Torstein Fjermestad, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Feliu Maseras and Miquel A. Pericàs, defended his PhD Thesis entitledComputational Studies on the Mechanism of the Pauson-Khand Reaction (assigned to the Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: […]

We announce with regret the death of Prof. Rafael Suau, who died at the age of 65. We join the chemical community to transmit to his family and friends our most sincere condolences in these times of sorrow. Professor Suau was born in Barcelona in 1945 and carried out most of his academic career at […]

The article Direct Asymmetric Vinylogous Michael Addition of Cyclic Enones to Nitroalkenes via Dienamine Catalysis, coauthored by Prof. Melchiorre and published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci U.S.A. 2010, 107, 20642-20647, has been selected by the Editorial Board of SYNFACT for its important insights.In this work, the authors have found that primarly amine catalysis provides an […]

Miquel A. Planells, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Design and Synthesis of Organic Sensitizers for Dye Solar Cells: Molecular Structure vs Device Performance (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]

In the frame of the 2010 Call for the Campus of International Excellence of the Education Ministry, the project Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia (CEICS), promoted by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and in which the ICIQ is a member, has recived the qualification of “Campus of International Excellence” in the regional category. […]

Anna Reynal, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Ruthenium Polypyridyl complexes as photosensitizers for molecular photovoltaic devices: Influence of the dye structure and the presence of additives to the device performance (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly […]

According to the Second Edition of Scimago Institutions Ranking World Reports, ICIQ holds a Normalized Impact value of 2.69, the second highest one among 135 Spanish Institutions. Normalized Impact scores indicate the scientific impact that institutions have over the scientific community, and show the ratio between the average scientific impact of an institution and the […]