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David Ferro Costas

PhD Assistant Professor

david.ferro@usc.es

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Doctor by the Universidade de Vigo with the thesis Exploring new applications for QTAIM and its complementarity with other methods (2015). Supervised by Dr. Ricardo Mosquera Castro.

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2024

Unraveling the Catalytic Mechanism of β-Cyclodextrin in the Vitamin D Formation

Ferro-Costas, D., Sánchez-Murcia, P. A., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2024

Combined DFT and Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of UiO-66 Catalysts for γ-Valerolactone Production

Le, T.-H. T., Ferro-Costas, D., Fernández-Ramos, A., & Ortuño, M. A.

2023

New computational tools for chemical kinetics: the Cathedral Package

Ferro-Costas, D. Fernández-Ramos, A.

2022

Erratum: Correction: An integrated protocol to study hydrogen abstraction reactions by atomic hydrogen in flexible molecules: application to butanol isomers (Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (2022) 24 5 (3043-3058))

Ferro-Costas, D., Cordeiro, M. N. D. S., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2022

Correction to: TorsiFlex: an automatic generator of torsional conformers. Application to the twenty proteinogenic amino acids (Journal of Cheminformatics, (2021), 13, 1, (100), 10.1186/s13321-021-00578-0)

Ferro‑Costas, D., Mosquera‑Lois, I., & Fernandez‑Ramos, A.

2022

An integrated protocol to study hydrogen abstraction reactions by atomic hydrogen in flexible molecules: application to butanol isomers.

Ferro-Costas, D., Cordeiro, M. N. D. S., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 24(5), 3043-3058. 2022

2021

Chapter 9: The Calculation of Tunnelling Splittings Illustrated on Malonaldehyde

Ferro-Costas, D., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2021

TorsiFlex: an automatic generator of torsional conformers. Application to the twenty proteinogenic amino acids.

Ferro-Costas, D., Mosquera-Lois, I., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2020

Role of Microsolvation and Quantum Effects in the Accurate Prediction of Kinetic Isotope Effects: The Case of Hydrogen Atom Abstraction in Ethanol by Atomic Hydrogen in Aqueous Solution

Kannath, S., Adamczyk, P., Ferro-Costas, D., Fernández-Ramos, A., Major, D. T., & Dybala-Defratyka, A.

2020

Pilgrim: A thermal rate constant calculator and a chemical kinetics simulator

Ferro-Costas, D., Truhlar, D. G., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2020

Chemical reactivity from the vibrational ground-state level. The role of the tunneling path in the tautomerization of urea and derivatives

Mosquera-Lois, I., Ferro-Costas, D., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2020

A Combined Systematic-Stochastic Algorithm for the Conformational Search in Flexible Acyclic Molecules.

Ferro-Costas, D., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2018

Reply to the “Comment on «methanol dimer formation drastically enhances hydrogen abstraction from methanol by OH at low temperature»” by D. Heard, R. Shannon, J. Gomez Martin, R. Caravan, M. Blitz, J. Plane, M. Antiñolo, M. Agundez, E. Jimenez, B. Ballesteros, A. Canosa, G. El Dib, J. Albaladejo and J. Cernicharo,: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, DOI: 10.1039/C7CP04561A

Siebrand, Smedarchina, Ferro-Costas, Martínez-Núñez, & Fernández-Ramos.

2018

Q2DTor: A program to treat torsional anharmonicity through coupled pair torsions in flexible molecules.

Ferro-Costas, D., Cordeiro, M. N. D. S., Truhlar, D. G., & Fernández-Ramos, A.

2018

Influence of Multiple Conformations and Paths on Rate Constants and Product Branching Ratios. Thermal Decomposition of 1-Propanol Radicals.

Ferro-Costas, D., Martínez-Núñez, E., Rodríguez-Otero, J., Cabaleiro-Lago, E., Estévez, C. M., Fernández, B., Fernández-Ramos, A., & Vázquez, S. A.

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