Spin States In Biochemistry And Inorganic Chemistry - Influence On Structure And Reactivity

Editors Swart and Costas present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on metal spin states and their role in the reactivity of important biomolecules, spin crossover compounds, and industrial catalysis. The selections that make up the main body of the text cover experimental techniques for determining spin states, molecular discovery in spin crossover, multiple spin state scenarios, and many other related subjects. Marcel Swart is a faculty member of the University of Girona and the Intituci<’o> Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avancats, Spain. Miquel Costas is a faculty member of the University of Girona. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Prof. Dr. Marcel Swart, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Marcel Swart is ICREA Research Professor in the Institute of Computational Chemistry Catalysis at the Universitat de Girona, Spain. He is a computational/theoretical chemist working in the field of (bio)chemistry and biomedicine. He has published >100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has an h-index of 26. He was awarded the Young Scientist 2005 award by ICCMSE (International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering), and was selected as one of the promising young inorganic chemists of "The next generation" that were invited to contribute to a special issue of Inorganica Chimica Acta in 2007, and to a special issue of Polyhedron in 2010.
In 2012, he was awarded the MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize "for his development of new computational chemistry programs, design of new research tools and application to (bio)chemical systems that are highly relevant for society and science." In September 2012 he organized a CECAM/ESF Workshop on "Spin states in biochemistry and inorganic chemistry", highlighted in Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 7-9.

Prof. Dr. Miquel Costas, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Miquel Costas became Professor Titular at the University of Girona in 2003. He has published over 70 papers in international journals that have received over 3470 citations. His research interests involve the study of transition metal complexes involved in challenging oxidative transformations, including functionalization of C-H bonds and water oxidation. These systems commonly operate in multistate reactivity scenarios, implicating multiple spin states.