Bayer MaterialScience gives funding for two pre-doctoral fellowships within ICIQ’s PhD Fellowship Programme, for a period of two years. This agreement is an example of collaboration within the framework of MedChem, the chemical cluster of Tarragona, which has among its objectives to foster collaboration between industry in Tarragona and knowledge-generating institutions. Mr. Jesús Loma-Ossorio, CEO […]

Last April 9th awards for high school research project in the field of Chemistry were delivered in the Catalan Studies Institute central office. The awards ceremony took place in the framework of the XXVI Discussion of Chemistry at the Catalan Studies Institute addressed to high school and university teachers that this year has focused on […]

Xu Tian, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre defended his PhD Thesis entitled “New Asymmetric Organocatalytic Processes promoted by Cinchona-based Primary Amines”(assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April 10th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Albert […]

Laura Osorio, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs and Dr. Carles Rodríguez defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Rational Approaches to the Control of Molecular Function: From Catalysis to Self-Assembly”(assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April 9th at the ICIQ auditorium. The […]

Atul Bansode, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Atsushi Urakawa defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Exploiting High Pressure Advantages in Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol”(assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 27th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee […]

Pinar Kasaplar, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Miquel A. Pericàs defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Polymer Supported and Homogeneous Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Reactions: From Batch to Continuous Flow Applications”(assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 26th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]

The paper published by Paolo Melchiorre et al. in Angewandte Chemie International Edition have been highlighted in Synfacts Issue 2014/04. Asymmetric Vinylogous Diels–Alder Reactions Catalyzed by a Chiral Phosphoric Acid Xu Tian, Nora Hofmann and Paolo Melchiorre? Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 2997-3000 SYNFACTS selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that […]