(1825 - 1919)
Meteorólogo. Precursor en Cuba de las investigaciones en ese campo, dedicó gran parte de su actividad científica a la Zoología, la Geografía y la Etnología. Como geógrafo elaboró en 1848 un Atlas con 28 mapas litografiados para las escuelas primarias que fue el primero de su tipo impreso en Cuba
Natural and Exact Sciences
2004 | "Cuban contribution to the polymerization of furanic compounds"
Main executives entity: University of Havana. Institute of Materials and Reagents
Other entities: Chemistry Faculty University of Havana
Main author: Ricardo Martínez Sánchez
Coauthors: From the Faculty of Chemistry: Jacques Rieumont Briones, Regino González, Norma Galego Fernández; from the Laboratory of Biomaterials: Rubén Alvarez, Profesor Invited: Alessandro Gandini
Summary:

The authors present the results reached during 30 years of work, which consist on a wide and deep study of chemical synthesis of furanic polymers and their physicochemical characterization that includes kinetic studies of reaction mechanisms and structural study of synthesized polymers. These results are a certain contribution to the knowledge of furanic compounds, and one of the new results is the preparation of original polymers, since monomers not registered in literature were synthesized.

The originality and contribution of these works lies in the considerable difference between the furan molecule and its derivatives and polymers regarding benzene, in which are based most of the works published in the field of polymers. It is a very complete work published in the field of polymerization of furanic compounds.

These works have been published in 57 scientific articles, 29 of them in magazines of great circulation and international prestige such as: Journal of Polymer Science, Applied Polymer Science, Macromolecular Chemistry, Acta Polymerica, Polymer International, Tetrahedron Letters, and Polymer. As well as the presentation of dozens of diplomas, and 10 Master' and Doctorate's degrees.

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