As important as knowing where you want to go, is it to know how to get there. A collaboration among ICIQ groups Bo, Urakawa and Kleij, has pinpointed the elusive intermediates that precede cyclic carbonate formation from an epoxy alcohol through the catalytic conversion and activation of CO2. The results, published in Nature Catalysis, could be […]

Antoni Llobet, group leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (Tarragona) and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize – J.C. Mutis Research Award, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), in recognition for his research career. The award, a recognition of prestige at […]

In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier already used ‘radical’ in his Traité Élémentaire de Chimie – although the term had a slightly different meaning back then. Now, ICIQ researchers are still using radicals – molecules that have an unpaired ‘valence electron’, which makes them very reactive – to bring new synthetic strategies to chemists. “Radical chemistry offers […]

Xiang Yin, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Synthesis of Indenes and Indanes by Gold(I)-Catalyzed Decarbenation” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 29th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the examining committee […]

Santiago Cañellas, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Smart Catalytic Systems for Batch and Continuous Flow Enantioselective Processes” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 20th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of […]

Dr. Dagmar Scharnagel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Echavarren Group, has been awarded the City of Bayreuth prize. On Friday 9th of November during a formal dinner, also known as “President’s dinner,” the mayor of Bayreuth recognised the work of three candidates of the Bayreuth University for their excellent thesis. During the ceremony, Dr. Scharnagel […]

Yangyang Shen, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rubén Martin (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Visible Light Photoredox Promoted Transformations of Inert Chemical Bonds” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 12th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]