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Antonio Leyva-Pérez is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focused on Chemistry and Materials Science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Within these fields, Leyva-Pérez has contributed to various subfields, notably:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Catalysis

Themes and topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Antonio Leyva-Pérez has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Emilio Pardo
  • Donatella Armentano
  • Jesús Ferrando-Soria
  • Judit Oliver-Meseguer
  • Marta Mon

Frequent publication venues where Leyva-Pérez's research appears include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ChemCatChem
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Communications

Their recent academic papers are as follows:

  • Mixed component metal-organic frameworks: Heterogeneity and complexity at the service of application performances, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Soluble/MOF-Supported Palladium Single Atoms Catalyze the Ligand-, Additive-, and Solvent-Free Aerobic Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohols to Benzoic Acids, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks as Chemical Nanoreactors: Synthesis and Stabilization of Catalytically Active Metal Species in Confined Spaces, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Regioirregular and catalytic Mizoroki-Heck reactions, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • A MOF-supported Pd1-Au1 dimer catalyses the semihydrogenation reaction of acetylene in ethylene with a nearly barrierless activation energy, 2024, Nature Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Gold-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom bond-forming reactions.

    A. Corma;A. Leyva-Pérez;Maria J. Sabater

  • Small Gold Clusters Formed in Solution Give Reaction Turnover Numbers of 107 at Room Temperature

    Judit Oliver-Meseguer;Jose R. Cabrero-Antonino;Irene Domínguez;Antonio Leyva-Pérez

  • Theoretical and experimental insights into the origin of the catalytic activity of subnanometric gold clusters: attempts to predict reactivity with clusters and nanoparticles of gold.

    Mercedes Boronat;Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Avelino Corma

  • The MOF-driven synthesis of supported palladium clusters with catalytic activity for carbene-mediated chemistry.

    Francisco R. Fortea-Pérez;Marta Mon;Jesús Ferrando-Soria;Mercedes Boronat

  • Similarities and Differences between the “Relativistic” Triad Gold, Platinum, and Mercury in Catalysis

    Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Avelino Corma

  • Selective Gold Recovery and Catalysis in a Highly Flexible Methionine-Decorated Metal–Organic Framework

    Marta Mon;Jesús Ferrando-Soria;Thais Grancha;Francisco R. Fortea-Pérez

  • Water‐Stabilized Three‐ and Four‐Atom Palladium Clusters as Highly Active Catalytic Species in Ligand‐Free CC Cross‐Coupling Reactions

    Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Judit Oliver-Meseguer;Paula Rubio-Marqués;Avelino Corma

  • Nickel phosphide nanocatalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of alkynes

    Sophie Carenco;Sophie Carenco;Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Patricia Concepción;Cédric Boissière

  • Base-Controlled Heck, Suzuki, and Sonogashira Reactions Catalyzed by Ligand-Free Platinum or Palladium Single Atom and Sub-Nanometer Clusters

    Estefanía Fernández;Miguel A. Rivero-Crespo;Irene Domínguez;Paula Rubio-Marqués

  • MOFs as Multifunctional Catalysts: Synthesis of Secondary Arylamines, Quinolines, Pyrroles, and Arylpyrrolidines over Bifunctional MIL-101

    Francisco F.G.Cirujano;Antonio Leyva-Perez;Avelino Corma;Francesc X Llabres i Xamena

  • Mixed component metal-organic frameworks: Heterogeneity and complexity at the service of application performances

    Marta Viciano-Chumillas;Xiangyu Liu;Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Donatella Armentano

  • Synthesis of Densely Packaged, Ultrasmall Pt02 Clusters within a Thioether-Functionalized MOF: Catalytic Activity in Industrial Reactions at Low Temperature

    Marta Mon;Miguel A. Rivero‐Crespo;Jesús Ferrando‐Soria;Alejandro Vidal‐Moya

  • Gold catalysts and solid catalysts for biomass transformations: Valorization of glycerol and glycerol–water mixtures through formation of cyclic acetals

    Violeta R. Ruiz;Alexandra Velty;Laura L. Santos;Antonio Leyva-Pérez

  • Regioselective Hydration of Alkynes by Iron(III) Lewis/Brønsted Catalysis

    Jose R. Cabrero‐Antonino;Antonio Leyva‐Pérez;Avelino Corma

  • Soluble/MOF-Supported Palladium Single Atoms Catalyze the Ligand-, Additive-, and Solvent-Free Aerobic Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohols to Benzoic Acids.

    Estefanía Tiburcio;Rossella Greco;Marta Mon;Jordi Ballesteros-Soberanas

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks as Chemical Nanoreactors: Synthesis and Stabilization of Catalytically Active Metal Species in Confined Spaces.

    Marta Viciano-Chumillas;Marta Mon;Jesus Ferrando-Soria;Avelino Corma

  • Stabilized Naked Sub-nanometric Cu Clusters within a Polymeric Film Catalyze C–N, C–C, C–O, C–S, and C–P Bond-Forming Reactions

    Oliver-Meseguer J;Liu L;García-García S;Canós-Giménez C

  • Isolated Fe(III)-O Sites Catalyze the Hydrogenation of Acetylene in Ethylene Flows under Front-End Industrial Conditions.

    María Tejeda-Serrano;Marta Mon;Bethany Ross;Francisco Gonell

  • Iron‐Catalysed Markovnikov Hydrothiolation of Styrenes

    Jose R. Cabrero-Antonino;Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Avelino Corma

  • Gold Redox Catalytic Cycles for the Oxidative Coupling of Alkynes

    Antonio Leyva-Pérez;Antonio Doménech;Saud I. Al-Resayes;Avelino Corma;Avelino Corma

  • Regio- and Stereoselective Intermolecular Hydroalkoxylation of Alkynes Catalysed by Cationic Gold(I) Complexes

    Avelino Corma;Violeta R. Ruiz;Antonio Leyva-Pérez;María J. Sabater

Frequent Co-Authors

Avelino Corma
Avelino Corma Universitat Politècnica de València
Emilio Pardo
Emilio Pardo University of Valencia
Jesús Ferrando-Soria
Jesús Ferrando-Soria University of Valencia
Andreas Hirsch
Andreas Hirsch University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Mercedes Boronat
Mercedes Boronat Universitat Politècnica de València
Frank Hauke
Frank Hauke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Patricia Concepción
Patricia Concepción Universitat Politècnica de València
Rafael Gavara
Rafael Gavara Spanish National Research Council
Lichen Liu
Lichen Liu Tsinghua University
Hans-Peter Steinrück
Hans-Peter Steinrück University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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