PhD Thesis by Laura Castañar: Pulse Programs and Data Set Examples

Development and application of modern pure shift NMR techniques and improved HSQC/HSQMBC experiments In the following links one can find Data Set Examples of each Publication presented in the Thesis Work, as well as the corresponding Pulse Program Code for Bruker. All 2D spectra have been previously phased and 2ii, 2ir, and 2ri files removed, otherwise … Continue reading PhD Thesis by Laura Castañar: Pulse Programs and Data Set Examples

Laura Castañar receives award at ENC 2015

Laura Castañar was honoured at the 56th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC) with the Ritchey Travel Award for her Ph.D. Thesis research on “Development and application of modern pure shift NMR techniques and improved HSQC/HSQMBC experiments”. The award ceremony took place at the After-Dinner Program in Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, USA, the 23th … Continue reading Laura Castañar receives award at ENC 2015

Lilly Research Award to Laura Castañar

Laura Castañar is top finalist to the Lilly XII Research Awards for Graduate Students. The prize is awarded to ten Spanish young scientists, three awardees and seven finalists, for their research contributions in the field of chemistry. The awards ceremony took place at Lilly Research & Development Centre in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, the 26th September, … Continue reading Lilly Research Award to Laura Castañar

Laura Castañar’s oral communication gets accessit award at GERMN 2014

Laura Castañar is honoured by JANSSEN with the accessit prize for her oral communication Enantiodifferentiation through Frequency-Selective Pure-Shift 1H NMR at the VII Biennial Meeting of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry / IV Iberian NMR Meeting / VI Ibero-American NMR Meeting (GERMN 2014) held in Alcalá de Henares, … Continue reading Laura Castañar’s oral communication gets accessit award at GERMN 2014

A new strategy for the regioselective functionalization of C60 fullerenes

“Supramolecular Fullerene Sponges as Catalytic Masks for Regioselective Functionalization of C60“, by Carles Fuertes-Espinosa, Cristina García-Simón, Míriam Pujals, Marc Garcia-Borràs, Laura Gómez, Teodor Parella, Judit Juanhuix, Inhar Imaz, Daniel Maspoch, Miquel Costas and Xavi Ribas. Chem, in press (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.10.010 The supramolecular mask protocol is a significant step forward for the regioselective functionalization of … Continue reading A new strategy for the regioselective functionalization of C60 fullerenes

Metronomic treatment in immunocompetent preclinical glioblastoma

“Metronomic treatment in immunocompetent preclinical GL261 glioblastoma: effects of cyclophosphamide and temozolomide” by by L. Ferrer-Font,  N. Arias-Ramos, S. Lope-Piedrafita, M. Julià-Sapé , M. Pumarola, C. Arús  and A. P. Candiota. NMR Biomed. 2017. DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3748.  Glioblastoma (GBM) causes poor survival in patients even when applying aggressive treatment. In preceding years, efforts have focused in new … Continue reading Metronomic treatment in immunocompetent preclinical glioblastoma

RDC measurements and application

Application to the structural discrimination of small molecules containing multiple stereocenters. One-Shot determination of residual dipolar couplings. Castañar, L.; Garcia, M.; Hellemann, E.; Nolis, P.; Gil, R.; Parella, T. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02103   A novel approach for the fast and efficient structural discrimination of molecules containing multiple stereochemical centers is described. A robust Jresolved HSQC experiment … Continue reading RDC measurements and application

PhD Thesis: Development and application of modern pure shift NMR techniques and improved HSQC and HSQMBC experiments

Last 16st July 2015 I defended my PhD Thesis entitled: Development and application of modern pure shift NMR techniques and improved HSQC/HSQMBC experiments. The present doctoral thesis is framed within the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy field, more specifically in the design of modern NMR methodologies. The research work carried out is focused on the … Continue reading PhD Thesis: Development and application of modern pure shift NMR techniques and improved HSQC and HSQMBC experiments

Review – Pure shift NMR experiments: recent developments, methods and applications

“Broadband 1H homodecoupled NMR experiments: recent developments, methods and applications” by Laura Castañar and Teodor Parella. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4238 In recent years, a great interest in the development of new broadband 1H homonuclear decoupled techniques providing simplified JHH multiplet patterns has emerged again in the field of small molecule NMR. The … Continue reading Review – Pure shift NMR experiments: recent developments, methods and applications