Elena de Orbe, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Gold-Catalyzed Intermolecular Reactions of Alkynes with Alkenes: Novel Reactivities and Global Mechanistic Picture” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 14th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]

Belén García, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muniz (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Novel Halogen(I) Reagents in the Csp2- and Csp3-Bond Functionalization” (assigned to the department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly the 7th of September at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Alfredo Ballesteros – Universidad […]

A joint collaboration between the John Montgomery’s Group at the University of Michigan and an ICIQ researcher has resulted in the development of a new class of Nickel (0) catalysts, which will expedite a broad range of organic reactions. These new compounds, published in the American Chemical Society journal, ACS Catalysis with a patent pending, […]

Join us in toasting ICIQ colleagues from the Urakawa Group, Marta Borges and Dr. Jordi Ampurdanés, who have won poster prizes at the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8), held earlier this month in Yokohama, Japan. Jordi received “Catalysis Science & Technology Poster Prize” and Marta received “TOCAT8 Poster Award.” Congratulations […]

The prestigious Chemical & Engineering News journal of the American Chemical Society selected Dr. Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano, an ICIQ group leader, among the 12 talented chemists of 2018. She received the recognition for her work on capturing reaction intermediates to design more efficient reactions. Dr. Pérez-Temprano is the first Spaniard to receive this honour. “I […]

ICIQ’s director and group leader Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs collaborated in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry’s Guest Editorial. As part of the newly introduced section called “Institute Feature”, ICIQ’s history is outlined from past to present in an issue that also includes articles written by other ICIQ’s group leaders. The whole piece provides a […]

Professor Josep Castells passed away on the 30th of July. The whole ICIQ community joins his family and friends in their loss. He was a member of the CSIC where he worked as a research professor. Later on in his career, he became director of the department of organic chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de […]