Xavier Companyó Montaner

Xavier Companyó Montaner was born in Barcelona, Catalunya, in January of 1984. He obtained his B.Sc in chemistry from the University of Barcelona in 2007. Later on, he obtained M.Sc under guidance of Prof. Albert Moyano, working on ferrocene chemistry. Currently he is pursuing his PhD in chemistry under the tutelage of Prof. Albert Moyano and Dr. Ramon Rios in University of Barcelona. His research interests are focused on the development of new asymmetric methodologies and the synthesis of biologically active compounds.

Selected Publications

1- "Sulfones: New reagents in Organocatalysis" A.-N. R. Alba, X. Companyó, R. Rios*. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, Accepted.

2- “Highly enantioselective organocatalytic synthesis of quaternary alpha, alpha-amino acids”. A.-N. R. Alba, X. Companyó, G. Valero, A. Moyano*, R. Rios*. Chem. Eur. J. 2010, Accepted.

3- “Formal Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic Addition of Fluoromethyl anion to alpha,beta-unsaturated Aldehydes”. A.-N. Alba, X. Companyó, A. Moyano*, R. Rios*. Chem Eur. J. 2009, 15, 7035-7038.

4- “Formal highly enantioselective organocatalytic addition of alkyl anions to alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes. Aplication to the synthesis of isotope-enantiomers”. A.-N. Alba, X. Companyó, A. Moyano*, R. Rios*. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 11095-11099.