The ‘radical carbenoid’, discovered by Dr. Suero and his group, allows stereoconvergent cyclopropanation reaction. To day, chemists synthesize cyclopropanes using pure E or Z alkenes as starting materials and usually, dangerous, unstable reagents such as diazomethane or iodomethylzinc iodide. Now, a team of researchers in Dr. Suero’s group designed a new strategy that allows the […]

Dragos Constantin Stoian, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Atsushi Urakawa (ICIQ) and Prof. Francesc Medina (URV), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Unlimiting Thermodynamic Constraints in Continuous Catalytic Transformation of Carbon Dioxide and Methanol towards Dimethyl Carbonate”‘ (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on […]

The R&D teams of Esteve and Esteve Química team up with ICIQ and our technology development unit ERTFLOW to kick-off an ambitious research project dubbed FLOW4HEALTH. This project will develop new continuous-flow chemical processes to prepare new drugs and molecular leads useful for the pharmaceutical industry. FLOW4HEALTH’s continous-flow processes will allow chemists to work with […]

The research group of Carles Bo publishes ICIQ’s first paper in the prestigious journal Chem. Scientists at ICIQ and Oregon State University, US, created a new method to prepare chromium polyoxocations. Metal-oxo clusters are commonly  isolated from water with ligands to prevent the precipitation of hydroxides. However, unligated clusters are important for both mechanistic studies […]

Qiang Li and Prof. Núria López performed the computational calculations included in this study. Sugar alcohols are applied in the food, pharmaceutical, polymer, and fuel industries and are commonly obtained by reduction of the corresponding saccharides. Now, researchers at ETH and ICIQ created a molybdenum heteropolyacid-based catalyst to transform glucose, arabinose, and xylose into less-abundant […]

Performance of DFT+U Approaches in the Study of Catalytic Materials Marçal Capdevila-Cortada, Zbigniew Łodziana, and Núria López ACS Catalysis, 2016, 8370-8379 Development of better catalysts to the large extend relies on the predictive abilities of the rational approaches provided by the density functional theory, DFT. DFT constitutes a robust framework to study complex reaction networks […]

The research group of Prof. Antoni Llobet used a combination of techniques to trap a superoxido intermediate involved in the water oxidation reaction. Water oxidation is often considered the bottleneck of the water splitting process. Years ago, Prof. Llobet was among the first chemists to achieve this reaction using a bimetallic ruthenium molecular catalyst. Later, […]