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Ricardo Riguera is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with an emphasis on materials chemistry and organic chemistry. Additional areas of study include biomaterials, molecular biology, and spectroscopy.

Their scientific contributions cover topics such as:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis

Ricardo Riguera has authored multiple research papers in significant publication venues. Frequent journals include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Chemical Science

Recent publications by Ricardo Riguera include:

  • A Stimuli-Responsive Macromolecular Gear: Interlocking Dynamic Helical Polymers with Foldamers, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • From Sergeants and Soldiers to Chiral Conflict Effects in Helical Polymers by Acting on the Conformational Composition of the Comonomers, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chiral information harvesting in helical poly(acetylene) derivatives using oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene)s as spacers, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Photochemical Electrocyclization of Poly(phenylacetylene)s: Unwinding Helices to Elucidate their 3D Structure in Solution, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Dynamic Chiral PPA-AgNP Nanocomposites: Aligned Silver Nanoparticles Decorating Helical Polymers, 2021, Chemistry of Materials

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Emilio Quiñoá
  • Félix Freire
  • Rafael Rodríguez
  • Berta Fernández
  • Katherine Cobos

Best Publications

  • The assignment of absolute configuration by NMR

    José Manuel Seco;Emilio Quiñoá;Ricardo Riguera

  • Reliable and Efficient Procedures for the Conjugation of Biomolecules through Huisgen Azide–Alkyne Cycloadditions

    Enrique Lallana;Ricardo Riguera;Eduardo Fernandez-Megia

  • Development and brain delivery of chitosan-PEG nanoparticles functionalized with the monoclonal antibody OX26.

    Yeşim Aktas;M Yemisci;K Andrieux;RN Gursoy

  • A Click Approach to Unprotected Glycodendrimers

    Eduardo Fernandez-Megia;Juan Correa;Irene Rodríguez-Meizoso;Ricardo Riguera

  • A practical guide for the assignment of the absolute configuration of alcohols, amines and carboxylic acids by NMR

    José Manuel Seco;Emilio Quiñoá;Ricardo Riguera

  • Phenylethanoid glycosides in plants: structure and biological activity

    Carlos Jiménez;Ricardo Riguera

  • Supramolecular Assemblies from Poly(phenylacetylene)s

    Félix Freire;Emilio Quiñoá;Ricardo Riguera

  • dd-diketopiperazines: antibiotics active against Vibrio anguillarum isolated from marine bacteria associated with cultures of Pecten maximus.

    Faouzi Fdhila;Victoriano Vázquez;José Luis Sánchez;Ricardo Riguera

  • Assignment of the absolute configuration of polyfunctional compounds by NMR using chiral derivatizing agents

    J.M. Seco;E. Quiñoá;R. Riguera

  • MTPA vs MPA in the Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Chiral Alcohols by 1H NMR

    Sh. K. Latypov;J. M. Seco;E. Quinoa;R. Riguera

  • A Nanomedicine Transports a Peptide Caspase-3 Inhibitor across the Blood–Brain Barrier and Provides Neuroprotection

    Hulya Karatas;Yesim Aktas;Yasemin Gursoy-Ozdemir;Ebru Bodur

  • Surpassing the use of copper in the click functionalization of polymeric nanostructures: a strain-promoted approach.

    Enrique Lallana;Eduardo Fernandez-Megia;Ricardo Riguera

  • Click Chemistry for Drug Delivery Nanosystems

    Enrique Lallana;Ana Sousa-Herves;Francisco Fernandez-Trillo;Ricardo Riguera

  • Determining the absolute stereochemistry of secondary/secondary diols by 1H NMR: basis and applications.

    Félix Freire;José Manuel Seco;Emilio Quiñoá;Ricardo Riguera

  • Chiral Amplification and Helical‐Sense Tuning by Mono‐ and Divalent Metals on Dynamic Helical Polymers

    Félix Freire;José Manuel Seco;Emilio Quiñoá;Ricardo Riguera

  • Conformational Structure and Dynamics of Arylmethoxyacetates: DNMR Spectroscopy and Aromatic Shielding Effect

    Sh. K. Latypov;J. M. Seco;E. Quinoa;R. Riguera

  • Optimal routine conditions for the determination of the degree of acetylation of chitosan by 1H-NMR

    Eduardo Fernandez-Megia;Ramón Novoa-Carballal;Emilio Quiñoá;Ricardo Riguera

  • "Clickable" PEG-dendritic block copolymers.

    Eduardo Fernandez-Megia;Juan Correa;Ricardo Riguera

  • Synthesis and antihistaminic activity of 2-guanadino-3-cyanopyridines and pyrido[2,3-d]-pyrimidines

    JoséM. Quintela;Carlos Peinador;Luis Botana;Manuel Estévez

  • NMR methods for unravelling the spectra of complex mixtures

    Ramon Novoa-Carballal;Eduardo Fernandez-Megia;Carlos Jimenez;Ricardo Riguera

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilio Quiñoá
Emilio Quiñoá University of Santiago de Compostela
Luis Castedo
Luis Castedo University of Santiago de Compostela
Cécile Debitus
Cécile Debitus University of Western Brittany
Frank R. Stermitz
Frank R. Stermitz Colorado State University
Luis M. Botana
Luis M. Botana University of Santiago de Compostela
Turgay Dalkara
Turgay Dalkara Bilkent University
Phillip Crews
Phillip Crews University of California, Santa Cruz
Hector M. Guzman
Hector M. Guzman Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Maria José Alcaraz
Maria José Alcaraz University of Valencia
Patrick Couvreur
Patrick Couvreur University of Paris-Saclay

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