Eric Tan, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Late Transition Metal Catalyzed Chelation-Assisted C-H Alkynylation Reactions” (assigned to the Department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 3th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the examining committee were: […]

Julius Rebek Jr. was born in Beregszasz (Ukraine, which was part of Hungary at the time). His family emigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled in Topeka, Kansas, where he received his bachelor degree in Chemistry from the University of Kansas. He then joined D.S. Kemp’s laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]

ICIQ has a new Doctor: Dr. Gu! Yiting Gu, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Rubén Martín Romo (ICIQ) has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “C-H & C-O Functionalization by Silicon-Heteroatom Interelement Linkages” (assigned to the Department of Analytic and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 25th at the […]

Jesús Jiménez, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares (ICIQ) has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Analysis of the Different Kinetic Processes in Perovskite Solar Cells” (assigned to the Department of Electrical Electronics Engineering and Automation of the Universitat Rovira I Virgili) publicly on November 22th at the ICIQ library. The members of […]

Alexandra E. Bosnidou, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “New Methodology for C-N Bond Formation within Iodine Redox Manifolds” (assigned to the Department of Organic and Analitic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on November 22st at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]

ICIQ alumnus Elena de Orbe has received the award for outstanding thesis on November 14th, during the doctorate’s graduation ceremony of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She did her thesis at ICIQ, supervised by Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, and defended her thesis, entitled “Gold-Catalyzed Intermolecular Reactions of Alkynes with Alkenes: Novel Reactivities and Global Mechanistic […]

Modern civilization thrives on a constant flow of energy and material goods, obtained from natural resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and biomass. This leads to the production of large amounts of waste, which becomes difficult to handle. Such a linear economic system is not sustainable having negative effects for our planet, an idea exemplified […]