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Rui Fausto is a researcher affiliated with the University of Coimbra in Portugal, with a focus on chemistry and materials science. Their research spans a significant number of publications, emphasizing both foundational and applied aspects in these fields.

The main fields of study for Rui Fausto include:

  • Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Within these broader fields, the subfields of study covered by Rui Fausto are:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Spectroscopy

Their research topics engage with several specialized areas, such as:

  • Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Rui Fausto has contributed articles to a variety of scientific journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Journal of Molecular Structure
  • Molecules
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Selected recent papers authored by Rui Fausto include:

  • Color polymorphism in organic crystals, 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • Biological Applications of Macrocyclic Schiff Base Ligands and Their Metal Complexes: A Survey of the Literature (2005-2019), 2020, Applied Organometallic Chemistry
  • Heavy-Atom Tunneling Through Crossing Potential Energy Surfaces: Cyclization of a Triplet 2-Formylarylnitrene to a Singlet 2,1-Benzisoxazole, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Enhanced solid-state stability of amorphous ibrutinib formulations prepared by hot-melt extrusion, 2020, International Journal of Pharmaceutics
  • Switching on H-Tunneling through Conformational Control, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Collaborations are a significant part of Rui Fausto's scientific output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Bernardo A. Nogueira
  • Timur Nikitin
  • J.A. Paixão
  • Gülce Öğrüç Ildız
  • Cláudio M. Nunes

Best Publications

  • Matrix-Isolation Infrared and Theoretical Studies of the Glycine Conformers

    S. G. Stepanian;I. D. Reva;E. D. Radchenko;M. T. S. Rosado

  • Cis-->trans conversion of formic acid by dissipative tunneling in solid rare gases: Influence of environment on the tunneling rate

    M. Pettersson;E. M. S. Maçôas;L. Khriachtchev;J. Lundell

  • Vibrational spectra of acid and alkaline glycine salts

    Mário T Rosado;Maria Leonor T.S Maria Leonor T.S Duarte;Rui Fausto

  • Infrared spectra of pyrazine, pyrimidine and pyridazine in solid argon

    S. Breda;I.D. Reva;L. Lapinski;L. Lapinski;M.J. Nowak

  • Rotational isomerism in acetic acid: the first experimental observation of the high-energy conformer.

    Ermelinda M. S. Maçôas;Leonid Khriachtchev;Mika Pettersson;Rui Fausto

  • Vibrational spectroscopy of cis- and trans-formic acid in solid argon

    Ermelinda M.S. Maçôas;Ermelinda M.S. Maçôas;Jan Lundell;Mika Pettersson;Leonid Khriachtchev

  • Combined FTIR Matrix Isolation and Ab Initio Studies of Pyruvic Acid: Proof for Existence of the Second Conformer

    Igor D. Reva;Stepan G. Stepanian;Ludwik Adamowicz;Rui Fausto

  • A correlation between the proton stretching vibration red shift and the hydrogen bond length in polycrystalline amino acids and peptides.

    Mark Rozenberg;Gil Shoham;Igor Reva;Rui Fausto

  • Vibrational spectra (FT-IR, Raman and MI-IR) of α- and β-alanine

    Mário Túlio S. Rosado;Maria Leonor R.S. Duarte;Rui Fausto

  • Missing conformers. Comparative study of conformational cooling in cyanoacetic acid and methyl cyanoacetate isolated in low temperature inert gas matrixes

    I.D Reva;S.G Stepanian;L Adamowicz;R Fausto

  • Synthesis, characterization and biodistribution of bisphosphonates Sm-153 complexes: correlation with molecular modeling interaction studies

    M. Neves;L. Gano;N. Pereira;M.C. Costa

  • Recent experimental and computational advances in molecular spectroscopy

    Computational Advances;R. Fausto

  • FTIR spectroscopy structural analysis of the interaction between Lactobacillus kefir S-layers and metal ions

    E. Gerbino;P. Mobili;E. Tymczyszyn;R. Fausto

  • Rotational isomerism of acetic acid isolated in rare-gas matrices: Effect of medium and isotopic substitution on IR-induced isomerization quantum yield and cis→trans tunneling rate

    E. M. S. Maçôas;L. Khriachtchev;M. Pettersson;R. Fausto

  • Conformational Isomerization of Formic Acid by Vibrational Excitation at Energies below the Torsional Barrier

    Mika Pettersson;Ermelinda M. S. Maçôas;Leonid Khriachtchev;Rui Fausto

  • Importance of entropy in the conformational equilibrium of phenylalanine: a matrix-isolation infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory study.

    A. Kaczor;I. D. Reva;L. M. Proniewicz;R. Fausto

  • Color polymorphism in organic crystals

    Bernardo A. Nogueira;Bernardo A. Nogueira;Chiara Castiglioni;Rui Fausto;Rui Fausto

  • s-cis and s-trans Conformers of formic, thioformic and dithioformic acids. An ab initio study

    R. Fausto;L. A. E. Batista de Carvalho;J. J. C. Teixeira-Dias;M. N. Ramos

  • Formic and acetic acids in a nitrogen matrix: Enhanced stability of the higher energy conformer.

    Susy Lopes;Alexandra V. Domanskaya;Rui Fausto;Markku Räsänen

  • Infrared and Raman spectroscopic characterization of the hydrogen-bonding network in l-serine crystal

    S. Jarmelo;I. Reva;P.R. Carey;R. Fausto

  • Photochemistry and Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Trans and Cis Conformers of Acetic Acid in Solid Ar

    E. M. S. Maçôas;L. Khriachtchev;R. Fausto;M. Räsänen

  • A Matrix Isolation Spectroscopic and Quantum Chemical Study of Fumaric and Maleic Acid

    Ermelinda M. S. Maçôas;Rui Fausto;Jan Lundell;Mika Pettersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor Reva
Igor Reva University of Coimbra
Leszek Lapinski
Leszek Lapinski Polish Academy of Sciences
Leonid Khriachtchev
Leonid Khriachtchev University of Helsinki
Markku Räsänen
Markku Räsänen University of Helsinki
Mika Pettersson
Mika Pettersson University of Jyväskylä
Peter J. Tonge
Peter J. Tonge Stony Brook University
Martin A. Suhm
Martin A. Suhm University of Göttingen
Chiara Castiglioni
Chiara Castiglioni Polytechnic University of Milan
Maria H. Gil
Maria H. Gil University of Coimbra
Ludwik Adamowicz
Ludwik Adamowicz University of Arizona

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