Alberto Romão Dias

Who was Alberto Romão Dias?

Alberto Romão Dias was a full professor of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal.

His alma mater includes graduating from industrial-chemical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1964, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Oxford University in 1970, and Aggregation at the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1979.

His research interests were in the area of inorganic chemistry, particularly chemistry of coordination compounds and the organometallic chemistry of transition metals. The latter work has been on mono and polynuclear complex containing the fragment M(h5-C5H5)2.

Other topics in which he was interested include the synthesis of complexes with p ligands, reactions of metal vapours with different subtracts aiming at the synthesis of new compounds and the preparation of species with catalytic polimerization of olefins with transition metal complexes.