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I am applying for admission to the three-year PhD program in chemistry since my career ambition is to become a doctor researching metal-mediated and catalytic organic transformations. Being the development of sustainable synthetic methodologies one of the greatest challenges that modern chemistry faces, I consider this research field a tremendous opportunity to accomplish such remarkable task by keeping working on novel reaction pathways that transition-metal chemistry offers.

I have so far completed two years of the Masters program in Chemistry supported by a CONACyT grant at The National Autonomous University of Mexico which is the most important university among Latin America. During this time, I have been trained in organometallic chemistry focused on developing novel Ni(0)-catalyzed organic transformations under the supervision of Prof. Juventino García Alejandre at the Faculty of Chemistry. My dissertation aimed at the synthesis of tetrasubstituted imidazoles and 2-imidazolines by catalytic C(sp3)-H dehydrogenation of imines. My desire to pursue such task comes from my interests in synthetic approaches dealing with metal catalyzed C-H bond activation, C-N and C-C bond formation reactions. Furthermore, I am deeply interested in the advancement of synthetic methodologies that use both low-cost catalyst and substrates and without side-product formation.

In addition to this project, I got into different Ni(0)-catalyzed organic reactions as part of the strong collaboration between students during my graduate studies at Prof. Garcia group. For example, C-C bond activation, dehydrofluorination reactions and CO2 transformation were some of the projects I participated in that certainly gave me a broad scope of Ni(0)-organometallic...

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...dron and Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. This was not only a great achievement for me, but also for all the research teams that took part in these projects.

Now, It is my desire to continue with new challenges and exciting journeys on the chemistry of transition metals that I do feel passion for. For this reason, I believe that being accepted as a PhD student at your graduate school is the next step in my scientific career. I am confident that this opportunity would give me the academic experience I need to accomplish my intention of becoming a researcher my means of its mentoring system and course program which I am particularly interested in because just very few graduate schools are concerned to offer high quality education in areas complementary to chemistry research, for example, business management in chemistry and project development.

Sincerely,

Adrian Tlahuext Aca