Cabré Montesinos, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
The main contribution of this doctoral thesis has been devoted to the field of synthetic organic chemistry. The Pauson-Khand reaction (PKR) is a metal-catalyzed [2+2+1] cycloaddition between an alkyne, ...
Kennington, Stuart (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
This thesis focuses on the search for new methodologies for the direct, stereoselective and catalytic formation of carbon-carbon bonds through the formation of chiral nickel(II) enolate species and the ...