Israel Fernández

How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University “We give them all A’s, and they give us all fives.”

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Heavyweight Champion: Caesium Diorganophosphides Outperform Lighter Congeners in the Catalytic Hydrophosphination of Alkenes and Alkynes The heavier, the better! We report that the caesium congener is the most active and versatile catalyst amongst a full group set of well-defined crown ether supported alkali metal diphenyl phosphides ...

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Heavyweight Champion: Caesium Diorganophosphides Outperform Lighter Congeners in Catalytic Hydrophosphination Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Copper‐Catalyzed Defluorinative Allylboration of Allenes with Trifluoromethyl Alkenes A copper-catalyzed borylative coupling of allenes with 1-trifluoromethyl alkenes is reported. The reaction selectively provides synthetically versatile borylated 1,1-difluoro-1,5-dienes that can be c....

Thrilled to share our last collaborative work with M. Fañanas just published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social on the Copper‐Catalyzed Defluorinative Allylboration of Allenes with Trifluoromethyl Alkenes chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transition-state aromaticity and its relationship with reactivity in pericyclic reactions Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Check out our Perspective on Transition-state aromaticity and its relationship with reactivity in pericyclic reactions just published in BJOC @beilstein-institut.bsky.social www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

Crown Ether Supported Alkali Metal Phosphides: Synthesis, Structures and Bonding Crowned! Herein we describe a complete series of crown ether coordinated alkali metal phosphides from lithium to cesium, including solid state structures, detailed investigations in solution and exte...

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@felixkraemer.bsky.social
and @remglasgow.bsky.social just published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social ChemEurJ as VIP article on Crown Ether Supported Alkali Metal Phosphides: Synthesis, Structures and Bonding
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Stepwise Acetylene Insertion and Ammonia Activation at a Digallene and Diindene Sequential [2+2] cycloaddition reactions between acetylene and the digallene and diindene compounds (ETer)2 (E = Ga, In; Ter = 2,6-Dipp2-C6H3; Dipp = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl) are described. Careful con...

PDRA extraordinaire, Álvaro García-Romero, hits it out if the park again! Check out his most recent work out today in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Outstanding computational support by DFT master @isra-group.bsky.social! Further details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Understanding Small Molecule Activation Promoted by Heavier Benzene 1,4‐diides: Interplay between Diradical Character and Aromaticity The intricate relationship between diradical character, aromaticity, and reactivity in annulated heavier Group 14 benzene-1,4-diides, i.e. [(ADC)E]2 (E = Si, Ge, Sn), based on an anionic dicarbene fr...

Check out our work just accepted in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social (ChemEurJ) on Understanding Small Molecule Activation by Heavier Benzene 1,4‐diides: Interplay between Diradical Character and Aromaticity @ghadwalgroup.bsky.social chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reduction‐Induced C–C Cleavage and Site‐Specific Hydrogenation of a Highly Strained Bilayer Spironanographene. The chemical reduction of a bilayer spironanographene, spiro-NG (C137H120), with Na and K metals in the presence of [2.2.2]cryptand to yield [Na+(2.2.2-cryptand)](C137H121–) (1) and [K+(2.2.2-cryptan...

Two in a row with @nazariolab ! Just accepted in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social the Reduction-Induced C–C Cleavage and Site-Specific Hydrogenation of a Highly Strained Bilayer Spironanographene.

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Just accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org
our last collaboration with @nazariolab
on the Diastereoselective Scholl reaction: Point-to-helical chirality transfer in molecular nanographenes
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Mechanism and Origin of Regioselectivity in the Phosphine-Catalyzed Heine Reaction Herein, we present a comprehensive computational study of the reaction mechanism and regioselectivity patterns of the phosphine-catalyzed Heine reaction involving N-benzoylaziridines. Density function...

