Design and synthesis of new chiral ligands capable of forming complexes with metal ions useful as chiral catalysts (Lewis acids). Design and synthesis of new chiral organic catalysts by proton transfer, hydrogen bridge formation or phase transfer.
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 our working group we have developed organocatalytic methodologies to carry out the intramolecular aza-Michael reaction. The extension of this methodology to desymmetrisation processes and tandem reactions is one of the future objectives in this field.
Organocatalysis. In our working group we have developed organocatalytic methodologies to carry out the intramolecular aza-Michael reaction. The extension of this methodology to desymmetrisation processes and tandem reactions is one of the future objectives in this field.
