Selected publications
(in reverse chronological order)
‘Water Soluble Phosphane-Gold(I) Complexes. Applications as Recyclable Catalysts in a Three-Component Coupling Reaction and as Anticancer and Antimicrobial Agents’. B.T. Elie, C. Levine, Iban Ubarretxena-Belandia, A. Varela, R. Aguilera, R. Ovalle, M. Contel. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 3421–3430. PDF
'Synthesis of Apoptosis-Inducing Iminophosphorane Organogold(III) Complexes and Study of Their Interactions with Biomolecular Targets'. N. Shaik, A. Martinez, I. Augustin, H. Giovinazzo, A. Varela-Ramirez, M. Sanau, R.J. Aguilera, M. Contel. Inorg. Chem. 2009. 48(4), 1577-1587. PDF
'Gold(III) iminophosphorane complexes as catalysts in C-C and C-O bond formations'. D. Aguilar, M. Contel, R. Navarro, T. Soler, E.P. Urriolabeitia. J. Organomet. Chem. 2009, 694, 486. Special issue; "Gold Catalysis: New Perspectives for Homogeneous Catalysis". PDF
‘Organogold(III) Iminophosphorane Complexes as efficient Catalysts in the Addition of 2-Methylfuran and Electron-Rich Arenes to Methyl Vinyl Ketone’. D. Aguilar, M. Contel, R. Navarro, E. Urriolabeitia. Organometallics. 2007, 26, 4604. PDF
‘Homogeneous Gold-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes’. D. Lantos, M. Contel, S. Sanz, A. Bodor, I.T. Horvárth. J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 1799. PDF
‘Fluorous Phosphine Assisted Recycling of Gold Catalysts for Hydrosilylation of Aldehydes’. D. Lantos, M. Contel, A. Larrea, D. Szabó, I.T. Horváth. QSAR Comb. Sci. 2006, 25, 719. PDF
´Fluorocarbon Soluble Copper(II) Carboxylate Complexes with Non-Fluoroponytailed Ligands as Precatalysts for the Oxidation of Alkenols and Alcohols Under Fluorous Biphasic or Thermomorphic Modes: Structural and Mechanistic Aspects´. M. Contel, P.R. Villuendas, J. Fernández-Gallardo, P.J. Alonso, J.-M. Vincent and R.H. Fish. Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 9971. PDF
´Fluorous Biphasic Catalysis: Synthesis and Characterization of Copper (I) and Copper (II) Fluoroponytailed 1,4,7-Rf-TACN and 2,2´-Bipyridine Complexes, and Demonstration of their Catalytic Activity in the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons, Olefins, and Alcohols, Including Mechanistic Implications´. M. Contel, C. Izuel, R.H. Fish, M. Laguna, P.R. Villuendas and P.J. Alonso. Chem. A. Eur. J., 2003, 9, 4168. PDF
´Organometallic Gold(III) Compunds as catalysts for the Addition of Water and Methanol to Terminal Alkynes´. R. Casado, M. Contel, M. Laguna, P. Romero and S. Sanz. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 11925. PDF
Selected Publications from Postdoctoral Positions and PhD studies
´A Bis(ortho-amine)aryl-Gold(I) Compound as an Efficient, Nontoxic, Arylating Reagent´. M. Contel, M. Stol, M.A. Casado, G.P.M. van Klink, D.D. Ellis, A.L. Spek and G. Van Koten. Organometallics, 2002, 21, 4556. PDF
'A New, Simple Route to Novel Gold Clusters: Structure of an Au6Ag Wheel with a Gold Rim´. E. Cerrada, M. Contel, A.D. Valencia, M. Laguna, T. Gelbrich and M.B. Hursthouse. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2000, 39, 2353. PDF
'Bis{2-diphenylphosphino)phenyl}mercury: a novel bidentate ligand and transfer reagent for the o-C6H4PPh2 group'. M.A. Bennett, M. Contel, D.C.R. Hockless and L.L. Welling, Chem. Commun., 1998, 2401. PDF
‘Trinuclear Au2Ag and Au2Cu Complexes with Mesityl Bridging Ligands. X-Ray Structure of the One-dimensional Chain Polymer [{Au(m-mes)(AsPh3}2Ag]ClO4’. M. Contel, J. Garrido, M.C. Gimeno, P.G. Jones, A. Laguna and M. Laguna, Organometallics, 1996, 15, 4939.PDF