Miquel Solà

Miquel Solà was born in Fonteta, Catalonia, Spain, in 1964. He received his Diploma in chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1986 and his Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1991, both with academic honors. His doctoral research on the carbonic anhydrase enzymatic catalysis under the direction of Joan Bertran and Agustí Lledós was awarded the Catalan Saint Albert Prize. After several months in a consultant private company, in 1993 he moved to the University of Girona (UdG) as an Assistant Researcher. In 1994, he conducted postdoctoral research in Amsterdam with Evert Jan Baerends, and in 1995 in Calgary with Tom Ziegler. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the UdG in 1997. In 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished University Research Promotion of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Since 2003, he holds a permanent position as a Full Professor at the UdG. He has supervised 7 doctoral theses, and he is currently supervising 5 more. He has published more than 150 papers on theoretical studies of organic and organometallic reaction mechanisms, the use of quantum molecular similarity measures, the development of conceptual density functional theory, and the analysis of electron delocalization and aromaticity.

Biography Updated on 12 March 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Energy landscapes of nucleophilic substitution reactions: A comparison of density functional theory and coupled cluster methods
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 1551–1560, 2007
  2. Aromaticity changes along the reaction coordinate connecting the cyclobutadiene dimer to cubane and the benzene dimer to hexaprismane
    Structural Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 773–783, 2007
  3. The proton transfer reaction in malonaldehyde derivatives: Substituent effects and quasi-aromaticity of the proton bridge
    Chemical Physics, vol. 342, no. 1-3, pp. 43–54, 2007
  4. Electron delocalization and aromaticity measures within the Hückel molecular orbital method
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 811, no. 1-3, pp. 3–11, 2007
  5. Fast O2 Binding at Dicopper Complexes Containing Schiff-Base Dinucleating Ligands
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 4997–5012, 2007
  6. Table Salt and Other Alkali Metal Chloride Oligomers: Structure, Stability, and Bonding
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 13, pp. 5411–5418, 2007
  7. Mechanistic Insights into the Chemistry of Ru(II) Complexes Containing Cl and DMSO Ligands
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 25, pp. 10707–10716, 2007
  8. Polycyclic Benzenoids: Why Kinked is More Stable than Straight
    The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 1134–1142, 2007
  9. Aromaticity of Distorted Benzene Rings: Exploring the Validity of Different Indicators of Aromaticity
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 20, pp. 4513–4521, 2007
  10. Theoretical Study of the Reaction Mechanisms Involved in the Thermal Intramolecular Reactions of 1,6-Fullerenynes
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 24, pp. 5253–5258, 2007
  11. Didehydrophenanthrenes: Structure, Singlet-Triplet Splitting, and Aromaticity
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 5063–5070, 2007
  12. Properties of Aromaticity Indices Based on the One-Electron Density Matrix
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 28, pp. 6521–6525, 2007
  13. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 15, pp. 5108–5113, 2006
  14. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 14, pp. 7189–7198, 2006
  15. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 28, pp. 8901–8911, 2006
  16. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 40, pp. 11569–11574, 2006
  17. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 44, pp. 12249–12258, 2006
  18. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 39, pp. 11219–11222, 2006
  19. Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 26, pp. 5959–5962, 2006
  20. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 1700–1702, 2006
  21. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 14, pp. 5241–5248, 2006
  22. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 13, pp. 6526–6536, 2006
  23. A trinuclear Pt(ii) compound with short Pt–Pt–Pt contacts. An analysis of the influence of p–p stacking interactions on the strength and length of the Pt–Pt bond
    Dalton Transactions, no. 9, p. 1188, 2006
  24. Electron sharing indexes at the correlated level. Application to aromaticity calculations
    Faraday Discussions, vol. 135, p. 325, 2006
  25. Highly polar bonds and the meaning of covalency and ionicity?structure and bonding of alkali metal hydride oligomers
    Faraday Discussions, vol. 135, p. 451, 2006
  26. Erratum: “The aromatic fluctuation index (FLU): A new aromaticity index based on electron delocalization” [J. Chem Phys. 122, 014109 (2005)]
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 5, p. 059901, 2006
  27. Nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) profiles in a series of monocyclic planar inorganic compounds
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 691, no. 21, pp. 4359–4366, 2006
  28. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 965–980, 2006
  29. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 3569–3581, 2006
  30. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 14, pp. 5239–5241, 2006
  31. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 26, pp. 10520–10529, 2006
