Our Ongoing Research

Our research group is currently working on the efficient syntheses of simple and highly functionalized compounds, mainly carbocycles and heterocycles, together with their applications in Biological Chemistry, Molecular Materials and Catalysis.

• Most of our work is related to Carbohydrate Chemistry, a growing area in chemistry and biochemistry due to the extremely important role of carbohydrates in nature.  The role of synthetic chemists and microbiologists in this area is extremely important. They are responsible for the development of new synthetic methodologies to improve the access to known sugars or sugar-based compounds, together with the synthesis of new sugar-based molecular or macromolecular entities. 
• Another ongoing area of research deals with the synthesis of complex amides and peptides based on non-natural amino acids, of interest as drugs, as new materials or as catalysts.
• We are also interested in the synthesis of heterocycles and natural products. 

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