Hector Palencia

Hector Palencia.

Professor, Organic Chemistry
Chemistry - University of Nebraska at Kearney

209B Bruner Hall of Science
2401 11th Ave.
Kearney, NE 68849
(308) 865-8479
palenciah2@unk.edu
Faculty Profile
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

Research Interests
  • Organocatalysis
  • Biofuels/Biomass
  • Organometallic chemistry
  • Synthetic methodology

Selected Publications
  • “An N-heterocyclic carbene-palladium-η3-allyl chloride complex for the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl halides”, Noland W. Broekemier, Noah C. Broekemier, Hector Palencia, Randall T. Short. European Journal of Chemistry, 2014, 5(1), 162-166. DOI: 10.5155/eurjchem.5.1.162‐166.940.
  • "Room temperature synthesis of glycerol carbonate catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes" Hervert, Britni; McCarthy, Patrick D.; Palencia, Hector. Tetrahedron Lett., 2014, 55(1), 133-136.
  • “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.