Category Archives: Collaboration

Collaborations bear fruit (gels). Congratulations!

Posted on February 24, 2025 by mmaamarq

Ultrasound-Enhanced Gelation of Stimuli-Responsive and Biocompatible Phenylalanine-Derived Hydrogels, Buxaderas, E.; Moglie, Y.; Baz Figueroa, A.; Alegre-Requena, J. V.; Grijalvo, S.; Saldías, C.; Herrera, E. P.; Marqués-López, E.; Díaz Díaz, D. Gels 2025, 11(3), 160. DOI: 10.3390/gels11030160. Abstract. Stimuli-responsive materials, particularly supramolecular hydrogels, exhibit a … Continue reading →

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Collaborations bear fruit (antiproliferative effects). Congratulations!

Posted on February 24, 2025 by mmaamarq

Multimodal antiproliferative effects of oleanolic acid mitocans: in vitro and in vivo studies, Puerta, A.; González-Bakker, A; Romanos, E.; Aguilar Domínguez, I.; Martínez-Montiel, M.; Merino-Montiel, P.; Herrera, R. P.; Gimeno, M. C.; Fernández-Bolaños, J. G.; López, O.; Padrón, J. M. Biochem. Pharm. 2025, 234, 116807. DOI: … Continue reading →

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DHPs in 6th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry (Nov 2020)

Posted on November 11, 2020 by mmaamarq

Novel ureido-dihydropyridine scaffolds as theranostic agents F. Auria-Luna,* S. Ardevines, E. Marqués-López, E. Romanos, V. Fernández-Moreira, M. C. Gimeno, I. Marzo, R. P. Herrera 10.3390/ECMC2020-07419 (registering DOI) Abstract: The potential as anticancer agents of 1,4-dihydropyridines (1,4-DHPs) and their pioneering urea … Continue reading →

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Overview on asymmetric fluorination reactions by means of ORGANOCATALYSIS

Posted on October 1, 2020 by mmaamarq

Asymmetric Fluorination Reactions Promoted by Chiral Hydrogen‐Bonding‐Based Organocatalysts, Auria-Luna, F.; Mohammadi, S.; Divar, M.; Gimeno, M. C.; Herrera, R. P. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.202000848 VIP Abstract. Fluorinated compounds can exhibit interesting biological properties. The importance of these species has made … Continue reading →

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Congrats for this new article!

Posted on March 22, 2020 by mmaamarq

Sulfonamide as amide isostere for fine-tuning the gelation properties of physical gels, Alegre-Requena, J. V.; Grijalvo, S.; Sampedro, D.;  Mayr, J.;  Saldías, C.; Marrero-Tellado, J. J.; Eritja, R.; Herrera, R. P.; Díaz, D. D. RSC Adv. 2020, 10, 11481-11492. Abstract. … Continue reading →

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First fruit of a very interesting collaboration…

Posted on January 15, 2020 by mmaamarq

… with Dr. Santiago Uriel. Thank you and congratulations! Simple iodoalkyne-based organocatalysts for the activation of carbonyl compounds, Alegre-Requena, J. V.; Valero-Tena, A.; Sonsona, I. G.; Uriel, S.; Herrera, R. P. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, DOI: 10.1039/c9ob02688f Abstract. A novel … Continue reading →

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Hot paper Chem. Eur. J. – Congratulations!

Posted on December 22, 2019 by mmaamarq

Thiolate Bridged Gold(I)–NHC Catalysts: New Approach for Catalyst Design and its Application to Trapping Catalytic Intermediates Renso Visbal, Raquel P. Herrera* and M. Concepción Gimeno* Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 15837–15845. More info (in Spanish).

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Synergistic catalysis as well as synergistic teamwork

Posted on March 14, 2019 by mmaamarq

Proline bulky substituents consecutively act as steric hindrances and directing groups in a Michael/Conia-ene cascade reaction under synergistic catalysis, Putatunda, S.; Alegre-Requena, J. V.; Meazza, M.; Franc, M.; Rohaľová, D.; Vemuri, P.; Císařová, I.; Herrera, R. P.; Rios, R.; Veselý, … Continue reading →

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Indole and isatin derivatives with Au(I): Highly cytotoxic metallic species

Posted on February 8, 2019 by mmaamarq

Bioactive and luminescent indole and isatin based gold(I) derivatives, Fernández-Moreira, V.; Val-Campillo, C.; Ospino, I.; Herrera, R. P.; Marzo, I.; Laguna, A.; Gimeno, M. C. Dalton Trans. 2019. DOI: 10.1039/C8DT00298C Abstract. A series of luminescent monometallic [AuL(PPh3)] (1-3) and bimetallic [Au2(µ-dppe)L2] (4, … Continue reading →

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Enjoy reading a new review about anticancer properties of gold complexes

Posted on January 30, 2019 by mmaamarq

Anticancer Properties of Gold Complexes with Biologically Relevant Ligands, Fernández-Moreira, V.; Herrera, R. P.; Gimeno, M. C. Pure Appl. Chem. 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2018-0901 Abstract. The present review highlights our findings in the field of antitumor gold complexes bearing biologically relevant molecules, such as DNA-bases, amino acids … Continue reading →

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