  32. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 24, pp. 9643–9645, 2006
  33. Are nucleus-independent (NICS) and 1H NMR chemical shifts good indicators of aromaticity in p-stacked polyfluorenes?
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 428, no. 1-3, pp. 191–195, 2006
  34. Structure and bonding of methyl alkali metal molecules
    Journal of Molecular Modeling, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 563–568, 2006
  35. On the quality of the hardness kernel and the Fukui function to evaluate the global hardness
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 574–583, 2006
  36. Thermal [2+2] Intramolecular Cycloadditions of Fuller-1,6-enynes
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1439–1442, 2006
  37. Regiospecific C?H Bond Activation: Reversible H/D Exchange Promoted by CuI Complexes with Triazamacrocyclic Ligands
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 45, no. 18, pp. 2941–2944, 2006
  38. Atropisomeric Discrimination in New RuII Complexes Containing theC2-Symmetric Didentate Chiral Phenyl-1,2-bisoxazolinic Ligand
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 2798–2807, 2006
  39. Hydrogen–Hydrogen Bonding in Planar Biphenyl, Predicted by Atoms-In-Molecules Theory, Does Not Exist
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 2889–2895, 2006
  40. A Model of the Chemical Bond Must Be Rooted in Quantum Mechanics, Provide Insight, and Possess Predictive Power
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 2902–2905, 2006
  41. Electron Fluctuation in Pericyclic and Pseudopericyclic Reactions
    ChemPhysChem, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 111–113, 2006
  42. Aromaticity Analysis of Lithium Cation/ p Complexes of Aromatic Systems
    ChemPhysChem, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 2552–2561, 2005
  43. Regioselective Intramolecular Pauson-Khand Reactions of C60: An Electrochemical Study and Theoretical Underpinning
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 2716–2729, 2005
  44. Fine-Tuning the Electronic Properties of Highly Stable Organometallic CuIII Complexes Containing Monoanionic Macrocyclic Ligands
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 11, no. 17, pp. 5146–5156, 2005
  45. The Breakdown of the Minimum Polarizability Principle in Vibrational Motions as an Indicator of the Most Aromatic Center
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 11, no. 20, pp. 6024–6031, 2005
  46. Oxidative addition of the ethane C?C bond to Pd. Anab initio benchmark and DFT validation study
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 1006–1020, 2005
  47. Ab initio and DFT benchmark study for nucleophilic substitution at carbon (SN2@C) and silicon (SN2@Si)
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 14, pp. 1497–1504, 2005
  48. Assessment of Clar's aromatic p-sextet rule by means of PDI, NICS and HOMA indicators of local aromaticity
    Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 785–791, 2005
  49. Ab initio and DFT modeling of stereoselective deamination of aziridines by nitrosyl chloride
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 139–146, 2005
  50. Basis set effects on the energy and hardness profiles of the hydrogen fluoride dimer
    Journal of Chemical Sciences, vol. 117, no. 5, pp. 549–554, 2005
  51. Chemical bonding in transition metal carbene complexes?
    Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 690, no. 24-25, pp. 6178–6204, 2005
  52. Chemical Reviews, vol. 105, no. 10, pp. 3911–3947, 2005
  53. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 3256–3262, 2005
  54. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 2509–2521, 2005
  55. Hydrogen bonding and aromaticity in the guanine-cytosine base pair interacting with metal cations (M = Cu + , Ca 2+ and Cu 2+ )
    Molecular Physics, vol. 103, no. 2-3, pp. 163–173, 2005
  56. The aromatic fluctuation index (FLU): A new aromaticity index based on electron delocalization
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 122, no. 1, p. 014109, 2005
  57. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 47, pp. 10629–10632, 2005
  58. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 615–621, 2005
  59. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 15, pp. 7591–7593, 2005
  60. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 17, pp. 6929–6932, 2005
  61. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 43, pp. 9904–9910, 2005
  62. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 108, no. 28, pp. 6072–6078, 2004
  63. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 2374–2380, 2004
  64. Discrepancy between common local aromaticity measures in a series of carbazole derivativesPresented at the ESF Exploratory Workshop: New Perspectives on Aromaticity, Exeter, UK, July 5?9, 2003.
