Alberto Romão Dias

Alberto Romão Dias
Alberto Romão Dias
Born	1941
Died	15 July 2007

Alberto Romão Dias (1941 – 15 July 2007) was a full professor of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal.

Education

His alma mater includes graduating from industrial-chemical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1964, a Ph.D. in chemistry from

Oxford University in 1970, and Aggregation at the Instituto Superior Técnico

in 1979.

Research works

His research interests were in the area of

organometallic chemistry of transition metals. The latter work has been on mono and polynuclear complex containing the fragment M(η

⁵-C₅H₅)₂.

Other topics in which he was interested include the synthesis of complexes with ligands containing phosphorus, reactions of metal vapours with different substrates aiming at the synthesis of new compounds, and the preparation of species with catalytic polymerization of

olefins

using transition metal complexes.

Recent research in this group includes the synthesis of new

organometallic compounds (some of them with nonlinear optical properties), their characterisation (including the X-ray determination of the molecular structure), the study of their reactivity and of their redox behaviour, the determination of the metal-ligand bond energies from data obtained by calorimetry

and the study of chemical bond using molecular orbital theory.

Dias published the book Ligação Química (English: Chemical Bond) in October 2006. This text is used mainly as a study guide for "Chemistry I" students at the Instituto Superior Técnico.

Alberto Romão Dias died on 15 July 2007.

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