July 25, 2011
Helmut Degenbeck, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Transfer of Chirality in New Supramolecular Complexes as Design Principle for Future Asymmetric Catalysts (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 25th at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of […]
July 7, 2011
“Homogeneous Catalysts”, co-authored by Prof. Piet W.N.M. van Leeuwen and Prof. John C. Chadwick (Wiley-VCH, ISBN-10: 3-527-32329-5) just came out this month, June 2011. From the book’s back cover: “Homogeneous catalysts have now established a vital position in organic synthesis, providing new and shortened routes to a large variety of known and new products. The […]
July 1, 2011
Sander J. Wezenberg, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Arjan Kleij, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Exploring Metallosalen Complexes in Materials Science and Catalysis (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 1st at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. […]
June 23, 2011
The article SPOs as new ligands in Rh(iii) catalyzed enantioselective transfer hydrogenation (Catalysis Science and Technology 2011, 401-407), co-authored by Pascal M. Castro, Henrik Gulyas, Jordi benet-Buchholz, Carles Bo, Zoraida Freixa and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen, has been highlighted on the front cover of Catalysis Science & Technology.Abstract: The self-assembly of Secondary Phosphine […]
June 20, 2011
Esther Alza, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs and Dr. Sonia Sayalero (ICIQ) defended her PhD Thesis entitled Approaches to Assymetric Catalysis with Polymer-Supported Pyrrolidines (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 17th, at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his […]
June 16, 2011
On June 15th ICIQ celebrated its first Career Day at its facilities in Tarragona. The ICIQ Career Day is an initiative that aims at bringing together both post-doctoral and doctoral students and chemical and pharmaceutical industry representatives. Our goal is to give industries the opportunity of meeting/recruiting bright researchers and at the same time, we […]
June 10, 2011
Carolina Mendoza, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs, and Prof. Ramon Vilar (Imperial College London) defended her PhD Thesis entitled Assymetric Catalysis and Molecular Recognition Using Different Platforms: Homogeneous Systems , Functinalized Polymers and Magnetic Nanoparticles (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) […]