Professors Arjan W. Kleij and Atsushi Urakawa (ICIQ group leaders), together with Prof. Michael North (University of York, UK) have co-edited the latest issue of ChemSusChem (2017, 10, 6) on ‘Catalysis for CO2 conversion’. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight recent work that illustrates the importance of catalysis as a key enabling […]

Diamination reactions are often hard to catalyse because nitrogen atoms strongly coordinate to transition metals. However, vicinal diamines are valuable for the pharmaceutical industry, as they are important building blocks for the synthesis of various alkaloids and drugs.     Now, the group of Prof. Kilian Muñiz discovered the first catalytic example for an asymmetric […]

Sergio Roso, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Atsushi Urakawa (ICIQ) and Prof. Eduard Llobet Valero (URV) has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Synthesis and Gas Sensing Properties of Single Crystalline Metal-Oxide Nanostructures”‘ (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 24th at the Sala de […]

José Ramón Romero, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ) has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Interlocked Architectures Based on a Bis-Calix[4]pyrrole Macrocycle for Ion-Pair Recognition”‘ (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 24th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]

Prof. Paolo Melchiorre’s group just published a new photocatalysis paper in Nature Chemistry. Photoreceptors in vertebrates typically consist of two different, colourless parts: an organic pigment and a protein. When both pieces combine, they create a colourful, light-sensitive molecule –an iminium ion– that triggers vision upon light excitation. Inspired by this mechanism, a team of […]

Martín Romero, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Development of Hypervalent Iodine(III)-Mediated Chemical Reactions”‘ (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 17th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Miquel […]

Carmen A. Mak, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Pellegrino (IIT-UNIGE) and Prof. Miquel À. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Controlled Multifunctionalization of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Applications in Catalysis”‘ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 15th at the ICIQ […]