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Santiago Alvarez

Santiago Alvarez

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Chemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
28062
World Ranking
3371
National Ranking
87

Overview

Santiago Alvarez is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. Their work also covers subfields such as Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their scientific contributions include studies on the following main topics:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics

Alvarez has published extensively in venues including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Anales de Química de la RSEQ
  • Circulation Research
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dalton Transactions

Among the recent papers were:

  • Coordinating Ability of Anions, Solvents, Amino Acids, and Gases towards Alkaline and Alkaline-Earth Elements, Transition Metals, and Lanthanides (2020) in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Modelo de juego serio colaborativo basado en agentes inteligentes para apoyar procesos virtuales de aprendizaje (2020) in Formación universitaria

Frequent co-authors working collaboratively with Alvarez include Marina Pérez-Jiménez, Ernesto Carmona, Jesús Campos, Jesús Jover, and Jorge Echeverría.

Alvarez has also contributed to academic books, including a chapter titled "Parte 4: expertos. Capítulo 5: Las ciencias sociales y la comunicación para la paz en contextos en que persiste la violencia" published by Universidad Santo Tomás in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Covalent radii revisited

    Beatriz Cordero;Verónica Gómez;Ana E. Platero-Prats;Marc Revés

  • A cartography of the van der Waals territories

    Santiago Alvarez

  • Shape maps and polyhedral interconversion paths in transition metal chemistry

    Santiago Alvarez;Pere Alemany;David Casanova;Jordi Cirera

  • Broken symmetry approach to calculation of exchange coupling constants for homobinuclear and heterobinuclear transition metal complexes

    Eliseo Ruiz;Joan Cano;Santiago Alvarez;Pere Alemany

  • The Rich Stereochemistry of Eight‐Vertex Polyhedra: A Continuous Shape Measures Study

    David Casanova;Miquel Llunell;Pere Alemany;Santiago Alvarez

  • Magnetic Coupling in End-On Azido-Bridged Transition Metal Complexes: A Density Functional Study

    Eliseo Ruiz;Joan Cano;Santiago Alvarez;Pere Alemany

  • About the calculation of exchange coupling constants in polynuclear transition metal complexes.

    Eliseo Ruiz;Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea;Joan Cano;Santiago Alvarez

  • Continuous symmetry maps and shape classification. The case of six-coordinated metal compounds

    Santiago Alvarez;David Avnir;Miquel Llunell;Mark Pinsky

  • Structural Modeling and Magneto−Structural Correlations for Hydroxo-Bridged Copper(II) Binuclear Complexes

    Eliseo Ruiz;Pere Alemany;Santiago Alvarez;Joan Cano

  • Minimal Distortion Pathways in Polyhedral Rearrangements

    David Casanova;Jordi Cirera;Miquel Llunell;Pere Alemany

  • Distortions in octahedrally coordinated d0 transition metal oxides : A continuous symmetry measures approach

    Kang Min Ok and;P. Shiv Halasyamani;David Casanova;Miquel Llunell

  • Polyhedral Structures with an Odd Number of Vertices: Nine‐Coordinate Metal Compounds

    Antonio Ruiz-Martínez;David Casanova;Santiago Alvarez

  • About the calculation of exchange coupling constants using density-functional theory: the role of the self-interaction error.

    Eliseo Ruiz;Santiago Alvarez;Joan Cano;Víctor Polo

  • Exchange Coupling in Carboxylato‐Bridged Dinuclear Copper(II) Compounds: A Density Functional Study

    Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea;Pere Alemany;Santiago Alvarez;Eliseo Ruiz

  • Coordinating ability of anions and solvents towards transition metals and lanthanides.

    Raúl Díaz-Torres;Santiago Alvarez

  • Can large magnetic anisotropy and high spin really coexist

    Eliseo Ruiz;Jordi Cirera;Joan Cano;Joan Cano;Santiago Alvarez

  • Dimerization and stacking in transition-metal bisdithiolenes and tetrathiolates

    Santiago Alvarez;Ramon Vicente;Roald Hoffmann

  • Dihydrogen contacts in alkanes are subtle but not faint

    Jorge Echeverría;Gabriel Aullón;David Danovich;Sason Shaik

  • Shape and Symmetry of Heptacoordinate Transition‐Metal Complexes: Structural Trends

    David Casanova;Pere Alemany;Josep M. Bofill;Santiago Alvarez

  • Distortion Pathways of Transition Metal Coordination Polyhedra Induced by Chelating Topology.

    Santiago Alvarez

  • Exchange coupling of transition-metal ions through hydrogen bonding: a theoretical investigation.

    Cédric Desplanches;Eliseo Ruiz;and Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea;Santiago Alvarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Eliseo Ruiz
Eliseo Ruiz University of Barcelona
Pere Alemany
Pere Alemany University of Barcelona
David Casanova
David Casanova Donostia International Physics Center
Joan Cano
Joan Cano University of Valencia
Juan J. Novoa
Juan J. Novoa University of Barcelona
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
Xavier Solans
Xavier Solans University of Barcelona
Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea
Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea Rovira i Virgili University
David Avnir
David Avnir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michel Verdaguer
Michel Verdaguer Sorbonne University

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