EMILIO QUIÑOA CABANA

Emilio Quiñoa Cabana is a Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela's Faculty of Chemistry. His research focuses on chiral polymers, supramolecular assemblies, and nanomaterials within the Research Center in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), leading the NANOBIOMOL group.

• Education: PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1985), thesis on Natural marine products from the coasts of Galicia.

Research spans dynamic helical polymers, stimuli-responsive systems, and chiral amplification mechanisms. Recent work explores metal-polymer interactions, chiroptical switching, and self-assembly for nanospheres, nanotubes, and gels with controlled chirality.

Key trends include cation-π interactions, helical sense tuning, and conformational memory effects in polyphenylacetylenes and related systems. Studies often integrate NMR configurational assignments and electron circular dichroism (ECD) analysis.