Profile
B. Sc. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece, 1986
Ph. D., Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 1992
Post-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 2000-7
Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 2007-today
Research Interests
Application of computational methods (ab initio, DFT) into Chemistry
Reactive intermediates
Radicals, diradicals and diradicaloids
Carbocations, carbenes and nitrenes.
Pyramidalized olefins and their organometallic complexes
Selected Publications
A. Nicolaides "Singlet Hydrocarbon Carbenes with High Barriers Toward Isomerization: A Computational Investigation", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 9070–9073.
F. A. Theophanous, 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.
M. A. Kouskoulli et al. "Estimating the pi bond energies and the stabilities of oxy-substituted carbocations ", THEOCHEM 2007, 811, 355-359. (Invited paper for the Special Issue of "Computational Organic Chemistry").
D. Stefani et al. " A computational study of the conformations of the boric acid (B(OH)3), its conjugate base ((HO)2BO¯) and borate anion (B(OH)4¯)" THEOCHEM 2008, 853, 33-38.
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