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.

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.