Nicolaides Athanassios

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Chemistry
Czech Technical University in Prague
Cyprus

Academician Chemistry
Biography

 B. Sc. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece, 1986Ph. D., Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 1992Post-doctoral Fellow, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Australia, 1993-96 JSPS Fellow, Department of Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Mie University, Japan 1996-98 Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 2000-7Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 2007-today

Research Intrest

Application of computational methods (ab initio, DFT) into ChemistryReactive intermediatesRadicals, diradicals and diradicaloidsCarbocations, carbenes and nitrenes.Pyramidalized olefins and their organometallic complexes

List of Publications
A. Nicolaides Singlet Hydrocarbon Carbenes with High Barriers Toward Isomerization: A Computational Investigation, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 9070–9073
A. Nicolaides et al. Evidence for the Formation of the (Ph3P)2Pt Complex of 3,7-Dimethyl-tricyclo[3.3.0.03,7]oct-1(5)-ene, the Most Highly Pyramidalized Alkene in a Homologous Series. Isolation and X-ray Structure of the Product of the Ethanol Addition to the Complex, Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 3001-3004A.

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