Grupos de investigación

José Luis Priego Bermejo

His research career began with the completion of the Doctoral Thesis entitled "Influence of the carboxylate ligand on the properties and reactivity of ruthenium dimer compounds". Directed by Professor Reyes Jiménez Aparicio, in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UCM, and was awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize. In this work the first Ru(II)-Ru(III) chlorotetracaboxylates forming discrete dimers were synthesized and characterized, a new method to prepare the corresponding Ru(II)-Ru(II) species was obtained and an extensive study of the magnetic properties was carried out. His postdoctoral stay at the University of Oxford, UK, under the direction of Professor M.L.H Green, studies the reactions of sandwich compounds with Brønsted and Brookhart acids. Back to UCM, he co-directed the PhD thesis of Mr. Rodrigo González Prieto, where it was demonstrated that the same Ru(II)-Ru(III) halotetracaboxylate can have different dimensionality and the first studies by atomic force microscopy of these compounds were performed, in collaboration with Professor Felix Zamora of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is also co-director of the thesis of Ms. Patricia Delgado Martínez on the use of solvothermal and microwave synthesis to obtain dirruthenium tetraamidates.


In addition, collaborations are initiated with different research groups in the study of magnetic properties of coordination compounds: with S. Delgado from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with G. Lahiri from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, with T. K. Mondal, Jadavpur Unversity, India, with W. Kaim of the Institut fìr Anorganische Chemie, Stuttgart, Germany, with M. Mena and C. Yélamos of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, and with I. Brito of the Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile.


Research in recent years focuses on: 1) the use of lanthanide complexes as connectors between dimetallic units to obtain networks with different dimensionality and study their magnetic behavior; 2) design and obtain coordination compounds, with metal-metal bonding, to study their interaction with biological systems due to their potential to be used in biomedicine and biotechnology.


He has participated, since its inception, in the Docentia program obtaining Excellent Evaluation in the triennia 2015-2018 and 2019-2021.
He is a great disseminator of the world of Wine, Gastronomy and Cocktails being Director of two Continuing Education Courses and has given several talks and conferences, one of them, in Madrid Fusion 2018. He has been the Principal Investigator of an Article 83 with the Diverxo group "Chemistry applied to cooking and cocktails" and has written the book "365+1 Cooking Recipes and 365+1 Wines to Accompany them" (Ediciones Ondina, 2020). Since 2020 he has been a member of the Tasting Committee of the Denomination of Origin Wines of Madrid.


Finally, in terms of Management, he has been Vice-Dean of Degree and Teaching Planning of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UCM (2014-2022) and, since 2020, he is Academic Vocal in the branch of knowledge of Sciences for the evaluation of official university degrees of the University system of Galicia (ACSUG).