Scientists from across Europe and North America gathered at ICIQ last week to attend the 5th CHAOS meeting. For three days, the more than 80 attendees have shared research results, discussed projects and found common ground to create fruitful collaborations in the field of Carbon-Hydrogen Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS). CHAOS is part of the […]

Professor David Cahen is Professor at Bar Ilan University’s Dept. fo Chemistry and at the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Cahen’s research focuses on exploring chemical means to control the electronic and optical properties of materials. He studied Chemistry and Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem […]

Orchestra Scientific S.L. has signed a capital increase to issue shares to its new partner InnoEnergy, a Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC) that works to build long-lasting integration frameworks among industry, research, and higher education within the energy sector. The new agreement will allow InnoEnergy to join and participate in Orchestra Scientific S.L., while the company […]

Elena de Orbe, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Gold-Catalyzed Intermolecular Reactions of Alkynes with Alkenes: Novel Reactivities and Global Mechanistic Picture” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 14th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the […]

Belén García, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muniz (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Novel Halogen(I) Reagents in the Csp2- and Csp3-Bond Functionalization” (assigned to the department of Analytical & Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly the 7th of September at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Alfredo Ballesteros – Universidad […]

A joint collaboration between the John Montgomery’s Group at the University of Michigan and an ICIQ researcher has resulted in the development of a new class of Nickel (0) catalysts, which will expedite a broad range of organic reactions. These new compounds, published in the American Chemical Society journal, ACS Catalysis with a patent pending, […]

Join us in toasting ICIQ colleagues from the Urakawa Group, Marta Borges and Dr. Jordi Ampurdanés, who have won poster prizes at the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8), held earlier this month in Yokohama, Japan. Jordi received “Catalysis Science & Technology Poster Prize” and Marta received “TOCAT8 Poster Award.” Congratulations […]