Ana Borba

 PhD in Chemistry, subfield Molecular Spectroscopy by Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra.

 

Institutional address:

Departamento de Engenharia Química
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra

Rua Sívio Lima, Polo II
3030-790 Coimbra - Portugal

Tel. +3510239 798 700

email: anaborba@ci.uc.pt

 

Specialization and research interests

Subject area

•    Astrochemical and Physics,

•    Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,

•    Materials Science,

•    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

 Domain of specializations 

•     Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics

•     Molecular Spectroscopic

•     Infrared Spectroscopy

•     Photochemistry

•     Molecular Cryospectroscopy and Bio-spectroscopy 

•     Low Temperature Matrix Isolation

•     Spectroscopy of Gaseous Molecules in Supersonic Jet Expansion

•     Liquefied Noble Gases Solutions

•     Vibrational Circular Dichroism

•     Quantum Chemistry Calculations             

•     Conformational Isomerism and Tautomerism Analysis

Research interests

•     Physical Chemistry of Sol-Gel Materials

•     Hydrogen Bonding in Silica Clusters 

•     Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy Investigation of Silica Aerogels.

•   Structure and reactivity of novel tetrazole-saccharinates useful as multidentate nitrogen ligands

•     Spectroscopic Investigation of Biologically Relevant Chiral Benzylamine Derivatives.

•     Conformational Isomerism and Tautomerism in Biologically Relevant Molecules.

•    Molecular Structure, Photochemistry and Spectroscopy of Monomers and Molecular Clusters of Amide and Amine Derivatives of Mono- and Diazines as Studied by Matrix Isolation and Pulsed Supersonic Slit-Jet Expansion Infrared Spectroscopy.

•   FTIR and Theoretical Study of the Interaction of Biological Compounds with Phospholipids