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Dr. Biswajit Mondalbiswajit.mondal@ub.edu 0000-0003-4143-3788 BISWAJIT210293 Biswajit Mondal obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (2013) from Calcutta University and the Master’s degree (2015) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). He completed his PhD (2020) in Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the IIT Madras, under the supervision of Prof. T. Pradeep. His PhD thesis was based on the exploration of the physical and chemical properties of 2D MoS2 for clean water. After his PhD, he continued his postdoctoral research in the same group till 2021 on the area of MoS2-based membranes for desalination of water. Then, he spent 12 months (2022-2023) as a postdoctoral researcher at KIT, Germany in the groups of Prof. Horst Hahn and Prof. Christian Kübel. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona with a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship (2023-2026) in the group of Prof. Eliseo Ruiz Sabin. His main research interests include the fields of 2D materials, water treatment, synthesis of atomically precise noble metal nanoparticles, and electron microscopy.  Dr. Wojciech J. Saletrawojciech.saletra@ub.edu I have obtained MSc in Chemistry from Warsaw University in 2007 and then moved to ICMAB (CSIC) to work on Chiral Self Assembly Monolayers. After defending my PhD I stayed in ICMAB working on new polymorph under negative pressure, and then  moved to the UK, working on 3D metal printers as a Project Manager in Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Renishaw and Coventry University. Joined UB in 2021 and currently I am working on functional materials – Pillarenes, Heptazines among others.

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Reviews S. Alvarez, E. Ruiz.  «Self-Assembly of Coordination Compounds: Design Principles», in Supramolecular Chemistry, From Molecules to Nanomaterials, J. W. Steed, P. A. Gale, eds., John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2012, 5, 1993-2044.  ISBN 978-0-470-74640-0 E. Ruiz, J. Cirera and S. Alvarez, «Spin density distribution in transition metal complexes», Coord. Chem. Rev. 2005, 249, 2649-2660. S. Alvarez, «Bonding and stereochemistry of three-coordinated transition metal compounds», Coord. Chem. Rev. 1999, 193-5, 13-41. Bonding and Stereochemistry S. Alvarez. «Coordinating Ability of Anions, Solvents and Gases Towards Ions of Alkaline and alkaline-Earth Metals, Transition Metals, and Lanthanides. Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 4350-4377. doi: 10.1002/chem.201905453. J. D. Velasquez, J. Echeverría, S. Alvarez.  “Delocalized Bonding in Li2X2 Frameowrks. Probing the Limits of the Covalent and Ionic Bonding Models”. Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 345-356. P. Alemany, A. D’Aléo, M. Giorgi, E. Canadell and F. Fages. «C-H···BF2O2 interactions in crystals: a case for boron hydrogen bonding?».Cryst. Growth Des., 2014, 14, 3700-3703. J. Echeverría, G. Aullón and S. Alvarez.  «Dihydrogen Interactions in Group 13 Compounds».  Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 2844-2854. Doi: 10.1039/c6dt02854c. Open access. M. Ferrer, D. Gómez-Bautista, A.  Gutiérrez, G. Orduña-Marco, L. A. Oro, J. J. Pérez-Torrente, O. Rossell and E. Ruiz. «Pyridinethiolate Titanocene Metalloligands and their Self-Assembly Reactions to Yield Early-Late Metallamacrocycles.» Organometallics, 2016, 35, 336-345. R. Hoffmann, S. Alvarez, C. Mealli, A. Falceto, T. J. Cahill, T. Zeng and G. Manca.  «From Widely Accepted Concepts in Coordination Chemistry to Inverted Ligand Fields».  Chem. Rev., 2016, 116, 8173-8192. Doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00251. A. Falceto, K. H. Theopold and S. Alvarez, «Cr-Cr Quintuple Bonding: Ligand Topology and Interplay Between Metal-Metal and Metal-Ligand Bonding».  Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 10966-10977.  Doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02059, open access. S. Alvarez, «What do we mean when we talk about bonds».  