1. Cu-catalyzed Ullmann-type C-heteroatom bond formation: the key role of dinucleating ancillary ligands; 2. Mechanistic understanding of copper-catalyzed aryl-heteroatom bond formation: dependence on ancillary ligands; 3. Fundamental Pd(0)/Pd(II) redox steps in cross-coupling reactions; 4. Pd(II)/Pd(IV) redox catalysis for C-heteroatom bond formation; 5. Mononuclear and Dinuclear Organometallic Pd III complexes in C-C and C-heteroatom bond formation reactions; 6. Aromatic C-F activation: converting toxic substrates to useful synthons; 7. Strategies towards challenging aromatic fluorination and trifluoromethylation reactions; 8. Coordination-directed metallation strategy for C-H functionalization; 9. Transition-metal-catalyzed direct arylation of unactivated arenes with aryl Halides; 10. Double C-H activation in Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of non-preactivated arenes; 11. Palladium and copper-catalyzed oxidation of organic chemicals; 12. Strategies for metal-mediated direct arylation of nucleosides and amino acid derivatives

Xavi Ribas is Professor Agregat of Inorganic Chemistry in the Chemistry Department of the Universitat de Girona since 2006. He graduated in Chemistry from the Universitat de Girona (1996) and in 2001 obtained Ph D in Chemistry by the Universitat de Girona. His main research interests are bioinorganic Models of Cu and Fe No-Heme Oxygenases, molecular Oxygen Activation and C-H and C-C Bond Activation. Chemistry of Cu(III).