Andrés Suárez Escobar

Group: Organometallic Synthesis and Catalytic Applications

Position: Tenured Scientist

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Office: D 222

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ORCID: 0000-0002-0487-611X

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Biography

Andrés Suárez studied Chemistry at the University of Sevilla. In 2002, he finished a PhD Thesis at the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla), carrying out research in the field of enantioselective catalysis, more specifically in synthesis of new chiral phosphorous ligands and their applications in enantioselective hydrogenation and hydroformylation reactions. After receiving his PhD, he undertook postdoctoral studies at the group of Prof. Gregory C. Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2004). In 2005, he returned to the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, in which he holds a permanent position since 2006, initially as R&D Technician and currently as Tenured Scientist. He has been visiting researcher at ICCOM-CNR (Florence, 2002, Prof. Maurizio Peruzzini) and at the Universities of Oxford (2002, Dr. John M. Brown) and Heidelberg (2013, Prof. Lutz H. Gade).

Research interests

Current Research Areas

– Design of metal-based catalytic systems incorporating picoline-derived tridentate ligands.

– Synthesis of metal nanoparticles stabilized by N-heterocyclic carbene ligands.

– (De)hydrogenation reactions for synthesis and H₂ storage, hydrosilylation and hydroboration reactions, nitrous oxide (N₂O) reduction, and H/D isotopic exchange reactions.

Selected publications

• J. Bermejo, L. L. Santos,* E. Álvarez, J. López-Serrano, A. Suárez*. Oxidation of alcohols to carboxylates with N2O catalyzed by ruthenium(II)-CNC complexes. ACS Catalysis 2025, 15, 11530-11543. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c02021.
• P. Molinillo, M. Puyo, F. Vattier, B. Lacroix, N. Rendón,* P. Lara,* A. Suárez*. Ruthenium nanoparticles stabilized by 1,2,3-triazolylidene ligands in the hydrogen isotope exchange of E-H bonds (E = B, Si, Ge, Sn) using deuterium gas. Nanoscale 2023, 15, 14488–14495. DOI: 10.1039/d3nr02637j.
• J. P. Morales-Cerón, P. Lara, J. López-Serrano, L. L. Santos, V. Salazar,* E. Álvarez, A. Suárez*. Rhodium(I) complexes with ligands based on N-heterocyclic carbene and hemilabile pyridine donors as highly stereoselective alkyne hydrosilylation catalysts. Organometallics 2017, 36, 2460−2469. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00361.
• M. Hernández-Juárez, J. López-Serrano,* P. Lara, J. P. Morales-Cerón, M. Vaquero, E. Álvarez, V. Salazar, A. Suárez*. Ruthenium(II) complexes containing lutidine-derived pincer CNC ligands: Synthesis, structure, and catalytic hydrogenation of C=N bonds. Chemistry: A European Journal 2015, 21, 7540-7555. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406040.
• P. Lara,* A. Suárez, V. Collière, K. Philippot, B. Chaudret. Platinum N-heterocyclic carbene nanoparticles as new and effective catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of nitroaromatics. ChemCatChem 2014, 6, 87-90. DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201300821.