The CiQUS researcher Ricardo Riguera recently received this award that recognizes his career in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
Ricardo Riguera, CiQUS Principal Investigator and Professor of Organic Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela, recently received the 2018 'GERMN-Bruker' Award in the GERMN Bienal Meeting held in Lisboa. This distinction recognises his contributions to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) field and, particularly, the development of NMR based methodologies for the determination of the absolute configuration of organic compounds.
This award was established by the Specialized Group on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (GERMN) of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society (RSEQ), under the sponsorship of Bruker Española, S. A., to honour Spanish researchers distinguished by their contributions to NMR Spectroscopy.
Prof. Riguera is author of around 250 papers going from structure determination to synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry and, in the last few years, on smart polymers, biopolymers and dendrimers for biomedical applications.
In the field of NMR, the contributions of Prof. Riguera´s group have served to establish the theoretical foundations of the technique for determination of the absolute configuration, the general structure and role of the chiral derivatizing agents, and extended its application to more than one dozen different classes or organic compounds. He is the author of amply cited reviews, chapters in books and encyclopaedias and a book (Oxford University Press 2015).