This week, our former member of IQCC Carles Fuertes was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2020 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, he defended with success his PhD thesis on “Supramolecular nanocapsules as platforms for molecular recognition and reactivity in confined spaces”, supervised by Xavi Ribas. Now,
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This week at the Supr@Stras conference organized by European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Europe and Supramolecular Chemistry Group from SCF included a virtual poster session on Twitter (27th July). Ernest Ubasart, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas, presented a poster titled “A new supramolecular nanocapsule that enables the bis-regiofunctionalization of C60 and
The journal European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry features on its front cover the recently published minireview “Fundamental Basis for Implementing Oxidant-Free Au(I)/Au(III) Catalysis”. Oxidant-free Au(I)/Au(III) catalysis can still be regarded as a young and promising chemistry. Because the first examples of gold catalysis were limited to the activation and functionalization of ?-C?C bonds and very little was
The Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis of the University of Girona organizes the 2021 virtual edition of the Science Slam to show the most representative research projects of the Institute to a wide audience. A Science Slam is a form of science communication where scientists present their own scientific research work in a short
The Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG) is a worldwide reference unit in computational chemistry and catalysis that aims at carrying out groundbreaking research on predictive chemistry for catalysis, with special focus on the processes occurring at the confined space for the coming years. One of the pillars
The journal Organometallics features on its front cover the recently published article “Well-Defined Aryl-Fe(II) Complexes in Cross-Coupling and C–H Activation Processes”. Iron embedded in a tetradentate N3C macrocyclic ligand scaffold allows the stabilization of valuable low-spin aryl-Fe(II) species, permitting the study of the intrinsic organometallic reactivity of these key intermediates in Fe-catalyzed cross-coupling and C-H
Recently, in collaboration with M. von Delius and co-workers from the Ulm University, a new paper was published by E. Ubasart, C. Fuertes-Espinosa, C. Garíca-Simón, L. Gómez, X. Ribas on a three-shell supramolecular complex enables the symmetry-mismatched chemo- and regioselective bis-functionalization of C60. The paper was recently published online in Nature Chemistry: E. Ubasart, O. Borodin,
Carles Fuertes won the Antoni de Martí i Franquès de Ciències Químiques award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans – Societat Catalana de Química for the best PhD thesis in Chemistry in 2020. He did his PhD in the QBIS-CAT group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas
A three-shell nanoreactor enables record synthesis of functionalized fullerene A Catalan-German research team has succeeded in using a three-shell “matryoshka” architecture to solve a long-standing problem in chemical synthesis. The researchers from Girona and Ulm have developed a three-dimensional construct of nested molecules, which is best imagined as a soccer ball stuck in a hula
This week the 1st Supramat network Conference took place online, which included a poster session. Ernest Ubasart, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas, presented a poster titled “A three-shell supramolecular complex enables the symmetry-mismatched chemo- and regioselective bis-functionalization of C60”, and won the 3rd prize (11-12th February). Congratulations Ernest!! Girona, Feb. 15, 2021 For