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Emilio J. Cocinero

Senior Researcher

Emilio J. Cocinero completed his Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry in 2005 at the University of Valladolid (Spain), in the Molecular Spectroscopic Group (GEM) led by Prof. Alonso. In 2008, his thesis work, based on the study of the structure of amino acids by microwave spectroscopy, was recognized with a University prize to the best Ph. D. doctoral work conducted at the University of Valladolid. In 2006 he moved to Oxford University and worked with Professor John P. Simons, to join the internationally leading research group studying carbohydrates in the gas phase. In January 2009 he joined the University of the Basque Country, where he leads a research group focused on solving various structural problems of Chemistry at atomic level, in particular, the study of biomolecules, including sugars, peptides and drugs, generated and stabilized in the gas phase. His career has been recognized with several prizes. In spite of his youth (40 years), Emilio J. Cocinero has published >100 papers (53 papers (including 1 Nature, 1 Nature Commun., 5 Angewandte, 2 JACS, 1 Chem. Sci., 5 J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 1 Astrophys. J., 1 Chem. Comm. and 7 Chem – Eur. J.) in the last five years (2013-2017)) and his work has been recognized as winner of the Flygare Award (2015) for outstanding contributions in molecular spectroscopy by an early career independent scientist. In 2012 the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) awarded Dr. Cocinero the SIGMA-ALDRICH prize for the best scientific career of a Spanish young researcher and the SusChem society also awarded him the POSTDOC SusChem prize for the best scientific publication in 2011 conducted by a Spanish young researcher in any area of Chemistry. Recently he was also awarded the Prize of the Spanish Biophysical Society 2017 for his outstanding contributions in molecular spectroscopy. Finally, Emilio J. Cocinero was elected President of Young Chemical Researchers (JIQ) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in 2014.

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Publications

• Laboratory Observation of, Astrochemical Search for, and Structure of Elusive Erythrulose in the Interstellar Medium

  A. Insausti, E. R. Alonso, B. Tercero, J. I. Santos, C. Calabrese, N. Vogt, F. Corzana, J. Demaison, J. Cernicharo, E. J. Cocinero

  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 1352 (2021)

• Laboratory Observation of, Astrochemical Search for, and Structure of Elusive Erythrulose in the Interstellar Medium

  Aran Insausti, Elena R. Alonso, Belen Tercero, José I. Santos, Camilla Calabrese, Natalja Vogt, Francisco Corzana, Jean Demaison, Jose Cernicharo, and Emilio J. Cocinero

  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 4, 1352–1359 (2021)

• Center for Astrobiology: Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium-Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars

  Jiménez-Serra I, Martín-Pintado J, Rivilla VM, Rodríguez-Almeida L, Alonso Alonso ER, Zeng S, Cocinero EJ, Martín S, Requena-Torres M, Martín-Domenech R, Testi L.

  Astrobiology. 20 (9): 1048-1066. (2020) doi: 10.1089/ast.2019.2125. (2020)

• Halogen bond and internal dynamics in the σ–complex of pyridine-chlorotrifluoromethane: A rotational study

  Gou Q, Vallejo M, Spada L, Staffolani A, Lesarri A, Cocinero EJ, Caminati W.

  Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 371: 111323 (2020) doi: 10.1016/j.jms.2020.111323. (2020)

• Conformational impact of aliphatic side chains in local anaesthetics: benzocaine, butamben and isobutamben

  Insausti A , Calabrese C , Parra M , Usabiaga I , Vallejo-López M , Écija P , Basterretxea FJ , Grabow JU , Caminati W , Lesarri A , Cocinero EJ .

  Chem Commun (Camb). 56(45):6094-6097. (2020) doi: 10.1039/d0cc00760a. (2020)

• Observation of the Unbiased Conformers of Putative DNA-Scaffold Ribosugars

  Calabrese C, Uriarte I, Insausti A, Vallejo-López M, Basterretxea FJ, Cochrane SA, Davis BG, Corzana F, Cocinero EJ.

