Académicos

Dr. David Sáez San Martín
Doctor en Ciencias con mención en Química
Químico Farmacéutico
ORCID: 0000-0001-5555-8720
Área de investigación:
Dinámica molecular
Catálisis enzimática
Diseño enzimático
Contacto: dasaez@ubiobio.cl / +56 42 246 3261
Publicaciones 2021 – 2026
2026
Oporto-Duhart, C., Villegas-Escobar, N., Castillo-Orellana, C., Vöhringer-Martinez, E., Sáez, D. A. (2026). Electrostatic and geometric control of hydride transfer stereoselectivity in bridged pterins: A computational study. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 115771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2026.115771
2025
Velázquez-Libera, J. L., Recabarren, R., Sáez, D. A., Castillo, C., Ruiz-Pernía, J. J., Tuñón, I., & Vöhringer-Martinez, E. (2025). Adapted DFTB3 repulsive potentials reach DFT accuracy for hydride transfer reactions in enzymes. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 46(19), e70174. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.70174
2023
Recabarren, R., Tinzl, M., Sáez, D. A., Gomez, A., Erb, T. J., & Vöhringer-Martinez, E. (2023). Covalent adduct formation as a strategy for efficient CO₂ fixation in crotonyl-CoA carboxylases/reductases. ACS Catalysis, 13(9), 6230–6241. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c05250
2022
Sáez, D. A., Vogt-Geisse, S., & Vöhringer-Martinez, E. (2022). Ene-adducts from 1,4-dihydropyridines and α,β-unsaturated nitriles: Asynchronous transition states displaying aromatic features. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 20(44), 8662–8671. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2OB00989G
DeMirci, H., Rao, Y., Stoffel, G. M., Vogeli, B., Schell, K., Gomez, A., Batyuk, A., Gati, C., Sierra, R. G., Hunter, M. S., Dao, E. H., Ciftci, H. I., Hayes, B., Poitevin, F., Li, P.-N., Kaur, M., Tono, K., Sáez, D. A., Deutsch, S., Yoshikuni, Y., Grubmüller, H., Erb, T. J., Vöhringer-Martinez, E., & Wakatsuki, S. (2022). Intersubunit coupling enables fast CO₂-fixation by reductive carboxylases. ACS Central Science, 8(8), 1091–1101. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.2c00554
