Dr. Bernardo Frontana Uribe

Biography

Dr. Bernardo Frontana Uribe in 1988-1993 BSc in Chemistry, School of Chemistry, UNAM. Supervisors: M.C. Jorge Cárdenas Pérez, Dr. Alejandro Baeza Reyes. Thesis: Chemotaxonomic study of roots of Salvia coulteri (Labiatae); Electrochemical study of quinoids abietanes. 1993-1995 MSc in Organic Chemistry: School of Chemistry, UNAM. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lydia Rodríguez-Hahn† Thesis: Electrochemcial study of natural quinoids abietanes and their electro reductive alkylation.1995-1999 PhD in Chemistry: Université de Rennes I, France, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claude Moinet. Thesis: Electrosynthesis of nitrogenated heterocycles from ortho-substituted nitrobencenes.2003 Visiting researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.Host researcher: Prof. R. Daniel Little. Research subject: Electrogeneration of Yb(II) for its use in organic synthesis.2005-2006 Posdoctoral position: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. Host researcher: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze. Research topic: Synthesis and electrochemical polimerization of clusters of biphenyl-terthiophene monomers.

Research Interest

Dr. Bernardo Frontana Uribe focused on Electrocatalytic electrodes for Organic Electrosynthesis based on organic conducting polymers, Search for new electrosynthetic reactions and their application to organic chemistry, Chemical and Electrochemical transformations of natural products (projects in collaboration with MC Jorge Cárdenas Pérez IQ-UN), The main characteristics are: a fastest process of crystallization due to acceleration on the kinetics of crystal growth, crystallization favored towards one of the electrodes, protein adsorption processes over electrodes and an excellent quality in the crystals obtained, useful in X-ray with a 1A resolution.