June 17, 2009
We are glad to celebrate our 5th Anniversary with a Scientific Symposium that will take place on 17th June from 9 am onwards. This event will consist of four conferences given by Professors Stephen L. Buchwald (MIT), Julius Rebek (The Scripps Research Institute), Michael Grätzel (école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and Erick M. Carreira (ETH […]
May 13, 2009
The article Flexible pores of a metal oxide-based capsule permit entry of comparatively larger organic guests (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6380-6382), co-authored by Ayala Ziv, Alina Grego, Sivil Kopilevich, Leila Zeiri, Pere Miro, Carles Bo, Achim Müller, and Ira A. Weinstock, has been highlighted on the front-cover of the Journal of the American […]
March 24, 2009
The critical review Bite angle effects of diphosphines in C–C and C–X bond forming cross coupling reactions (Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 38, 1099-1118), co-authored by Mandy-Nicole Birkholz (née Gensow), Zoraida Freixa and Piet W. N. M. van Leeuwen, has been highlighted on the front-cover of Chemical Society Reviews on issue 4, with an illustration performed […]
February 27, 2009
The results of a bibliometric study of Catalan scientific production over the period 1992-2006 show that ICIQ is, among the different Research Public Centers considered, the second one with a higher average of citations per document, and the third one with a higher percentage of documents published in journals of high impact factor.Other considered indicators […]
February 26, 2009
CRYSFORMA is a technology development unit belonging to the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), oriented to offer complete scientific and technological support in the field of pharmaceutical solid state development. We provide services for the discovery, analysis and scale-up of polymorphs, salts and co-crystals of active pharmaceutical ingredients or intermediates. This new technology […]
February 9, 2009
The article Gated and differently functionalized (new) porous capsules direct encapsulates’ structures: Higher and lower density water (Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 1844-1852), co-authored by Tamoghna Mitra, Pere Miró, Adrian-Raul Tomsa, Alice Merca, Hartmut Bögge, Josep Bonet ávalos, Josep Maria Poblet, Carles Bo, and Achim Müller, has been highlighted on the front-cover of Chemistry – […]
January 28, 2009
ICIQ participated in the European Career Fair (ECF) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston from Jan. 24-26. The ECF is an annual informational event held at MIT for European enterprises and research centers to recruit students. ICIQ representatives provided information about the institute and interviewed PhD students and post-doctoral candidates for a variety […]