Suero
Research group
Abstract
Dr Suero’s group major goal is to develop the catalytic generation of unexplored carbon-based reactive species, and to study their behaviour towards chemical feedstocks. Their strategy is revealing new reactivity rules at carbon that chemists have been missing, not only in the design and discovery of new chemical reactions, but also in their use to build molecular complexity. They have pioneered the catalytic generation of diazomethyl radicals as direct equivalents of monovalent carbyne species. The latter process, published in Nature, clearly revealed the distinct dual radical–carbene behaviour of carbynes, and its application in discovering elusive disconnection approaches for chiral centre construction.
Topics addressed
- Development of unconventional C=C and C-H bond activations.
- Novel concepts in photoredox catalysis.
Articles
“Generating carbyne equivalents with photoredox catalysis”
Nature (2018) 554, 86-91.
Z. Wang, A.G. Herraiz, A.M. del Hoyo, M.G. Suero