Carla Obradors, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Dissecting Intermolecular Gold Catalysis: Application to the Total Synthesis of Rumphellaone A” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 18th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]

Jordi Ampurdanés, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Atsushi Urakawa defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Novel Catalytic Materials and Strategies for Hydrogen Production and Hydrogenation Reactions based on PEM Electrolysis” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 17th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members […]

ICIQ organized on December 12th a Mini-symposium honouring professor Javier de Mendoza on the occasion of his retirement. (Symposium Pictures). The invited speakers were professors Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strassbourg), Roeland Nolte (Nijmegen University), Tomás Torres (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Jean-Marie Lehn (University of Strassbourg) and Javier de Mendoza (ICIQ).   If you would like […]

The paper deals with the reaction of [CuI(HSC6H4PPh2)]2 with NaBH4 in CH2Cl2/EtOH that led to air- and moisture-stable copper hydride nanoparticles (CuNPs) containing phosphinothiolates as new ligands, one of which was isolated by crystallization. The X-ray crystal structure of [Cu18H7L10I] (L=−S(C6H4)PPh2) shows unprecedented features in its 28-atom framework (18 Cu and 10 S atoms). Seven hydrogen atoms, […]

BASF Española has renewed the sponsorship of the ICIQ’s Seminar Programme intended for training researchers. The agreement reflects BASF’s commitment to make an annual donation to ICIQ for a period of three consecutive years, from 2015 to 2018. The signing of the renewal was held on 3rd December at ICIQ. Both the Vice President and CEO […]

Shortly before joining ICIQ through ICIQ’s Startig Career Programme, Dr. Julio Lloret-Fillol received the Young Scientist Award given by the Organometallic Chemistry Group (GEQO) of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society. “It is an honour and a responsibility to have received the ‘Young Scientist Award 2014’ in its inaugural edition. I believe that the award is […]

By working collaboratively, Prof. M. A. Pericàs and Prof. E. Palomares groups have achieved the direct asymmetric α-alkylation of aldehydes with α-bromocarbonyl compounds using Bi2O3 and Bi2S3 as photocatalysts. The development of enantioselective catalytic processes that make use of sunlight as the energy source and nontoxic, affordable materials as catalysts represents one of the new […]