Vidal

Research group


Abstract

Our past and current objectives encompass the design and development of efficient catalytic enantioselective methodologies and their application to the preparation of targets of biological relevance. Designing modular catalysts with versatile synthetic procedures, and performing computational analyses of the catalytic event, are key elements in our strategy.

Two main objectives have been pursued within the group: In the first instance, we have aimed to develop highly modular enantiopure POP ligands for asymmetric organometallic catalytic synthesis. Secondly, we have aimed to devise strategies to generate a set of supramolecular enantiopure ligands, which resemble a privileged structure yet at the same time offer a range of closely related geometrically active sites.

Topics addressed

  • Supramolecularly regulated asymmetric catalysts.
  • Highly modular P-OP ligands.
  • Catalysis of industrial targets

Articles

“Enantiopure Bisphosphine Ligands with Appended Crown Ether Groups as Regulation Sites for Rh-mediated Hydrogenations”
Tetrahedron (2015), 71, 4490-4494
H. Fernández-Pérez, I. Mon, A. Frontera, A. Vidal-Ferran

“Supramolecularly Regulated Ligands for Asymmetric Hydroformylations and Hydrogenations”
Chem. Eur. J. (2015), 21, 11417-11426
A. Vidal-Ferran, I. Mon, A. Bauzá, A. Frontera, L. Rovira

“Substrate Activation in the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of N-Heteroarenes”
Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2015), 36, 5293-5303
B. Bugga, J. L. Núñez-Rico, A. Vidal-Ferran

“Hydrogenative Kinetic Resolution of Vinyl Sulfoxides”
Org Lett. (2015), 17, 4114-4117
J. R. Lao, H. Fernández-Pérez, A. Vidal-Ferran

“Diarylamino-substituted Tetraarylethene (TAE) as an Efficient and Robust Hole Transport Material for 11% Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells”
Chem. Commun. (2015), 51, 13980-13982
L. Cabau, I. Garcia-Benito, A. Molina-Ontoria, N. F. Montcada, N. Martín, A. Vidal-Ferran, E. Palomares

“Asymmetric Hydroformylation of Heterocyclic Olefins Mediated by Supramolecularly Regulated Rhodium-Bisphosphite Complexes”
J. Org. Chem (2015), 80, 10397-10403
L. Rovira, M. Vaquero, A. Vidal-Ferran