Welcome to the Poblador-Bahamonde Lab of Computational Chemistry

The focus of our group is to reach an in-depth theoretical understanding of regio- and enantion-selective processes. An additional interest is directed to the non-innocent role of the reaction conditions (excess of key reactifs or use of Lewis acids) and solvation. For this, we perform very powerful calculations which include the description of the global system, solvent (implicitly and explicitly) and weak interactions.
Our final goal is to complement and rationalize empirical data confirming a behaviour that will help to predict the outcomes on future experiments, with the aim of the proposal of new powerful catalysts in a rational fashion that will be further tested on collaboration with experimental groups.
Latest Publications
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- Assisted Tandem Pd Catalysis Enables Regiodivergent Heck Arylation of Transiently Generated Substituted Enol Ethers
T. Duhamel, S. Scaringi, B. Leforestier, A.I. Poblador-Bahamonde, C. Mazet
JACS Au 2023, 3, 261-274
- Chemo- and Regioselective Multiple C(sp2)−H Insertions of Malonate Metal Carbenes for Late-Stage Functionalizations of Azahelicenes
Y. Nikolova, B. Fabri, P. Moneva Lorente, A. Guarnieri-Ibáñez, A. de Aguirre, Y. Soda, G. Pescitelli, F. Zinna, C. Besnard, L. Guénée, D. Moreau, L. Di Bari, E. Bakker, A.I. Poblador Bahamonde, J. Lacour
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202210798
- Pnictogen-Centered Cascade Exchangers for Thiol-Mediated Uptake: As(III)-, Sb(III)-, and Bi(III)-Expanded Cyclic Disulfides as Inhibitors of Cytosolic Delivery and Viral Entry
B. Lim, T. Kato, C. Besnard, A.I. Poblador Bahamonde, N. Sakai, S. Matile
JACS Au 2022, 2, 1105-1115