José Barluenga

José Joaquín Barluenga Mur (27 July 1940 – 7 September 2016)[1][2] was a Spanish chemist known for his research in organometallic chemistry.

Barluenga was born in Tardienta (Huesca), Spain, where he spent his childhood and attended primary school.

In 1967, he moved to Germany and, after a postdoctoral appointment at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr (1967–1970, Professor H. Hoberg), he returned to Spain to hold research positions at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research in Zaragoza (1970–1972) and University of Zaragoza (1972–1975).

[3] His laboratory has been active in the field of organic chemistry with research interests in synthetic methodology development of transition-metal reagents, stoichiometric and catalytic processes.

[4][5][6] He discovered the bis(pyridine)iodonium tetrafluoroborate (IPy2BF4), an iodinating reagent now named after him which is available from numerous chemical suppliers worldwide.