Armando José Latourrette de Oliveira Pombeiro is a Portuguese chemical engineer.

He was born in 1949 in Porto, Portugal. His education includes Chemical Engineering (1971, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical Univ. Lisbon); D. Phil. (1976, University of Sussex, England; supervisors: Prof. J. Chatt and Dr. R.L. Richards). He is currently a Full Professor (IST, since 1989) and Coordinator/Founder of the research Group on “Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Electrochemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis”.[1] Pombeiro is a Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (since 1988), Member of the International Society of Electrochemistry, and was Chairman of the XXV Int. Conf. Organometallic Chemistry (XXV ICOMC, 2012).[2] As a published author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide.[3]

Academic work

Since 1971, Pombeiro has been working at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical Univ. Lisbon in Lisbon. He is currently Full Professor. His research activities[4] concern:

Activation of small molecules

Activation of small molecules with biological, pharmacological, environmental or industrial interest or related ones [e.g., alkanes (functionalization under mild conditions), alkynes, phosphaalkynes, isocyanides, carbon monoxide, dinitrogen, nitriles, cyanamides, nitric oxide, oximes, oxadiazolines, carboxamides, amidines, olefins, azides or cyanates] by transition metal centres, and developing their application in metal-mediated synthesis and catalysis, namely by searching for mimetic systems of biological processes (e.g. catalysed by peroxidases, particulate methanemonooxygenase, nitrile hydratases and nitrogenases), alternatives for industrial processes and new types of molecular activation with significance in fine chemistry (including the synthesis of compounds with bioactivity).[5] Thus, he developed carboxylation of saturated hydrocarbons with carbon monoxide and persulfate anion catalyzed by various metal compounds (the Sen–Fujiwara–Pombeiro reaction).[6]

Crystal engineering of coordination compounds

Crystal engineering of coordination compounds, self-assembly of polynuclear and supramolecular structures, transition metal and organometallic chemistries and catalysis in aqueous media, high pressure gas reactions.

Molecular electrochemistry of coordination and organic compounds

Molecular electrochemistry of coordination and organic compounds, namely towards applications in electrosynthesis, electrocatalysis and in mechanistic studies, as well as in the establishment of potential-structure relationships, and in the induction of chemical reactivity by electron-transfer.

Publications

A. J. L. Pombeiro has published about 500 papers in chemical journals. He is the editor and author (coauthor) of monographs and chapters.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Pombeiro is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ACS Catalysis (2011, the year of foundation), Inorganic Chemistry Communications (since 2003), Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (since 2008), Letters in Organic Chemistry (2008–10) and Portugaliae Electrochimiac Acta (since 1998) of the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (since 2011) and Catalysts (since 2010). His selected prizes: Madinabeitia (International Hispano-Portuguese prize), Royal Spanish Chemical Society, 2013, J. Heyrovský Centennial Medal ("J. Heyrovský Centennial Congress on Polarography", Prague, 1990), Rotary Club (Oporto) scholar prize, 1965-66.

References

  1. ^ Elsevier (2013-01-01). "Author profile - Armando J. L. Pombeiro". Elsevier.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  2. ^ "International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry - 2012". Cqe.ist.utl.pt. 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  3. ^ "Pombeiro, A. J. L." worldcat.org. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  4. ^ "Armando J L Pombeiro - research profile on BiomedExperts". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  5. ^ K. Kanamori, K. Tsuge, “Inorganic Chemistry of Vanadium”, in “Vanadium.Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches”, (H. Michibata, ed.), Springer, Dordrecht, 2012. pp. 3-34. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0913-3.
  6. ^ E. V. Gusevskaya, L. Menini, L. A. Parreira, R. A. Mesquita, Y. N. Kozlov, G. B. Shul’pin, “Oxidation of isoeugenol to vanillin by the “H2O2–vanadate–pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid” reagent”, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem., 2012, 363–364, 140–147. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcata.2012.06.001
  7. ^ Pombeiro, Armando J. L. (2003). Técnicas e operações unitárias em química laboratorial [Techniques and Unit Operations in Laboratory Chemistry] (4 ed.). Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
  8. ^ Pombeiro, A.L. Preparation, Structure, Bonding and Reactivity of Dinitrogen Complexes. Chapter 6 in Chatt, J; Câmara Pina, L. M. and; Richards, R. L., eds. (1980). New Trends in the Chemistry of Nitrogen Fixation. London: Academic Press. pp. 153–197.
  9. ^ Pombeiro, A.L. Activation of Unsaturated C=C and C=-N Bonds: Formation of Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds. in Ziólkowski, J. J. (1988). Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. pp. 100–124.
  10. ^ Pombeiro, A.L. Carbene Complexes Derived from the Activation of Isocyanides and Alkynes by Electron-Rich Transition Metal Centres. in Schubert, U., ed. (1989). Advances in Metal Carbene Chemistry (NATO Advanced Research Workshop) NATO ASI Series. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 79–99.
  11. ^ Pombeiro, A. J. L.; McCleverty, J., eds. (1993). Molecular Electrochemistry of Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Compounds, NATO ASI Series. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  12. ^ Pombeiro, A. J. L.; Kukushkin, V. Y. Ligand Reactivity: General Introduction. in McCleverty, J. A.; Meyer, T. J., eds. (2004). Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry II. Vol. 1. Elsevier. pp. 585–594.
  13. ^ Pombeiro, A. J. L.; Amatore, C., eds. (2004). Trends in Molecular Electrochemistry. New York/Lausanne: FontisMedia.
  14. ^ A. J. L. Pombeiro, M. F. C. Guedes da Silva, R. H. Crabtree, “Technetium & Rhenium: Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry”, in “Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry”, 2nd ed. (R.B. King, ed.), Wiley, Chichester, 2005, Vol. 9, pp. 5499-5516.
  15. ^ Advances in Organometallic Chemistry: The Silver/Gold Jubilee International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry Celebratory Book, (A. J. L. Pombeiro, ed.)
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