Areas of Interest
Education
Ph. D. Organic Chemistry, University of Nebraska Lincoln/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Mexico (UNAM), 2005
M.S. Organic Chemistry, UNAM, 2001
B.S. Chemistry, University of Michoacan, 1991
Faculty Appointments
2009-present Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Kearney
2006-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University
Recent Publications
- “Fluxional additives: A second generation control in enantioselective catalysis”, Mukund P. Sibi, Shankar Manyem, Hector Palencia. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 13660- 13661.
- “Improved turnover numbers in palladium-catalyzed bisdiene cyclization-trapping using N-heterocyclic carbene ligands”, James M. Takacs, Suman Layek, Hector Palencia, and Ross N. Andrews. Adv. Synth. Catal., 2005, 347 (15), 1937- 1942.
- “Asymmetric Catalysis Using Self-Assembled Chiral Bidentate P,P-Ligands”, James M. Takacs, D. Sahadeva Reddy, Shin A. Moteki, Di Wu, and Hector Palencia J. Am.Chem. Soc., 2004, 126(14), 4494- 4495.
- “Suzuki-Miyaura coupling with high turnover number using an N-acyl-N-heterocyclic carbene palladacycle precursor”, Hector Palencia, Federico Garcia-Jimenez, and James M. Takacs, Tetrahedron Lett., 2004, 45(20), 3849- 3853.
- "Targeting Methanopterin Biosynthesis to Inhibit Methanogenesis", Razvan Dumitru, Hector Palencia, Scott D. Schroeder, Bree A. DeMontigny, James M. Takacs, Madeline E. Rasche, Jess L. Miner, and Stephen W. Ragsdale, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2003, 69, 7236-7241.
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