- Reaction Mechanisms in Homogeneous Catalysis
- Catalysis with Multimetallic Systems
- Functional Polymers for use in Sustainable Chemistry
- Metal Complexes Derived from Perylene
- Metallomesogens
- Nanoparticles
- Enantioselective Transformations
- Inorganic and Organic Molecules with Transition Metals
- Molecular Engines
Sub-lines of research
Catalysis and Polymers Group (CYP)
- Structural characterisation of coordination, organometallic and organic compounds.
- Reaction mechanisms
- Transition metal-catalysed C-C bond-forming reactions
- Polymerisation of olefins
- Homogeneous catalysis with transition metal complexes
Liquid crystals and new materials group
- Carbazole-derived systems
- Metallomaterial liquid crystals with a hydrogen-bonded core structures containing macrocycles to form channels and molecular wires
- Polymetallic columnar systems around an aromatic core
- Solid materials with nanostructured metal centres in stackable layers
MIOMET Group - Inorganic and organometallic transition metal containing molecules
- Synthesis of new inorganic and organometallic molecules containing transition metals.
- Characterisation of the new synthesised molecules, by applying spectroscopic techniques and structural determination techniques by X-ray diffraction.
- Study of the reactivity of the new molecules.
- Practical applications of spectroscopic, diffraction and microscopic techniques for the characterisation of materials and their behaviour.
Asymmetric synthesis and catalysis group
- Symmetric synthesis of enantiomerically pure natural and unnatural nitrogen derivatives
- Synthesis of chiral catalysts derived from amino alcohols.
- Organocatalysis and enantioselective catalytic processes.