March 16, 2015
Dr. Julio Lloret-Fillol, ICIQ group leader since last November, has been awarded a ERC Consolidator Grant to develop his project: ‘Towards a Greener Reduction Chemistry by Using Cobalt Coordination Complexes as Catalysts and Light-driven Water Reduction as a Source of Reductive Equivalents’ (GREENLIGHT_REDCAT). This project aims to merge the concepts at the edge of the […]
March 12, 2015
Fedor Miloserdov, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Vladimir Grushin, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “New Transformations Based on Activation of Inert Carbon-Halogen Bonds with and without Transition Metals” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 12th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members […]
March 9, 2015
Professor Antonio M. Echavarren, group leader at ICIQ, is a recipient of the prestigious 2015 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards given by the American Chemical Society. The award recognises excellence in organic chemistry over the trajectory of the recipient’s career. Echavarren research interests center on the development of new catalytic methods based on the organometallic chemistry […]
March 3, 2015
The recent breackthrough discovery by Melchiorre’s research group in the use of aromatic aldehydes as energy-transfer photoorganocatalysts in atom-transfer radical addition reactions is discussed in this article by D. Ravelli and M. Fagnoni: Aromatic Aldehydes as Energy-Transfer Photoorganocatalysts D. Ravelli and M. Fagnoni ChemCatChem, 2015, 7, 735-737 Melchiorre’s paper deals with the use of and […]
February 25, 2015
The symposium gathered experts in the field of catalysis from both institutions working on the study of new catalytic transformations that can be employed successfully in novel synthetic pathways. Catalysis is the key activity for sustainable chemistry to address enviromental issues. Catalytic processes allow a better use of raw materials and minimise energy consumption, and […]
February 23, 2015
Last Friday February 20th, the ICIQ community and friends joined professor Piet van Leeuwen for a symposium in his honor. Professor van Leeuwen retires from ICIQ to start a new research adventure as a visiting professor in the UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and he will be also holding a Chair in the Chaires d’Attractivité programme […]
February 19, 2015
Andrea H. Henseler, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs and Dr. Carles Ayats, defended her PhD Thesis entitled “New Immobilized Catalytic Systems for Batch and Flow Applications” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation […]