Francisco Juliá, postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Ruben Martin’s group, received the SusChem award Postdoc-Mestralab for the best 2017 scientific publication in ​​chemistry. The jury, chaired by Prof. Mar Gómez, on behalf of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry, decided to unanimously recognise Francisco for being co-author of the paper  “Remote carboxylation of halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons […]

The Front Cover shows the ultrahigh‐resolution X‐ray diffraction of a new CuI complex with the tripodal triphosphine ligand HTIM(PPh2)3, which has the shortest well‐described Cu···H–C bond so far [d(Cu–H) = 1.9 Å]. Both theoretical and experimental studies indicate a 3c–4e– anagostic interaction. The four hands under the X‐ray radiation symbolize the team effort toward discovering […]

Eloísa Serrano, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rubén Martín (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Amide Formation via Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling Reactions with Isocyanates” (assigned to the department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly in May the 30th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]

VIRO-FLOW, ICIQ’s first industrial ITN (H2020 Innovative Training Network), held its kick-off meeting on May 22nd and 23rd at ICIQ premises. The project, a partnership between ICIQ and the German pharmaceutical  company AiCuris, obtained €750k to train early-stage researchers and advance the integration of continuous flow chemistry with in vitro microfluidic bioassay technologies for the discovery […]

  Nagoya University, in Japan, recently awarded Prof. Rubén Martín (ICIQ Group Leader and ICREA Professor) the 14th Hirata Award. This award is presented each year to a rising star in the field of organic chemistry. Prof. Martín receives it in recognition of his contribution to the «discovery and development of synthetically useful organometallic methodologies» and […]

The Alliance of Severo Ochoa centers and María de Maeztu units (SOMMa) expressed its concern about the decrease of funding in RDI and some administrative problems that constrain Spanish science in an event recently held in Madrid. The alliance presented the “SOMMa Report: Actions necessary to safeguard the competitiveness of science” to all parliamentary groups […]

Every year, the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) awards outstanding chemists several prizes to promote excellence in research. We are very happy to announce that ICIQ Group Leader Dr. Marcos G. Suero is one of this year’s awardees in the ‘Young Researchers’ category. Moreover, the RSEQ awarded its 2018 Gold Medal to Prof. Jesús […]