. Bandeira;Carles Bo

  • Selective binding and easy separation of C70 by nanoscale self-assembled capsules.

    Elisa Huerta;Gerald A. Metselaar;Alex Fragoso;Eva Santos

  • Relative basicities of the oxygen sites in [V10O28]6-. An analysis of the ab initio determined distributions of the electrostatic potential and of the Laplacian of charge density

    Jean Yves Kempf;Marie Madeleine Rohmer;Josep Maria Poblet;Carles Bo

  • Tuning and mechanistic insights of metal chalcogenide molecular catalysts for the hydrogen-evolution reaction

    James McAllister;Nuno A. G. Bandeira;Nuno A. G. Bandeira;Jessica C. McGlynn;Alexey Y. Ganin

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep M. Poblet
Josep M. Poblet Rovira i Virgili University
Elena Fernández
Elena Fernández Rovira i Virgili University
Jorge J. Carbó
Jorge J. Carbó Rovira i Virgili University
Arjan W. Kleij
Arjan W. Kleij Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
May Nyman
May Nyman Oregon State University
Achim Müller
Achim Müller Bielefeld University
Carmen Claver
Carmen Claver Rovira i Virgili University
Jordi Benet-Buchholz
Jordi Benet-Buchholz University of Barcelona
Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen
Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse
Pablo Ballester
Pablo Ballester Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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