Tag Archives: Raquel P. Herrera

Raquel is now a member of the Editorial Board of Molecules

Section Board for ‘Organic Synthesis’ Dr. Raquel P. Herrera Laboratorio de Organocatálisis Asimétrica, Instituto de Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea (CSIC-UZ), Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Plz. de San Francisco s/n, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain Website … Continue reading

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Sport: where solidarity and science meet

Last Sunday, Raquel won the Gold medal in the category of walkers in the solidary race 7K AL RESCATE DEL CEREBRO. AIDA ICTUS Y ALZHEIMER ARAGON Congratulations!

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Season’s Greetings

HOCA group wishes you all the best, now and ever!

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Synergistic catalysis from synergistic collaboration between UK and SPAIN

This is the first article of a synergistic collaboration between Southampton and Zaragoza, as well as the catalysis involved on it. The work has been developed in Dr. Ramon Rios’s lab at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Prof. M. Concepción … Continue reading

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Raquel got the gold medal!

Yesterday, Raquel participated in the race “6K Healthy smiles for MALAWI” (category: “3K Walkers”), and she got the gold medal! Congratulations!

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One of our recent works has been highlighted in Synfacts

Our Asymmetric Organocatalysis (H-OCA) research group has developed a new enantioselective process for carrying out the Henry reaction. This reaction produces β-nitro alcohols, a group of compounds of highest interest, as they are frequently found in the structure of certain … Continue reading

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Cheating on Organocatalysis…

Raquel attended the XXXIV GEQO Congress in Girona last week (7–9 September). Her scientific contribution was entitled “Gold(I) mediated thiourea organocatalyst activation: A synergic effect for asymmetric catalysis”.

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A further step towards understanding one of our best “friends”: aminoindanol-based thiourea

Hydrogen bonding networks in chiral thiourea organocatalysts. Evidence on the importance of the aminoindanol moiety. Gimeno, M. C.; Herrera, R. P. Cryst. Growth Des., 2016, 16, 5091–5099. Abstract. The crystal structures of four chiral thioureas, which are normally used as organocatalysts, are reported by … Continue reading

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Regulatory Parameters of Self-Healing Alginate Hydrogel Networks Prepared via Mussel-Inspired Dynamic Chemistry

This new article is one more example of the active and excellent collaboration between David and Raquel research groups. Thanks and congratulations! Regulatory Parameters of Self-Healing Alginate Hydrogel Networks Prepared via Mussel-Inspired Dynamic Chemistry. Alegre-Requena, J. V.; Haering, M.; Herrera, R. P.; Diaz, … Continue reading

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Again disappointed by soccer…

We hope Chemistry works better than Spanish team in the Euro2016 FRANCE… SOS!

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