Poater, Albert

Computational Organometallic Catalysis

Contact info:
Dr. Albert Poater
albert.poater@udg.edu
Tel. (+34) 972 41 94 12 – 639620066
Website

arp-iqcc-alta-20b

Selected publications

Laura Àlex Díaz-Jiménez, Roger Monreal-Corona, Albert Poater, María Álvarez, Elena Borrego, PedroJ. Pérez, Ana Caballero, Anna Roglans, Anna Pla-Quintana
Intramolecular Interception of the Remote Position of Vinylcarbene Silver Complex Intermediates by C(sp3)−H Bond Insertion
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202215163
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202215163

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Never too late: Stereoselective alkyne semi-hydrogenation by Ir catalysis
Chem Catalysis, 2022, 2, 1245-1246
DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2022.05.025

Ahad Hanifpour, Naeimeh Bahri-Laleh, Mehdi Nekoomanesh-Haghighi, Albert Poater
Coordinative chain transfer polymerization of 1-decene in the presence of a Ti-based diamine bis(phenolate) catalyst: a sustainable approach to produce low viscosity PAOs
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 4617-4626
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00439A

Jesús Antonio Luque-Urrutia, Miquel Solà, David Milstein, Albert Poater
Mechanism of the Manganese-Pincer-Catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling of Nitriles and Alcohols
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 2398-2403
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11308

Laura Falivene, Zhen Cao, Andrea Petta, Luigi Serra, Albert Poater, Romina Oliva, Vittorio Scarano, Luigi Cavallo
Towards the online computer-aided design of catalytic pockets
Nat. Chem., 2019, 11, 872-879
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0319-5

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Dr. Albert Poater

Dr. Albert Poater obtained the Chemistry Degree in 2001 in University of Girona (UdG). In 2000 he started the research career in the field of inorganic chemistry, supervised by Prof. Antoni Llobet, switching to physical chemistry with Profs. Miquel Duran and Miquel Solà to carry out a computational PhD. Despite enjoying plenty of experiences abroad including Chile with Prof. Alejandro Toro-Labbé, France with Prof. Odile Eisenstein,… the longest postdoctoral experiences took place in Salerno (Italy) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with Prof. Luigi Cavallo. His independence starts in 2010 as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, first in Catalan Water Research Institute (ICRA) and since 2012 in Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC). He has published over 120 papers (with more than 2700 citations and H-index 30), part of the jury of Bachelor, Master and PhD defences; and evaluation committees for ANEP and international organizations as well as reviewer for over 25 journals. Last but not least, Dr. Poater has collected funding by nearly 1 million euros, including among other projects the recent JIN of Spanish MINECO, and the European CIG.

Research overview

My research interests have been focused on two main topics: understanding the mechanism involving bioinorganic and inorganic molecules; and organometallic catalysis. Although more than the half of my computational projects tried to give insight to experimental issues, there is another precious part that tries to make a step forward, in terms of prediction of reactivity, including the description of the sterics of a ligand by the vBur index, which is user friendly for experimentalists thanks to a web server. Overall, the next years will be based on the work in collaboration with the outstanding world experimental groups to ensure research of high quality; develop new strategies to improve the synthesis of candidate drugs thanks to olefin metathesis catalysts, get the right recipe to transform water in molecular hydrogen as a source of energy by ruthenium water oxidation catalysts, and last but not least the hydrogenation and fixation of CO2.

Computational organometallic catalysis

This research line has a very simple goal: get computationally a new catalyst or family of catalysts for any kind of organometallic reaction with some clear characteristics: more efficiency, cheaper, no toxic or less toxic than the available ones. DFT calculations together with tools such as the steric maps obtained thanks to the vBur parameter aim to fulfil this objective; together with a long list of international collaborators: S. P. Nolan, K. Grela, G. W. Coates, C. Slugovc, L. Cavallo, J.-M. Basset,… In particular, olefin metathesis is found to be a useful tool to generate drugs against hepatitis for example, by means of the synthesis of macrocycles; or the study of the polymerization by Co-based catalysis is of industrial interest.

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Unravel computationally the mechanism of society concerns

This research line plans to find solutions for issues that create society concerns such the fixation of carbon dioxide, together with experiments carried out by Prof. S. P. Nolan or Prof. J.-M. Basset. The dual metal concerted catalysis is mandatory to fix CO2 and/or facilitate its transformation to other substances such as carbonates. On the other hand, the hydrogenation of CO2 by Knölker iron based catalysts is another way to reduce CO2 concentration. Last but not least, the generation of carbon free sources of energy, such as hydrogen, through water oxidation catalysis, in collaboration with Prof. A. Llobet or Prof. K. Takanabe, is explored.

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People

Principal Investigator

Albert Poater

Prof. Agregat


Staff and Postdocs

Arijit Saha

Postdoc (Beatriu de Pinós)

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Mou Mandal

Postdoc

Supervisor:
- A. Poater


PhD and MACMoM students

Muhammad Ehtisham

PhD student (FI)

Supervisor:
- J. M. Luís
- A. Poater

Anna Vidal

PhD student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater
- A. Comas (UAB)

Arslan Ahmad

PhD student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Artur Brotons

PhD student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Clara Mauclaire

PhD Student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater
- Jean Luc Renaud (Université Sourbonne)

Mahrou Moshfeghnia

PhD Student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Michele Tomasini

PhD student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Rabab Maqsood

PhD student (FI)

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Roger Monreal

PhD Student (FPU)

Supervisor:
- A. Pla-Quintana
- A. Poater

Thalía Ortiz

PhD (IF-UdG)

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Josep Solà

Master Student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater

Victor Alonso

Master Student

Supervisor:
- A. Poater


Funding

MCIU Proyecots I+D.

Project: Catàlisis predictiva para cambiar el oden secuencial entre experimentos i cálculos
Researcher: Dr. Albert Poater
Reference: PID2021-127423NB-100
Funding: 133.100 €
Period: 01/09/2022 – 31/08/2025

Bestriu de Pinós

Project: Beatriu de Pinós
Researcher: Dr. Arijit Saha (A. Poater)
Reference: 2022 BP00051
Funding: 152.348 €
Period: 01/05/2024 – 30/04/2027

ICREA Acadèmia Awards

Project: Programa ICREA Acadèmia 2019
Researcher: Dr. Albert Poater
Reference: ICREA Acadèmia 2019
Funding: 205.000 €
Period: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2024

Collaborations

Steven P. NolanGhent University (Belgium), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Jean-Luc RenaudUniversity of Caen-Normandie (France), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Remi ChauvinLCC-CNRS (France), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Naimeh BahriIran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute (Iran), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Giovanni TalaricoUniversity of Naples Federico II (Italy), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Luis Miguel AzofraUniversidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Valerio D’ EliaVISTEC (Thailand), collaboration with Albert Poater.
Michal SzostakRutgers University (United States), collaboration with Albert Poater.
News

Selective Cross-Metathesis Versus Ring-Closing Metathesis of Terpenes, Taking the Path Less Travelled

A diiodo ruthenium olefin metathesis pre-catalyst was employed to achieve remarkably selective cross-metathesis

Ten IQCC researchers have been included in Stanford University global list of 2% top scientists

The standardized citation metric analysis published by Ioaniddis (popularized as Stanford University global list

IQCC Science Slam 2025, October 1st 12:30h

Since 2015 the IQCC is organizing a Science Slam. On Tuesday October 1st the IQCC

Mou Mandal, new postdoc at IQCC

Dr. Mou Mandal has recently become a new member of the Institute of