Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs
Group Leader:
Miquel A. Pericàs
Administrative Support:
Sorania Jiménez / Sara Garcia
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Parijat Borah / Mauro Fianchini / Leijie Zhou / Moreshwar B. Chaudhari / Marco M. Mastandrea
PhD Students:
Marco M. Mastandrea (until Nov.) / Junshan Lai (until Nov.) / Nicola Zanda
Laboratory Engineer:
Patricia Llanes
Laboratory Technician in Training:
Cong Cheng (Sep.-Nov.)
Master Student:
Stefania Perulli
Summary
The group of Prof. Pericàs participates in an extensive research programme aimed at developing a complete set of catalysts immobilized in polymers and magnetic nanoparticles with optimal characteristics in terms of catalytic activity, stereoselectivity and life cycle. The final objective is the development of continuous flow versions of the most relevant catalytic and enantioselective organic synthesis processes, contributing to a more sustainable practice of chemical synthesis. In addition, the group pays attention to the discovery of new catalytic processes with synthetic interest promoted by light.
Publications
‘Development of Immobilized SPINOL-Derived Chiral Phosphoric Acids for Catalytic Continuous Flow Processes. Use in the Catalytic Desymmetrization of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxetanes
Lai, J.; Fianchini, M.; Pericàs, M. A.
ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 14971-14983
Separating Enthalpic, Configurational and Solvation Entropic Components in Host-Guest Binding. Application to Cucurbit[7]uril Complexes through a Full In Silico Approach via Water Nanodroplets
Fianchini, M.; Llorens, L.; Pericàs, M. A.
J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 10486-10499
Assessing the Recyclability of Supramolecularly Assembled Organocatalytic Species: A Theoretical Insight
Llorens, L.; Llanes, P.; Fianchini, M.; Pericàs, M. A.
Isr. J. Chem. 2020, 60, 475-484
MORE PUBLICATIONS
Manganese/Copper Co-catalyzed Electrochemical Wacker–Tsuji-Type Oxidation of Aryl-Substituted Alkenes
Lai, J.; Pericàs, M. A.
Org. Lett. 2020, 22 (18), 7338–7342
Continuous Flow Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure BINOL(s) by Acylative Kinetic Resolution
Lai, J.; Neyyappadath, R. M.; Smith, A. D.; Pericàs, M. A.
Adv. Synth. Catal. 2020, 362, 1370-1377
Evolution of phosphorus–thioether ligands for asymmetric catalysis
Margalef, J.; Pàmies, O.; Pericàs, M. A.; Diéguez, M.
Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 10795-10808
Telescoped Continuous Flow Synthesis of Optically Active γ-Nitrobutyric Acids as Key Intermediates of Baclofen, Phenibut, and Fluorophenibut
Ötvös, S. B.; Llanes, P.; Pericàs, M. A.; Kappe, C. O.
Org. Lett. 2020, 22 (20), 8122–8126
Decarboxylative Hydroalkylation of Alkynes via Dual Copper-Photoredox Catalysis
Mastandrea, M. M.; Cañellas, S.; Caldentey, X.; Pericàs, M. A.
ACS Catal. 2020, 10 (11), 6402–6408
Unlocking the potential of late-stage functionalisation: An accurate and fully automated method for the rapid characterisation of multiple regioisomeric products
Richardson, J.; Sharman, G. J.; Cañellas, S.; Gomez, J. E.; Martínez-Olid, F.
React. Chem. Eng. 2020, 5, 779-792
Projects
Tecnologías Químicas para la Valorización de Residuos Industriales en los Pirineos
Collaborative Projects | Ref: EFA308/19 Web page
CATCHEMPRO
Contributions to Catalysis towards Sustainable Chemical Production
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación | Ref: PID2019-109236RB-I00
VIRO-FLOW
Enabling Technologies and Drug Discovery: Continuous Flow Processes to Discover Novel Antiviral Inhibitors
MSCA ITN | Ref: 766058 Project Website
Flow2Biotics
Flow-chemistry to discover Novel antibiotics against multi-drug resistant bacteria
Ministerio| Ref: EIN2019-103513
SICAM
Grup de Recerca en Sistemes Catalítics Modulars
AGAUR | Ref: 2017SGR1139
Theses Supervised
Junshan Lai
November 11th, 2020
Universitat de Barcelona
“Immobilization of 2,4-cis-Diarylprolinol Silyl Ethers, Isothioureas, SPINOL-Derived Phosphoric Acids and Their Application in the Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis in Batch and Flow”
Marco Mastandrea
November 18th, 2020
Universitat de Barcelona
“Harnessing Visible Light for the Development of Novel Synthetic Strategies”
Anastasia Tkacheva
December 14th, 2020
Universitat de Barcelona
“Complex Anionic Halide Reagents as a Novel Useful Compound Class for Direct C-H Functionalizations: Studies Towards Aromatic Amination Reactions”
Features
Miquel A. Pericàs new member of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciència i Arts de Barcelona
hhttps://www.iciq.org/miquel-a-pericas-new-member-of-the-reial-academia-de-ciencia-i-arts-de-barcelona/