Last night, José (Pepe) Barluenga passed away. For many of the senior group leaders of ICIQ a close friend and mentor is gone. We will all miss him. Pepe Barluenga was born in Tardienta (Aragón, Spain) in 1940. He studied chemistry in Zaragoza (Ph.D. in 1966, with V. Gómez Aranda) and after a 4 year […]

Would you like to know Prof. Echavarren’s secret for publishing so many high-quality papers? You’ll find the answer to this and to other compelling topics in the Author Profile of Angewandte’s latest issue. Prof. Echavarren has published more than 25 articles in Andgewandte Chemie since 2000. In this same issue you can find his paper: […]

A paper published by Ruben Martin et al. in JACS is one of the most downloaded articles over the past 12 months. The paper was published in September 2015. The article describes a Ni-catalyzed borylation via C–F activation. This protocol is distinguished by a wide scope, including unactivated fluoroarenes, without compromising its efficiency and scalability, […]

A paper by Carles Bo, Javier de Mendoza et al. published in Chemistry A European Journal has been highlighted in the ChemistryViews website. The paper describes that fullerenes C60, C70, and C84 may be readily encaged within a hydrogen-bonded dimeric capsule, based on two concave cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) scaffolds, each containing three self-complementary 2-ureido-4-[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPy) subunits. […]

The group of Prof. Emilio Palomares has taken part in an international collaboration that has investigated the voltage loss in small-molecule solar cells containing fullerene. The results obtained led to the conclusion that these devices have much lower efficiency losses than other solar cells such as those containing organic polymers or the perovskite solar cells, […]

Chem is a new chemistry journal from Cell Press aimed at publishing works from across the chemical sciences and at the interfaces between chemistry and other disciplines. Dr. Vjekoslav Dekaris, scientific editor of Chem, was at ICIQ last July, 8th, to present the journal. That day we had the occasion to interview him for our […]

Nelson Giménez, PhD student under the supervision of Profs. Pau Ballester and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled ‘Synthesis of Tetra-azaporphyrins, Phthalocyanines and Lanthanide Double-Decker Sandwich Complexes’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 25th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]