The research group Synthetic and Catalytic Methodologies works at the Research Center for Advanced Scientific Research (CICA) within the group of Molecular Chemistry and Materials. The research is focused on the development methodologies for the synthesis of organic compounds of interest, bioactive compounds or new organic materials. The synthetic tools are mainly related to Organometallic Chemistry and with the use of transition metals in organic synthesis. Since 1997, this research group has developed different projects associated with the synthesis of bioactive natural products, sustainable chemical processes and new reactions of formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds. Of particular relevance are the investigations on organometallic indium in reactions catalyzed by transition metals.
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Last Saturday SynCatMeth joined CICA in the event Ciencia na rúa in our City A Coruña presenting some attractive experiments.
Under the guidance of Prof Montserrat Martínez our researchers Dr. Ana da Lama and PhD students Diego Folgueira and Lucía Sanz made some beautiful chemical reactions.
Well done !!!

Recent publications
Ana Da Lama, Natalia Fernández-Bertólez, Lorena Colás, Miguel No-Gómez, Pedro Ramos-Cabrer, Vanessa Valdiglesias,* Luis A Sarandeses, M. Montserrat Martínez*
Bioorganic Chemistry 2025, 155, 108107 (10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.108107)
Ana Da Lama, José Pérez Sestelo, Luis A. Sarandeses, and M. Montserrat Martínez
J. Org. Chem. 2024, http://10.1021/acs.joc.4c01768
Ana Ruiz-Molina, Dawrin Pech-Puch, Ramón E. Millán, Lucía Ageitos, Harold Villegas-Hernández, Jerónimo Pachón, José Pérez Sestelo, Javier Sánchez-Céspedes, Jaime Rodríguez, and Carlos Jiménez
Chem. Eur. J. 2024, e202401844 10.1002/chem.202401844