The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), at its latest edition of the RSEQ 2015 awards, has awarded professors Núria López, Kilian Muñiz, Ruben Martin and Julio Lloret-Fillol in two different award categories. Núria López, Kilian Muñiz and Ruben Martin have been awarded with the Premio a la Excelencia Investigadora. This award recognizes the scientific […]

A paper published by Prof. Martin research group in Angewandte Chemie International Edition has been highlighted in Synfacts, Vol 11, Issue 4, 389. Synfacts selects the most significants results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The paper reports the first enantioselective C—C bond formation through […]

Morphology and size controllable rhodium nanoparticles stabilized by a nitrogen-rich polyoxyethylenated derivative have been prepared by reduction of RhCl3with NaBH4 in water at room temperature and fully characterized. The flower-like Rh NPs are effective and recyclable catalysts for the stereoselective hydrosilylation of challenging internal alkynes and diynes, affording the (E)-vinylsilanes in quantitative yields for a wide range […]

A paper published by Prof. Kleij research group in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis is one of the most cited among those published in 2012 or 2013. These articles have contributed the most to the journal’s impact factor in 2014. The paper describes an iron(III) amine triphenolate complex, [FeTPhOA]2, able to efficiently catalyze the cycloaddition of […]

Saša Korom, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Studies on Iridium(I), Rhodium(I) and Ruthenium(II) Metallocavitands Derived from Resorcin[4] arene” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April 13th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation […]

A paper published by Prof. Pericàs group in Chemical Science has been highlighted in Synfacts, vol 11, issue 4 (443). Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The paper deals with the carbene transfer reaction using a PS-Supported Copper […]

Indoles are privileged structures in natural products, as well as in medicinal and biological chemistry. Substituted indoles are structural elements of the tryptophan-derived tryptamine alkaloids like the neurotransmitter serotonin, and melatonin. Other indolic compounds include the plant hormone auxin, tryptophol, the anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin, the betablocker pindolol, and the naturally occurring hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine. Due to […]