Interplay between surface chemistry and performance of rutile-type catalysts for halogen production M. Moser, V. Paunović, Z. Guo, L. Szentmiklósi, M. G. Hevia, M. Higham, N. López, D. Teschner, J. Pérez-Ramírez Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 2996-3005 Catalytic HBr oxidation is an integral step in the bromine-mediated functionalisation of alkanes to valuable chemicals. This study establishes […]

The research group of Prof. Echavarren has designed and synthetized a series of analogues of (-)-Englerin A that are highly selective and effective in the growth-inhibition of renal cancer cells. The molecule (-)-Englerin A was isolated in 2009 from the bark of the east African plant Phyllanthus engleri by scientists at the US National Cancer […]

Decrease of the required dopant concentration for δ-Bi2O3 crystal stabilization through thermal quenching during single-step flame spray pyrolysis J. A. H. Dreyer, S. Pokhrel, J. Birkenstock, M. G. Hevia, M. Schowalter, A. Rosenauer, A. Urakawa, W. Y. Teoh, L. Mädler CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 2046-2056 δ-Bi2O3 is one of the best oxygen ion conductors known. However, due to […]

Prof. Melchiorre has developed a new methodology for the selective formation of chiral molecules. The work, published in Nature, combines two strategies which require very mild reaction conditions –enantioselective iminium ion chemistry and photoredox catalysis- to set quaternary carbon stereocentres with high enantioselectivity. Chiral molecules are molecules in which a carbon atom is attached to […]

Joaquín Soriano, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICIQ) and Prof. Josep Maria Poblet (URV), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “High Nuclearity Polyoxometalates as Water Oxidation Catalysts: From Experiments to Theory” (assigned to the Science and Chemical Technology PhD programme of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 31st […]

Professor Kilian Muñiz has received the 20th Yoshida Lectureship from the International Organic Chemistry Foundation (IOCF) in Japan. The IOCF was founded by Emeritus Professor Zen-ichi Yoshida and promotes lectures by eminent overseas organic chemists. Professor Muñiz gave his award lecture “Enantioselective and Light-Induced Oxidation Reactions Based on Iodine Redox Catalysis” at the Universities of Kyoto and Osaka on […]

The collaboration between the research groups of professors Pau Ballester and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) and the group of Dr. David Ecija at Institute IMDEA Nanoscience has allowed the development of a new chemical reaction for the synthesis of low-dimensional polymers that can be rationalised as phthalocyanine […]