Dr. Jesus A. Varela Carrete

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry
KeywordsMetal-Catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions, Synthesis of Medium-sized Carbo and Heterocycles, C2 Symmetric Ligands, Organometallics

Current contact address

CountrySpain
CitySantiago de Compostela
InstitutionUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela
InstituteCentro Singular de Investigacion en Química Bioloxica y Materiais Moleculares (CiQUS)
Homepagehttp://web.usc.es/~qojavc/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Paul KnochelInstitut für Organische Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/1999

Programme(s)

1999Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2003Jesús A. Varela, Luis Castedo and Carlos Saá: 'Formal' Ruthenium-Catalyzed [4+2+2] Cycloaddition of 1,6-Diynes to 1,3-Dienes: Formation of Cyclooctatrienes vs Vinylcyclohexadienes. In: Org. Lett, 2003, 2841-2844
2003Jesús A. Varela and Carlos Saá: Construction of Pyridine Rings by Metal-mediated [2+2+2] Cycloaddition. In: Chem. Rev, 2003, 3787-3801
2003Jesús A. Varela, Carlos Saá and Luis Castedo: Scope of Ru(II)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Pyridines from Alkynes and Nitriles. In: J. Org. Chem, 2003, 8595-8598
2001Jesús A. Varela, Luis Castedo, Miguel Maestro, José Mahía and Carlos Saá: Regiocontrolled One-Step Synthesis of 3,3¿-Disubstituted 2,2¿-Bipyridine Ligands By Cobalt(I)-Catalyzed Cyclotrimerizations. In: Chem. Eur. J, 2001, 5203-5213
2001Jesús A. Varela, Diego Peña, Bernd Goldfuss, Kurt Polborn and Paul Knochel: Remote C-H Activation of Phenyl Substituted Alkenes by BH3¿THF: Mechanism and Applications. In: Org. Lett, 2001, 2395-2398
2000Paul Knochel, Andreas Boudier, Lars O. Bromm, Eike Hupe, Kolja Knapp, Jesús A. Varela, Hamid Laaziri and Frédéric Lhermitte: New Stereoselective Transformations Involving Organoboranes and Organozinc Compounds Applications of the Boron-Zinc Chain Reaction and the Diastereoselective Migration of Organoboranes. In: P. V. Ramachandran, H. C. Brown, Organoboranes for Synthesis. A.C.S., 2000. 33-51
2000Paul Knochel, Andreas Boudier, Lars O. Bromm, Eike Hupe, Jesús A. Varela, Alain Rodriguez, Christopher Koradin, Tanasri Bunlaksananusorn, Hamid Laaziri and Frédéric Lhermitte: Selective Transformations mediated by Main-group Organometallics. In: Pure Appl. Chem, 2000, 1699-1703
1999Jesús A. Varela, Luis Castedo and Carlos Saá: One-Step Synthesis of Spiropyridines, a Novel Class of C2-Symmetric Chiral Ligands, by Cobalt (I)-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloadditions between bis-Alkynenitriles and Alkynes. In: Org. Lett, 1999, 2141-2143
1998Jesús A. Varela, Luis Castedo and Carlos Saá: One-Step Synthesis of Symmetrical 3,3¿-Substituted 2,2'-Bipyridine Ligands by Cobalt(I)-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloadditions. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc, 1998, 12147-12148
1997Jesús A. Varela, Luis Castedo and Carlos Saá: Synthesis of Annelated Substituted Bipyridines and Terpirydines by Cobalt(I)-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloadition. In: J. Org. Chem, 1997, 4189-4192