Maseras

Research group


Abstract

Computational chemistry is applied to the study of different chemical processes of practical interest. DFT and DFT/MM methods are used to different processes in homogeneous catalysis, in most cases in collaboration with experimental groups. Studies in 2014 focused on cross-coupling processes and the reactivity of metal-stabilized fragments.

Topics addressed

  • Cross-coupling and related processes
  • Reactivity of metal-stabilized fragments

Articles

“An Unusual Example of Hypervalent Silicon: A Five-Coordinate Silyl Group Bridging Two Palladium or Nickel Centers through a Nonsymmetrical Four-Center Two-Electron Bond”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2014) 53, 1103–1108
A. Nova, H-W. Suh, T.J. Schmeier, L. M. Guard, O. Eisenstein, N. Hazari, F. Maseras

“Rationale for the sluggish oxidative addition of aryl halides to Au(I)”
Chem. Commun. (2014) 50, 1533–1536
M. Livendahl, C. Goehry, F. Maseras, A. M. Echavarren

“Reaction of Alkynes and Azides: Not Triazoles Through Copper–Acetylides but Oxazoles Through Copper–Nitrene Intermediates”
Chem. Eur. J. (2014) 20, 3463-3474
E. Haldón, M. Besora, I. Cano, X. C. Cambeiro, M. A. Pericàs, F. Maseras, M. C. Nicasio, P. J. Pérez

“Chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective silver-catalyzed aziridination of dienes: scope, mechanistic studies, and ring-opening reactions”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2014) 136, 5342-5350
J. Llaveria, A. Beltrán, W. M. C. Sameera, A. Locati, M. M. Díaz-Requejo, M. I. Matheu, S. Castillón, F. Maseras, P. J. Pérez

“Silver-Catalyzed Functionalization of Esters by Carbene Transfer: The Role of Ylide Zwitterionic Intermediates”
ChemCatChem (2014) 6, 2206–2210
R. Gava, M. Á. Fuentes, M. Besora, T. R. Belderrain, K. Jacob, F. Maseras, M. Etienne, A. Caballero, P. J. Pérez