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]
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Fast O2 Binding at Dicopper Complexes Containing Schiff-Base Dinucleating Ligands
Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 4997–5012, 2007 - Table Salt and Other Alkali Metal Chloride Oligomers: Structure, Stability, and Bonding
Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 13, pp. 5411–5418, 2007 - Mechanistic Insights into the Chemistry of Ru(II) Complexes Containing Cl and DMSO Ligands
Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 25, pp. 10707–10716, 2007 - Polycyclic Benzenoids: Why Kinked is More Stable than Straight
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 1134–1142, 2007 - 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 - 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 - Didehydrophenanthrenes: Structure, Singlet-Triplet Splitting, and Aromaticity
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 5063–5070, 2007 - Properties of Aromaticity Indices Based on the One-Electron Density Matrix
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 28, pp. 6521–6525, 2007 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 15, pp. 5108–5113, 2006
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 14, pp. 7189–7198, 2006
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 28, pp. 8901–8911, 2006
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 40, pp. 11569–11574, 2006
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 44, pp. 12249–12258, 2006
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 110, no. 39, pp. 11219–11222, 2006
- Organic Letters, vol. 8, no. 26, pp. 5959–5962, 2006
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 1700–1702, 2006
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 14, pp. 5241–5248, 2006
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 13, pp. 6526–6536, 2006
- 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 - Electron sharing indexes at the correlated level. Application to aromaticity calculations
Faraday Discussions, vol. 135, p. 325, 2006 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 965–980, 2006
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 3569–3581, 2006
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 14, pp. 5239–5241, 2006
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 26, pp. 10520–10529, 2006
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 24, pp. 9643–9645, 2006
- 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 - Structure and bonding of methyl alkali metal molecules
Journal of Molecular Modeling, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 563–568, 2006 - 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 - Thermal [2+2] Intramolecular Cycloadditions of Fuller-1,6-enynes
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1439–1442, 2006 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Electron Fluctuation in Pericyclic and Pseudopericyclic Reactions
ChemPhysChem, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 111–113, 2006 - Aromaticity Analysis of Lithium Cation/ p Complexes of Aromatic Systems
ChemPhysChem, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 2552–2561, 2005 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Chemical bonding in transition metal carbene complexes?
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 690, no. 24-25, pp. 6178–6204, 2005 - Chemical Reviews, vol. 105, no. 10, pp. 3911–3947, 2005
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 8, pp. 3256–3262, 2005
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 2509–2521, 2005
- 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 - 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 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 47, pp. 10629–10632, 2005
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 615–621, 2005
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 15, pp. 7591–7593, 2005
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 70, no. 17, pp. 6929–6932, 2005
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 43, pp. 9904–9910, 2005
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 108, no. 28, pp. 6072–6078, 2004
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 2374–2380, 2004
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 22, pp. 7537–7542, 2004
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 69, no. 20, pp. 6634–6640, 2004
- Analysis of electronic delocalization in buckminsterfullerene (C60)
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 361–366, 2004 - 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 - An Insight into the Local Aromaticities of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes
Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1113–1122, 2003 - Stereodiscrimination in Phosphanylthiolato Nickel(II) Complexes
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 23, pp. 4147–4151, 2003 - 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 - Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 14, pp. 4456–4468, 2003
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Relations among several nuclear and electronic density functional reactivity indexes
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 18, p. 9393, 2003 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 107, no. 38, pp. 7337–7339, 2003
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 18, pp. 4632–4638, 2002
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 106, no. 18, pp. 4794–4794, 2002
- The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 566–575, 2002
- Organometallics, vol. 21, no. 20, pp. 4182–4191, 2002
- Initial convergence of the perturbation series expansion for vibrational nonlinear optical properties
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 13, p. 5363, 2002 - 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 - 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 - Electron localization and delocalization in open-shell molecules
Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 23, no. 14, pp. 1347–1356, 2002 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 32, pp. 7951–7952, 2001
- 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 - Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 433–442, 2001
- 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 - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 10, pp. 2052–2063, 2001
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 25, pp. 6249–6257, 2001
- 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 - Theoretical Studies of Some Transition-Metal-Mediated Reactions of Industrial and Synthetic Importance
Chemical Reviews, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 439–494, 2000 - 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 - 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 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 6, pp. 1309–1316, 1999
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 103, no. 44, pp. 8847–8852, 1999
- Organometallics, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 2801–2812, 1999
- 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 - Novel mechanistic proposal for the Dötz reaction derived from a density functional study: the chromahexatriene route
Chemical Communications, no. 9, pp. 999–1000, 1998 - Low-lying electronic states and molecular structure of Fe2O2
Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, vol. 94, no. 19, pp. 2877–2881, 1998 - Organometallics, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1492–1501, 1998
- Organometallics, vol. 17, no. 15, pp. 3164–3168, 1998
- Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 63, no. 21, pp. 7556–7558, 1998
- 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 - 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 - Low-lying electronic states and molecular structure of FeO2 and FeO2-
Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 274, no. 5-6, pp. 411–421, 1997 - 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 - Organometallics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 13–19, 1997
- 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 - Organometallics, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 2611–2618, 1996
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 100, no. 18, pp. 7449–7454, 1996
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 -
Ab initio study of the HCO
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Theoretica Chimica Acta, vol. 91, no. 5-6, pp. 333–351, 1995 - Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 99, no. 27, pp. 10752–10758, 1995
- 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 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 13, pp. 5909–5915, 1994
- Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1047–1053, 1994
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 869–877, 1992
- 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 - Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. 2873–2879, 1991
- Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2523–2527, 1991