New nickel catalyst fuses unrefined hydrocarbons and CO2 to obtain valuable compounds   Chemists designed a nickel catalyst that easily transforms petroleum feedstocks into valuable compounds like fatty acids. The process is environmentally friendly: not only it works at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, but also recycles carbon dioxide, contributing to the fight against climate […]

Pilar Calleja, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of 5 and 6-Membered Rings for the Construction of Molecular Diversity”‘ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April 28th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The […]

ICIQ announces the winners of the 1st Product Incubator Call, a funding programme that aims to bring research innovations to the market. Last December, ICIQ launched a call for project proposals to foster entrepreneurship at ICIQ and facilitate the creation of spin-off companies that would bring our newest technologies to the market. A panel of […]

Patricia Llanes Fernández, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel À. Pericàs (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Aproximaciones a una Química más Sostenible: Inmovilización de Catalizadores en Polímeros y Catálisis Asimétrica en Sistemas Bifásicos Fluorados”‘ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April […]

Tarragona’s «Banc d’Espanya», an architectural landmark in the heart of the city, will soon become a knowledge-dissemination centre. Francesc Roca, Tarragona’s councillor for Education, Employment and Economic Development, announced this yesterday in a press conference. The three main research institutes of Tarragona (ICIQ, IPHES and ICAC) will collaborate in this ambitious project providing content and materials, as […]

Two ICIQ papers published in Angewandte Chemie have been highlighted as most accessed in February 2017: A communication by Prof. Rubén Martín‘s group: Ni-Catalyzed Stannylation of Aryl Esters via C−O Bond Cleavage Y. Gu, R. Martin. Angew. Chem., Intl. Ed. 2017, 56, 3187-3190. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611720. A Ni-catalyzed stannylation of aryl esters with air- and moisture-insensitive silylstannyl […]

Last Friday we celebrated the BIST Founding Conference, the first international scientific meeting organized by BIST. The conference promoted the debate on multidisciplinary scientific research and its impact on advancing the frontiers of knowledge. It brought together some of the world’s leading experts in the four areas that the BIST has identified as strategic for the development of […]