About Diego
Associate Professor
Diego Gamba-Sánchez was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) in 2004 and his M.Sc. degree in Biomolecules and Organic Synthesis from the Université de Poiters, France, in 2006; then, he moved to École Polytechnique, Palaiseau where he worked under the guidance of Dr. Joëlle Prunet, and he received his Ph.D. in the field of diastereoselective synthesis of 1,3-diols. Later, Diego joined the group of Prof. Thorsten Bach at Technische Universität München, Germany, where he spent one year working on total synthesis of Briarellins. Then, he moved back to Colombia and started his independent career at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in June 2014. The research in his group focuses on the development of new synthetic strategies for amide synthesis, the use of whole cells as biocatalysts, and the study of new methodologies for the synthesis of oxygenated heterocycles using Pummerer reaction and intramolecular oxa-Michael additions, recently his group has started some projects using sulfonium salts chemistry.
Lectures
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Chloro Sulfonium Salts and Chloro Sulfides in Cyclizations and Aromatic Halogenations
Seminar, AK Bolm. RWTH Aachen University
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Sulfonium Salts in New Approaches of Cyclization and Halogenation
Summer Symposium, AK Bach
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Chlorosulfonium salts and alpha-chlorosulfides, versatile precursors of heterocycles
34° Latin American Chemistry Congress CLAQ 2020
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Transamidation: Beyond a Method of Amide Synthesis
Instituto de Química Rosario - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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New reactions with chlorosulfonium salts
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier
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Total Synthesis in Colombia: Dream or reality? Advances in Uniandes, Promises and Perspectives
1er Encuentro Colombiano de Química
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Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Anachelin H
33 Congreso latinoamericano de Química
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Amides: Synthesis and Applications
Universidad Industrial de Santanader
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Atom Economy in Amide Synthesis
1er Simposio Colombiano de Química Verde
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Synthesis of 5-membered heterocyclic systems by the Pummerer reaction
4th European Chemistry Congress
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Insights into the Pummerer synthesis of oxazolines
Journées de Chimie Organique JCO 2016
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Atom economic synthesis of amides
2nd International Conference on Past and Present Research Systems of Green Chemistry
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Diastereoselective Synthesis of 1,3-diols by Intramolecular Conjugate Addition: From Origins to Nucleosides
Primer Coloquio Colombiano de Química Orgánica
Awards
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Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
2022
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Thieme Chemistry Journals Award