Bárbara Rodríguez García, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Prussian Blue Derivatives as Smart Materials for Technological Applications” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 21st at the ICIQ Library. The members of the […]

Nicola Lucchetti, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “New Perspectives in Aromatic Using Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagents” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 20th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: […]

Kleij’s group develops an environmentally friendly method to produce BPA-free polycarbonate from limonene and CO2. From your phone case to airplane windows, polycarbonates are everywhere. Several million tons of polycarbonate are produced every year around the world. However, worries about the dangers of this material are increasing because of the toxicity of its precursors, especially bisphenol-A, […]

Cobalt catalysts are becoming a popular alternative to more expensive metals like rhodium and palladium for the functionalisation of C–H bonds. Recently, Cp*CoIII complexes demonstrated being effective in the formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-halogen bonds. Nevertheless, the lack of understanding of the mechanistic insights of these systems hinders the development of new reactivities. Now, a […]

Dr. Fernando Gomollón, ICIQ’s science communicator, received the IX José María Savirón Science Communication Award for his excellent work in conveying scientific information to different audiences using various platforms. Before joining ICIQ in November 2016, Fernando collaborated in initiatives such as “En Ruta con la Ciencia” in Aragón TV, “Pint of Science” in Zaragoza and […]

Leticia Peña, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan W. Kleij (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Synthesis of Biobased Polymers derived from Terpenes” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 4th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: […]

Yesterday, Prof. A. M. Echavarren received the prestigious ‘Alder Lecture’ Award during the inauguration session of the 20th European Symposium of Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2017) in Cologne, Germany. This award is given by the University of Cologne and the Kurt Alder Foundation. Kurt Alder is mainly remembered for co-discovering, together with Otto P. H. Diels, the Diels–Alder […]