Francisco de Azambuja

Development of Lewis acid-polyoxometalate complexes as catalysts for peptide bond and phosphorylation reactions

Enantioselective Heck-Matsuda reaction in non-symmetric cyclic olefins: exploiting the catalyst control over the isomerization

Development of a new intermolecular asymmetric Fujiwara-Moritani reaction: a new synthetic tool to obtain biologically active moieties

C-H activations catalysed by Pd(II) and Rh(III): methodological and mechanistic studies to the synthesis of diarylethane and congeners and evaluations of its biological activity