Balazs Pinter

Campus Casa Central Valparaíso
balazs.pinter@usm.cl

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Budapest Technical University and Economics.

Área principal:

Physical Chemistry.

Computational Chemistry.

 

Líneas de Investigación

1. Large-scale computational analysis and rational design of redox chemsirty of transition metal complexes for:

• redox flow batteries.
• metal-ligand cooperative multi-electron catalysts.
• second generation photoredox catalysts.

2. Integrated conceptual and computational design of Frustrated Lewis Pairs towards H₂ activation.
3. Developing a user freindly quantum chemical calculatiion manager platform to facilitate learning through undergraduate research.

 

Publicaciones indexadas (en los últimos 10 años o las 10 mejores)

1. Mechanism of copper-free Sonogashira reaction: the first identified palladium-palladium cross-coupling reaction. Gazvoda, M.; Virant, M.; Pinter, B.; Košmrlj, J., Nature Communications, 2018, accepted
2. A Scandium Stabilized Diisophosphaethynolate Ligand, [OCPPCO]⁴⁻. Grant, L. N.; Pinter, B.; Manor, B. C.; Gruetzmacher, H.; Mindiola, D. J., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 1049-1052. 
3. Conceptual Insights into DFT Spin State Energetics of Octahedral Transition Metal Complexes through a Density Difference Analysis. Pinter, B.; Chankisjijev, A.; Geerlings, P.; Harvey, J.; De Proft, F. Chem. Eur. J., DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704657 
4. Heterolytic Splitting of Molecular Hydrogen by Frustrated and Classical Lewis Pairs: A Unified Reactivity Concept. Skara, G.; De Vleeschouwer, F.; Geerlings, P.; De Proft, F.; Pinter, B. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, 16024. 
5. A Terminal Iron(IV) Nitride Supported by a Super Bulky Guanidinate Ligand and Examination of Its Electronic Structure and Reactivity. Maity, A.; Murillo, J.; Metta-Magaña, A.; Pintér, B.; Fortier, S. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 15691–15700 
6. Scrutinizing the Noninnocence of Quinone Ligands in Ruthenium Complexes: Insights from Structural, Electronic, Energy and Effective Oxidation State Analyses. Skara, G.; Gimferrer, M.; De Proft, F.; Salvador, P.; Pinter, B. Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55, 2185-2199.
7. Cyclo-P₃ Complexes of Vanadium: Redox Properties and Origin of the ³¹P NMR Chemical Shift. Pinter, B.; Smith, K. T.; Kamitani, M.; Zolnhofer, E.; Tran, B. L.; Fortier, S.; Pink, M.; Wu, G.; Manor, B. C.; Meyer, K.; Baik, M.-H.; Mindiola, D. J; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15247-15261.
8. Revealing the Thermodynamic Driving Force for Ligand-Based Reductions in Quinoids; Conceptual Rules for Designing Redox Active and Non-Innocent Ligands. Skara, G.; Pinter, B.; Geerlings, P.; De Proft, F. Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 4109-4117. 
9. A Planar Three-Coordinate Vanadium(II) Complex and the Study of Terminal Vanadium Nitrides from N₂: A Kinetic or Thermodynamic Impediment to N–N Bond Cleavage? Tran, B. L.; Pinter, B.; Nichols, A. J.; Konopka, F. T.; Thompson, R.; Chen, C.-H.; Krzystek, J.; Ozarowski, A.; Telser, J.; Baik, M.-H.; Meyer, K.; Mindiola, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 13035. 
10. Room Temperature Dehydrogenation of Ethane, Propane, Linear Alkanes C4–C8, and Some Cyclic Alkanes by Titanium–Carbon Multiple Bonds. Crestani, M. G.; Hickey, A. K.; Gao, X.; Pinter, B.; Cavaliere, V. N.; Ito, J.-I.; Chen, C.-H.; Mindiola, D. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 14754.

Proyectos de investigación (en los últimos 10 años o los 5 mejores)

1. Programa 3 de USM: Apoyo a la instalación en Investigación, 2018. Title: “Rational design of electronically Frustrated Lewis Pairs”