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Overview

Carlos C. Romão is affiliated with Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, cell biology, and pediatric health among others.

Their recent work includes a series of publications that explore biochemical mechanisms and therapeutic applications involving carbon monoxide and related molecules. Notable papers include:

  • Synergetic Antimicrobial Activity and Mechanism of Clotrimazole-Linked CO-Releasing Molecules (2022, ACS Bio & Med Chem Au)
  • Improving the Anti-inflammatory Response via Gold Nanoparticle Vectorization of CO-Releasing Molecules (2020, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering)
  • Carbon Monoxide Modulation of Microglia-Neuron Communication: Anti-Neuroinflammatory and Neurotrophic Role (2021, Molecular Neurobiology)
  • Carbon Monoxide-Neuroglobin Axis Targeting Metabolism Against Inflammation in BV-2 Microglial Cells (2021, Molecular Neurobiology)
  • Carboxyhemoglobin (COHb): Unavoidable Bystander or Protective Player? (2023, Antioxidants)

Romão's work extensively addresses the role of heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide in biological systems, with additional interest in hemoglobin structure and function. Research topics also cover neonatal health and biochemistry, techniques for CO2 reduction, cannabinoid research, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration mechanisms, and purinergic signaling.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research output include Helena L.A. Vieira, Sofia S. Mendes, Lígia M. Saraiva, Daniela Dias-Pedroso, and Vilma A. Sardão.

Their publications are often featured in specialized venues such as:

  • Molecular Neurobiology
  • ACS Bio & Med Chem Au
  • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • Antioxidants
  • Dalton Transactions

Romão's scholarly work shows a pattern of interdisciplinary engagement within biochemistry and molecular biology, contributing insights particularly to molecular mechanisms related to inflammation, antimicrobial activity, and cellular communication pathways.

Best Publications

  • Rhenium(VII) Oxo and Imido Complexes: Synthesis, Structures, and Applications.

    Carlos C. Romão;Fritz E. Kühn;Wolfgang A. Herrmann

  • Developing drug molecules for therapy with carbon monoxide

    Carlos C. Romão;Walter A. Blättler;João D. Seixas;Gonçalo J. L. Bernardes

  • Octahedral bipyridine and bipyrimidine dioxomolybdenum(VI) complexes: characterization, application in catalytic epoxidation, and density functional mechanistic study.

    Fritz E. Kühn;Michelle Groarke;Éva Bencze;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Antimicrobial Action of Carbon Monoxide-Releasing Compounds

    Lígia S. Nobre;João D. Seixas;Carlos C. Romão;Lígia M. Saraiva

  • A Simple Entry to (η5-C5R5)chlorodioxomolybdenum(VI) Complexes (R = H, CH3, CH2Ph) and Their Use as Olefin Epoxidation Catalysts

    Marta Abrantes;Ana M. Santos;Janos Mink;Fritz E. KüHN

  • MCM-41 functionalized with bipyridyl groups and its use as a support for oxomolybdenum(VI) catalysts

    Carla D. Nunes;Anabela A. Valente;Martyn Pillinger;Ana C. Fernandes

  • Multiple bonds between main-group elements and transition metals. 113. Simple and efficient synthesis of methyltrioxorhenium(VII): a general method

    Wolfgang A. Herrmann;Fritz E. Kuehn;Richard W. Fischer;Werner R. Thiel

  • A novel method for the reduction of sulfoxides and pyridine N-oxides with the system silane/MoO2Cl2

    Ana C. Fernandes;Carlos C. Romão

  • Highly Chemo- and Regioselective Reduction of Aromatic Nitro Compounds Using the System Silane/Oxo-Rhenium Complexes

    Rita G de Noronha;Carlos C Romão;Ana C Fernandes

  • The nature of the indenyl effect

    Maria José Calhorda;Carlos C. Romão;Luis F. Veiros

  • Lewis base adducts of bis-(halogeno)dioxomolybdenum(VI): syntheses, structures, and catalytic applications

    Fritz E Kühn;André D Lopes;Ana M Santos;Eberhardt Herdtweck

  • Spontaneous CO Release from RuII(CO)2–Protein Complexes in Aqueous Solution, Cells, and Mice

    Miguel Chaves-Ferreira;Inês S. Albuquerque;Dijana Matak-Vinkovic;Ana C. Coelho

  • Silane/MoO2Cl2 as an efficient system for the reduction of esters

    Ana C. Fernandes;Carlos C. Romão

  • Reactive oxygen species mediate bactericidal killing elicited by carbon monoxide-releasing molecules

    Ana Filipa N. Tavares;Miguel Teixeira;Carlos C. Romão;João D. Seixas

  • A novel method for the reduction of imines using the system silane/MoO2Cl2

    Ana C. Fernandes;Carlos C. Romão

  • Loading and delivery of sertraline using inorganic micro and mesoporous materials.

    Carla D. Nunes;Pedro D. Vaz;Ana C. Fernandes;Paula Ferreira

  • Reduction of sulfoxides with boranes catalyzed by MoO2Cl2

    Ana C. Fernandes;Carlos C. Romão

  • Periplasmic Nitrate Reductase Revisited: A Sulfur Atom Completes the Sixth Coordination of the Catalytic Molybdenum.

    Shabir Najmudin;Pablo J. González;José Trincão;Catarina Coelho

  • Mononuclear and Binuclear Cyclopentadienyl Oxo Molybdenum and Tungsten Complexes: Syntheses and Applications in Olefin Epoxidation Catalysis

    Ana M. Martins;Carlos C. Romão;Marta Abrantes;M. Cristina Azevedo

  • A Novel Carbon Monoxide-Releasing Molecule Fully Protects Mice from Severe Malaria

    Ana C. Pena;Nuno Penacho;Liliana Mancio-Silva;Rita Neres

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel S. Gonçalves
Isabel S. Gonçalves University of Aveiro
Martyn Pillinger
Martyn Pillinger University of Aveiro
Maria José Calhorda
Maria José Calhorda University of Lisbon
Fritz E. Kühn
Fritz E. Kühn Technical University of Munich
Anabela A. Valente
Anabela A. Valente University of Aveiro
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Wolfgang A. Herrmann Technical University of Munich
Luis F. Veiros
Luis F. Veiros Instituto Superior Técnico
Gonçalo J. L. Bernardes
Gonçalo J. L. Bernardes University of Cambridge
Maria João Romão
Maria João Romão Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Filipe A. Almeida Paz
Filipe A. Almeida Paz University of Aveiro

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