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 with the overall rotation.

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.