July 11, 2008
Javier Pérez Hernández, PhD student of Prof. Palomares group, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Development of an optical fiber probe for mercury detection (assigned to the Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. Dr. Javier Pérez with his supervisors Prof. Emilio Palomares (ICIQ, left) and […]
July 11, 2008
As defined by Thomson ISI®’s Essential Science Indicators, Hot Papers are articles published within the last 2 years receiving the most citations over the most recent 2-month period. According to that, the article Polystyrene-supported hydroxyproline: An insoluble, recyclable organocatalyst for the asymmetric aldol reaction in water (Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 4653-4655), co-authored by Daniel Font, […]
July 1, 2008
The article Determination of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) steric and electronic parameters using the [(NHC)Ir(CO)2Cl] system (Organometallics 2008, 27, 202-210), co-authored by Roy A. Kelly III, Hervé Clavier, Simona Giudice, Natalie M. Scott, Edwin D. Stevens, Jon Bordner, Ivan Samardjiev, Carl D. Hoff, Luigi Cavallo, and Steven P. Nolan is being featured on the ACS Publications […]
June 13, 2008
The article QM/MM methods in inorganic chemistry (Dalton Trans. 2008, 2911-2919), co-authored by Carles Bo and Feliu Maseras, is one of the top ten most accessed papers from Dalton Transactions online during May 2008.The authors illustrate in this Perspective the power of QM/MM methods in inorganic chemistry, with a summary of recent representative applications.
June 4, 2008
A member of ICIQ Scientific Advisory Board, the chemist Prof. George M. Whitesides, among other worldwide leaders in the creation of new materials for the benefit of mankind – such as the physicist Sumio Iijima, the engineers Shuji Nakamura and Robert Langer, and the other chemist Tobin Marks – has been bestowed with the 2008 […]
May 8, 2008
The article Insertion of a N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) into a platinum–olefin bond (Organometallics 2007, 26, 3286-3288), co-authored by Serena Fantasia, Heiko Jacobsen, Luigi Cavallo and Steven P. Nolan is being featured on the ACS Publications website as one of the Most-Cited Articles published in 2007 in Organometallics.The other article, Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of N-heterocyclic […]
May 7, 2008
The article Two-photon microscopy study of the intracellular compartmentalisation of emissive terbium complexes and their oligo-arginine and oligo-guanidinium conjugates (Chem. Commun. 2008, 2435-2437), co-authored by Filip Kielar, Aileen Congreve, Ga-lai Law, Elizabeth J. New, David Parker, Ka-Leung Wong, Pilar Castreño and Javier de Mendoza, has been distinguished as a Hot Paper in the mentioned Journal.The […]