Dr. Silvia Díez-González graduated in 2000 from the Universidad del País Vasco (Spain) and Université Paris XI (France) with a MSci in Organic Chemistry. She stayed in Paris XI for a Ph.D. on organosilicon chemistry. In 2004, she joined the group of Professor Steven P. Nolan as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of New Orleans, USA. Two years later the group moved to the ICIQ (Spain) and she was promoted to Scientific Group Coordinator. In 2009 and after a brief walk on the theoretical side of chemistry (Professor Feliu Maseras, ICIQ), Silvia joined the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London as part of the first promotion of Imperial College Junior Research Fellows, where she is currently an Imperial College Lecturer in Catalysis.

Catalysis/Sustainability and Applied Inorganics

Her present research focuses on the development of novel well-defined organometallic complexes and their use in organic reactions of interest such as C–C and C–X bond formation.

Lal S, Rzepa HS, Diez-Gonzalez S, 2014, Catalytic and Computational Studies of N-Heterocyclic Carbene or Phosphine-Containing Copper(I) Complexes for the Synthesis of 5-lodo-1,2,3-Triazoles, Acs Catalysis, Vol:4, ISSN:2155-5435, Pages:2274-2287 Carmona D, Lamata MP, Sanchez A, et al., 2014, Chiral transition-metal complexes as Bronsted-acid catalysts for the asymmetric Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation of indoles, Dalton Transactions, Vol:43, ISSN:1477-9226, Pages:11260-11268 DOIAuthor Web LinkOpen Access Link Martinez-Sarti L, Diez-Gonzalez S, 2013, On the Unique Reactivity of Pd(OAc)2 with Organic Azides: Expedient Synthesis of Nitriles and Imines, Chemcatchem, Vol:5, ISSN:1867-3880, Pages:1722-1724 Collinson J-M, Wilton-Ely JDET, Diez-Gonzalez S, 2013, Reusable and highly active supported copper(I)-NHC catalysts for Click chemistry, Chemical Communications, Vol:49, ISSN:1359-7345, Pages:11358-11360 DOIAuthor Web LinkOpen Access Link

Markalain Barta J, Diez-Gonzalez S, 2013, Well-Defined Diimine Copper(I) Complexes as Catalysts in Click Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions, Molecules, Vol:18, ISSN:1420-3049, Pages:8919-8928