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 314, 2004
  65. Basis set and electron correlation effects on initial convergence for vibrational nonlinear optical properties of conjugated organic molecules
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 120, no. 14, p. 6346, 2004
  66. The hardness profile as a tool to detect spurious stationary points in the potential energy surface
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 120, no. 23, p. 10914, 2004
  67. Ab initio benchmark study for the oxidative addition of CH[sub 4] to Pd: Importance of basis-set flexibility and polarization
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 121, no. 20, p. 9982, 2004
  68. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 22, pp. 7537–7542, 2004
  69. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 20, pp. 6634–6640, 2004
  70. Analysis of electronic delocalization in buckminsterfullerene (C60)
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 361–366, 2004
  71. The Delocalization Index as an Electronic Aromaticity Criterion: Application to a Series of Planar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 400–406, 2003
  72. An Insight into the Local Aromaticities of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1113–1122, 2003
  73. Stereodiscrimination in Phosphanylthiolato Nickel(II) Complexes
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 23, pp. 4147–4151, 2003
  74. Second-order atomic Fukui indices from the electron-pair density in the framework of the atoms in molecules theory
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 439–446, 2003
  75. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 14, pp. 4456–4468, 2003
  76. Electron pairing analysis of the Fischer-type chromium–carbene complexes (CO)5Cr=C(X)R (X=H, OH, OCH3, NH2, NHCH3 and R=H, CH3, CH=CH2, Ph, C?CH )
    Chemical Physics, vol. 294, no. 2, pp. 129–139, 2003
  77. On the electron-pair nature of the hydrogen bond in the framework of the atoms in molecules theory
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 369, no. 1-2, pp. 248–255, 2003
  78. Basis set and electron correlation effects on ab initio electronic and vibrational nonlinear optical properties of conjugated organic molecules
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 118, no. 2, p. 711, 2003
  79. Relations among several nuclear and electronic density functional reactivity indexes
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 18, p. 9393, 2003
  80. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 107, no. 38, pp. 7337–7339, 2003
  81. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 18, pp. 4632–4638, 2002
  82. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 18, pp. 4794–4794, 2002
  83. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 566–575, 2002
  84. Organometallics, vol. 21, no. 20, pp. 4182–4191, 2002
  85. Initial convergence of the perturbation series expansion for vibrational nonlinear optical properties
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 13, p. 5363, 2002
  86. Are the maximum hardness and minimum polarizability principles always obeyed in nontotally symmetric vibrations?
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 117, no. 23, p. 10561, 2002
  87. Analysis of the effect of changing the a0 parameter of the Becke3-LYP hybrid functional on the transition state geometries and energy barriers in a series of prototypical reactions
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 722–731, 2002
  88. Electron localization and delocalization in open-shell molecules
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 14, pp. 1347–1356, 2002
  89. The calculation of electron localization and delocalization indices at the Hartree-Fock, density functional and post-Hartree-Fock levels of theory
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 362–371, 2002
  90. Electron-pairing analysis from localization and delocalization indices in the framework of the atoms-in-molecules theory
    Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta), vol. 108, no. 4, pp. 214–224, 2002
  91. Parametrization of the Becke3-LYP hybrid functional for a series of small molecules using quantum molecular similarity techniques
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 14, pp. 1666–1678, 2001
  92. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 32, pp. 7951–7952, 2001
  93. A Theoretical Study of Steric and Electronic Effects in the Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 49, pp. 12294–12302, 2001
  94. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 433–442, 2001
  95. Theoretical Study of the Proton Transfer between Water and [FeH(CO)4]- in Aqueous Solution and Relevance to the Water-Gas Shift Reaction Catalyzed by Iron Pentacarbonyl in the Condensed Phase
    Organometallics, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1310–1316, 2001
  96. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 10, pp. 2052–2063, 2001
  97. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 25, pp. 6249–6257, 2001
