Iciar Uriarte, Marta Fernández, Virginia Ovejas, Jorge González, Jone Garate, Pedro Arnaiz and Monste Vallejo presented six oral communications and a posterat the VII Meeting of Young Researchers in Atomic & Molecular in Physics. The event was organized by the University of Jaen (March 18-20) and is a great opportunity for young …

Showcasing research from an international collaboration of the laboratories of J.-U. Grabow, D. McNaughton. and E. J. Cocinero was highlighted by PCCP journal as cover. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 19726-19734 The torsional freedom of the carbon backbone and hydroxyl groups of succinic acid, an important platform chemical finding numerous industrial applications …

Internal dynamics in halogen bonded adducts was studied by microwave spectroscopy of chlorotrifluoromethane – formaldehyde complex. The interesting chemical aspect of this complex is that the two constituting molecules are held together by a halogen bond. The interesting spectroscopic aspects are the features of two large amplitude motions occurring in the complex: …

Emilio J. Cocinero, Physical Chemistry Researcher of the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) was awarded with the Flygare Award Lecture to the best young researcher, for his achievements in the field of Molecular Spectroscopy. The Flygare award, which recognizes the contributions of young scientists in this field, will be presented …

During XI Simposio de Investigadores Jóvenes RSEQ – Sigma Aldrich ended up voting to elect the new Board of the Specialized Group of Young Chemist Researchers (JIQ), Emilio J. Cocinero will be the new President and Board is composed of:   PRESIDENT: Emilio J. Cocinero Pérez (UPV-EHU) VICEPRESIDENT: Rafael Juárez Martin (URJC) …

The XI Symposium of Young Researchers of the Spanish Society of Chemistry and Sigma Aldrich was organized by our group in Bilbao on November 4-7, 2014. Iciar Uriarte, Patricia Écija and Emilio J. Cocinero were members of the organizing committee. The meeting brings together young Chemistry researchers. The participation of 152 people was …

Prof. Jens-Uwe Grabow  (University of Hannover) and Sonia Melandri (University of Bologne) gave two great talks at the Physichal Chemistry Department. We could enjoy of their visits for one week.

Congratulations to Montserrat Vallejo-López, who passed her Ph.D. dissertation with top qualifications last September 26. The evaluation committee included J.-U. Grabow (Hannover), S. Melandri (Bologna), J. A. Fernández (Bilbao), J. L. Domenech (CSIC-Madrid) and S. Blanco (Valladolid). Montse spent the last four years In Valladolid. She did sevaral visits to …

The High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS2014) meeting in Bologna was a success, with more attendants than ever. Congratulations to Prof. Walther Caminati and his team for the organization of this event. Alberto Lesarri and gave a plenary talk. Montse Vallejo, Iciar Uriarte and Emilio J. Cocinero also gave talks. Iciar got …

Iciar Uriarte got a grant of Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU) program. This national grant has a duration of 4 years and she will be able to enjoy several international stances during her Ph. D. thesis.

Iker León got a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (3-years contract) and he is moving to Barcelona to work in The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) with Prof. Jens Biegert.

A work on the intermolecular cluster pyridine-methane in collaboration with the group of Walther Caminati has been chosen as cover of PCCP. Methane behaves in the complex as a noble gas, binding on top of the aromatic ring. This T-shape structure contrasts with the in-plane structure of other pyridine clusters involving halomethanes.

Grupo Especializado de carbohidratos of Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry organized XI Symposium on Rioja during May 28-30 and invited to E. J. Cocinero to give a talk entitled “Elucidating the structure of sugars in the gas phase“.    

Camila is a Ph. D. student from University of Bologne working with Sonia Melandri. She arrived in April at Bilbao and she had joined at MW reserach line. She will work with us for 4 months.

Prof. Zbyszek Kisiel, one of the world’s most renowned spectroscopists, visited our group in Bilbao and gave a master lecture. We were able to discuss possible collaborations in the future.

A work in collaboration with the Pate group in Virginia examined the weakly-bound cluster of sevoflurane···benzene ans was published in Angewandte Chemie. The primary interaction is a relatively strong C-H···pi hydrogen bond. The presence of additional C-H···F weak interactions hinders the six-fold symmetric internal rotation of benzene around sevoflurane. This …

Marie-Pierre Gaigeot’s Group invited to Dr. Cocinero for four days to her laboratory. He gave a seminar at the Deparment at the Evry University, Paris, France. Emilio was able to meet with his friend Álvaro Cimas who works there now.

Patricia Écija and Virginia Ovejas gave talks in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV / EHU, “IV Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología”

Emilio J. Cocinero attended and gave a oral comunication in the joint meeting between the Spanish Chemical Biology Group (GEQB), which celebrated its 2nd society meeting, and the Spanish Peptide Community that celebrated the XIV Iberian Peptide Meeting (EPI). Both events took place in Bilbao between the 4 and the 6 of February …

Lorenzo Spada is a Ph. D. from Bologne University working in Caminati’s group. He is going to visit and work in our group from February until April.

