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Overview

Pablo Ballester is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their research spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors

Ballester's frequent publication venues demonstrate a focus on areas related to structural and chemical sciences. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Their recent papers provide insight into the scope and impact of their work. Notable publications include:

  • "Molecular Recognition in Water Using Macrocyclic Synthetic Receptors" (2021) in Chemical Reviews
  • "Optical Supramolecular Sensing of Creatinine" (2020) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Chalcogen Bonding and Hydrophobic Effects Force Molecules into Small Spaces" (2020) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Micromolar Affinity and Higher: Synthetic Host-Guest Complexes with High Stabilities" (2022) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Water and the Cation−π Interaction" (2021) in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Gemma Aragay
  • Andrés F. Sierra
  • Qingqing Sun
  • Luis Escobar
  • Julius Rebek

Best Publications

  • Supramolecular catalysis. Part 2: artificial enzyme mimics

    Matthieu Raynal;Pablo Ballester;Anton Vidal-Ferran;Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen

  • Anion–π Interactions: Do They Exist?

    David Quiñonero;Carolina Garau;Carmen Rotger;Antonio Frontera

  • Supramolecular catalysis. Part 1: non-covalent interactions as a tool for building and modifying homogeneous catalysts.

    Matthieu Raynal;Pablo Ballester;Anton Vidal-Ferran;Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen

  • Self-replicating system

    T. Tjivikua;P. Ballester;J. Rebek

  • Cover Picture: Inclusion of Cavitands and Calix[4]arenes into a Metallobridged para‐(1H‐Imidazo[4,5‐f][3,8]phenanthrolin‐2‐yl)‐Expanded Calix[4]arene (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1‐2/2007)

    Enrique Botana;Eric Da Silva;Jordi Benet‐Buchholz;Pablo Ballester

  • Stabilization of reactive species by supramolecular encapsulation

    Albano Galan;Pablo Ballester

  • Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymers: Metal Directed Self-Assembly of Perylene Bisimide Building Blocks

    Rainer Dobrawa;Marina Lysetska;Pablo Ballester;Matthias Grüne

  • Molecular Recognition in Water Using Macrocyclic Synthetic Receptors.

    Luis Escobar;Pablo Ballester

  • Molecular recognition with convergent functional groups. VI: Synthetic and structural studies with a model receptor for nucleic acid components

    Ben Askew;Pablo Ballester;Chris Buhr;Kyu Sung Jeong

  • A Topological Analysis of the Electron Density in Anion–π Interactions

    Carolina Garau;Antonio Frontera;David Quiñonero;Pablo Ballester

  • Experimental Quantification of Anion−π Interactions in Solution Using Neutral Host–Guest Model Systems

    Pablo Ballester

  • Quantitative Evaluation of Anion–π Interactions in Solution

    Guzmán Gil-Ramírez;Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán;Jordi Benet-Buchholz;Pablo Ballester

  • Anion binding in covalent and self-assembled molecular capsules

    Pablo Ballester

  • Structure and binding energy of anion-pi and cation-pi complexes: a comparison of MP2, RI-MP2, DFT, and DF-DFT methods.

    David Quiñonero;Carolina Garau;Antonio Frontera;Pablo Ballester

  • Kinetic studies and modeling of a self-replicating system

    James S. Nowick;Qing Feng;Tjama Tjivikua;Pablo Ballester

  • Cation-π versus anion-π interactions: Energetic, charge transfer, and aromatic aspects

    Carolina Garau;Antonio Frontera;David Quiñonero;Pablo Ballester

  • Hydrogen bonded supramolecular capsules with functionalized interiors: the controlled orientation of included guests

    Louis Adriaenssens;Pablo Ballester

  • Interplay Between Cation–π, Anion–π and π–π Interactions

    David Quiñonero;Antonio Frontera;Carolina Garau;Pablo Ballester

  • Quantification of Nitrate−π Interactions and Selective Transport of Nitrate Using Calix[4]pyrroles with Two Aromatic Walls

    Louis Adriaenssens;Carolina Estarellas;Andreas Vargas Jentzsch;Marta Martinez Belmonte

  • MP2 study of cooperative effects between cation–π, anion–π and π–π interactions

    Antonio Frontera;David Quiñonero;Antoni Costa;Pablo Ballester

Frequent Co-Authors

Pere M. Deyà
Pere M. Deyà University of the Balearic Islands
Antonio Frontera
Antonio Frontera University of the Balearic Islands
Julius Rebek
Julius Rebek Scripps Research Institute
David Quiñonero
David Quiñonero University of the Balearic Islands
Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán
Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Antonio Bauzá
Antonio Bauzá University of the Balearic Islands
Kyu-Sung Jeong
Kyu-Sung Jeong Yonsei University
Jordi Benet-Buchholz
Jordi Benet-Buchholz University of Barcelona
Christopher A. Hunter
Christopher A. Hunter University of Pennsylvania
José Ramón Galán-Mascarós
José Ramón Galán-Mascarós Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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