February 10, 2017
A-LEAF, the European project to develop a full artificial leaf led by ICIQ group leader Prof. Galán-Mascarós, officially kicked off yesterday. The inauguration took place yesterday with a meeting between the 13 partner institutions, including leading materials company COVESTRO. Two other ICIQ group leaders, the Prof. López and Prof. Lloret-Fillol collaborate in this challenging project. […]
February 8, 2017
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Rubén Martín, ICIQ group leader and ICREA professor, has just been announced the winner of the prestigious OMCOS Award. The OMCOS Award established to recognize a scientist under the age of 40, who has made significant contributions to the field of organometallic chemistry and organic synthesis. This award, […]
February 6, 2017
Today, Thieme has revealed the winners of both the Synthesis and Synlett Best Paper Awards 2016. We are pleased to announce that Prof. Kilian Muñiz, ICIQ group leader and ICREA professor, has been honoured with this year’s Synthesis Best Paper Award for his feature “Enantioselective Vicinal Diacetoxylation of Alkenes under Chiral Iodine(III) Catalysis” (Synthesis, 2016, […]
February 2, 2017
Researchers in Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs lab published the first asymmetric Robinson annulation in continuous flow, which allows the synthesis of utmost important building blocks in organic synthesis, such as the Wieland–Miescher ketone or the Hajos–Parrish ketone. For instance, the Wieland–Miescher ketone has been used as the precursor for more than 50 natural products like […]
February 2, 2017
A paper by Pericàs et al. has just been selected by the Editorial Board of Synfacts as ‘Synfact of the month’ for January 2017. Abstract The widely applicable TRIP phosphoric acid catalyst has been immobilized on polystyrene using a copolymerization-based strate-gy. The resin (PS-TRIP) has proven highly active and enantioselective in the asymmetric allylboration of […]
January 27, 2017
Cayetana Zárate, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rubén Martín (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “C-Heteroatom Bond Formation via Ni-catalyzed C-O Bond Cleavage”‘ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 27th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: […]
January 27, 2017
Marta Rodríguez, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Montserrat Gómez (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) and Prof. Miquel À. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Catalytic Systems Adapted to Glycerol Medium. Applications in Selective Processes”‘ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 27th […]