Over 30 young researchers enjoyed in Bilbao of the conference “VI Meeting of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM)”. The meeting was organized by our group.

Pierre Çarçabal from Université Paris Sud visited our Group for two days. We had the opportunty to program the next projects.

E-volution published an interview to Emilio J. Cocinero. He criticised the cuts of Spanish  I + D system. Press here to see the full interiview.  

The VI Meeting of Young Researchers in Atomic and Molecular Physics (J2IFAM) will take place in Bilbao along the dates 22-24 January 2014. The J2IFAM meeting is a good opportunity to bring together Ph.D. students and young researchers. From our group Montse Vallejo will be presenting an oral talk.

Emilio J. Cocinero was two weeks in Bologna visiting Caminati’s laboratory. He gave two talks: “Structures of biomolecules: MW Spectroscopy coupled with ultrafast UV laser vaporization” and “Sugars and anaesthetics: Versatility of Laser Spectroscopy”. Photo: Emilio, Lorenzo, Qian and Walther

Emilio J. Cocinero presented an oral talk entilted “Determinando estructuras de azúcares por espectroscopías de alta resolución”  

A collaboration between four institutions (Oxford, Orsay, Madrid and Bilbao) allowed to investigate Naked and Hydrated conformers of the Conserved Core Pentasaccharide of N-linked Glycoproteins and its Building Blocks. It is the largest system containing sugars studied so far by laser spectroscopy. The manuscript was published in JACS.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”. Read more.

A collaboration Valladolid-Bilbao disclosed a clear picture of the conformations of isolated 2-deoxy-D-ribose. The substitution and effective structures of the most abundant conformer was determined. The work was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52, 11840-11845, (2013).

A reverse micelle was observed in the propofol hexamer without any solvent. The manuscripit was cover in Angewandte Chemie. The national press highlighted this goal.

Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero (Centro de Investigaciones Biológica, CSIC, Madrid) visited our Group for two days. He gave a master lecture tilted “RMN y Reconocimiento molecular“. Everyone in the audience was delighted with his lecture about carbohidrates using RMN.  

Our group presented seven contributions to the 68th Ohio State University Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium (MSS) in Columbus. Patricia Écija, Estibaliz Mendez and Emilio J. Cocinero (Univ. Basque country) gave oral talks. Next symposium will move from Columbus to Urbana-Champaign. Photo: Iker, Estibaliz, Jon Hougen (at the MSS), Patricia and Emilio.    

She was awarded by Suschem Society to the best Spanish academic record in Chemistry area. She got an average mark of 9.58 and 29 distinctions. Read more.

Patricia Écija, Estíbaliz Méndez and Emilio J. Cocinero will be given an oral presentation at the “68th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy” in Ohio, June 17-21, 2013.  

If you heat scopine you get scopoline. The structure of distorted tropane has been characterized. This work has been published in ChemPhysChem.

Francisco Corzana (Universidad de la Rioja) gave a very interesting talk in our University “Glicopéptidos derivados de mucinas. Diseño racional de vacunas contra el cáncer”.

The conformational and structural preferences of phenazone (antipyrine), the prototype of non-opioid pyrazolone antipyretics, have been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. The spectrum exhibited very complicated fine and hyperfine patterns originated by the simultaneous coupling of the methyl group internal rotation and the spins of the two 14N nuclei …

Patricia Écija, Estíbaliz Méndez, Imanol Usabiaga, Jorge González, Roberto Fernández and Monste Vallejo gave a oral presentation at the  “V Meeting of Young Researchers on Atomic and Molecular Physics” in Madrid. In addition, our group was chosen to organize the next meeting in Bilbao.

The structure of free fructose has been determined experimentally thanks to enriched samples (six monosubstituted 13C species, and two single D). J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (7), pp 2845–2852

Francisco Basterretxea and Matilde Rodríguez are new Head and Secretary of Physical Chemistry Department at the Basque Country University.

Emilio J. Cocinero showed the laboratory in an interview with the Teknopolis program, eitb channel (Basque TV). http://www.eitb.com/es/videos/detalle/991060/video-emilio-cocinero-grupo-microwave-region–teknopolis/  

ChemPhysChem highlights and pulls out a press release from an article by José A. Fernandez. Original publication: José A. Fernández et al.; “A Spectroscopic and Computational Study of Propofol Dimers and Their Hydrated Clusters.”; ChemPhysChem 2012.

Ribose was published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 3119, 2012  and selected as journal inside cover and “Hot topic” by the journal. The national press emphasized this achievement.

The best scientific publication in 2011 conducted by a Spanish young researcher in any area of Chemistry. Read more. Sensing the anomeric effect in a solvent-free environment. Emilio J. Cocinero, Pierre Çarçabal, Timothy D. Vaden, John P. Simons & Benjamin G. Davis Nature 469, 76–79, 2011.  

The Sigma Aldrich Emerging Investigators Awards are presented for outstanding work by researchers not less than 36 years old. The winners of the 2012 awards are Elisa Barea, Emilio J. Cocinero, María del Carmen Giménez López, and Silvia Ortega Gutiérrez. Read more.