Lingjun Hu, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Atsushi Urakawa (TU Delft), has virtually defended her PhD thesis entitled “Advancing C1 Catalysis by Spatiotemporal Analysis and Dynamic Operation” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on May 28th. The members of the examining committee were: […]

On May 22nd, Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren gave the first of a series of virtual seminars by ICIQ group leaders. He talked about “Gold Carbenes: Applications and Complications” to an audience of 187 people who registered to attend the broadcast via Zoom. Prof. Carles Bo seminar on “New Open-Source Tools to Deal with Molecules and […]

Researchers from the Muñiz group have published a paper in Angewandte Chemie – International Edition presenting a new metal-free methodology for the photo-catalysed nucleophilic fluorination of aliphatic hydrocarbon bonds. Daniel Bafaluy, first author of the paper shares the story behind it: What have you done? The paper describes a new metal-free method to selectively introduce […]

The winners of the 2020 RSEQ-Lilly Awards for PhD students have just been announced. For the second time in a row, two ICIQers have won the award: Mauro Mato (Echavarren group) for his work on the development of new methods for the generation of metal carbenes; and Shang-Zheng Sun (Martin group) for his research to unravel new […]

ICIQ’s first spin-off, Orchestra Scientific and the Lloret-Fillol group’s project CATSOL-AEM have been selected for the final round of the Ingenia Energy Challenge, which will be held in September 2020. For the first year, the Challenge is open to projects outside Enagás – Spain’s leading natural gas transmission company and Technical Manager of the national gas system […]

Konstantin Karajovič, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Theoretical Study of Nickel Phosphide ensembles for selective Hydrogenation” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on May 8th. The members of the examining committee were: Prof. Jordi […]

With the motto “Research for change“, Tarragona will celebrate for the third consecutive year the European Researchers’ Night (this time on November 27th, 2020). Coordinated by our neighbour, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), ICIQ will join URV and local research institutions Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC), Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV) and Institut Català […]