Prof. Ruben Martin
Group Leader:
Ruben Martin, ICREA Professor
Postdoctoral Researchers:
Ciro Romano / Jacob Davies / Riccardo Salvatore Mega / Robert Freund / Matthew Wakeling / Roman Abrams / Santosh Gadekar / Jesús Rodrigálvarez / Franz-Lucas Haut / Nahury Yamile Castellanos / Tomas Gil / Liangliang Zhang
PhD students:
Fei Cong / Bradley Higginson / Craig Day / Laura Talavera / Carlota Odena / Xinyang Lyu / Dmitry Zimin / Wenjun Yue / Julien Lyonett / Jinhong Chen / Julia Ordóñez / Adrian Brenes / Huihui Zhang / Hao Wang / Filip Meger / Yu-biao Tian
Master students:
Joan Vicent Estornell / Clarence Tan Kang Lek
Lab technician:
David Sádaba
Visiting Researchers:
Ryan McGuire / Kim Saskia Mühlfenzl / Vu Duc Ha Phan
Summary
The research of Prof. Martin focuses on discovering the potential of catalytic functionalization of raw materials for the synthesis of valuable compounds from simple and abundant precursors. They have contributed extensively to the catalytic functionalization of C-O and C-H bonds, as well as to the fixation of CO2 to organic matter. They have described a catalytic technology capable of fixing carbon dioxide in saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons to prepare fatty acids, key parts in the manufacture of polymers, detergents, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
Publications
Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyl and Unactivated Olefin Derivatives by C(sp3)–C Bond Cleavage
Cong, F.; Mega, R. S.; Chen, J.; Day, C. S.; Martin, R.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 135 (5)
Ni-Catalyzed Oxygen Transfer from N2O onto sp3-Hybridized Carbons
Ni, S.; Le Vaillant, F.; Mateos-Calbet, A.; Martin, R.; Cornella, J.
Am. Chem. Soc 2022, 144 (40)
Nickel-Catalyzed Site-Selective Intermolecular C(sp3)−H Amidation
Chen, J.; Wang, H.; Day, C. S.; Martin, R.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61 (50)
MORE PUBLICATIONS
Ni-Catalyzed Site-Selective Hydrofluoroalkylation of Terminal and Internal Olefins
Yue, W. J.; Martin, R.
ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 12132–12137
Reductive Elimination from Sterically Encumbered Ni–Polypyridine Complexes
Day, C. S.; Ton, S. J.; McGuire, R. T.; Foroutan-Nejad, C.; Martin, R.
Organometallics 2022
Room-Temperature-Stable Magnesium Electride via Ni(II) Reduction
Day, C. S.; Dat Do, C.; Odena, C.; Benet-Buchholz, J.; Xu, L., Foroutan-Nejad, C.; Hopmann, K. H.; Martin, R.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (29), 13109–13117
Catalytic Hydrodifluoroalkylation of Unactivated Olefins
Yue, W. J.; Day, C. S.; Brenes Rucinski, A. J.; Martin, R.
Org. Lett. 2022, 24 (28), 5109–5114
Conformational Flexibility as a Tool for Enabling Site-Selective Functionalization of Unactivated sp3 C–O Bonds in Cyclic Acetals
Romano, C.; Talavera, L.; Gómez-Bengoa, E.; Martin, R.
Am. Chem. Soc. 2022
Dihydroquinazolinones as adaptative C(sp3) handles in arylations and alkylations via dual catalytic C–C bond-functionalization
Lv, X. Y.; Abrams, R.; Martin, R.
Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 2394
Redox-Neutral Ni-Catalyzed sp3 C–H Alkylation of α-Olefins with Unactivated Alkyl Bromides
Buendia, M. K.; Higginson, B.; Kegnæs, S.; Kramer, S.; Martin, R.
ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 3815–3820
Enantioselective Deaminative Alkylation of Amino Acid Derivatives with Unactivated Olefins
Sun, S. Z.; Cai, Y. M.; Zhang, D. L.; Wang, J. B.; Yao, H. Q.; Rui, X. Y.; Martin, R.; Shang, M.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (3), 1130–1137
Defunctionalization of sp3 C–Heteroatom and sp3 C–C Bonds Enabled by Photoexcited Triplet Ketone Catalysts
Gu, Y.; Yin, H.; Wakeling, M.; An, J.; Martin, R.
ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 1031–1036
Pd-catalyzed Arylation of 1,2-Amino Alcohol Derivatives via beta-Carbon Elimination
Sau, M.; Martin, R.; Pericàs, M. A.
Synlett 2022, 33 (1), 52-56
Projects
NOVOFLAT
Escaping from Flatland by “de novo” Catalytic Decarboxylation Techniques
ERC Advanced Grant | Ref: 883756
CO2PERATE
Cooperation towards a sustainable chemical industry
MSCA ITN | Ref: 859910 Web page
NICK-BOND
Nickel-catalyzed bond-formation reactions with native functional groups
Ministerio | Ref: PGC2018-096839-B-I00
CAT-NAT
Formación enlaces sp3 carbono-carbono y carbono-heteroatomo mediante funcionalización catalítica de grupos nativos
Ministerio | Ref: PID2021-123801NB-I00
CATINERT
Grup d’Activació Catalítica d’Enllaços Inerts
AGAUR | Ref: SGR 938
Theses Supervised
Craig Day
July 1, 2022
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
More is Different Modern Computational Modeling for Heterogeneous Catalysis
Bradley Higginson
November 17, 2022
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Catalytic transformations enabled by dual nickel-photoredox manifolds
Features
Three ICIQers participate in the 71st Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry
https://www.iciq.org/three-iciqers-participate-in-the-71st-nobel-laureate-meeting-in-chemistry/
Cross-coupling ketones: adding flexibility to the synthetic chemistry toolbox
https://www.iciq.org/cross-coupling-ketones-adding-flexibility-to-the-synthetic-chemistry-toolbox/