Abel Ros Laó

Group: Asymmetric Catalisis

Position: Tenured Scientist

Contact

Tel. ext: 446246

Laboratory: L 201

Office: D 209

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ORCID: 0000-0002-3455-5675

Biography

Abel Ros Laó was born in El Coronil (Seville) in 1978. After obtaining a degree in Chemical Sciences from the University of Seville (2001), he joined the Institute of Chemical Research to carry out his doctoral thesis within the framework of a project funded by Bayer CropScience on the synthesis of a new family of herbicides based on enantiopure triazines and oxazolines. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Seville in 2006 under the supervision of José María Lassaletta and Rosario Fernández. Upon completion of his doctoral thesis, he was hired as a postdoctoral researcher by Bayer CropScience for one year. In March 2008, he joined the group of Prof. Varinder Aggarwal at the University of Bristol as a Marie Curie IEF postdoctoral fellow. During this period, he worked on the synthesis of chiral potassium alkyl trifluoroborates and their application in new cross-coupling reactions, as well as on sulfur ylide chemistry and its application to the total synthesis of quinine. In April 2010, he joined the Institute of Chemical Research as a postdoctoral researcher attached to a Project of Excellence of the Andalusian Regional Government, benefiting from a “European Reintegration Grant” for the period 2010–2013. During the period 2025–2020, he was a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the University of Seville, and since August 2020 he has been a Tenured Scientist at the CSIC.

Research interests

Asymmetric Catalysis; C–H Activation; Fluorescent borylated compounds; Organometallic complexes active in CPL.

Selected publications

• “Ir-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydroarylation of Alkynes for the Synthesis of Axially Chiral Heterobiaryls” Pablo Vázquez-Domínguez, Antonio Romero-Arenas, Rosario Fernández José María Lassaletta, Abel Ros. ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 42–48. (Co-Corresponding author).

• “Helical donor–acceptor platinum complexes displaying dual luminescence and near-infrared circularly polarized luminescence” Pablo Vázquez-Domínguez, Océane Journaud, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Denis Jacquemin, Ludovic Favereau, Jeanne Crassous, Abel Ros. Dalton Trans. 2021,50, 13220–13226. (Co-Corresponding author).

• “Ir-Catalyzed Atroposelective Desymmetrization of Heterobiaryls: Hydroarylation of Vinyl Ethers and Bicycloalkenes” Antonio Romero-Arenas, Valentín Hornillos, Javier Iglesias-Sigüenza, Rosario Fernández, Joaquín López-Serrano, Abel Ros, José Mª Lassaletta. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 2628-2639. (Co-Corresponding author).

• “Azabora[5]helicene Charge-Transfer Dyes Show Efficient and Spectrally Variable Circularly Polarized Luminescence” Zoe Domínguez, Rocío López-Rodríguez, Eleuterio Álvarez, Sergio Abbate, Giovanna Longhi, Uwe Pischel, and Abel Ros Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 12660-12668 (Co-Corresponding author).

• “A Dynamic Kinetic Cross–Coupling Strategy for the Asymmetric Synthesis of Axially Chiral Heterobiaryls” Abel Ros, Beatriz Estepa, Pedro Ramírez-López, Eleuterio Álvarez, Rosario Fernández and José M. Lassaletta. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 15730-15733.