Institute of Organic Synthesis (ISO)
Miguel Yus Astiz
Tel. 965903548
Fax: 965903549
Miguel Yus was born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1947, and received his BSc (1969), MSc (1971) and PhD (1973) degrees from the University of Zaragoza. After spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr he returned to Spain to the University of Oviedo where he became associate professor in 1977, being promoted to full professor in 1987 at the same university. In 1988 he moved to a chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Alicante where he is currently the head of the Organic Synthesis Institute (ISO). Visiting professor: ETH-Zentrum, Oxford, Harvard, Uppsala, Tucson, Okayama, Paris, Strasbourg and Kyoto. Co-author of more than 400 papers mainly in the field of the development of new methodologies involving organometallic intermediates, and three patents. Advisory Board: Tetrahedron (until 01/01/08), Tetrahedron Letters (until 01/01/08), Chemistry Letters, European Journal of Organic Chemistry (until 01/01/09), Trends in Organic Chemistry, Current Organic Chemistry and Current Chemical Biology, being also Regional Editor of Letters in Organic Chemistry. More than 100 lectures. Supervised 45 PhD students. Prizes: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize (Okayama, 1999; Kyoto, 2007), the French-Spanish Prize of the Societé Française de Chimie (Paris, 1999), the C.A. Stiefvater Memorial Lecture Award (Nebraska, 2001), the Nagase Science and Technology Foundation fellowship (Kyoto, 2003), the Cellchem Lectureship (Sheffield, 2005), the Singenta Lectureship (Basel, 2007) and the Fundeun-Iberdrola Prize (Alicante, 2007). His current research interest is focused on the preparation of very reactive functionalized organometallic compounds and their use in synthetic organic chemistry, arene-catalyzed activation of different metals, preparation of new metal-based catalysts, including metallic nanoparticles, for homogeneous and heterogeneous selective reactions and asymmetric catalysis. In 2002 he and other members of the ISO founded the new chemical company MEDALCHEMY, S.L. to commercialize fine chemicals.
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