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Overview

Ibon Alkorta is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has a significant body of research in the field of chemistry. Their work spans several subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Their research topics prominently include crystallography and molecular interactions, advanced chemical physics studies, inorganic fluorides and related compounds, molecular spectroscopy and structure, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Recent published papers by Ibon Alkorta are:

  • Not Only Hydrogen Bonds: Other Noncovalent Interactions (2020), Crystals
  • Spodium Bonds: Noncovalent Interactions Involving Group 12 Elements (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Supramolecular lead(II) architectures engineered by tetrel bonds (2020), CrystEngComm
  • The dubious origin of beryllium toxicity (2023), Structural Chemistry
  • Nan@Tetracyanoethylene (n=1-4) systems: Sodium salt vs Sodium electride (2020), DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Ibon Alkorta frequently collaborates with several co-authors in their research work. Notable collaborators include José Elguero, Maxime Ferrer, Rosa M. Claramunt, Josep M. Oliva, and Manuel Yáñez.

The scientist's work has been often published in the following venues:

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

Best Publications

  • From weak to strong interactions: A comprehensive analysis of the topological and energetic properties of the electron density distribution involving X–H⋯F–Y systems

    Enrique Espinosa;Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero;Elies Molins

  • Definition of the hydrogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)

    Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  • Defining the hydrogen bond: An account (IUPAC Technical Report)

    Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  • Non-conventional hydrogen bonds

    Ibon Alkorta;Isabel Rozas;José Elguero

  • Interaction of Anions with Perfluoro Aromatic Compounds

    Ibon Alkorta;Isabel Rozas;José Elguero

  • About the evaluation of the local kinetic, potential and total energy densities in closed-shell interactions

    E. Espinosa;I. Alkorta;I. Rozas;J. Elguero

  • Relationships between interaction energy, intermolecular distance and electron density properties in hydrogen bonded complexes under external electric fields

    I. Mata;I. Alkorta;E. Espinosa;E. Molins

  • Not Only Hydrogen Bonds: Other Noncovalent Interactions

    Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero;Antonio Frontera

  • On the Reliability of Pure and Hybrid DFT Methods for the Evaluation of Halogen, Chalcogen, and Pnicogen Bonds Involving Anionic and Neutral Electron Donors.

    Antonio Bauzá;Ibon Alkorta;Antonio Frontera;José Elguero

  • Cooperativity in multiple unusual weak bonds

    Ibon Alkorta;Fernando Blanco;Pere M. Deyà;José Elguero

  • Universal Features of the Electron Density Distribution in Hydrogen‐Bonding Regions: A Comprehensive Study Involving H⋅⋅⋅X (X=H, C, N, O, F, S, Cl, π) Interactions

    Ignasi Mata;Ibon Alkorta;Elies Molins;Enrique Espinosa

  • Bifurcated Hydrogen Bonds: Three-Centered Interactions

    Isabel Rozas;Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero

  • Water Clusters: Towards an Understanding Based on First Principles of Their Static and Dynamic Properties

    Jesus M. Ugalde;Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero

  • Structures, energies, bonding, and NMR properties of pnicogen complexes H2XP:NXH2 (X ═ H, CH3, NH2, OH, F, Cl).

    Janet E. Del Bene;Ibon Alkorta;Goar Sanchez-Sanz;José Elguero

  • Unusual Hydrogen Bonds. H···π Interactions

    Isabel Rozas;Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero

  • Theoretical Study of Strong Hydrogen Bonds between Neutral Molecules: The Case of Amine Oxides and Phosphine Oxides as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors

    Ibon Alkorta;Jose Elguero

  • Spodium Bonds: Noncovalent Interactions Involving Group 12 Elements.

    Antonio Bauzá;Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero;Tiddo J. Mooibroek

  • Charge-Transfer Complexes between Dihalogen Compounds and Electron Donors

    Ibon Alkorta;Isabel Rozas;José Elguero

  • Molecular Complexes between Silicon Derivatives and Electron-Rich Groups

    Ibon Alkorta;Isabel Rozas;José Elguero

  • An Attractive Interaction between the π-Cloud of C6F6 and Electron-Donor Atoms

    Ibon Alkorta;Isabel Rozas;Jose Elguero

  • Statistical analysis of 13C and 15N NMR chemical shifts from GIAO/B3LYP/6‐311 + + G** calculated absolute shieldings

    Fernando Blanco;Ibon Alkorta;José Elguero

Frequent Co-Authors

José Elguero
José Elguero Spanish National Research Council
Rosa M. Claramunt
Rosa M. Claramunt National University of Distance Education
Janet E. Del Bene
Janet E. Del Bene Youngstown State University
Otilia Mó
Otilia Mó Autonomous University of Madrid
Manuel Yáñez
Manuel Yáñez Autonomous University of Madrid
Elies Molins
Elies Molins Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Artur M. S. Silva
Artur M. S. Silva University of Aveiro
Paul L. A. Popelier
Paul L. A. Popelier University of Manchester
Christian Roussel
Christian Roussel Aix-Marseille University
Glenn P. A. Yap
Glenn P. A. Yap University of Delaware

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