Dr. Garcia-Borràs has been invited to write a highlight in the News & Views section of Nature Catalysis journal to describe the significance of a new-to-nature photobiocatalytic reaction developed by team led by Huimin Zhao at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Binju Wang at Xiamen University, and Dongping Zhong at The Ohio State University.
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Recently, Dr. Joan Serrano Plana, a former IQCC member, was appointed senior scientific editor by Nature Chemistry (Springer Nature). Joan completed his master’s degree and PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Anna Company and Prof. Miquel Costas, studying O2 activation and hydrocarbon oxidation by bioinspired iron and copper complexes. During that period, he was
3D-aromatic compounds are scarce. The first known species with 3D-aromaticity were the closo boranes, such as [B10H10]2- or [B12H12]2- and derivatives. Not only closo boranes, but also carboranes, which result from single or double substitution of BH by isoelectronic CH+ units in closo boranes, are 3D-aromatic compounds. Apart from closo (car)boranes, fullerenes in certain spin
Chiral oxygenated aliphatic moieties are recurrent in biological and pharmaceutically relevant molecules, and constitute one of the most versatile type of functionalities for further elaboration. In this work, Arnau Call, Giorgio Capocasa, Andrea Palone, Laia Vicens, Eric Aparicio, Najoua Choukairi Afailal, Nikos Siakavaras, Maria Eugènia López Saló, Massimo Bietti and Miquel Costas report a protocol
Last month (August 27-31, 2023) took place the European Conference on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 2023 (EuChemS CompChem) in Thessaloniki (Greece). Dr. Anton Stasyuk, postdoc researcher in the Prof. Miquel Solà group, presented a talk titled “Aromaticity controls the photoinduced electron transfer in host-guest complexes of nanohoops”, and won the best oral presentation in the Materials Design session. Congratulations
Last Friday, the Ministry of Science and Innovation annunced that Sílvia Osuna, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG), received the National Research Award for Young Investigators ‘María Teresa Toral’ 2023, in the area of Science and Chemical Technologies, for her outstanding scientific career on the design
The addition of two unsymmetric malonate esters to the Buckminster fullerene C60 can lead to 22 spectroscopically distinguishable isomeric products and therefore represents a formidable synthesis challenge. In this work, we achieve 87?% selectivity for the formation of a single (in,out–trans-3) isomer by combining three approaches: (i) we use a starting material, in which the two
Next week Tuesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Jordi Soler i Parpal, titled “Multiscalar strategies for the characterization of engineered P450 enzymes”, supervised by Prof. Sílvia Osuna and Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs from IQCC. Place: Sala de Graus de la Facultat de Dret Date: Tuesday September 19th, 2023 Time: 11.00am We wish him good luck and
Every year in June and July since 2008, the UdG is organizing the 13th CampusPreBAT with the aim to offer a set of activities that show an overview of the areas of knowledge in which the UdG works, the studies that can be taken there as well as the services available to 4th ESO students
Ketones are crucial intermediates in synthesis and frequent moieties in many products. The direct regioselective synthesis of ketones from internal alkenes could simplify synthetic routes and solve a long-standing challenge in catalysis. In this work, the groups of Prof. Stephan Hammer (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs (IQCC), report the laboratory evolution of