July 9, 2021
The Academia Europaea has elected Prof. Antonio Echavarren and Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs as members of the pan-European institution. The election has been made based on their academic achievements. Prof. Echavarren is an international expert in gold catalysis. Over the years, he has authored about 300 scientific publications and received many awards, such as the […]
July 6, 2021
Having ideas is easy, it’s making them a reality that’s difficult – as any entrepreneur will tell you. Last week two ICIQers presented their project and their experience as entrepreneurs. Esther Alza, CEO and co-founder of Treellum Technologies, ICIQ’s second spin-off, joined the workshop “From lab to market: showcasing three deep tech startups,” organized by […]
June 29, 2021
BIST has announced the five winners of the first phase of this year’s BIST Ignite Programme. In the fifth edition of the programme, most of the grant-winning projects focus on health and more specifically on the search for new therapeutic alternatives for diseases that have no cure. These include neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s chorea, […]
June 22, 2021
The programme Repte Experimenta, led by Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in collaboration with ICIQ, has closed its 2021 edition with the delivery of the Experimenta 2021 Awards. In this edition of the Experimenta in the Classroom Challenge, a team of four students from the school Pare Manyanet from Reus mentored by Dr. Andreu Tortajada […]
June 15, 2021
The Nature Catalysis paper published by the Martin group on February 2021 “Deciphering the dichotomy exerted by Zn(ii) in the catalytic sp2 C–O bond functionalization of aryl esters at the molecular level” has been featured on the video podcast “Synthesis Workshop.” The latest video of the podcast, published Saturday 12th, is presented by Craig Day, […]
June 11, 2021
Take a quick dive into the recent publications of the ICIQ groups: In the Angewandte Chemie International Edition paper “Hydrolysis of Aliphatic Bis‐isonitriles in the Presence of a Polar Super Aryl‐Extended Calix[4]pyrrole Container,” the Ballester group reported the application of a water-soluble super aryl-extended calix[4]pyrrole in the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of symmetric bis-isonitriles. The presence of the polar container in the reaction […]
June 10, 2021
The Organic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has granted its 2021 open award, the Pedler Award, to Prof. Paolo Melchiorre for “the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates.” “It is a real honour, given the calibre of previous recipients of the Pedler prize. I thank my family (my […]