We give a kind welcome to our group to Dr. Pablo Pinacho

Dr. Emilio J. Cocinero went to a visit at King’s College in London to the microwave group of Dr Maria Eugenia Sanz

Dr. Emilio J. Cocinero went to a visit to the QTEC (grupo de quimica teórica y computacional) at the university of Santiago de Compostela and gave a seminar in microwave and laser spectroscopy techniques.

Our group has been invited to participate on a workshop in “Observable Solvent Effects” held at Georg-August universität in Göttingen.
Dr. Emilio J. Cocinero gave a talk on “Microwave and laser spectroscopies for structural elucidation and as chemical tools”.
Otger Crehuet gave a talk on “Large homo and heteroclusters of difluoromethane stabilized by weak hidrogen bonds”

Maider Parra gave a talk at the 26th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy entittled “Challenging the limits of rotational spectroscopy: gas phase structural elucidation of multiconformational macrolactones”

Otger Crehuet gave a talk at the the 26th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy entittled “Conformational study of the synthetic repellents DEET and Picaridin to improve structure-based design of novel mosquito repellents”

Maider Parra gave a talk at the XIII Conference of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM 2022) entitled “Challenging the limits of rotational spectroscopy: gas phase structural elucidation of multiconformational macrolactones”. For this talk has been awarded the prize for the best talk of J2IFAM 2022..

Otger Crehuet gave a talk at the XIII Conference of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM 2022) entitled “Astrochemistry, search in the interstellar medium and laboratory detection of bioligically relevant molecules”.

Rcently, Dr. Emilio Cocinero went to university of Valladolid to be part of the examination committee in the Rizalina T. Saragi thesis defense

Emilio J. Cocinero gave a talk in the 4th Glycobasque meeting entitled “Fluorination and deoxygenation as chemical tools to study the conformational preferences of
hexopyranoses: a journey from gas phase to solution”

Maider Parra presented a poster entitled “Gas phase structural elucidation of multiconformational macrolactones by means of high-resolution rotational spectroscopy.

Otger Crehuet gave a talk entitled “Laboratory observation of 4-Oxobutanitrile structure for search in the interstellar medium”

In the picture below Maider Parra and Otger Crehuet with the collaborations presented

Emilio J. Cocinero went to a visit at Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO) to the laboratoy managed by Pierre Çarçabal.

In the picture below Pierre Çarçabal (left) and Emilio Cocinero (right)

The paper The Role of Non‑Covalent Interactions on Cluster Formation: Pentamer, Hexamers and Heptamer of Difluoromethane has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie Journal and considered as “hot paper”. Congratulations!

“Campusa”, the Journal of the University of the Basque Country, has published a press release about the paper “Laboratory Observation of, Astrochemical Search for, and Structure of Elusive Erythrulose in the Interstellar Medium”.

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Our paper “Laboratory Observation of, Astrochemical Search for, and Structure of Elusive Erythrulose in the Interstellar Medium” has been  highlighted as cover in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.