Xinyuan Fan, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Towards More Sustainable Chemical Processes: Studies on Covalent and Non-covalent Catalyst Immobilization” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 5th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members or […]

Two papers published by M. Pericàs et al. have been highlighted in Synfacts, Vol 10, Issue 08 (pp. 0883 and 0889).  Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry.   Asymmetric Allylation of Ketones and Subsequent Tandem Reactions Catalyzed by a […]

After a demanding evaluation by several members of ICIQ’s Scientific Committee, we are extremely happy to announce that José-Ramón Galán-Mascarós and Atsushi Urakawa have each received tenure at ICIQ. The evaluation committee cited Galán-Mascarós as a highly creative, enthusiastic, and productive researcher. He has focused his research throughout the last five years on the development […]

A paper by Arjan W. Kleij, Carles Bo et al., published in Chemistry A European Journal, has been highlighted in Organic Process Research & Development. The use of CO2 as a renewable carbon feedstock is of significant interest, though its relatively high kinetic and thermodynamic stability make the development of suitable processes a major challenge. This […]

Pedro J. Pérez studied chemistry at the University of Seville where he graduated in 1987 and received his PhD degree, developed under the supervision of Prof. Ernesto Carmona, in 1991. From 1991 to 1993, he worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a postdoctoral fellow and, in 1993, he joined the newly […]

In its third release, the web application Mapping Scientific Excellence ranks ICIQ in first position on “Best Paper Rate” (proportion of highly cited papers published by an institution) and second on “Best Journal Rate” (ratio of papers published in the most influential journals) in the field of Chemistry worldwide. These results, refered to the 2007-2011 […]

The paper by Ruben Martin et al. has been published in Chemistry A European Journal. It summarizes the recent findings in the field of metal-catalyzed reductive coupling reactions of aryl halides and (pseudo)halides with carbonyl-type compounds, with particular emphasis on the mechanistic interpretation of the results and future aspects of this area of expertise. It was […]