Dr. Rubén Martín, ICIQ group leader, has been awarded the Thieme Award Journal 2011. This award is given to scientists defined as promising young professors. Dr. Martín joined ICIQ in September 2008 in the frame of ICIQ Tenure Track Program. His current research interests concern the discovery and development of synthetically useful organometallic methodologies. Dr. […]

Mihai Raducan, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, defended his PhD Thesis entitled New Gold(I) Alkynophilic Catalysts (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Miquel à. Pericàs (ICIQ), Prof. Sergio Castillón […]

Laura P. Hernández, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Supramolecular Chemistry of Bis-porphyrins (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Javier de Mendoza (ICIQ), Prof. Xavier Rius […]

Dr. Miquel àngel Pericàs, ICIQ director, and Mr. Enric Dalmau, director of “La Caixa” business area in Tarragona, have signed a collaboration agreement for the funding of the 2011 ICIQ Summer Fellowhsips program. Through this agreement, Obra Social “La Caixa” is commited to fund 10 fellowships.This fellowships program offers undergraduate students with a background in […]

The article Ni-Catalyzed Reduction of Inert C-O Bonds: A New Strategy for Using Aryl Ethers as Easily Removable Directing Groups (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 17352-17353), authored by Paula álvarez-Bercedo and Rubén Martín, has been highlighted on the cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The authors report the development of an […]

Last November Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren was invited to join the Advisory Board of Chemical Society Reviews. This journal publishes accesible succint and reader-friendly articles on topics of current interest in the chemical sciences. Chemical Society Reviews has an impact factor of 20.9.Chem Soc Rev

Verónica López-Carrillo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Mastering the Reactivity of Gold(I) Carbenes (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. Ernesto Carmona (Universidad de Sevilla), […]