October 14, 2015
The Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) has awarded five ICIQ’s doctors with the Premi Extraordinari de doctorat for the excellent work done during their PhD studies. Giulia Bergonzini, for her thesis entitled “Assessing the Versatility of Organocatalysis as a Strategy for Enabling Novel Asymmetric Transformations” and developed under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre. Laura Osorio, for […]
October 13, 2015
Highly Efficient Organocatalyzed Conversion of Oxiranes and CO2 into Organic Carbonates S. Sopeña, G. Fiorani, C. Martin, A. W. Kleij ChemSusChem, 2015, 8, 3248-3254 A binary catalyst system based on tannic acid/NBu4X (X=Br, I) is presented as a highly efficient organocatalyst at very low catalyst loading for the coupling of carbon dioxide and functional oxiranes […]
October 13, 2015
A paper published by Ruben Martin research group in Journal of the American Chemical Society is one of the most read articles during the last month. Ni-Catalyzed Borylation of Aryl Fluorides via C-F Cleavage X.-W. Liu, J. Echavarren, C. Zarate, R. Martin J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 12470-12473
October 12, 2015
Congratulations to the entire ICIQ community! One hundred ICIQ publications have been cited at least one hundred times. The h=100 has been achieved with the 100th citation of the paper “Efficient carbonate synthesis under mild conditions through cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to oxiranes using a Zn(salphen) catalyst” by the Kleij group. With Kleij et al. paper […]
October 7, 2015
Andrey Konovalov, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Vladimir Grushin and Prof. Feliu Maseras, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Reaction Mechanisms on the Way from CHF3 to ArCF3. The Nature of the Ortho-Effect and Electronic Properties of the CF3 Group” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i […]
October 1, 2015
UNESCO has proclaimen 2015 as the International Year of Light, a global initiative to highlight to the world’s citizens the importance of light and optical technologies in our lives, our future, and in the development of equal-right societies. Considered as one of the main sources of renewable energy, light is crucial in many different chemical […]
September 18, 2015
The research developed collaboratively by the groups of Prof. N. López (ICIQ), Prof. J. Pérez-Ramírez (ETH Zurich) and Prof. M. Antonietti (Max-Planck institute of Colloids and Interfaces) on anchored palladium atoms acting as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions has been highlighted on the News & Views section of Nature. In his article, Prof. J. M. Thomas, […]