News
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Many congratulations to our new doctor, Andrea Chaves Pouso, who defended her thesis on May 9, 2025
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A posdoctoral position is available!. Please visit the "Opportunities" section for more information.
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José Luis Nova has been awarded with one of the RSC poster prizes at the conference Flow Chemistry Europe 2025.
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Now it is turn for Pol who successfully defended his PhD thesis on April 1st. Congratulations to our newest doctor!
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A huge congratulations to our newest doctor, Andrés, who successfully defended his remarkable PhD thesis on March 20, 2025
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We welcome Thore Ifsen, from Hochschule Fresenius (Germany), who will be in the group as a visiting student as part of the Erasmus+ programme.
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We welcome Mingming Huang as a new postdoctoral researcher in our team!!
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A long story comes to an excellent end. Our method to switch selectivity in the borylative allyl-allyl cross-coupling via synergistic Cu/Pd catalysis has been published in JACS. A great collaborative effort comprising experimental work Nuria Vázquez-Galiñanes, Balázs L. Tóth and Martín Piñeiro-Suárez, and DFT calculations by Giuseppe Sciortino and Feliu Maseras (ICIQ). Congratulations to all!
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We have developed a methodology for the enantioselective allylboration of acetylene gas that serves as a versatile tool for the stereodivergent synthesis of natural products. The work has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie. Congrats to Andrés and Andrea!
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We welcome Théo Decrombecque from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (France). Théo will be in the group as visiting student until 31 August.
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We welcome Prof. Rajasekhara Reddy Sabbasani from the School of Advanced Sciences - Vellore Institute of Technology (Vellore, India) who will be in the group as visiting professor until 20 June.
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Our work on the Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Chiral Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes via Multicomponent Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation, has been published in Organic Letters. Congratulations to Sergio and Irene!
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We welcome Jose Luis Nova as a new postdoctoral researcher in our team!!
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Former PhD student Eva Rivera Chao has been awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (Premio Extraordinario de Doutoramento). Congratulations Eva!!!
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We welcome Prof. Marcus Mandolesi Sá from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil) who will be in the group as visiting professor from 1 March to 31 July.
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Our review on Enantioselective synthesis of chiral BCPs has been published. Congrats to Irene and Sergio!
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We welcome Saúl Alberca who joins our team as a new postdoctoral researcher.
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We welcome Akshay M. Nair as a new postdoctoral researcher in our team!!
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Our perspective where we discuss the accomplished achievements and remaining challenges in the field of alkyne allylboration has been published in ACS Catalysis.
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Our Desymmetrization of meso-dibromocycloalkenes by copper-catalyzed asymmetric borylative coupling with alkynes has been published in Chem Catalalysis. Congrats to Irene, Andrea, Jaime and Eva!
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Our review on C–C bond formation via photocatalytic direct functionalization of simple alkanes has been published in Chemical Communications. Congrats to Álvaro, Pol and Andrés!
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David has been awarded with the “best outreach video” prize at the XV Symposium of the Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry UAM-UCM-USC. Congratulations David!
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Our copper-catalyzed enantioselective borylative coupling of allenes and allylic gem-dichlorides has been published in ACS Catalysis. Congratulations to Martín and Andrés!
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Nuria has successfully defended her PhD Thesis on March 31, 2023.
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Andrés is one of the winners of the Twitter #ChemisTree contest organized by EuChemS.
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Martín Piñeiro is awarded with the 3rd poster prize in the Biennial Meeting of Organic Chemistry