Nitrogen Ligands in Homogeneous Catalysis: Applications to The Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles and Development of New Chiral Ligands

1)Synthesis of Indoles by intermolecular Cyclization of Unfunctionalized Nitroarenes and Alkynes: One-step Synthesis of the Skeleton of Fluvastatin. 2)Chiral Cyclopropylamines in the Synthesis of New Ligands; First Asymmetric Alkyl-BIAN Compounds. 3) Use of formates as an alternative to carbon monoxide for the reductive cyclization of orto-nitrostyrenes to indoles. 4) A new strategy for the synthesis of indoles by metal catalyzed reduction by CO of beta-nitrostyrenes