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Research interests

• Molecular engineering and design
• Materials engineering and design
• Green chemistry
• Green engineering
• Chemical reactions optimization

Profile

Prof. Beltran studied Industrial Chemical Engineering with a specialty in Environmental Engineering from 1993 to 1998 at the Higher School of Chemical Engineering and Extractive Industries (ESIQIE) of the IPN. He carried out his doctoral work from 1998 to 2002 in the Chemistry Department of CINVESTAV-IPN, where he studied the incorporation of the elements boron and tin in molecular structures with biological importance since they contain fragments derived from amino acids, amino alcohols and amino phenols. Due to this research, he was awarded the 2003 Arturo Rosenblueth Prize for the best Doctoral Thesis in the area of Exact and Natural Sciences by CINVESTAV. In 2003, he entered the Molecular Engineering Program of the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) as a postdoctoral fellow, carrying out projects related to Applied Chemistry at an industrial level, where he remained until 2005. In that same year, he entered as Associate Researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of the UNAM where he developed structure-activity studies of organometallic compounds of tin. As of August 2006, he is Professor-Researcher in the Department of Natural Sciences, of the Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering (DCNI) of the UAM, Cuajimalpa Campus. As of April 2018, he is assigned to the Department of Basic Sciences, DCBI, in the Azcapotzalco Campus of the UAM until now.

His scientific production includes 91 research articles and 8 popular articles, 13 national and international patents and 6 book chapters, a chapter included in the Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry encyclopedia and another chapter in the book Tin Chemistry: Fundamentals, Frontiers and Applications ( Wiley) Ed. M. Gielen, A.G. Davies, K. Panell, E. Tiekink. To date, he has directed 32 undergraduate theses and final undergraduate projects, 1 specialization thesis, 12 master's theses (ICR) and 10 doctoral theses. He is directing 2 doctoral theses, 6 master's theses and 8 final undergraduate projects, much of the above in co-direction with academic staff from the DCBI of Azcapotzalco Campus, DCNI of Cuajimalpa Campus, and DCBS of Xochimilco Campus.

Areas of interest/research experience:
Topics of scientific interest are related to the design of molecules of importance in biological processes, as well as studies of the structure and activity of organic, organometallic, and inorganic molecules with biological and industrial applications.

Research lines:

Engineering and design of molecules and materials.
Optimization of chemical reactions and processes.
Green chemistry.
Applied Chemistry.
Petroleum chemistry.
Cement chemistry.

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Research interests

• Molecular engineering and design
• Materials engineering and design
• Green chemistry
• Green engineering
• Chemical reactions optimization

