Tag Archives: Eugenia Marqués-López

Expanding the knowledge about an old friend of us: aminoindanol urea derivative

This is a new joint paper with our friend Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz (Universität Regensburg) and his collaborators, which delves into the properties and applications of aminoindanol urea derivative: a fascinating molecule that has been already more than 10 years … Continue reading

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Taking advantage of self-assembled capacity of squaramides to form stable alcogels

Squaramides are intriguing molecular structures intensively employed in the last decade as organocatalysts. That is why they entered to be part of the research focuses of H-OCA, dedicated -as you certainly know- to the asymmetric organocatalysis field. Along to this … Continue reading

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Enjoy reading about one of our favourite molecular structure: AMINOINDANOL

Our most recent review paper has just come out off the press. It has been published as open access in Beilstein J. Org. Chem. In this paper, by gathering relevant and illustrative examples, we  show the ability of conferring bifunctionality … Continue reading

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Squaramides as potential anticancer agents for gastric carcinoma

These are the first results on a recently published study investigating the anticancer activity of squaramides carried out in collaboration with our collegue and friend Dr. Gemma Triola (IQAC-CISC). This article is part of a themed collection: Special issue devoted to “New … Continue reading

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Wanna know what happens if you consider MOFs and HBC together? Take a look to this highlight, just published in CrystEngComm

The highlight entitled “Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) bring new life to hydrogen-bonding organocatalysts in confined spaces” has just been published at CrystEngComm. In this work, together with Prof. David Díaz (Universität Regensburg), we have compiled and studied the literature which involves the intriguing idea of … Continue reading

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HOCA to publish a New Synthesis of Chiral 2-Oxospiro-[indole-3,4′- (1′,4′-dihydropyridines)]

We are interested in the enantioselective synthesis of highly functionalized molecules with biological activity. In this frame, we have just published “a preliminary study” in the development of a “New Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Highly Substituted Chiral 2-Oxo Spiro-[indole-3,4′- (1′,4′-dihydropyridine)] … Continue reading

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HOCA publishes a review about the synthesis of chromenes

We have compiled and reviewed the recent literature about “Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Synthesis of 2-Amino-3-cyano-4H-chromene Derivatives” and the resulting article has been just published in Symmetry in the frame of its Special Issue dedicated to “Asymmetric Organocatalysis”. Isaac G. Sonsona, Eugenia Marqués-López  and Raquel P. Herrera. Symmetry 2015, … Continue reading

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7th Spanish-Portuguese-Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium

Maru has been in Seville, coming back (for few days) to her alma mater university. Nice memories and nice time! Thanks Charo, José María, Elena, David, Javi, Abel, and all the organizers!

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HOCA publishes a new method of addition of indoles to aliphatic β,γ-unsaturated α-ketoesters catalyzed by a chiral thiourea

“Thiourea-Catalyzed Addition of Indoles to Aliphatic β,γ-Unsaturated α-Ketoesters” by Verónica Juste-Navarro, Eugenia Marqués-López and Raquel P. Herrera has been published in Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201500154 Abstract: The first thiourea-catalyzed addition reaction of indoles to aliphatic β,γ-unsaturated α-ketoesters has been developed. … Continue reading

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Wiley publica “Multicomponent reactions” editado por Herrera y Marqués-López

“Multicomponent Reactions: Concepts and Applications for Design and Synthesis” es un libro editado por las investigadoras del grupo Organocatálisis asimétrica (H-OCA), Raquel P. Herrera y Eugenia Marqués-López, que ha sido publicado recientemente por Wiley. A lo largo de sus 532 páginas, … Continue reading

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