July 21, 2016
Míriam Sau, PhD student under the supervision of Profs. Miquel A. Pericàs and Rubén Martín, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled ‘From Click Chemistry to Catalytic Cleavage of Unstrained C-C Bonds’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 21st at the ICIQ auditorium. The members […]
July 20, 2016
A paper published by Prof. Echavarren’s group in Angewandte Chemie International Edition has been highlighted in Synfacts, vol 12, issue 7 (666). Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The researchers achieve the first total synthesis of cannabimovone from Cannabis sativa […]
July 20, 2016
The group of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs has collaborated in a research aimed at the development of new molecules that can be applied as “prosthetic molecules” regulated by light to help to restore vision in cases of retinal degeneration. The research has been led by Prof. Pau Gorostiza from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) […]
July 20, 2016
A paper published by Prof. Pericàs group in Organic Letters has been highlighted in Synfacts, vol 12, issue 7 (756). Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The paper describes for the first time heterogenized versions of the second-generation MacMillan imidazolidin-4-one. […]
July 18, 2016
ICIQ Summer Fellowships are aimed at undergraduate students studying chemistry or related disciplines. Our summer programme consists of a three-month paid internship in one of ICIQ’s research groups during the months of July, August and September. The recipients of these scholarships are challenged to work in research projects in their respective research groups at ICIQ. […]
July 18, 2016
A paper published by Prof. Melchiorre’s group in Nature has been highlighted in Synfacts, vol 12, issue 7 (739). Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. In this paper the authors show how the combination of photoredox and asymmetric organic catalysis enables […]
July 15, 2016
Barcelona July 15th, Palau Macaya- Jaume Giró, CEO of “la Caixa” Banking Foundation and Vice-President of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Andreu Mas-Colell, President of BIST, and Montserrat Vendrell, CEO of BIST, presented some of the areas of research that BIST aims to promote over the next few years. The Barcelona Institute […]