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Group 10 transition metals; hydroxo-complexes; paladacycles; hemilabile ligands; coordination modes; conformational studies; structural elucidation; Powder and single cristal X-ray diffraction; data digging; crystallographic data bases (Cambridge Structural Database); Statistical methods.

We actively work together in two lines:

 

1. Oriented synthesis, characterization and study of properties of selected compounds. µ-hydroxo- and/or di-µ-acetate- palladium (II) complexes as precursors in acid-base reactions against a plethora of ligands containing acidic hydrogens. (Dalton Transactions 2011, 40, 156-168). This way a number of new palladacycles with luminiscent properties (Dalton Transactions 2011, 40, 3537-3546) or palladium imidato-complexes that have revealed as efficient catalysts in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions have been prepared.( New Journal of Chemistry 2006, 30, 1695-1704).

Another family of ligands we are interested at are iminophosphines and phosphinoamides, that have received great attention due to its potential hemilability and subsequent properties (Inorganica Chimica Acta 2010, 363, 1084-1091).

 

2.Solid state structural chemistry. This line is mainly focused in structural elucidation by powder and single cristal X-ray diffraction, but also thermogravimetry-mass spectrometry (TG-MS). (Dalton Transactions 2009,43, 9625-9636). At the same time we use crystallographic data bases for the study of structural properties (mainly conformational properties) by means of new statistical methods (Acta Crystallographica Section B-Structural Science 2007, 63, 869-878) and computational chemistry techniques (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 3687-3697)

 

 

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Our Group has active collaborations with the following groups:

Professors Gregorio Sánchez and Mª Dolores Santana at Universidad de Murcia regarding synthesis of complexes and study of luminescent properties.
Also in Universidad de Murcia we work with Prof. Arturo Espinosa in DFT Studies.
In the same Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena the collaboration with Prof. M. Kessler from the department of Matemática Aplicada y Estadística has allowed the development of structural studies in organometallic compounds.

Dr. Ivan da Silva Works in Grenoble at ESRF (SpLine Spanish CRG Beamline) and takes part of the structural elucidation of polycrystalline samples by X-ray diffraction.
Since 2004 we collaborate with Prof. I. J. S Fairlamb Group at the University of York developing applications of our palladium imidato-complexes in several cross-coupling reactions.
We also work with Dr.A. Kapdi of Institute of Chemical Technology (Mumbai) looping for catalytic applications of palladium hydroxo-complexes and selected derivatives.
We have recently started a new collaboration with Dr. Ricardo Mallavía Group (IBMC-Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche), testing selected complexes as catalysts in the synthesis of new fluorene copolymers by means of Suzuki reaction.