July 17, 2014
The paper, published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, deals with a novel and very efficient synthetic route towards three natural aromadendrane sesquiterpenes. This strategy allowed for the rapid syntheses of all of the compounds in only seven steps with overall yields between 12 and 17 %. This work has been highlighted in Synfacts Vol 10, Issue […]
July 15, 2014
Lydia Cabau, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares, defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Design and Synthesis of Small Molecules for Organic and Grätzel Solar Cells” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 10th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation […]
July 9, 2014
Pablo Garrido has obtained one of the 25 grants awarded by Obra Social “la Caixa” to pursue doctoral studies in Spain. He will develop his research under the supervision of Prof. A. Llobet. He will work in the development of novel homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for water oxidation to oxygen. This reaction is the […]
July 9, 2014
Charles Goehry, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Feliu Maseras has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Computational studies on host/guest catalysis” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 9th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. Pau Ballester […]
July 8, 2014
The ICIQ and the Institut Pere Mata collaborate in research on the use of semiconductor nanoparticles to facilitate the diagnosis of mental disorders. In this first phase, the work focuses on laboratory tests with Quantum dots (QDs). QDs are semiconductor nanoparticles with optical and electrical properties. “The QDs have different and unique photonic properties which allows […]
July 8, 2014
Núria Fernández, PhD student under the supervision of Professor Emilio Palomares defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Analysis of Key Loss Mechanisms in Organic Solar Cells” (assigned to the Chemical Engineering Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 8th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. Jenny Nelson (Imperial College, […]
June 27, 2014
Organic Process Research & Development aims to cover R&D in the fine organic chemicals and speciality chemicals industries. The paper published by the group of Anton Vidal in Organic Letters has been highlighted in the Green Chemistry Highlights section. [Ir(P-OP)]-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Diversely Substituted C=N-Containing Heterocycles J. L. Núñez-Rico, A. Vidal-Ferran Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 2066-2069