When chirality was discovered, more than one century ago, chemists realized that the development of procedures that allow the obtention of enantioenriched substances should become a key field of research in synthetic Organic Chemistry. The significance of chirality at the molecular level becomes even more clear from the fact that most natural products are chiral and that their pharmacological and physiological properties depend upon the recognition of these molecules by biological receptors which are also chiral. These receptors would only interact with molecules with the appropriate configuration. At this point, man's imagination does not stop at the frontiers defined by nature and new molecules have been designed and prepared which, although in most cases they mimic the behavior of their parent compounds found in nature, in many cases they have found applicability much far away, in a continuous quest for the improvement of standards of living for the human kind, which is the main task of any scientist. 

The common target towards which all members of this group are focusing all their efforts and creativity consists on the design and development of new practical and effective methods in the field of the synthesis of chiral compounds in an enantioenriched fashion. We are also involved in the application of these methods for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral building blocks, fine chemicals as ell as bioactive compounds.

In this context, using the mechanistic and theoretical aspects that explain the reactivity and behavior of organic compounds as the central tool for us, using the most modern and updated synthetic procedures in which organometallic chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous transition metal catalysis play a crucial role for our investigations and never forgetting the ultimate target of pursuing a chemistry compatible with a sustainable development, this research group has been working enthusiastically during the last years, offering our results to the cientific community worlwide. 

As once Nobel prize winner Ryoji Noyori said, "while the degree of development of total synthesis has reached to an outstanding stage, the discovery and application of practical, efficient and simple procedures for carrying out even very simple chemical transformation is still in its childhood". This is why the activity of this Group is located into one of the most promising and interesting fields of research in modern Organic Chemistry.