Arenes are abundantly occurring moleculesof signi?cant interest as versatile starting materials inorganic reactions. Typically, oxidation of arenes yieldsplanar molecules such as phenols and quinones. How-ever, several iron dependent oxygenases can disruptthe aromaticity of arenes through oxidation and intro-duce C(sp3 )?O stereogenic centers, resulting in preciousenantioenriched epoxide or diol products. Emulatingthis enzymatic behavior with synthetic catalysts
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The ChemCatChem journal features on its front cover of the March 2025 issue the research article “Unveiling the Catalytic Activity of Nickel(II) Complexes of Pentadentate Ligands in Aromatic Oxidations” by Sethuraman Muthuramalingam and Prof. Miquel Costas in collaboration with Dr. Prabha Vadivelu and Dr. Muniyandi Sankaralingam group. The Cover Feature depicts the hydroxylation of benzene to phenol in the
Next Tuesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Najoua Choukairi Afailal, titled “Asymmetric oxidative dearomatization of arenes with biologically inspired oxidation catalysts”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Costas from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Wesley Brown (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Dr. Bert Klein Gebbink (Utrecht University) and Dr. Montse Dieguez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of
This month (Feb 5-7, 2025) took place the 2nd meeting of Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry of the Catalan Chemistry Society in Tarragona (Spain). Dr. Carles Fuertes, postdoc researchers under the supervision of Prof. Xavi Ribas, presented a talk titled “Light-driven molecular motors within confined spaces ” and won a best oral communication award and MSc. Christos Christou, PhD student under the
Yesterday ICREA announced the list of winners of the ICREA Acadèmia awards 2024, among which are four (!!!) names from the University of Girona: Sebastià Puig (Engineering), Anna Maria Romani (Ecology), Miquel Costas and Miquel Solà (both IQCC and Chemistry). Congratulations to all four! Girona, December 13th, 2024 For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu
Every year in September since 2008, the IQCC is organizing together with the Scientific Culture and Digital Communication (C4D) unit of the UdG, the Diputació de Girona and the Girona City Council the European Researchers’ Night with the aim to bring science closer to the Girona general public. The European Researchers’ Night is a coordianted
The standardized citation metric analysis published by Ioaniddis (popularized as Stanford University global list of 2% top scientists) has become a world-recognized rank of scientific output performance based on scientific publications. The newest version 2024 includes 9 IQCC researchers (Miquel Solà, Miquel Costas, Marcel Swart, Albert Poater, Sílvia Osuna , Lluís Blancafort, Xavier Ribas, Jordi Mestres (visiting professor) and Alexander Voityuk (emeritus)). In addition, the career analysis report includes 10 IQCC
Since 2015 the IQCC is organizing a Science Slam. On Tuesday October 1st the IQCC organizes the IX edition to show the most representative research projects of the Institute to a wide audience. The research carried out within each of the research teams of the IQCC will be briefly summarized by the PIs (2 minutes). Place: PB4,
Next Tuesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Andrea Palone, titled “Bio-inspired Manganese-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-H Oxidation: Chiral Pool Expansion and Predictive Data Analysis”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Costas from IQCC and Prof. Massimo Bietti from Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy). Place: Aula Magna de la Facultat de Ciències Date: Tuesday July 30th, 2024 Time: 10.30am We wish him
Last week, the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) and Lilly announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs received the Premio Lilly Joven de Investigación 2024 for his outstanding scientific career on computational modeling of biochemical and biocatalytic processes, with the aim of understanding, designing and implementing new enzymatic activities. This prize is rewarded annually to young Spanish researchers (under the