  ACS Cent. Sci. 6 (2), 293-303 (2020) doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01277. (2020)

• Conformational Behavior of d-Lyxose in Gas and Solution Phases by Rotational and NMR Spectroscopies

  Calabrese C, Écija P, Compañón I, Vallejo-López M, Cimas Á, Parra M, Basterretxea FJ, Santos JI, Jiménez-Barbero J, Lesarri A, Corzana F, Cocinero EJ.

  J Phys Chem Lett. 10(12):3339-3345. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00978 (2019)

• Bond length alternation observed experimentally: The case of 1H-indazole

  Uriarte I, Reviriego F, Calabrese C, Elguero J, Kisiel Z, Alkorta I, Cocinero EJ.

  Chemistry. doi: 10.1002/chem.201901666. (2019)

• A General Treatment to Study Molecular Complexes Stabilized by Hydrogen-, Halogen-, and Carbon-Bond Networks: Experiment and Theory of (CH2 F2 )n ⋅⋅⋅(H2 O)m

  Calabrese C, Li W, Prampolini G, Evangelisti L, Uriarte I, Cacelli I, Melandri S, Cocinero EJ.

  Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 58(25):8437-8442. doi: 10.1002/anie.201902753 (2019)

• Degradation Mechanism and Relative Stability of Methylammonium Halide Based Perovskites Analyzed on the Basis of Acid-Base Theory

  Juarez-Perez EJ, Ono LK, Uriarte I, Cocinero EJ, Qi Y.

  ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 11(13):12586-12593. doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b02374. (2019)

• lnteractions between azines and alcohols:a rotationalstudy of pyridine-tert-butylalcohol

  Spada L, Uriarte I, Li W, Evangelisti L, Cocinero EJ, Caminati W.

  Phys Chem Chem Phys. doi: 10.1039/c8cp04462g (2019)

• Rotational spectroscopy update for the newly identified atmospheric ozone depleter CF3CCl3

  Kisiel Z, Pszczółkowski L, Białkowska-Jaworska E, Jaworski M, Uriarte I, Basterretxea FJ, Cocinero EJ.

  Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 352, 1–9 (2018)

• Water Sculpts the Distinctive Shapes and Dynamics of the Tumor-Associated Carbohydrate Tn Antigens: Implications for Their Molecular Recognition

  Iris A. Bermejo, Imanol Usabiaga, Ismael Compañón, Jorge Castro-López, Aran Insausti, José A. Fernández, Alberto Avenoza, Jesús H. Busto, Jesús Jiménez-Barbero, Juan L. Asensio, Jesús M. Peregrina, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, Ramón Hurtado-Guerrero, Emilio J. Cocinero, and Francisco Corzana

  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (31), pp 9952–9960 DOI: 1 0.1021/jacs.8b04801 (2018)

• High conductance values in π-folded molecular junctions

  M. Carini, M. P. Ruiz, I. Usabiaga, J. A. Fernández, E. J. Cocinero, M. Melle-Franco, I. Diez-Perez and A. Mateo-Alonso

  Nature Communications volume 8, Article number: 15195 (2017)

• Free Fructose is conformationally locked

  E. J. Cocinero, A. Lesarri, P. Écija, A. Cimas, B. G. Davis, F. J. Basterretxea, J. A. Fernández, and F. Castaño

  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 2845-1852 (2013)

• Ribose Found in the Gas Phase

  E. J. Cocinero, A. Lesarri, P. Écija, F. J. Basterretxea, J.-U. Grabow, J. A. Fernández, and F. Castaño

  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 3119-3124 (2012)

• Sensing the anomeric effect in a solvent-free environment

  Emilio J. Cocinero, Pierre Carcabal, Timothy D. Vaden, John P. Simons & Benjamin G. Davis

  Nature volume 469, pages 76–79 (2011)