The research group was founded in 1997 by Profs. Luis Sarandeses and José Pérez Sestelo and now is integrated by two additional faculty members Profs. Montserrat Martínez and Ricardo Riveiros. Along the years a number of PhD, Master and undergraduate students in Chemistry have been part of this group.
Teaching Staff
Luis Sarandeses
Luis Alberto Sarandeses was born in Lugo, Spain, in 1963. He studied chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain and obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Profs. L. Castedo and A. Mouriño (1989, Excellent Award). After a postdoctoral stay at the University Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France, with Dr. J.-L. Luche (1990–1991) he joined the University of A Coruña, Spain, as assistant professor, where he became full professor in 2009. His research interests are focused on the utilization of transition metals in organic synthesis and in the synthesis of natural products and pharmacologically active compounds.
Tel: 881 01 2174
luis.sarandeses@udc.es
José Pérez Sestelo
José Pérez Sestelo graduated in Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1989) where he got his Ph.D. degree in 1994 (Cum laude) under the supervision of Profs. A. Mouriño and L. Castedo. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania under supervision of Prof. Amos B. Smith III, and Boston College with Prof. T. Ross Kelly, he joined at the University of A Coruña in 1997 as postdoctoral researcher (MEC). Assistant professor during 1998-2003 and Associate professor from 2003 to 2018, he is now full Professor in Organic Chemistry. His current research interests are focused on indium chemistry, transition metal-catalyzed reactions in organic synthesis and to the synthesis of biologically active compounds.
Tel: 881 01 2041
sestelo@udc.es
Montserrat Martínez
Montserrat Martínez studied Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela where she got the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 2000 (Cum laude). She spent two years in Prof. Dieter Hoppe´s group at the University of Muenster as a MEC fellow. In 2005 she joined the research group of Prof. Luis Sarandeses and Prof. José Pérez Sestelo as Isidro Parga Pondal fellow. She is Associate Professor since 2012. Her current research interests include indium organometallics in cross-coupling reactions and indium(III) catalysis.
Tel: 881 01 2265
mmartinezc@udc.es
Ricardo Riveiros
Ricardo Riveiros was born in Ferrol (La Coruña) in 1968 and obtained his bachelor in chemistry in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1993. He got his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2001 in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela under the supervisión of Prof. Antonio Mouriño and Luis Sarandeses. After a 2 years postdoc in the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr (Germany) with Prof. A. Fürstner, he came back to Spain in 2004 and joined the UDC as Investigador Contratado Parga Pondal. He is Associate Prof. since 2018.
Tel: 881 01 2264
ricardo.riveiros@udc.es
Former PhD Students
José María Gil-Negrete
(2019)
Title: Triorganoindium Reagents in Cross-Coupling Reactions: Transition-Metal-Free Reactions with Benzopyranyl Acetals and Tetrahydroisoquinolines and Solid-Stable Organometallics
Lorena Alonso Marañón
(2018)
Title: Reacciones de hidroarilación e hidroalcoxilación intramolecular de alquinos catalizadas por indio(III): Aplicaciones en la síntesis de 2Hcromenos, 1,2-dihidroquinolinas y benzo[b]furanos.
Cristina Pérez Caaveiro
(2017)
Title: Organometálicos de Indio en reacciones de acoplamiento cruzado con heterociclos nitrogenados: Aplicaciones en la síntesis de compuestos biológicamente activos y materiales orgánicos
Ángeles Mosquera Lamas
(2012)
Title: Organometálicos de Indio(III) en Reacciones de Acoplamiento Cruzado: Síntesis de Pirimidinas 2,5-Disustituidas, 1,1’-Binaftilos y 1,2-Ditieniletenos.
Rubén Tato Rodríguez
(2012)
Title: Organometálicos de indio en reacciones de acoplamiento catalizadas por rodio.
Miguel Peña López
(2011)
Title: Nuevas metodologías en síntesis orgánica: Síntesis de Neomarinona, Barrenazinas y Fumaquinona
Rosa María Suárez Ordóñez
(2006)
Title: Reacciones de adición conjugada diastereoselectivas en medio acuoso. Aproximación a la síntesis de neomarinona.
Miguel Ángel Pena Piñón
(2006)
Title: Organometálicos de indio en reacciones de acoplamiento cruzado catalizadas por paladio
María del Mar Real Gallego
(2003)
Title: Síntesis y reactividad de 1,3-bis(trimetilsililoxi)-1,3-dienos endo-exocíclicos en reacciones de Diels-Alder. Aplicaciones en la síntesis de helicenos y neomarinona.
Iván Cornella Taracido
(2001) Title: Síntesis de análogos de calcitriol modificados en C-18 y de metabolitos de vitamina D3 hidroxilados en C-24