Dr. Silvia Díez-González (Prof. Nolan group) and Josep Albero (Prof. Palomares group) have been awarded with the Torres Quevedo grants by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

A meeting on Molecular Recognition was celebrated at ICIQ and jointly organized by the Chemical Society of Catalonia and ICIQ. The scientific session, which shows examples on the interphase between chemistry and biology and between physics and materials science, included three lectures delivered by Prof. Christopher Hunter (University of Sheffield, UK), Prof. Javier de Mendoza […]

The groups of Profs. Roeland J. M. Nolte and Alan Rowan from the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) have visited ICIQ in a two-days scientific meeting which included a number of lectures given by members of the University of Nijmegen and researchers from ICIQ. There was a poster session as well and time to exchange […]

ICIQ has organized for the second year the ICIQ Summer School 2007 of Organometallic Chemistry. The School Scientific Program included a number of lectures given by world-class experts in organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry.All the assistants enjoyed an excursion to the Priorat, where they visited a Wine Cellar and after they had dinner in a […]

A new 5 years collaboration contract has been signed by ICIQ and the enterprise Dow Chemical iberica in the field of 1-octene production to be undertaken by two research groups at ICIQ. Miquel A. Pericàs (left), ICIQ’s Director, and Felip Vidiella (right), Dow R&D Director for Europe/MEAF Plastics

The article In situ studies during thermal activation of dawsonite-type compounds to oxide catalysts (J. Mater. Chem. 2007, 17, 1222-1229), co-authored by Mohammad S. Yalfani, Marta Santiago and Javier Pérez-Ramírez, has been distinguished as a Hot Paper in the mentioned Journal.The article deals with Dawsonite-type compounds which are attractive precursors for oxide catalysts. These compounds […]