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Muñiz, Kilian
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ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ (Institut Català d'Investigació Química). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Kilian Muñiz is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), in Tarragona. He was born in 1970 in Hildesheim, Germany.
From 1990 to 1996 he studied Chemistry at the Universities of Hannover (Germany) and Oviedo (Spain) and at the Imperial College London (UK) and in 1996 he graduated with a Diploma in Chemistry from Hannover University.
In 1996 he joined the goup of Carsten Bolm at the RWTH Aachen (Germany) to obtain his Doctorate in Organic Chemistry in 1998. In 1999/2000 he worked as a postdoctoral associate with Professor Ryoji Noyori at Nagoya University (Japan).
He started his independent research in 2001 at Bonn University (Germany) as a Liebig fellow and defended his Habilitation thesis in 2005 and the same year moved to the University of Strasbourg as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2006. In November 2009 he moved to Spain and joined ICIQ as Group Leader.
He joined ICREA in 2010.
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Research Interests
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Our group deals with novel chemical transformations to provide direct access to nitrogenated compounds. We consider the development of such methodology of utmost importance as nitrogen containing molecules are key players in a variety of compounds of biological, medicinal and pharmaceutical interest.
Central to our research interest is the development of new diamination and amidation reactions with a focus on catalysis. Catalysis with its inherent beneficial economical and environmental features is a core technology for the 21st century. Its power to realise unprecedented transformations or to improve existing reactions renders it the ideal approach to address the demands in modern synthesis of valuable intermediates and building blocks.
A significant contribution in this direction has been the development of unique catalytic reactivity involving palladium(IV). This chemistry allows for the realization of unprecedented reactivity in homogeneous oxidation of alkenes and alkanes.
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KeyWords
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Chemistry, Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
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