Seventy-three years riding heterocycles

The Chemical Intelligencer, 1997, 3, 61–64.

IH: When you returned to Spain, you were 45.

Did you build up a new lab and a new research group then?

JE: It was difficult because the financial resources were not in place. There were no positions, no fellowships, no instrumentation. I tried to survive by building up an extensive system of cooperation with different places in Spain, in France, and in other countries.

I tried to do inexpensive but interesting chemistry. This is one of the reasons why I developed a project on the solid-state properties of heteroaromatic compounds.

They are stable, cheap, and friendly, are easy to prepare, and are crystalline, not volatile.