The article Cooperative activation in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of epoxides by a bis-cobalt(III)salen-calix[4]arene hybrid, coauthored by Arjan Kleij and Sander Wezenberg, and recently published in Adv. Synth. Catal. 2010, 352, 85-91, has been selected by the Editorial Board of SYNFACTS for its important insights. In this work, the authors use calix[4]arene as a catalyst […]

The article Axial ligand control over monolayer and bilayer formation of metal-salophens at the liquid–solid interface (Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 2548-2550), authored by Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, Sander J. Wezenberg, Michiel J. J. Coenen, Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán, Jordi Benet-Buchholz, Duncan den Boer, Sylvia Speller, Arjan W. Kleij and Steven De Feyter, has been highlighted […]

Elisa Huerta, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Javier de Mendoza, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Self-Assembly Baseed on the 2-Ureido-4(1h)Pyrimidinone Motif: From Cyclic Arrays to Molecular Capsules for Fullerene Separations (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]

Patricia Pérez, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Solving the Mechanistic Puzzle of Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization of 1,6-Enynes and Beyond (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee were: […]

In 2009 Prof. Paolo Melchiorre was among the three referees of Angewandte Chemie who were asked most frequently for the assessment of manuscripts, a direct consequence of the high quality of his reports.

Núria Huguet, PhD student from Prof. Echavarren group, has been awarded the Outstanding Master’s Student Prize for the URV-ICIQ Master in Synthesis and Catalysis (2009). The dimploma awarding ceremony will take place on 17th March at 7 p.m. at the URV Auditorium (Paraninf).

A contract has been signed by Dr. Ramon Bacardit, Corporate Senior Vice President at Henkel, and Dr. Miquel A. Pericàs, ICIQ Director, to create the Henkel-ICIQ Joint Unit. This Unit will do research on the development of methodology for the preparation of new high performance polymers with adhesive applications. The Henkel-ICIQ Joint Unit will occupy […]