Academic Work

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	Rodríguez-Girón, J.S., Alfonso-Herrera, L.A., Mora-Hernández, J.M. and 2 more (...) (2026).Synergistic Modulation of the Bandgap and Electrochemical Properties of HKUST-1 via Curcumin Infiltration. Processes,14(13)
OA	Salas-Juárez, C.J., Aceves, R., Navarro, R.E. and 7 more (...) (2026).Temperature-dependent luminescence of isostructural [Eu(TPTZ)(NO3)3] and [Tb(TPTZ)(NO3)3] compounds: Insights into the ligand–lanthanide (5D0/5D4 levels) energy gap ΔE. Journal of Luminescence,293
OA	Alfonso-Herrera, L.Á., Serrato-Trejo, M.F., Beltrán, H.I. (2025).Structure-Property/Activity Correlations of Coordination Compounds, Supramolecular Molecular Assemblies and Materials, with Possible Industrial and Biological Applications. Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society,69(1) 123-151
OA	Domínguez, S.E., Novikov, A.S., Kornilov, D.A. and 3 more (...) (2025).Sonication-assisted nonpolar-antisolvent approach to produce cellulose suspensions, disaggregated by a nonpolar-antisolvent with orthogonal Kamlet-Taft acidity/basicity: Roles of net-basicity and cosolvency. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry,120
OA	Alfonso-Herrera, L.A., Rodríguez-Girón, J.S., Carrera-Crespo, J.E. and 4 more (...) (2025).Novel curcumin@HKUST-1 composite with enhanced visible light harvesting capacities for photocatalytic applications. Dalton Transactions,54(22) 8979-8992	7
OA	García-Haro, A.R., Burruel-Ibarra, S.E., Gil-Tolano, M.I. and 5 more (...) (2025).Thermoluminescence and dosimetric properties of LiF-Tm2O3 phases mixture under beta particle excitation. Ceramics International,51(22) 36912-36921
OA	Salas-Juárez, C., Garduño-Wilches, I., Chavez-Esquivel, G. and 7 more (...) (2025).Tb2(DPA)2(HDPA)2 Green Emitter Coordination Compound: Photometric Analysis and Temperature-Dependence Luminescence. Applied Organometallic Chemistry,39(7)
	Scanda, K., Salas-Juárez, C.J., Guzmán-Silva, R.E. and 3 more (...) (2025).Synthesis and photoluminescent spectroscopic analysis of lanthanum (III) coordinated with 1,10-Phenanthroline: A study of its thermally stable behavior. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy,325
OA	Loera-Serna, S., Beltrán, H.I., Mendoza-Sánchez, M. and 3 more (...) (2024).Effect of HKUST-1 metal–organic framework in root and shoot systems, as well as seed germination. Environmental Science and Pollution Research,31(9) 13270-13283
	Alfonso Herrera, L.Á., Beltrán, H.I. (2024).Infiltration as a frontier bandgap engineering strategy in MOFs: A critical review. Coordination Chemistry Reviews,505
	Marrufo-Hernández, N.A., Nájera, H., González Chávez, F. and 1 more (...) (2024).Polyphenol oxidase inactivation from apple juice by Al-based metal–organic frameworks: New anti-browning strategy in fruits and vegetables. Food Chemistry,439
OA	Celis-Arias, V., Garduño-Wilchis, I.A., Alarcón, G. and 4 more (...) (2023).Room-temperature synthesis of nanometric and luminescent silver-MOFs. Frontiers in Chemistry,10
OA	López-Pérez, E., de Gómez-Puyou, M.T., Nuñez, C.J. and 4 more (...) (2023).Ordered-domain unfolding of thermophilic isolated β subunit ATP synthase. Protein Science,32(7)
	Soto-Castruita, E., Cisneros-Dévora, R., Cerón-Camacho, R. and 6 more (...) (2023).Quantum Design and Synthesis of a Gasoline Marker Based on a Phenol-Functionalized Supramolecular Quaternary-Salt Complex. ChemistrySelect,8(36)
	Lopez-Ruiz, L.E., Salas-Juárez, C.J., Garduño-Wilches, I. and 6 more (...) (2023).Luminescent analysis of [Eu2DPA3] MOF as high purity red-emitting phosphor with thermal stability. Journal of Luminescence,263
	Beltrán, H.I., Alas-Guardado, S.J., González-Pérez, P.P. (2022).Improving coarse-grained models of protein folding through weighting of polar-polar/hydrophobic-hydrophobic interactions into crowded spaces. Journal of Molecular Modeling,28(4)
	Espino-del-Castillo, A., Le Borgne, S., Beraldi-Campesi, H. and 1 more (...) (2022).Spectroscopic evidence of microbial organic matter in secondary mineral deposits at Naica Underground System (NUS) and the biological role in its mineralization. Geochemistry,82(4)
	Fuentes, A.M.A.M., Barba, V., Beltrán, H.I. and 1 more (...) (2022).Analysis of the stability of chlorodiorganotin (IV) dithiocarbamates in deuterochloric acid by NMR titrations experiments. Journal of Molecular Structure,1270
	Matus-Muñoz, M.R., Ruiz-Ramos, R., Altuzar, V. and 3 more (...) (2022).Fabrication and characterization of PCL/PLLA/CS composite fibers as extracellular matrix (ECM) mimetics. International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials,71(10) 728-739
OA	Alas-Guardado, S.J., González-Pérez, P.P., Beltrán, H.I. (2021).Contributions of topological polar-polar contacts to achieve better folding stability of 2D/3D HP lattice proteins: An in silico approach. AIMS Biophysics,8(3) 291-306
OA	Gómez-Jaimes, G., Rojas León, I., Martínez Romero, R. and 6 more (...) (2021).Dinuclear Organotin Building Blocks and their Conversion into a Tetranuclear Macrocycle Containing Sn−O−Sn Linkages. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,2021(22) 2148-2162
OA	Rojas-León, I., Gómez-Jaimes, G., Montes-Tolentino, P. and 7 more (...) (2021).Molecular Cage Assembly by Sn−O−Sn Bridging of Di-, Tri- and Tetranuclear Organotin Tectons: Extending the Spacing in Double Ladder Structures. Chemistry - A European Journal,27(48) 12276-12283
	González Chávez, F., Beltrán, H.I. (2021).Tuning dimensionality between 2D and 1D MOFs by lanthanide contraction and ligand-to-metal ratio. New Journal of Chemistry,45(15) 6600-6610
	Chávez, F.G., Nájera, H., Leyva, M.A. and 3 more (...) (2020).New 2D Lanthanide MOFs Constructed from Bis(imide) Pyromellitic Alanine Ligands with Enhanced Fluorescence toward Activation and Modulation of Microstructure. Crystal Growth and Design,20(7) 4273-4292
	de Lourdes Pérez-González, M.L., González-de la Rosa, C.H., Pérez-Hernández, G. and 1 more (...) (2020).Nanostructured oleic acid/polysorbate 80 emulsions with diminished toxicity in NL-20 cell line: Insights of potential drug carriers. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces,187

