Andrea-Nekane Roig Alba

Andrea-Nekane R. Alba was born in Alcoy, Alicante (Spain) in 1983. She received her B.Sc. in 2007 from University of Alicante, where she performed under-graduate research on aldol reaction with L-prolinamide and L-prolinethioamide under the supervision of Prof. D. Alonso and Prof. C. Nájera, and her M.Sc. in 2008 from University of Barcelona, studying the first organocatalytic kinetic resolution of compounds with planar chirality. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Professor Albert Moyano and Dr. Ramon Rios at University of Barcelona. She has authored more than 20 papers during this time. Her research focuses on the discovery of new asymmetric methodologies. She obtained her PhD degree in july 2012.

Selected Publications

1- "Sulfones: New reagents in Organocatalysis" A.-N. R. Alba, X. Companyó, R. Rios*. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, Accepted.

2- “Highly enantioselective organocatalytic synthesis of quaternary alpha, alpha-amino acids”. A.-N. R. Alba, X. Companyó, G. Valero, A. Moyano*, R. Rios*. Chem. Eur. J. 2010, Accepted.

3- “Formal Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic Addition of Fluoromethyl anion to alpha,beta-unsaturated Aldehydes”. A.-N. Alba, X. Companyó, A. Moyano*, R. Rios*. Chem Eur. J. 2009, 15, 7035-7038.

4- “Formal highly enantioselective organocatalytic addition of alkyl anions to alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes. Aplication to the synthesis of isotope-enantiomers”. A.-N. Alba, X. Companyó, A. Moyano*, R. Rios*. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 11095-11099.