Dr. Marcos G. Suero
Group Leader:
Marcos García Suero
Administrative Support:
Mª José Gutiérrez / Núria Planella
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Zhaofeng Wang (until April) / Liyin Jiang / Hangfei Tu (since December)
PhD Students:
Ana Garcia Herraiz (until September) / Pau Sarró
Summer Fellow:
Pol Mestres
Summary
The main objective of Dr. Suero is to catalytically generate reactive carbon species not yet explored and study their behavior towards carbon-hydrogen bonds. His goal is to discover new rules of reactivity of carbon, not only for the design and discovery of new chemical reactions, but also for its use to build molecular complexity. The group has been a pioneer in the catalytic generation of diazomethyl radicals as direct equivalents of monovalent carbine species. This discovery clearly revealed the radical dual carbohydrate behavior of the carbins, and allowed the design of different disconnection strategies for the construction of chiral centers.
Publications
‘Catalytic cleavage of C(sp2)-C(sp2) bonds with Rh-carbynoids’
Wang, Z.; Jiang, L.; Sarró, P.; Suero, M. G.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (39), 15509−15514
‘A transition-metal-free & diazo-free styrene cyclopropanation’
Herraiz, A. G.; Suero, M. G.
Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 9374-9379
‘New Alkene Cyclopropanation Reactions Enabled by Photoredox Catalysis via Radical Carbenoids’
Herraiz, A. G.; Suero, M. G.
Synthesis 2019, 51 (14), 2821-2828
Projects
CARBYNE
New Carbon Reactivity Rules
Ministerio | Ref: BES-2017-080163
Nuevos conceptos para la activación asimétrica de pequeñas moléculas a través de catalysis fotoredox y metálica
Ministerio | Ref: CTQ2016-75311-P
CHAOS
C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis
COST-European Cooperation in Science and Technology | Ref: EU Cost Action 15106 Web page
ICIQ Starting Career Programme
CELLEX-ICIQ, Ministerio, Severo Ochoa | Ref: ICIQ-SCP
Theses Supervised
Ana G. Herraiz
September 20th, 2019
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
‘New Carbon Reactivity Rules with Radical Carbenoids and Carbyne Equivalents Enabled by Photoredox Catalysis’
Features
ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Marcos García Suero
http://www.iciq.org/erc-consolidator-grant-awarded-to-marcos-garcia-suero/
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but this reaction edits skeletons
http://www.iciq.org/sticks-and-stones-may-break-your-bones-but-this-reaction-edits-skeletons/