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	26P	Seminario III	Posgrado
2	26P	Fundamentos de Química de Materiales	Posgrado
3	26P	Química Inorgánica I	Licenciatura
4	26P	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
5	26I	Química Orgánica II	Licenciatura
6	26I	Química Inorgánica II	Licenciatura
7	25O	Caracterización de Materiales	Posgrado
8	25O	Química Inorgánica II	Licenciatura
9	25O	Seminario II	Posgrado
10	25P	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
11	25P	Laboratorio de Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
12	25I	Trabajo de Redacción de Tesis III	Posgrado
13	25I	Nuevos Materiales	Posgrado
14	25I	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
15	25I	Seminario I	Posgrado
16	24O	Química Inorgánica I	Licenciatura
17	24O	Química Orgánica II	Licenciatura
18	24O	Trabajo de Redacción de Tesis II	Posgrado
19	24P	Laboratorio de Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
20	24P	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
21	24I	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
22	24I	Caracterización de Materiales	Posgrado
23	24I	Seminario VII	Posgrado
24	24I	Trabajo de Investigación IX	Posgrado
25	23O	Temas Selectos en Ciencias e Ingeniería de Materiales	Posgrado
26	23O	Fundamentos de Química de Materiales	Posgrado
27	23O	Química Inorgánica II	Licenciatura
28	23O	Trabajo de Investigación VIII	Posgrado
29	23P	Trabajo de Investigación VII	Posgrado
30	23P	Fundamentos de Química de Materiales	Posgrado
31	23P	Química Inorgánica I	Licenciatura
32	23I	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
33	23I	Trabajo de Investigación VI	Posgrado
34	23I	Seminario VI	Posgrado
35	23I	Química Orgánica II	Licenciatura
36	22O	Química Orgánica I	Licenciatura
37	22O	Seminario V	Posgrado
38	22O	Trabajo de Investigación V	Posgrado
39	22O	Química Inorgánica II	Licenciatura
40	22P	Química Inorgánica I	Licenciatura
41	22P	Química Orgánica II	Licenciatura
42	22P	Seminario IV	Posgrado
43	22P	Trabajo de Investigación IV	Posgrado
44	22I	Nuevos Materiales	Posgrado
45	22I	Química Orgánica II	Licenciatura
46	22I	Seminario III	Posgrado
47	22I	Trabajo de Investigación III	Posgrado

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