March 13, 2017
Víctor Fernández, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Feliu Maseras (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “A Computational Approach to the Mechanism of Light-Driven Reactions in Solution”‘ (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 13th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]
March 13, 2017
ICIQ community regrets the loss of Dr. Pere Mir, founder and president of the CELLEX and Mir-Puig Foundations, devoted to financing research facilities and fostering excellent education in Catalonia. Dr. Pere Mir, PhD in Chemistry, made generous contributions to multiple scientific and medical projects across Catalonia, becoming one of its biggest private donors ever. Among […]
March 9, 2017
The European Research Council turns 10 in 2017. To celebrate this, the “ERC Week” will run from the 13 to the 19 March. During this week, and throughout 2017, special ERC events will take place across Europe. At ICIQ we wanted to join this celebration. To do so, we have organised a full “ERC Day” […]
March 9, 2017
A paper on photocatalysis published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. by Dr. Marcos G. Suero’s group is among the most read articles in February 2017. A new protocol for the catalytic cyclopropanation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with diiodomethane by means of photoredox catalysis has been successfully developed. The transformation is characterized by its mild conditions, […]
February 20, 2017
US and EU Patent Offices give ICIQ exclusive rights to exploit this novel waste-valorisation technology that recycles fluoroform. Fluoroform is highly pollutant, greenhouse effect chemical compound made of carbon and fluorine atoms. It is generated as one of the main waste products in the preparation of popular anti-adherent polymer Teflon. Eliminating fluoroform is expensive, mostly […]
February 15, 2017
As of today, Prof. Arjan Kleij, ICIQ group leader and ICREA professor, joins the Editorial Board of Elsevier’s ‘Journal of CO2 Utilization.’ This journal offers a single, multi-disciplinary, scholarly platform for the exchange of novel research in the field of CO2 re-use for scientists and engineers in chemicals, fuels and materials. The emphasis of the […]
February 10, 2017
Ruth Dorel, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “New Annulation Strategies: From Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Natural Products”‘ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on February 10th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]