September 14, 2015
If you are a student of 1st batxillerat and you are also crazy about chemistry, we recommend you to follow this prescription: Sign up to ICIQ’s 2016 Crazy about Chemistry course. You will not recover from this type of craziness (you may even get worse) but we guarantee a challenging experience. Crazy about Chemistry is […]
September 10, 2015
Substrate Activation in the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of N-Heteroarenes B. Balakrishna, J. L. Núñez-Rico, A. Vidal-Ferran Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2015, 5293-5303 Different methods for transforming N-heteroarenes into more reactive derivatives for catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation are highlighted. The first strategy consists of facilitating hydrogenation by the formation of positively charged derivatives of the heteroarene. Catalyst […]
September 10, 2015
Gold-Catalyzed Reactions via Cyclopropyl Gold Carbene-like Intermediates R. Dorel, A. M. Echavarren J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 7321-7332 Cycloisomerizations of 1,n-enynes catalyzed by gold(I) proceed via electrophilic species with a highly distorted cyclopropyl gold(I) carbene-like structure, which can react with different nucleophiles to form a wide variety of products by attack at the cyclopropane or […]
September 10, 2015
A Stable Single-Site Palladium Catalyst for Hydrogenations G. Vilé, D. Albani, M. Nachtegaal, Z. Chen, D. Dontsova, M. Antonietti, N. López, J. Pérez- Ramírez Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 11265-11269 We report the preparation and hydrogenation performance of a single-site palladium catalyst that was obtained by the anchoring of Pd atoms into the cavities of […]
August 5, 2015
Dr. Lloret-Fillol obtained his PhD from Universidad de Valencia in 2006. Then he moved to the University of Heidelberg where he stayed four years as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2010 he has been working as independent research leader at Universitat de Girona and, in November 2014, he joined ICIQ as group leader through CELLEX-ICIQ Starting […]
August 4, 2015
Dr. Michael Muratore, Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Echavarren group, has received the Best Oral Communication Prize at the 19th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (Lisbon, 12th-16th July) for his communication entitled ‘The Versatility of Gold(I) Catalysis Applied to the Total Syntheses of (-)-Nardoaristolone B and Lundurine C’. The communication describes how taking advantage of the […]
July 29, 2015
Lorenzo Mognon, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Mononuclear and Heterotrinuclear Ruthenium Complexes Synthesis and Water Oxidation Activity” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 29th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation […]