Belén Martín-Matute
About me
Belén Martín-Matute is a Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry.
She obtained her Ph.D. at the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain and joined Stockholm University as a postdoc shortly after. Since 2008, she has been working at Stockholm University, where she became Full Professor in 2014.
She develops new catalytic processes to produce carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds. This includes converting water, carbon dioxide, and other renewable resources into chemical products without having to deal with hazardous intermediates. Heteroatoms, such as oxygen, nitrogen and halogens are common in pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals. To make these bonds selectively is one of her main interests. In her research, Belén Martín-Matute uses a variety of metal catalysts, as well as metal-free ones (so-called organocatalysts).
She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, at Boston College and at the ICIQ research institute in Tarragona (Spain).
Belén Martín-Matute received the Young Investigator Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and Sigma-Aldrich in 2007, the Lindbomska Award from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2013, and the Göran Gustafsson Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2017. She has received the honourable title of Chemistry Europe Fellow (2022). In 2023, she also received the Holmquist Award for her contributions to Organic Chemistry.
Belén Martín-Matute serves as advisory board member for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and for Chemistry- An European Journal. And since November 2021, she is an associate editor for Organic Letters.
X-handle: @bmartinmatute
Research
Her research focuses on the development of efficient and selective homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions for the construction of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, with application to the late-stage functionalization of complex organic molecules.
Recent Selected Publications:
Selective and Quantitative Functionalization of Unprotected α-Amino Acids Using a Recyclable Homogeneous Catalyst
Bermejo-López, A.; Raeder, M.; Martínez-Castro, E. Martín-Matute, B.*
Chem 2022, 8, 3302-3323.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.08.017
Synthesis of α,γ-Chiral Trifluoromethylated Amines through the Stereospecific Isomerization of α-Chiral Allylic Amines
Garcia Vazquez, V; Martínez-Pardo, P.; Postole, A.; Inge, A.; Martín-Matute, B.*
Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 3867–3871.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01436
Merging Directed C-H Activations with High-Throughput Experimentation: Development of Iridium-Catalyzed C-H Aminations Applicable to Late-Stage Functionalization
Weis, E.; Johansson, M.; Korsgren, P.; Martin Matute, B.*; Johansson, M. J.*
JACS Au, 2022, 2, 906–916.
DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00039
Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering in Pharma
Martín-Matute, B.; Meier, m. A. R.; Métro, T.-X., Koening, S. G.; Sneddon, H. F.; Sudarsanam, P.; Watts, P.
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2021, 9, 13395 - 13398.
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c06526
An Umpolung Strategy to React Catalytic Enols with Nucleophiles
Sanz-Marco, A.; Martinez-Erro, S.; Pauze, M.; Gomez-Bengoa, E.; Martín-Matute, B.
Nature Commun. 2019, 10, 524450
Top 50 most read Nature Communications articles in chemistry and materials sciences published in 2019
DOI: doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13175-5
Metal-Organic Frameworks as Catalysts for Organic Synthesis: A Critical Perspective
Pascanu, V.; González Miera, G.; Inge, A. K.; Martín-Matute, B.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 7223-7234.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b00733
"Base- and Additive-Free Ir-Catalyzed ortho-Iodination of Benzoic Acids: Scope and Mechanistic Investigations
Erbing, E.#; Sanz-Marco, A.#; Vázquez-Romero, A.; Malmberg, J.; Johansson, M.; Gómez-Bengoa, E.; Martín-Matute, B.
ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 920–925
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02987
2,2-Diododimedone: a mild electrophilic iodinating agent for the selective synthesis of alpha-iodoketones from allylic alcohols
Samuel Martinez-Erro,† Antonio Bermejo Gómez,† Ana Vázquez-Romero, Elis Erbing, and Belén Martín-Matute
Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 9842-9845.
DOI: 10.1039/C7CC04823H
Base-Catalyzed Stereospecific Isomerization of Electron-Deficient Allylic Alcohols and Ethers through Ion-Pairing
Martinez-Erro, S.‡;Sanz-Marco, A.‡;Bermejo Gómez, A.;Vázquez-Romero, A.; Ahlquist, M. S. G.; Martín-Matute, B.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 13408–13414.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b08350
Bartoszewicz, A.; González-Miera, G.; Marcos, R.; Norrby, P.-O.; Martín-Matute, B.
"Mechanistic Studies on the Alkylation of Amines with Alcohols Catalyzed by a Bifunctional Iridium Complex". ACS Catal. 2015, 5,3704–3716. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00645
Pascanu, V.; Bermejo Gómez, A.; Ayats, C.; Platero-Prats, A.; Carson, F.; Su, J.; Yao, Q.; Pericàs, M.; Zou, X.; Martín-Matute, B. "A Double−Supported Silica – Metal-Organic Framework Palladium Nanocatalyst for Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols under Batch and Continuous Flow Regimes". ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 472–479. DOI: 10.1021/cs501573c
Pascanu, V.; Hansen, P. R.; Bermejo Gómez, A.; Ayats, C.; Platero-Prats, A. E.; Johansson, M. J.; Pericàs, M. À.; Martín-Matute, B. "Synthesis of highly functionalised biaryls via Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling catalysed by Pd@MOF under batch and continuous flow regimes". ChemSusChem, 2015, 8, 123-130. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201402858.
Vázquez-Romero, A.; Bermejo Gómez, A.; Martín-Matute, B.
"An Acid- and Iridium-Catalyzed Tandem 1,3-Transposition / 3,1-Hydrogen Shift / Chlorination of Allylic Alcohols"
ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 708–714.
DOI: 10.1021/cs501618h
Pascanu, V.; Bermejo Gómez, A.; Ayats, C.; Platero-Prats, A.; Carson, F.; Su, J.; Yao, Q.; Pericàs, M.; Zou, X.; Martín-Matute, B.
"A Double−Supported Silica – Metal-Organic Framework Palladium Nanocatalyst for Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols under Batch and Continuous Flow Regimes"
ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 472–479.
DOI: 10.1021/cs501573c.