A paper published by Prof. Piet van Leeuwen, Dr. Atsushi Urakawa et al. in Journal of the American Chemical Society has been featured in Advances in Engineering for its contribution to excellence in engineering, scientific and industrial research. The paper deals with the synthesis of air-stable and homogeneous gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) employing tert-butyl(naphthalen-1-yl)phosphine oxide as […]

A paper published by Prof. P. Melchiorre research group in Chemical Science ranks 3rd position in the top 25 most downloaded articles from April-June 2014. The paper, that was also highlighted in Synfacts, describes the first asymmetric catalytic alkylation of unmodified ketones with alkyl halides. The metal-free approach provides a rare example of highly enantioselective […]

Dr. Núria Huguet (Echavarren group) has just received one of the URV’s “Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado” (excellence doctorate award) for her thesis “Exploring New Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization Reactions of 1-5-Enynes and Development of an Intermolecular Phenol Synthesis.” It’s the icing on the cake after almost five years at ICIQ doing extraordinary work. Núria joined ICIQ in […]

A paper published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition by Prof. Arjan W. Kleij group has been chosen as “hot paper” by the Editors for their importance and high interest. The paper deals with the efficient and highly selective formation of a wide range of (hetero)cyclic cis-diol scaffolds using aminotriphenolate-based metal catalysts. The key intermediates are […]

A paper published by Prof. R. Martin et al. in Chemical Society Reviews has been the most read article for the last 30 days. The review highlights the prospective impact of simple ethers as aryl halide surrogates in the cross-coupling arena via C-O bond-activation. Metal-catalyzed activatoin of ethers via C-O bond cleavage: a new strategy for […]

A paper by P. Ballester, J. R. Galán-Mascarós et al. published in Chemistry A European Journal has been highlighted in the ChemistryViews website. The paper describes the synthesis and characterization of a series of neutral double-decker complexes of lanthanides with octa(ethyl)tetraazaporphyrin. Some of these complexes show single-molecule magnet (SMM) behavior but, in contrast with most […]

The 2014 SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) places ICIQ as the leading government research centre worldwide according to the ratio of Excellence with Leadership. Excellence and Leadership indicates the amount of documents in the Excellence rate in which the institution is the main contributor. Excellence rate represents the amount (in %) of an institution’s scientific output […]