Chem. World, 2015, 12, 36-37. J. Adhikary, P. Kundu, S. Dasgupta, S. Mukherjee, S. Chattopadhyay, G. Aullón, D. Das, «Nickel(II) Complexes having Different Configurations controlled by N,N,O-donor Schiff-base Ligands in Presence of Isothiocyanate as Co-ligand: Synthesis, Structures, Comparative Biological Activity and DFT Study». Polyhedron 2015, 101, 93-102,  Doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2015.07.055 J. Fernández-Valparís and S. Alvarez. «Design of a Structural Database for Homoleptic Transition Metal Complexes». Struct. Chem., 2015, 26, 1715-1723.  Doi:10.1007/s11224-015-0651-3. A. Falceto, E. Carmona and S. Alvarez.  «Electronic and Structural Effects of Low Hapticity Coordination of Arene Rings to Transition Metals».  Organometallics 2014, 33, 6660-6668. Doi: 10.1021/om5009583. A. Falceto, D. Casanova and S. Alvarez.  «Distortions of π-coordinated Arenes with Anionic Character».  Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 14674-14689.Doi: 10.1002/chem.201403889. G. Aullón and B. Peigné.  «Structural Analysis of the Coordination of Dinitrogen to Transition Metal Complexes”.  Acta Cryst., Sect B, 2015, 71, 369-386. Doi: 10.1107/S2052520615006083. A. Mondragón, M. Flores-Alamo, P. R. Martínez-Alanis, G. Aullón, V. M. Ugalde-Saldívar and I. Castillo.  «Electrocatalytic Proton Reduction by Dimeric Nickel Complex of a Sterically Demanding Pincer-type NS2 Aminobis(thiophenolate) Ligand”.  Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 619−627. M. Carrasco, I. Mendoza, E. Alvarez, C. Maya, R. Peloso, A. Rodríguez, A. Falceto, S. Alvarez and E. Carmona.  «Experimental and Computational Studies of the Molybdenum-Flanking Arene Interaction in Quadruply Bonded Dimolybdenum Complexes with Terphenyl Ligands».  Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 410-421. Doi: 10.1002/chem.201404057 L. J. K. Cook, R. Mohammed, G. Sherborne, S. Alvarez and M. Halcrow, “Spin-state Behaviour of Iron(II)Dipyrazolylpyridine Complexes. New Insights from Crystallographic and Solution Measurements». Coord. Chem. Rev., 2015, 289-290, 2-12. Doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.08.006. C. Fliedel, V. Rosa, C. I. M. Santos, P. J. Gonzalez, R. M. Almeida, C. S. B. Gomes, P. T. Gomes, M. A. N. D. A. Lemos, G. Aullón, R. Welter and T. Avilés, “Synthesis, Structural Characterisation, and Density Functional Theory Studies of Ar-BIAN Cu(II) Complexes: Application in the Reverse Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerisation of Styrene” Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 13041-13054. A. G. Algarra, G. Aullón,P. V. Bernhardt, M. Martínez, “Computational Insights on the Chemistry of Cu(II) with a Mixed-donor N3S3 Macrobicyclic Ligand” Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 512-521. S. Alvarez, B. Menjón.  «Modulation of the Coordination Sphere of f-Element Complexes by Fluorocarbons», highlight, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 2810-2811.  Doi 10.1002/anie.201310916. C. Dryzun, P. Alemany, D. Casanova, D. Avnir.  «A Continuous Symmetry Analysis of Chemical Bonding».  Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 6129-6141 R. Diaz-Torres and S. Alvarez, «Coordinating ability of anions and solvents towards transition metals and lanthanides», Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 10742-10750. J. C. Knight, S. Alvarez, A. J. Amoroso, P. G. Edwards and N. Singh, «A novel bipyridine-based hexadentate tripodal framework with a strong preference for trigonal prismatic co-ordination geometries», Dalton Trans. 2010, 39, 3870-3883. E. Cremades, J. Echeverría, S. Alvarez.  «The Trigonal Prism in Coordination Chemistry».  Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 10389-10396 A. Ruiz-Martínez, D. Casanova, S. Alvarez.  «Ligand Association/Dissociation Paths and Ill Defined Coordination Numbers».  Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 6567-6581 G. Aullon and S. Alvarez, «Oxidation states, atomic charges and orbital populations in transition metal complexes», Theor. Chem. Acc. 2009, 123, 67-73. A. Ruiz-Martínez, S. Alvarez.  “Stereochemistry of Compounds with Coordination Number Ten”.  Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 7470-7480 J. Echeverría, E. Cremades, A. J. Amoroso, S. Alvarez.  «Jahn-Teller Distortions of Six-coordinate Copper(II) Compounds: Cis or Trans?». Chem. Commun. 2009, 4242-4244 D. Aguila, E. Escribano, S. Speed, D. Talancon, L. Yerman and S. Alvarez, «Calibrating the coordination chemistry tool chest: metrics of bi- and tridentate ligands», Dalton Trans. 2009, 6610-6625. A. Ruiz-Martínez, D. Casanova, S. Alvarez.  «Polyhedral Structures with an Odd Number of Vertices: Nine-Coordinate Metal Compounds». Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 1291-1303 A. Ruiz-Martínez, D. Casanova, S. Alvarez.  «Polyhedral Structures with an Odd Number of Vertices: Nine-atom  Clusters and Supramolecular Architectures».  Dalton Trans., 2008, 2583-2591 B. Cordero, V. Gomez, A. E. Platero-Prats, M. Reves, J. Echeverria, E. Cremades, F. Barragan and S. Alvarez, «Covalent radii revisited», Dalton Trans. 2008, 2832-2838. G. Aullon and S. Alvarez, «On the existence of molecular palladium(VI) compounds: Palladium hexafluoride», Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 2700-2703. S. Alvarez.  «Nesting of Fullerenes and Frank-Kasper Polyhedra».  Dalton Trans., 2006, 2045-2051. D. Casanova, M. Llunell, P. Alemany, S. Alvarez.  «The Rich Stereochemistry of Eight-Vertex Polyhedra in Chemistry.  A Continuous Shape Measures Study».  Chem. Eur. J.2005, 11, 1479-1494 S. Alvarez.  «Polyhedra in (Inorganic) Chemistry».  Dalton Trans. 2005, 2209-2233. G. Aullon and S. Alvarez, «Formation of sulfur-sulfur bonds in copper complexes», Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2004, 4430-4438. E. C. Brown, N. W. Aboelella, A. M. Reynolds, G. Aullon, S. Alvarez and W. B. Tolman, «A new class of (μ-η2:η2-disulfido)dicopper complexes: Synthesis characterization and disulfido exchange», Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 3335-3337. J. Cirera, P. Alemany, S. Alvarez.  «Mapping the Stereochemistry and Symmetry of Tetracoordinate Transition Metal Complexes».  Chem. Eur. J. 2004, 10, 190-207. D. Casanova, P. Alemany, J. M. Bofill, S. Alvarez.  «Shape and Symmetry of Heptacoordinated Transition Metals: Structural Trends».  Chem. Eur. J., 2003, 9, 1281-1295 G. Aullon and S. Alvarez, «Molecular structure and isomerization in square-planar edge-sharing dinuclear complexes with alkynyl bridges», Organometallics 2002, 21, 2627-2634. G. Aullon, E. Ruiz and S. Alvarez, «Theoretical clues to the mechanism of dioxygen formation at the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II», Chem. Eur. J. 2002, 8, 2508-2515.

Prof. Santiago Álvarez +34 93 4021269santiago.alvarez@qi.ub.esInorganic Chemistry DepartmentFacultat de Química Universitat de BarcelonaDiagonal, 645 08028 Barcelona, Spain 0000-0002-4618-4189 Santiago Alvarez was born in Panamá in 1950 and studied Chemistry in Barcelona where he obtained his PhD with Prof. Jaume Casabó.  He did postdoctoral work at Cornell University with Prof. Roald Hoffmann in 1983-84, was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona in 1984 and became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1987.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, corresponding member of the Real Academia Española de Ciencias and a member of the European Academy of Sciences.  He has carried out theoretical research on bonding, stereochemistry and magnetic properties of transition metal compounds.  In recent years he has been involved in the application of shape and symmetry measures to the study of stereochemistry and structure-property relationships.  He is also active in promoting an exploration of the frontiers between chemistry and humanistic culture through essay papers and the series of biannual NoSIC (Not Strictly Inorganic Chemistry) meetings. Biography & Scientific Curriculum Education Positions Grants, Honors and Awards Visitor Publications