Roc Matheu Montserrat, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet (ICIQ) and Prof. Xavier Sala (UAB), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Seven-Coordinate Complexes for Water Oxidation Catalysis: From Molecular Characterization To Solid State Photocatalysis” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 19th […]

Giacomo Filippini, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre (ICIQ), has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Development of Radical Processes Triggered by the Photochemical Activity of Transient Organic Intermediates” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 17th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members […]

The Young Academy of Europe (YAE) is a bottom-up initiative of a dynamic and innovative group of recognized European young scientists with outspoken views about science and science policy. The key aims of the Young Academy of Europe are to provide advice and feedback on science policy, involve top young scientists in the future European research […]

The new strategy, developed by Prof. Echavarren’s group, was used to produce a wide scope of more than 40 products, including anti-tumour agent rumphellaone A. Prof. Echavarren’s group presents the first general enantioselective synthesis of cyclobutenes by intermolecular [2+2] cycloadditions. Digold complexes catalyse the reaction between terminal alkynes and alkenes leading to chiral cyclobutenes, useful in organic […]

ICIQ strongly condemns the use of violence by the police forces yesterday.   In response to this violation of civil rights, the ICIQ community gathered for 15 minutes in silence in front of the Institute.   Additionally, ICIQ calls upon the political and social institutions in Europe, Spain and Catalonia to address through dialogue the […]

ICIQ will coordinate 2 ITN projects and will participate in another one. In total, projects sum up more than 3 million euros and involve 27 European institutions. Within Horizon 2020, the European Union funds the creation of innovative training networks (ITN). In the last ITN call (2017), ICIQ was selected to coordinate two of these […]

Laura Fra, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “New Applications of Iodine(III) Reactivity: Synthesis and Functionalization of Heterocycles” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 22nd at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation […]