As important as knowing where you want to go, is it to know how to get there. A collaboration among ICIQ groups Bo, Urakawa and Kleij, has pinpointed the elusive intermediates that precede cyclic carbonate formation from an epoxy alcohol through the catalytic conversion and activation of CO2. The results, published in Nature Catalysis, could be […]

Yuanyuan Shi, former ICIQ PhD student under Antoni Llobet’s supervision, has been awarded the 2018 Electron Device Society excellent PhD student award in the EDS awards ceremony last week in San Francisco, which was held in conjunction with the 2018 International Electron Devices Meeting. Starting from 2001, three winners are selected worldwide to receive the […]

Antoni Llobet, group leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (Tarragona) and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize – J.C. Mutis Research Award, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), in recognition for his research career. The award, a recognition of prestige at […]

ICIQ group leaders Julio Lloret-Fillol, Marcos García-Suero and Mónica Pérez-Temprano have been awarded the “Thieme Chemistry Journals Award.” The prize is given to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career by the editorial board of the journals SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, and SYNFACTS. The award, consisting of a one-year subscription […]

In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier already used ‘radical’ in his Traité Élémentaire de Chimie – although the term had a slightly different meaning back then. Now, ICIQ researchers are still using radicals – molecules that have an unpaired ‘valence electron’, which makes them very reactive – to bring new synthetic strategies to chemists. “Radical chemistry offers […]

Xiang Yin, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Synthesis of Indenes and Indanes by Gold(I)-Catalyzed Decarbenation” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 29th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the examining committee […]

Santiago Cañellas, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Smart Catalytic Systems for Batch and Continuous Flow Enantioselective Processes” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 20th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of […]