October 15, 2014
Morgane Gaydou, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cyclizations and Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Schisanwilsonene A” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 14th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee […]
October 13, 2014
On October 8th and 10th Dr. Laia Pellejà, ICIQ’s science outreach officer, conducted a workshop for high-school teachers on how to make the synthesis of the aspirin. The purpose of this 6-hour long workshop is to train teachers on this subject so they can transfer this knowledge to their students. ICIQ also offered its outreach […]
October 9, 2014
Fernando Castro, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Carles Bo, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Theoretical Studies on Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbon Dioxide Fixation” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 9th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee […]
October 8, 2014
On October 7th the TV programme Sense Ficció (channel TV3) broadcasted the documentary “Inversió de Futur”. ICIQ group leader Atsushi Urakawa appeared in this documentary to talk about his research on CO2 conversion into methanol. It is well worth watching. Please follow this link to see his participation (minute 41). Carbon dioxide is the primary […]
October 3, 2014
On Friday 26th September Anna Homs, a PhD student from Professor Echavarren’s group, received one of the three Lilly awards for outstanding doctoral students for her work on mechanistic studies of Au(I)-catalyzed reactions and on the synthesis of biologically active natural product. With these awards, Lilly wants to recognize research excellence and the link […]
October 2, 2014
ICIQ’s X-Ray Diffraction Unit has developed a new methodology to assign the absolute configuration of light-atom molecules. Given the fact that many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are chiral light-atom compounds and different enantiomers can have different physiological properties, the assignment of the absolute configuration to these materials is crucial. In fact both the FDA (U.S. […]
October 2, 2014
If so, sign up to ICIQ’s 2015 Crazy about Chemistry course. ICIQ is currently training 21 high-school students that were (and totally are) crazy about chemistry. Irene (IES La Salle, Tarragona), Marina (IES Josep Tapiró, Reus), Raimon (IES Jaume Callís, Sant Julià de Vilatorta), Júlia (INS Manuel de Pedrolo, Tàrrega) and Josep (INS Joan Puig […]