When you finish a PhD/postdoc in Mexico they take you in a special room and give you a taxi license, the secret recipe for carnitas and pastor, and blessings because there are no place for you to work. I'm posting this while planning where to stablish my carnitas bussines.

“Hi LatinXChem, @fergotico, Luis Fernando, Pedro López, presenting my work ‘Novel Synthetic Application of TEMPO Salt in the Ferrier C-Glycosylation Reaction’ at #LatinXChem23 #LatinXChemOrg #Org110 OBC, EurJOC.” Poster in PDF format: smartintex-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal…

Dr. Pedro López introducing a novel approach to furan-fused naphtopyrones at the Internal Symposium at BUAP . Superb talk!

Chiral furan-fused naphthopyrones are complex and beautiful bioactive natural products. Yet there is not an efficient way to synthesize them…till now. Here, we introduce an elegant solution applied to the synthesis of (+)-lasionectrin and its C12-epimer pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

An elegant approach to furan-fused naphthopyrones and application to the synthesis of (+)-lasionectrin and its C12-epimer is reported by the group of Sartillo-Piscil (@fergotico). Please have a look: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

¡Extra! ¡Extra! Estos son los ganadores del Premio a las Mejores Tesis de Licenciatura, Maestría y Doctorado en Ciencias Químicas “Rafael Illescas Frisbie”, Edición, 2023. ¡Felicidades! #SQM #PremioRIF2023 #LaQuímicaNosUne

The direct olefination of single C(sp3)–O Bond is now affordable. A Wittig-like Olefination of 3-alkoxyamino lactams allows the two-step synthesis of (E)-3-exo-alkenyl lactams form simple saturated N-heterocycles. Superb work of Alejandro Nolasco pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Pleassed to see our deconstructive lactamization of piperidines being used for molecular editing of (allo)securinine to (allo)norsecurinine. Congratulations Prof. Sunkyu and his group. DOI 10.3389/fchem.2024.1355636

Chequen este reportaje sobre el premio a la mejor tesis doctoral Rafael Illescas, otorgado por la Sociedad Química de México, A.C. a nuestro querido Julio Ibañez . fb.watch/pXxOJAw2CD/ Y si están buscando un lugar para inventar reacciones chidas como esta, mi laboratorio es el lugar perfecto!

@fergotico Dear Prof. Sartillo-Piscil, thanks to your powerful deconstructive lactamization chemistry, we could convert (allo)securinines to (allo)norsecurinines!! I hope we can meet one day at conferences!

Life is what happens to you while you’re having fun with friends and family.

Felicidades Luis Fernando por la magnífica presentación y defensa de tu tesis. Ha sido un placer dirigir tu proyecto. Éxito en todo lo que viene, no tengo duda de que la vas a romper.

A star in Total Synthesis was born in our lab. He’s now moving to Baylor University with a giant in Total Synthesis for his graduate studies. I’m pretty sure that Luis Fernando will bring us pride and joy soon.

Nothing beats a good, well worn collection of Synthetic Design books!

Convergent #TotalSynthesis of Aleutianamine by Joseph P. Tuccinardi and John L. Wood John L. Wood at Baylor Chemistry in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…