May 27, 2016
A paper published by Prof. Núria López et al. in ChemCatChem has been selected for the journal cover. Computationally Probing the Performance of Hybrid, Heterogeneous, and Homogeneous Iridium-Based Catalysts for Water Oxidation M. García-Melchor, L. Vilella, N. López, A. Vojvodic ChemCatChem, 2016, 8, 1792-1798 An attractive strategy to improve the performance of water oxidation catalysts […]
May 25, 2016
Prof. Paolo Melchiorre has been awarded with the Premio a la Excelencia Investigadora RSEQ 2016 for the impact and international leadership of his research in organocatalysis. In particular, for the innovative nature of his studies with primary amines based on quinine, and the originality of its recent developments combining the fields of organocatalysis and photochemistry. Prof. Melchiorre joined […]
May 23, 2016
Two papers published by Prof. Martin research group in Angewandte Chemie International Edition and the Journal of the American Chemical Society are among the most read papers in March and May respectively. Nickel-Catalyzed Carboxylation of Benzylic C-N Bonds with CO2 T. Moragas, M. Gaydou, R. Martin Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 5053-5057 The paper describes a user-friendly […]
May 20, 2016
Mariia Kirillova, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Total Syntheses of Novel Cannabinoids and Lundurines A-C with a Golden Touch” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on May 20th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of […]
May 18, 2016
Catalytic One-Pot Oxetane to Carbamate Conversions: Formal Synthesis of Drug Relevant Molecules W. Guo, V. Laserna, J. Rintjema, A. W. Kleij Adv. Synth. Catal., 2016, 358, 1602-1607 Oxetanes are versatile building blocks in drug-related synthesis to induce property-modulating effects. Whereas related oxiranes are widely used in coupling chemistry with carbon dioxide (CO2) to afford value-added […]
May 17, 2016
As part of our “From the Lab to the Classroom” activities, we organised the three-session workshop “Catalysis in the Classroom” for high-school teachers. On April 29th and May 5th and 13th, teachers participated in the workshop with Dr. Laia Pellejà, ICIQ’s outreach person, to learn how to explain catalysis more effectively and what experiments to […]
May 12, 2016
David MacMillan is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. His research interests are centred on the field of organic synthesis and catalysis, and inspired by the pursuit of new concepts in synthetic organic chemistry involving organocatalysis, organo-cascade catalysis, metal-mediated catalysis, and the total synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals -a high […]