June 30, 2010
A paper coauthored by Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, recently published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, has been highlighted in the last issue of Nature Chemistry. The original article shows the group results in performing the total synthesis of englerine A (a potent inhibitor against renal cancer cells) from readily available precursors and using a cationic […]
June 17, 2010
The article Supramolecular zinc(II)salphen motifs: Reversible dimerization and templated dimeric structures, coauthored by Prof. Piet van Leeuwen and Dr. Arjan Kleij, is among the 10 top most cited papers published on Inorganica Chimica Acta in the last 5 years. More info
June 14, 2010
Mr. Josep Huguet, responsible for the Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, visited today the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) for the launching of the Henkel – ICIQ Joint Unit.The Henkel – ICIQ Joint Unit is a collaborative research between the global market leader in adhesives, sealants and surface treatment Henkel and the […]
June 14, 2010
On the second edition of the SUSCHEM ESPAñA awards Prof. Emilio Palomares received the INNOVA prize to the best research curriculum developed in one or several of the following areas: industrial biotechnology, new materials, nanotechnology or reactions and processes design.The main aim of these prizes awarded by the Spanish Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) […]
June 4, 2010
According to the last update of the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge, since 2004 ICIQ has published 596 scientific papers, the total number of citations is 9,949 and the average of citations per item is 16.69. The h-index reflects both the number of publications and the number of citations per publication, and it is a […]
June 3, 2010
Pere Miró, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Carles Bo, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Giant Polyoxometalates: Dynamic Structure and Reactivity (assigned to the Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Manuel Yáñez Montero (Universidad Autónoma […]
May 26, 2010
Dr. Amilan Jose, from Prof. Vidal’s group, has been selected to participate in the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates that will take place in Lindau (Germany) from June 27th to July 3rd. This year the Lindau Meeting will be an interdisciplinary encounter and will be dedicated to the Laureates in chemistry, physics and medicine/physiology.