I was born and grew up in Álora, a small village in Málaga in the south of Spain. After obtaining a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Málaga, I moved to the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry in Madrid where I got my PhD in 2013 working on the stereoselective synthesis and applications of quaternary amino acids. I joined the Chris Hunter´s group in 2013, when the group was based in the University of Sheffield. In September 2014, I moved to the University of Cambridge with the Hunter group, where I am currently working on information molecules. Since May 2015, I am also an Emmanuel College research associate.
Publications
Sequence Information Transfer Using Covalent Template-Directed Synthesis.
– Chemical Science
(2019)
10,
5258
(DOI: 10.1039/c9sc01460h)
Ultrasound-induced gelation of a giant macrocycle
– Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2018)
54,
10874
(DOI: 10.1039/c8cc04742a)
Backbone conformation affects duplex initiation and duplex propagation in hybridisation of synthetic H-bonding oligomers.
– Organic & biomolecular chemistry
(2018)
16,
4183
(DOI: 10.1039/c8ob00819a)
Sequence-Selective Formation of Synthetic H-Bonded Duplexes
– J Am Chem Soc
(2017)
139,
12655
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06619)
H-Bond Self-Assembly: Folding versus Duplex Formation
– J Am Chem Soc
(2017)
139,
6654
(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b01357)
Homochiral oligomers with highly flexible backbones form stable H-bonded duplexes
– Chemical science
(2016)
8,
206
(DOI: 10.1039/C6SC02995G)
Divergent, stereoselective access to heterocyclic α,α-quaternary- and β<sup>2,3,3</sup>-amino acid derivatives from a N-Pmp-protected Orn-derived β-lactam
– Org Biomol Chem
(2015)
13,
5195
(DOI: 10.1039/c5ob00429b)
Experimental and theoretical studies on the rearrangement of 2-oxoazepane α,α-amino acids into 2′-oxopiperidine β2,3,3-amino acids: An example of intramolecular catalysis
– Chemistry
(2015)
21,
2489
(DOI: 10.1002/chem.201405640)
Azepane Quaternary Amino Acids As Effective Inducers of 3(10) Helix Conformations
– The Journal of Organic Chemistry
(2012)
77,
9833
(DOI: 10.1021/jo301379r)
Quaternary α,α-2-oxoazepane α-amino acids: Synthesis from ornithine-derived β-lactams and incorporation into model dipeptides
– The Journal of Organic Chemistry
(2011)
76,
6592
(DOI: 10.1021/jo200894d)
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