October 29, 2015
Xavier Sanz López, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Elena Fernández and Prof. Carles Bo, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Theoretical and Experimental Understanding of the Pull-Push Effect of B on the Synthesis of Organo-Boranes, -Sulfides and -Selenides” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly […]
October 23, 2015
A paper published by Prof. Vidal research group in Organic Letters has been highlighted in Synfacts, Vol 11, Issue 11, 1184. Synfacts selects the most significants results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. Abstract: Enantiopure sulfoxides are valuable precursors of organosulfur compounds with broad application […]
October 22, 2015
Łukasz Woźniak, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, has received the 1st award for the oral presentation “Photo-Organocatalytic Enantioselective Perfluoroalkylation of β-Ketoesters” at the 13th International Congress of Young Chemists “YoungChem 2015” that took place on October 7 to 11 at Cracow. Łukasz presented his work on the visible-light-driven, phase-transfer-catalyzed, enantioselective perfluoroalkylation and trifluoromethylation of […]
October 21, 2015
Daniel Fernández-Pinto, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares and Prof. Carles Bo, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Relationships between Opto-Electronic Properties, Molecular Structure and Morphology in Fullerene Containing Solar Cells” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 21st at the ICIQ […]
October 20, 2015
Prof. Arjan W. Kleij joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Current Organic Chemistry in 2014 and now he is presented in the section ‘Meet our Editorial Board Member’. Current Organic Chemistry aims to provide in-depth reviews on the current progress in the fields of asymmetric synthesis, organo-metallic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, natural product chemistry and analytical […]
October 20, 2015
The patent related to the high-pressure hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol and derivatives process developed by Dr. Urakawa Research Group at ICIQ has been issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The work, published on the Journal of Catalysis and highlighted in Science, describes a continuous flow process for close-to-quantitative one-pass hydrogenation […]
October 16, 2015
Mattia Silvi, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “New Directions in Aminocatalysis: Vinology and Photochemistry” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 15th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. José […]