Aislamiento y elucidación estructural de productos naturales de plantas mexicanas pertenecientes a las familias Labiatae, Burseraceae y Verbenaceae de importancia quimiosistemática y evolutiva.
Productos naturales con potencial actividad antialimentaria, insecticida, antitumoral, antiinflamatoria, antioxidante y antidiarreica (antisecretoria) obtenidos de plantas.
Química Ecológica. Emisiones volátiles de las plantas y su importancia en la Química Atmósferica.
Búsqueda de nuevos herbicidas a partir de la biodiversidad mexicana.
Profesor de Asignatura del Departamento de Fisicoquímica de la Facultad de Química de la UNAM y del Posgrado en Ciencias Químicas de la UNAM, impartiendo las asignaturas de “Productos Naturales” y “Reacciones Pericíclicas”.
Tutor del Posgrado en Ciencias Químicas y Ciencias Biológicas de la UNAM.
Alumnos Graduados: Licenciatura (56), Maestría (29).
Disposición para recibir alumnos de Licenciatura y Maestría que deseen realizar tesis.
Disponibilidad de becas en caso de proyectos financiados.
Medalla Gabino Barreda al término de los estudios de Licenciatura.
Investigador Nacional por el Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII).
Celia Bustos-Brito, Pablo Yair Montaño-Hernández, Omar Salas Huerta, Daniela Itziguari Ramírez-González, Diana Pérez-Juanchi, Juan Pablo Torres-Medicis, Martha Lydia Macías-Rubalcava, Brenda Y. Bedolla-García, Sergio Zamudio, Leovigildo Quijano * and Baldomero Esquivel *. Phytotoxic neo-clerodane and rearranged neo-clerodane type diterpenoids from Salvia albiflora. Tetrahedron 2025, 174, 134490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2025.134490.
Celia Bustos-Brito,*Juan Pablo Torres-Medicis, Brenda Y. Bedolla-García, Sergio Zamudio, Teresa Ramírez-Apan, Macías-Rubalcava, M.L, Leovigildo Quijano, and Baldomero Esquivel* Structure, Absolute Configuration, Antiproliferative and Phytotoxic Activities of Icetexane and Abietane Diterpenoids from the Recently Describe Mexican Species, Salvia carranzae. Chemotaxonomic implications. Molecules 2024, 29, 1226. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29061226
Castillo-Maldonado, Irais; Pedroza-Escobar, David; Hernández-Herrera, Alejandro David; Luna-Herrera, Julieta; González-Martínez, Marisela del Rocío; Prieto-Hinojosa, Adria I.; Turcios-Esquivel, Ana Monica; Delgadillo-Guzmán, Dealmy; Ramírez-Moren, Agustina; Bustos-Brito, Celia; Esquivel, Baldomero; Vega-Menchaca, María-del-Carmen. Immunomodulatory Activity of Diterpenes over Innate Immunity and Cytokine Production in a Human Alveolar Epithelial Cell Line Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Current Molecular Pharmacology, 2023, 16, 682-689, https://doi.org/ 10.2174/1874467215666221005115007
Celia Bustos-Brito, Diana Pérez-Juanchi, José Rivera-Chávez, Alejandro David Hernández-Herrera, Brenda Y. Bedolla-García, Sergio Zamudio, Teresa Ramírez-Apan, Leovigildo Quijano * and Baldomero Esquivel. * Clerodane and 5,10-Seco-Clerodane-type diterpenoids from Salvia involucrata. Journal of Molecular Structure 2021, 1237, 130367-130376, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruct.2021.130367
Celia Bustos-Brito, Antonio Nieto-Camacho, Simón Hernandez-Ortega, José Rivera-Chávez, Leovigildo Quijano * and Baldomero Esquivel*. Structural Elucidation of Malonylcommunol and 6β-Hydroxy-trans-communic Acid, Two Undescribed Diterpenes from Salvia cinnabarina. First Examples of Labdane Diterpenoids from a Mexican Salvia Species. Molecules, 2020, 25, 1808, (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25081808
Celia Bustos-Brito, Pedro Joseph-Nathan, Eleuterio Burgueño-Tapia, Diego Martínez-Otero, Antonio Nieto-Camacho, Fernando Calzada, Lilian Yeṕez-Mulia, Baldomero Esquivel, and Leovigildo Quijano. Structure and Absolute Configuration of Abietane Diterpenoids from Salvia clinopodioides: Antioxidant, Antiprotozoal, and Antipropulsive Activities. J. Nat. Prod., 2019, 82,1207−16. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b00952
Baldomero Esquivel*, Celia Bustos-Brito, Mariano Sáncehz-Castellano, Antonio Nieto-Camacho, Teresa Ramírez-Apan, Pedro Jospeh-Nathan and Leovigildo Quijano*. Structure, absolute configuration, and antiproliferative activity of abietane and icetexane diterpenoids from Salvia ballotiflora. Molecules, 2017, 22, 1690, https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22101690
Baldomero Esquivel, Eleuterio Burgueño-Tapia, Celia Bustos-Brito, Nury Pérez-Hernández, Leovigildo Quijano and Pedro Joseph-Nathan. Absolute configuration of the diterpenoids icetexone and conacytone from Salvia ballotaeflora. Chirality 2018, 30, 177-188, http://doi.org/10.1002/chir.22781
Baldomero Esquivel. Rearranged Clerodane and Abietane Derived Diterpenoids from American Salvia Species. Natural Poducts Communication, 2008, 3, 989-1002.
Celia Bustos-Brito, Mariano Sánchez-Castellanos, Baldomero Esquivel, José S. Calderón, Fernando Calzada, Lilian Yepez-Mulia, Angelina Hernández-Barragán, Pedro Joseph-Nathan, Gabriel Cuevas and Leovigildo Quijano. Structure, Absolute Configuration, and Antidiarrheal Activity of a Thymol Derivative from Ageratina cylindrica. Journal of Natural Products, 2014, 77, 358-363.
Celia Bustor-Brito, Mariano Sánchez-Castellanos, Baldomero Esquivel, José S. Calderón, Fernando Calzada, Lilian Yepez-Mulia, Pedro Joseph-Nathan, Gabriel Cuevas and Leovigildo Quijano. ent-Kaurene Glycosides from Ageratina cylindrica. Journal of Natural Products 2015, 78, 2580-2587.
Celia Bustos-Brito*, Baldomero Esquivel*, José S. Calderón, Fernando Calzada, Lilian Yepez-Mulia, Javier Porras-Ramirez, and Leovigildo Quijano. Further Thymol Derivatives from Ageratina cylindrica. Chemistry and Biodiversity , 2016, 13(10), 1281-1289.
Bustos-Brito Celia; Vazquez-Heredia Valeria J; Calderon Jose S; Hernandez-Ortega Simon; Esquivel Baldomero; Quijano Leovigildo; Calzada Fernando; Yepez-Mulia Lilian; Garcia-Hernandez Normand. Antidiarrheal Thymol Derivatives from Ageratina glabrata. Structure and Absolute Configuration of 10-Benzoyloxy-8,9-epoxy-6-hydroxythymol Isobutyrate. Molecules, 2016, 21 (9), 1-13, https:// doi.org/10.3390/molecules21091132
Baldomero Esquivel, and Rodolfo Tello. Unsaturated Diterpenoids with a Novel Carbocyclic Skeleton from Salvia xalapensis. Journal of Natural Products, 2005, 68, 787-790.
Baldomero Esquivel, Fredd Vergara, Wilber Matus, Simón Hernandez-Ortega and Ma. Teresa Ramírez-Apam. Abietane Diterpenoids from the Roots of some Mexican Salvia species (Labiatae). Chemical diversity, Phytogeographical Significance and Cytotoxic Activity. Chemistry and Biodiversity, 2005, 2, 738-747.