Ana Bahamonde
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“I lose track of time when I am drawing a catalytic cycle in ChemDraw… My secret/not-so-secret passion is fantasy football.” Find out more about Ana Bahamonde in her Introducing… Profile.
Ana Bahamonde
The author presented on this page has published her first article as a submitting corresponding author in Angewandte Chemie:
“Mechanistic Evidence of a Ni(0/II/III) Cycle for Nickel Photoredox Amide Arylation”: R. D. Bradley, B. D. McManus, J. G. Yam, V. Carta, A. Bahamonde, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202310753.
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Position, Location:
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Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside (USA)
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Education:
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2007–2012 Undergraduate at the Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias (Spain)
2017 PhD supervised by Prof. Paolo Melchiorre at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona (Spain)
2017–2020 Postdoctoral research supervised by Prof. Matthew S. Sigman at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA)
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Research:
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Nickel, catalysis, photochemistry, data science
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Hobbies:
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Playing and watching sports
If I could go back in time and do any experiment, it would be Halpern′s demonstration of the Curtin–Hammett principle in asymmetric catalysis (Science 1982, 217, 401–407).
The biggest challenge facing scientists is the negative view that society has of us, especially chemists.
The most exciting thing about my research is trying to figure out how the reactions work. With Ni there are always multiple pathways to consider, and trying to identify the most prevalent one(s) is a lot of fun.
I chose my current career path because my father is also a professor, although not in chemistry, and I have always looked up to him.
A turning point in my career was when I chose to study chemistry over physics at university. I made this decision because I wanted to learn from the late Professor Barluenga.
My group has fun by testing the patience of Bobby Bradley, my oldest student and first author of our first Angewandte paper.
My favorite thing about my lab group is that everyone in the group gets along very well.
To improve my work–life balance, I play pickleball in a league with my husband every Wednesday.
My secret/not-so-secret passion is fantasy football.
I lose track of time when I am drawing a catalytic cycle in ChemDraw.
My favorite place on earth is my hometown, Gijón (Spain).
My favorite food is Spanish omelet (tortilla).
My favorite drink is a Mexican lager.
My favorite song/piece of music is L'Amour Toujours by Gigi D′Agostino.
My top three films of all time are Forrest Gump, A Few Good Men, and Rain Man.
Behind the Science
We started this project by synthesizing the NiII amido complexes, which turned out to be the biggest challenge of this project. Neither I nor my group had any experience making organometallic complexes and we had little experience using the glove box. But Bobby Bradley did an amazing job, and we learned a lot about the do's and don'ts of working in the box. Afterwards, when aiming to wrap up the project as a small communication, we started studying the reaction kinetics and everything got very interesting very quickly.
