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My name is Jos Luis Le n Romo, I am married Antonieta Suarez-Souto; I have

two children, Luis Diego 6 years old and Camila Valeria 9 years old. Luis

is coursing his first year elementary school; he is a very active,

intelligent and easy going boy. For some reasons I don't understand yet, he

is a particular fascination for children US movies. He not only feel well

with the pictures but get the picture what these movies is behind. In the

future I wish he was a physic, chemist or Neuroscientist, and of course

contest for a scholarship from one of the top universities from the

USA. Camila Valeria shares the same pictures and feelings from these

pictures. She is coursing his four year elementary school and possessing,

since 4 year or even less, a very particular fascination for painting;

their featuring remember me Pablo Picasso painting. Recently, one of her

drawings was included in a book for children by Horacio Quiroga.

She received a scholarship from the SEP (from its acronym in Spanish Public

Education Secretary) for being one the best student in her generation. She

is a very easy going girl that has put her dreams in one of the

Universities of the USA. I have not doubts that she can achieve his goals

in the future. During the time she lived in Orsay France, she received the

same impression from many French people.

As I mentioned before, my name is Jos Luis and I am a PhD in Organic

Chemistry. In the late of 2000 I was distinguished for the minister of

Education of France for occupying one the places in the Paris University as

postdoctoral fellow. I consider myself with a very strong backgrounds in

Organic Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, as well as all the methods

of identification for organic compounds. In particular, as part of my

academic formation, I involved in a project related with oligosaccharides,

which gave me some experience in the conformational analysis of compounds

over 1000 g/mol using modelling chemistry and bidimensional NMR in the

group of Dr. Jimenez Barbero in Madrid Spain.

During the time of preparation of my PhD thesis, I learned all about the

fascinating enolate chemistry. This one helped me to developing a general

methodology for the asymmetric synthesis of alpha and beta amino acids

based on chiral benzodiazepine-2,5-dione glycine type enolate containing

(S)-alpha phenylethyl amine and (S)-chiral aminoacids derivatives. A

related chemistry but based in hydantoine molecules is important to

mention. These chemistry along two review papers have received over 130

citation for others authors. During the time as postdoctoral fellow I

established some know how for introducing substituents in the four position

of nicotinic acid using the general methodology by Meyers and Commins. I

have been a lucky guy for being part of the alumni of Professor Joseph

Muchowsky during the heterocyclic chemistry courses he imparted in the

Chemistry Faculty at UNAM, Mexico. In fact, I met him in Syntex Research

Laboratories in Mexico when I was invited for this company to participate

and collaborate as a young chemist in 1990 . In that time he was chief

of Dr. Arturo Perez Medrano, my close friend and supervisor at that time in

Syntex, currently working as scientific in Abbot Laboratories at Chicago

Illinois, USA.

Since arrived to Mexico in the fall of 2001, I just have had chance to

teach chemistry in the classrooms of UNAM and IPN, probably the best

universities of chemistry in Mexico, however with very lean salary. There

was not any opportunities in 8 complicated years for me and my family to

developing good chemistry projects I had in mind, but this is the reality

for many guys in Mexico.

In the case you would need a letter for my behalf, please ask for Prof.

Ives Langlois from University of Paris-Sud, Bat. 410, ICMO, Orsay France,

my good friend and mentor. Also, please request a letter of recomendation

to Dr. Arturo Perez Medrano.

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