  98. Substituent effects on the intramolecular proton transfer in the ground and lowest-lying singlet excited states of salicylaldimine
    Chemical Physics, vol. 260, no. 1-2, pp. 53–64, 2000
  99. Theoretical Studies of Some Transition-Metal-Mediated Reactions of Industrial and Synthetic Importance
    Chemical Reviews, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 439–494, 2000
  100. Theoretical characterization of intramolecular proton transfer in the ground and the lowest-lying triplet excited states of 1-amino-3-propenal: a methodological comparison
    Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 257–269, 2000
  101. Density functional theory study of the structures and stabilities of CuO and CuO3
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 162–168, 2000
  102. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 6, pp. 1309–1316, 1999
  103. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 44, pp. 8847–8852, 1999
  104. Organometallics, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 2801–2812, 1999
  105. Mechanisms for the formation of epoxide and chlorine-containing products in the oxidation of ethylene by chromyl chloride: a density functional study
    Canadian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 77, no. 9, pp. 1476–1491, 1999
  106. Novel mechanistic proposal for the Dötz reaction derived from a density functional study: the chromahexatriene route
    Chemical Communications, no. 9, pp. 999–1000, 1998
  107. Low-lying electronic states and molecular structure of Fe2O2
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, vol. 94, no. 19, pp. 2877–2881, 1998
  108. Organometallics, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1492–1501, 1998
  109. Organometallics, vol. 17, no. 15, pp. 3164–3168, 1998
  110. Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 21, pp. 7556–7558, 1998
  111. Exploring the possibility of a bimolecular reaction channel for the F2SS/FSSF rearrangement process
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 455, no. 2-3, pp. 123–129, 1998
  112. Intramolecular proton transfer in the ground and the two lowest-lying singlet excited states of 1-amino-3-propenal and related species
    Chemical Physics, vol. 234, no. 1-3, pp. 1–19, 1998
  113. Low-lying electronic states and molecular structure of FeO2 and FeO2-
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 274, no. 5-6, pp. 411–421, 1997
  114. Preparation and characterization of pyridinium-n-carboxylate trioxochromate (VI) (n=3, 4) and pyridinium-4-carboxylic pyridine-4 carboxylate trioxochromate (VI) hemihydrate
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 258, no. 1, pp. 53–63, 1997
  115. Organometallics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 13–19, 1997
  116. A comparative analysis by means of quantum molecular similarity measures of density distributions derived from conventional ab initio and density functional methods
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 104, no. 2, p. 636, 1996
  117. Organometallics, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 2611–2618, 1996
  118. The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 18, pp. 7449–7454, 1996
  119. Analysis of the changes on the potential energy surface of Menshutkin reactions induced by external perturbations1, 2
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 371, pp. 171–183, 1996
  120. Theoretical Study of the Regioselectivity of Successive 1,3-Butadiene Diels-Alder Cycloadditions to C60
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 118, no. 37, pp. 8920–8924, 1996
  121. An assessment of density functional theory on evaluating activation barriers for small organic gas-phase rearrangement reactions
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 362, no. 2, pp. 163–173, 1996
  122. The use of ab initio quantum molecular self-similarity measures to analyze electronic charge density distributions
    International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 361–372, 1996
  123. Ab initio study of the HCO 3 ? /H2O exchange in the (NH3)3 ZnII(HCO 3 ? ) complex
    Theoretica Chimica Acta, vol. 91, no. 5-6, pp. 333–351, 1995
  124. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 27, pp. 10752–10758, 1995
  125. AM1 study of a substituent transfer by means of a Diels?Alder and retro-Diels?Alder tandem reaction
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2, no. 3, p. 605, 1995
  126. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 13, pp. 5909–5915, 1994
  127. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1047–1053, 1994
  128. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 869–877, 1992
  129. Proton transfer in the water dimer catalyzed by doubly charged cations (Zn+2, Be+2, and Mg+2)
    Theoretica Chimica Acta, vol. 81, no. 4-5, pp. 303–318, 1992
  130. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. 2873–2879, 1991
  131. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2523–2527, 1991