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Education Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (2007) with Dr. Michael VanNeuihenze M.S., Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (2004) B.S., Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (2000) Research Interest  Prebiotic Chemistry, Peptide Chemistry, Organimetallic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Education Recognitions NIH-Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (2008-2010) with Dr. Amir H. Hoveyda Selected publications: Frenkel-Pinter, M; Bouza, M; Fernández, F.M.; Leman, L.J.; Williams, L.D.; Hud, N.V.; Guzman-Martinez, A.* “Thioesters provide a plausible prebiotic path to proto-peptides” Nature Communications 2022, 13, 2569. (* corresponding author)  Martin, C; Frenkel-Pinter, M.; Smith, K.H.; Rivera-Santana, V.F.; Sargon, A.B.; Jacobson, K.C.; Guzman-Martinez, A.; Williams, L.D.; Leman, L.J.; Liotta, C.L.; Grover, M.A.; Hud, N.V. “Water-Based Dynamic Depsipeptide Chemistry: Building Block Recycling and Oligomer Distribution Control Using Hydration Dehydration Cycles” JACS Au. 2022 Jun 27; 2(6): 1395–1404.  Guzman-Martinez, A.; Hoveyda, A. H. “Enantioselective Synthesis of Allylboronates Bearing a Tertiary or Quaternary B-Substituted Stereogenic Carbon by NHC-Cu-Catalyzed Substitution Reactions” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 10634–10637.  Guzman-Martinez, A.; Lamer, R. B.; VanNieuwenhze, M. S.; “Total Synthesis of Lysobactin”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129,6017-6021.  Guzman-Martinez, A.; VanNieuwenhze, M. S.; “An Operationally Simple and Efficient Synthesis of Orthogonally Protected L-threo-β-Hydroxyasparagine”Synlett, 2007, No. 10, 1513-1516.