Andrea Cataffo, a PhD student who is under Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren supervision, has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Gold(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cyclizations and Cycloaddtions of Heteroratom-Substituted Alkynes with Alkenes” publicly on Friday, July 5th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. José Mª Lassaletta (Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Sevilla) Prof. Maria Besora (URV) […]

The company opened its first headquarters in the south of Europe near to Barcelona in April Wanhua Chemical, a global chemical company from China and among the global leading suppliers of chemical innovative products as polyurethanes, petrochemicals, performance chemicals and emerging materials, visited the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) in order to arrange […]

Alba Villar-Yanez, a PhD student who is under Prof. Carles Bo and Prof. Arjan Kleij supervision, has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Computational Insights of Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Valorization and Circular Recycling Processes” publicly on Thursday, July 4th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Dr. Maria del Mar Reguero de la Poza […]

EES Catalysis is a leading journal that publishes high-quality research on catalysis for energy and environmental applications Prof. Núria López has been appointed member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journal EES Catalysis. This journal covers a wide range of scientific disciplines, including chemistry, materials science, and engineering, focusing […]

ICIQ is pleased to welcome 12 students to the ICIQ Summer Fellowship Programme supported by the Severo Ochoa Programme of Excellence. This initiative aims to provide young researchers with hands-on experience in chemical research, fostering the next generation of scientific leaders. The Summer Fellowship Programme at ICIQ offers participants a unique opportunity to work alongside […]

ICIQ researchers have developed an intramolecular reaction facilitated by the alcohol HFIP to access valuable nitrogen heterocycles Nitrogen is an important and abundant element on earth. In fact, nitrogen in gas state is the most abundant gas of the atmosphere. This element is in our body as part of our DNA and in the centre […]

ICIQ partipates in a European team of scientists that reports in Science a new milestone for the sustainable production of green hydrogen through water electrolysis. Their new catalyst design harnesses so far unexplored properties of water to achieve, for the first time, an alternative to critical raw materials for water electrolysis at industrial-relevant conditions Hydrogen […]