Xavier Companyó

Xavier Companyó

Lecturer Professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-8969-7315
Scopus Author ID: 26021771100
Researcher ID: AAI-1357-2021
Knowledge area: Química Orgànica

Our lab is committed to address the key global challenge of sustainability by contributing to the generation of more efficient, selective and environmentally benign chemical processes. We focus ... + info

Research group: Sustainable Organic Synthesis Group (SOSyn)

Contact Information
Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry
University of Barcelona - Section of Organic Chemistry, c/ Martí i Franquès, 1-11, 5th floor, office 526A - lab 504
934021245
x.companyo(a)ub.edu

More Information: Companyó Lab (http://companyolab.com)

Academic Training

Llicenciatura en Química . Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Química . 12/09/2007 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Master Experimental en Química Orgànica Orgànica . Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Química Orgànica . 17/09/2008 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Master avançat en Quimica: Química Orgànica . Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Química Orgànica . 30/03/2009 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctorat en Química Orgànica . Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Química Orgànica . 21/03/2014 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Sustainable asymmetric catalysis . Universitat de Barcelona . (15/09/2020)
  • Fotoquímica
  • Electroquímica
  • Organocatàlisi
  • Catàlisi asimètrica

Participation in Projects (last 10 years)

FPU fellowship. Pre-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation . 2012 - 2014 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Xavier Companyó
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Modern mechanistic studies for rational catalyst design (MOMES) . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.PIEF-GA-2013-627895 . Comisión Europea . PI: Xavier Companyó
Supporting TAlent in ReSearch-Starting Grant (STARS-StG). Organocatalytic carbon dioxide valorisation for the stereoselective construction of C-C bonds (GREEN C-C) . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.GREEN C-C . Università degli Studi di Padova . PI: Xavier Companyó
Desarrollo de nuevas metodologías electroorganocatalíticas asimétricas mediante una aproximación basada en el conocimiento . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-116859GA-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Xavier Companyó Montaner
Electrólisis indirecta reductiva como nueva aproximación sostenible a la catálisis asimétrica . 2023 - 2025 . Ref.CNS2022-135457 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Xavier Companyó Montaner
Sustainable Organic Synthesis Group (SOSyn) reconegut com a Grup de recerca COnsolidat de la Generalitat de Catalunya . 2022 - 2023 . Ref.37267611K . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Albert Moyano Baldoire

Journal Publications (last 10 years)

X. Companyó and J. Burés (2017). Distribution of catalytic species as an indicator to overcome reproducibility problems. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139, pp. 8432 - 8435 . https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b05045 . ISSN: 0002-7863
A. Vega-Peñaloza; S. Paria; M. Bonchio; L. Dell'Amico*; X. Companyó* (2019). Profiling the privileges of pyrrolidine-based catalysts in asymmetric synthesis - from polar to light-driven radical chemistry. ACS Catalysis, 9, pp. 6058 - 6072 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b01556 . ISSN: 2155-5435
J. Mateos, F. Rigodanza, A. Vega-Peñaloza, A. Sartorel, M. Natali, T. Bortolano, G. Pelosi, X. Companyó, M. Bonchio and L. Dell'Amico (2020). Naphthochromenones: Organic Bimodal Photocatalysts Engaging in Both Oxidative and Reductive Quenching Processes. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 59, pp. 1302 - 1312 . https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201912455 . ISSN: 1433-7851
J. Mateos; A. Vega-Peñaloza; P. Franceschi; F. Rigodanza; P. Andreetta; X. Companyó*; G. Pelosi; M. Bonchio; L. Dell'Amico* (2020). A visible-light Paternò-Büchi dearomatization process towards the construction of oxeto-indolinic polycyles. Chemical Science, 11, pp. 6532 - 6538 . https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC01569E . ISSN: 2041-6520
S. Paria; E. Carletti; M. Marcon; A. Cherubini-Celli; A. Mazzanti; M. Rancan; L. Dell'Amico; M. Bonchio; X. Companyó* (2020). Light-triggered Catalytic Asymmetric Allylic Benzylation with Photogenerated C-nucleophiles. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 85, pp. 4463 - 4474 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c00175 . ISSN: 0022-3263
A. Calcatelli; A. Cherubini-Celli; E. Carletti; X. Companyó* (2020). Unconventional transformations of Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts. Synthesis. Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 52, pp. 2922 - 2939 . https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1707207 . ISSN: 0039-7881
G. Filippini; F. Amato; C. Rosso; G. Ragazzon*; A. Vega-Peñaloza; X. Companyó*; L. Dell'Amico; M. Bonchio; M. Prato* (2020). Mapping the surface groups of amine-rich carbon dots enables covalent catalysis in aqueous media. Chem(6), pp. 3022 - 3037 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2020.08.009 . ISSN: 2451-9294
A. Vega-Peñaloza, J. Mateos, X. Companyó, M. Escudero-Casao, L. Dell'Amico (2021). A rational approach to organo-photocatalysis. Novel designs and structure-property-relationships. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition(60), pp. 1082 - 1097 . https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202006416 . ISSN: 1433-7851
Duran Jordi; Mateos Javier; Moyano Albert; Companyo Xavier (2023). Catalytic asymmetric defluorinative allylation of silyl enol ethers. Chemical Science, 14(26), pp. 7147 - 7153 . ISSN: 2041-6520

Other publications (last 10 years)

X. Companyó; R Rios (2014). Chapter 33: Addition to alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones . In Comprehensive enantioselective organocatalysis: catalysts, reactions and applications . (pp. 977 - 1012) . Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA . ISBN: 978-3-527-33236-6 . 10.1002/9783527658862.ch33 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9783527658862.ch33)
L. Dell'Amico; M. Bonchio; X. Companyó (2020). Chapter 7: Recent advances in electrochemical carboxylation of organic compounds for CO2 valorisation . In CO2 as building block in organic synthesis . (pp. 225 - 252) . Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA . 10.1002/9783527821952.ch7 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9783527821952.ch7)
Vega-Peñaloza, A.; Paria, S.; Dell'Amico, L.; Companyó, X. (2022). Chapter 3: Recent advances in the asymmetric synthesis of spiro compounds through cycloadditions . In Spiro Compounds: Synthesis and Applications . (pp. 35 - 64) . John Wiley & Sons . ISBN: 9781119567646 . 10.1002/9781119567646.ch3 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781119567646.ch3)