Happy to share our last work just published in @acs.org JOC on the Mechanism and origin of regioselectivity in the phosphine-catalyzed Heine reaction pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Stabilities and Limitations in the Reactivity of Phosphorus Ylide‐Based Aluminum‐ and Gallium‐Carbon Ambiphiles − A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach The unexpected reactivity and stability limits of phosphorus ylide-based aluminum- and gallium-carbon ambiphiles are described. While the previously published t-butyl-substituted compound (2-{AltBu2}...

A detailed study on the reactivity of ambiphilic metallacycles is presented. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social, @pascalweisenb.bsky.social and @isra-group.bsky.social)! Have a look at the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ejic...

Influence of the Nature of Group 15 Element on [AuI]–C≡E/Azide 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction The impact of the nature of the Group 15 element on both the bonding situation and the reactivity of gold(I)-C ≡ E (E = N to Bi) complexes has been studied quantum chemically within the density theory...

Check out our last work just accepted in Inorg. Chem. @pubs.acs.org on the Influence of the Nature of Group 15 Element on [AuI]–C≡E/Azide 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Enantioselective photocatalytic synthesis of bicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes as ortho-disubstituted benzene bioisosteres with improved biological activity - Nature Chemistry The incorporation of saturated bioisosteres of phenyl rings has emerged as an appealing strategy in drug-discovery programmes. However, stereocontrolled access to these sp3-hybridized skeletons remain...

Thrilled to share this fantastic work with M. Tortosa just published in @naturechemistry.bsky.social

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Stepwise alkyne insertion in Au(I) acetylides: influence of the nuclearity The reaction between NHC-supported (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene) gold(i) trimethylsilylacetylide complexes with NHC gold(i) hydroxide species renders different symmetrical homobimetallic Au complexes...

Thrilled to share our last work with P. Ríos just accepted in @chemsci.bsky.social on the Stepwise alkyne insertion in Au(i) acetylides: influence of the nuclearity

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Extended Tetrathiafulvalene Multi‐Redox Systems Incorporating 4,5‐Dihydroazuleno[2,1,8‐ija]azulene Cores The introduction of 4,5-dihydroazuleno[2,1,8-ija]azulene as a central core between two 1,4-dithiafulvene (DTF) units provides a novel class of extended tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) electron donors. Herei....

Santa came to town….Check out this international collaborative work just accepted in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social on
Extended Tetrathiafulvalene Multi‐Redox Systems Incorporating 4,5‐Dihydroazuleno[2,1,8‐ija]azulene Cores

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Structural Snapshots of Reversible Carbon Dioxide Capture and (De)oxygenation at Group 14 Diradicaloids Although diradicals should exhibit a rather small reaction barrier as compared to closed-shell species for activating kinetically inert molecules, the activation and functionalization of carbon dioxid...

Excited to share this fantastic collaboration with
Ghadwal_Group just published in JACS @acspublications.bsky.social on Carbon Dioxide Capture and (De)oxygenation at Group 14 Diradicaloids
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“El 96% de las universidades públicas son transparentes frente al 19% de las privadas” https://hazrevista.org/transparencia/2024/11/96-por-ciento-universidades-publicas-transparentes-19-por-ciento-privadas/

Visible Light‐Mediated [4+2] Annulation of Silylimines with Olefins to 1‐Aminotetralins Enabled by Diradical Hydrogen Atom Transfer of C−H Bonds A facile photochemical, one-pot synthesis of highly functionalized 1-aminotetralins derivatives (> 70 examples) from readily accessible o-alkyl and o-formyl aryl silylimines with olefins is described...

Thrilled to share our last work in collaboration with
YangXiong just accepted in AngewChem
on Visible light‐mediated [4+2] annulation of silylimines with olefins involving Diradical Hydrogen Atom Transfer (DHAT) of C−H Bonds
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Happy to share our last work by S. Portela
on Understanding the reactivity and selectivity of Oxazaborolidium ion‐Catalyzed Diels‐Alder Reactions Involving Cyclobutenones as Dienophiles. Thanks
ChemPlusChem for the invitation
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El rector de #LaComplutense se dirige a la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid para expresar su más firme #desacuerdo con sus recientes declaraciones en la Asamblea de Madrid acerca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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