March 24, 2014
Firts edition of the Catalan Association of Research Centres (ACER) award
March 24, 2014
Advances in Engineering highlights Atsushi Urakawa’s work on the nearly full conversion of CO2 to methanol. This recognition puts Urakawa’s work on a showcase that might encourage industrial funding, technology transfer and licensing. Advances in Engineering alerts the scientific and industrial community to innovative papers considered to be of importance to the progress in Engineering […]
March 18, 2014
This paper deals with nanoscale uranyl peroxide clusters containing UO22+ groups bonded through peroxide bridges to form polynuclear molecular species (polyoxometalates) exist both in solution and in the solid state. There is an extensive family of clusters containing 28 uranium atoms (U28 clusters), with an encapsulated anion in the center, for example, [UO2(O2)3?x(OH)x4?], [Nb(O2)43?], or […]
March 17, 2014
Catalysis Science & Technology highlights a paper by Kleij’s group
March 10, 2014
Anthony Pitaval, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Antonio M. Echavarren defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Gold Catalysis for the Synthesis of Protoilludane Sesquiterpenes and other Cyclic Systems”(assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 10th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation […]
March 10, 2014
The paper by Ruben Martin and Cayetana Zárate describes a Ni/Cu-catalyzed silylation of unactivated C–O electrophiles derived from phenols or benzyl alcohols. This transformation is characterized by its wide scope and mild conditions, providing a direct access to synthetically versatile silylated compounds. The protocol allows for the coupling of C(sp2)?O and even C(sp3)–O bonds with […]
February 26, 2014
Direct C-O Arylation Catalyzed by Nickel and Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Tetrazoles from Alkynes