Ester Iniesta, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal, has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Supramolecular Catalytic Systems: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Catalysis” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April 22nd.   The members of the evaluation committee were Dr. Marta Elena […]

A collaboration among the Galán-Mascarós, Maseras and Pérez-Temprano ICIQ groups has brought forth a strategy that uncovers how Cp*CoIV species are the real intermediates in Cp*Co-mediated C-S nucleophilic couplings. PhD student Sara López Resano, first author of the paper shares the results, published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. What have you done? We set out […]

The 2020 call of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships programme (MSCA-IF-2020) has awarded eight postdoctoral researchers with Individual Fellowship grants to join ICIQ. All of the fellowships granted are “European standard,” which allows researchers to move from any country in the world to Spain. The new fellows are: Anna Beiler (Llobet group) will work on […]

Marta Ventosa, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet & Dr. Carolina Gimbert (ICIQ), has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Hybrid Systems for Water Oxidation Catalysis” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 26th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. […]

Otilia Stoica, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Synthesis of Large Hydroacenes and Related Compounds Using Gold(I) Catalysis” (assigned to the Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 25th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Maribel […]

Two ICIQ-led projects, A-LEAF and LICROX, have participated in the “Research Meets Industry” virtual gathering organized by the FET project BRIEFING: Bridging the FET Innovation Gap. During the event, the participating projects presented their breakthrough innovations to an audience of companies, corporates, research institutions and business stakeholders. “The final aim of the event is to […]

It’s been a busy start of 2021 for ICIQ scientists, here’s a snapshot of the papers published: Research areas such as self-assembly, molecular sensing, drug discovery, and catalysis entail a deep understanding of molecular recognition events occurring in aqueous media. To this end, the Ballester group brought forth “Molecular Recognition in Water Using Macrocyclic Synthetic […]