A paper published by Prof. Ruben Martin group in Angewandte Chemie International Edition has been highlighted in Synfacts, Vol 10, Issue 12, 1255. Synfacts selects the most significants results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The paper deals with the development of a tandem C(sp2)H […]

Antoni Bautista, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Gorostiza and Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Design and Synthesis of Photoswitchable Molecules for Biological Applications” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 20th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members […]

Dr. Lloret-Fillol has joined ICIQ through ICIQ’s Starting Career Programme (ICIQ-SCP), a programme aimed at attracting new talent and help young researchers (post-doc level) to start their independent careers. Julio Lloret-Fillol graduated in Chemistry from the Universidad de Valencia in 2001 where he also obtained his PhD in 2006, working under the supervision of Prof. […]

The collaboration between two ICIQ’s research groups (P. Ballester and J. R. Galán-Mascarós) has allowed the design, synthesis and characterization of a new family of complexes that exhibit single-molecule magnet behaviour with high blocking temperatures. Single molecule magnets (SMMs) are molecules that show magnetic behaviour below a certain temperature known as blocking temperature. They have […]

A paper published by Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs group in Tetrahedron has been highlighted in Synfacts, Vol 10, Issue 11 (1229). Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The paper deals with the use of hybrid magnetic materials (prepared from κ-carrageenan […]

Asraa Ziadi, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Ruben Martin, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Metal-Catalyzed Functionalization of C-C Bonds in Four-Membered Rings” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 10th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. […]

 The paper deals with the preparation of a set of narrow bite-angle P–OP ligands the backbone of which contains a stereogenic carbon atom. The synthesis was based on a Corey–Bakshi–Shibata (CBS)-catalyzed asymmetric reduction of phosphomides. The structure of the resulting 1,1-P–OP ligands, which was selectively tuned through adequate combination of the configuration of the stereogenic carbon […]