February 10, 2016
Dina Fakhrnasova, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Atsushi Urakawa, Dr. Ricardo J. Chimentão and Prof. Francisco Medina, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled ‘Rational and Statistical Approaches in Enhancing Yield of Ethylene Carbonate in Urea Transesterification with Ethylene Glycol’ (assigned to the Higher Technical School of Chemical Engineering of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) […]
February 4, 2016
“ERTFLOW is a technology development unit generated by the research group of Prof. Miquel Pericàs to develop and implement technical solutions in process intensification. Ertflow aims at developing propietary technologies related to catalysis and flow chemistry and offering products and services to the fine chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries for the production of new high […]
January 29, 2016
Albano Galán, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled ‘Molecular Containers Based on calix[4]pyrrole Scaffolds’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 29th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Christopher Hunter […]
January 22, 2016
Professors R. Martín and J. R. Galán-Mascarós have been awarded a ‘Proof of Concept’ (PoC) grant to establish the innovation potential of ideas arising from their ERC-funded projects. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós project, ‘A novel platform for user-friendly spectroscopy at very low temperatures and under strong magnetic fields’ (U-SPEC), aims to assess the technical and economic […]
January 22, 2016
Ekaterina Smirnova, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled ‘Polynuclear Gold(I) Catalysis: When One Gold(I) is not Enough’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 22nd at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee […]
January 18, 2016
Prof. Kilian Muñiz has been appointed as Editorial Advisory Board member of The Journal of Organic Chemistry. The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC) welcomes original contributions of fundamental research in all branches of the theory and practice of organic chemistry. Since mid-2011, it has been publishing Brief Communications—preliminary results of unusual novelty and urgency that justify immediate disclosure, […]
January 15, 2016
Álvaro Gutiérrez, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rubén Martin has defended his PhD Thesis entitled ‘Building up molecular complexity via C-H functionalization reactions and skeletal rearrangements’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 15th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]