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Sandra Medina-Villar, Ph.D.


Department of Natural Sciences
Organic Chemistry

Education

M.Sc. in Regulatory Affairs – MSL (2025) IMF Institute, Madrid, Spain
Ph.D., Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (2013) University CEU-San Pablo, Madrid, Spain
M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Marketing (2011) UNED. Spain
DEA Organic Chemistry (2010) University CEU-San Pablo, Madrid, Spain
B.Sc. in Pharmacy – (2008) University Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Practice Areas

  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Carbohydrate
  • Nanomaterials

Publications and Media Placements

Research Papers

Vendeville, J. B.; Kyriakides, M. J.; Takebayashi, Y.; Rama, S.; Preece, J.; Samphire J.; Ramos-Soriano, J.; Mauleon Amieva, A.; E.Holbrow-Wilshaw, M.; Gordon Newman, H. R.; Kou, S. L.; Medina-Villar, S.; Dorh, N.; Ndoa Dorh, J.; Spencer, J.; Galan, M. C. "Fast Identification and Quantification of Uropathogenic E. coli through Cluster Analysis." ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2022, 8, 242–252. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00732

Abhijit, S.; Williams, R.; Palo-Nieto, C.; Franconetti, A.; Medina, S.; Galan, M. C. "Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Stereoselective Synthesis of Deoxyglycosides from Glycals." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3640-3644. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201612071

Medina, S.; Harper, M.; Balmond, E. I.; Miranda, S.; Crisenza, G. E. M.; Coe, D. M.; McGarriglec, E.; Galan, M. C. "Stereoselective Glycosylation of 2-Nitrogalactals Catalysed by a Bifunctional Organocatalyst." Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 4222-4225. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.6b01962

Henderson, A. S.; Medina, S.; Bower, J. F.; Galan, M. C. "Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution (SNAr) as an Approach to Challenging Carbohydrate-Aryl Ethers." Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 4846-4849. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02413

Medina, S.; Henderson, A. S.; Bower, J. F.; Galan, M. C. "Stereoselective synthesis of glycosides using (salen)Co catalysts as promoters." Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 8939-8941. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/cc/c5cc02552d

Álvarez, S.; Medina, S.; Domínguez, G.; Pérez-Castells, J. "Ruthenium alkylidene-catalyzed reaction of 1,6-heptadiynes with alkenes." J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 2436-2442. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo5028084

Álvarez, S.; Medina, S.; Domínguez, G.; Pérez-Castells, J. "Cyclotrimerization of alkynes and isocyanates/isothiocyanates catalyzed by ruthenium-alkylidene complexes." J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 9995-10001. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24004241/

Medina, S.; Domínguez, G.; Pérez-Castells, J. "Efficient Generation of Pyridines by Ruthenium Carbene Mediated [2+2+2] Cyclotrimerization." Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4982-4985. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ol301498z

Medina, S.; González, A.; Domínguez, G.; Pérez Castells, J. "Medium-sized and strained heterocycles from non-catalysed and gold-catalysed conversions of -carbolines." Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 7167-7176. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/ob/c2ob25755f/unauth

Mallagaray, A.; Mohammadiannejad, K.; Medina, S.; Domínguez, G.; Pérez-Castells. J. "Cycloisomerization of dienes and enynes catalysed by a modified ruthenium carbene species." Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 6665-6672. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/ob/c2ob07185a/unauth

Mallagaray, A.; Medina, S.; Domínguez, G.; Pérez Castells, J. "Ruthenium carbene mediated [2+2+2] cyclotrimerizations." Synlett. 2010, 2114-2118. https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0030-1258521

Book Chapters

Medina, S.; Galan, M. C. "Recent developments in the stereoselective synthesis of deoxyglycosides." Carbohydrate Chemistry, 2016, 41, 59-89. https://books.rsc.org/books/edited-volume/1498/chapter-abstract/996985/Recent-developments-in-the-stereoselective