DRA GLORIA SÁNCHEZ CABRERA
Profesora investigadora Titular C
Área Académica de Química. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.
E-mail: gloriasa@uaeh.edu.mx
Sitio web: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3885-2420

Dr. Sánchez-Cabrera studied at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, where she obtained a degree in Industrial Chemistry in 1994. She subsequently completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Chemistry at CINVESTAV-IPN, where she obtained a PhD in Science with a specialty in Inorganic Chemistry in 2001, conducting studies on molecular metal clusters of ruthenium and osmium under the direction of Dr. María de Jesús Rosales Hoz. In 2002, she completed a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA (Molecular Electronic Devices) under the direction of Dr. Jorge Seminario. Since 2003, she is a Full-Time Research Professor C in the Academic Area of ​​Chemistry at UAEH.

She has completed research stays in the research group of Dr. Javier Cabeza at the “Enrique Moles” Institute of Organometallic Chemistry of the University of Oviedo, Spain in 1998 and in the research group of Dr. Daniel Mindiola in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Indiana University, USA, in 2007 and 2008. She is a National Researcher (SNII) Level I and a professor with PRODEP recognition of desirable profile.

Professor of the Educational Programs of the Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry and of the Master's and Doctorate Programs in Chemistry at UAEH. She has participated in research projects, four as a leader and six as a collaborator. She is currently working on the research project: "Development of new organometallic complexes of transition metals derived from N-heterocyclic ligands with potential biological activity." She has more than 30 indexed articles and some more for dissemination. To date, she has directed or co-directed 24 bachelor's theses (3 in progress), 11 master's theses (4 in progress), 9 doctoral theses (3 in progress).

He belongs to the Academic Body of Experimental and Computational Inorganic Chemistry (CAQIEC) in the line of generation and application of knowledge "Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis". The research group under his charge studies the chemistry of transition metals (Molecular Design), performing the synthesis and characterization of new organometallic and coordination compounds with ligands containing heteroatoms such as N, S and P, such as phosphines, thiols, mercaptopyridines or unsaturated ligands, which allow to establish reactivity patterns and analyze their potential catalytic or metallopharmaceutical activity.

In recent years, he has specifically studied the synthesis of various azolium salts, their characterization and their capacity to form NHC carbenes of transition metals of groups 10 and 11, in addition to their potential application as antibacterial agents. This is based on the fact that quaternary azolium salts are organic compounds whose easy production has made them ideal precursors for the synthesis of different types of N-heterocyclic metal carbenes (NHC); with proven antibacterial, anticancer activity or as catalysts in organic transformations.

She has also been a State Delegate for the Hidalgo Chemistry Olympics since 2007.

Title of the conference

“The journey from synthesis to application of metal carbenes NHC”.