Asymmetric tandem reactions. The combination of several organocatalytic processes or, alternatively, an organocatalytic process with an intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition, with the aim of generating new enantiomerically enriched skeletons is one of the group's lines of action.
In this line, the aim is to:
- Improve the quality of motor fuels, by means of different processes (cracking, alkylation, isomerisation...).
- Obtaining high added value products from petroleum/natural gas and its derivatives.
Use of chiral catalysts (metal complexes and organocatalysts) in new reactions of interest in organic synthesis in which C-C bonds and stereogenic centres are generated simultaneously. Synthesis of chiral building blocks.
In this line, the elimination of polluting compounds, mainly volatile organic ones and carbon monoxide, is studied using catalysts that can work at the lowest possible temperatures with high catalytic activity.
The incorporation of new synthetic tools to the group, such as the use of light-initiated catalytic radical processes, will open up new lines of work in combination with other methodologies such as asymmetric synthesis or the generation of new fluorinated chemical entities.
Development of protocols for the preparation of porous materials with specific characteristics, controlling parameters relating to their chemical nature (composition, functional groups and degree of functionalisation), the porous system (arrangement, pore size, pore type, etc.) and their aggregation.
Preparation and characterisation of materials and nanomaterials of diverse and controlled chemical nature (composition, size and shape), and with electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, mechanical and chemical properties, among others, of applied interest.
The aim is to analyse the capacity of different yeasts species and strains to carry out the synthesis of chiral synthons of pharmaceutical and industrial interest. The possibility of genetic manipulations leading to an improvement of their capacity in this aspect is also contemplated.
