Girona, June 26, 2025. A collaboration between research teams from ICREA, University of Girona, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Minnesota has been awarded a 2025 Horizon Prize for the discovery and characterization of ligands for reactive high-valent iron-oxo oxidants by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Members of the research teams of Profs. Guo, Que
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A team of scientists from ICN2 has managed to produce a type of organic molecules, known as macrocycles, through the precise and controlled breaking of crystalline structures. This technique allows molecular “cutting” of the target molecules instead of synthesizing them step by step using traditional methods. This is an international collaboration with participation from UdG
Last week the University of Girona (UdG) announced that Dr. Eduard Matito, former member at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC), received the Alumin UdG award 2025, for his scientific career of research and knowledge. He did his PhD in the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Solà and Prof. Miquel Duran about “Development,
On 12th of June will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Cristina Duran i Rebenaque, titled “Rational design of tryptophan synthases through conformation and correlation-based allosteric networks”, supervised by Prof. Sílvia Osuna from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Marco De Vivo (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), Dr. Marcel Swart (UdG-IQCC) and Dr. Marina Corbella Morató (Denmark Technical University).
On 10th of June will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Gerard Comas Vilà, titled “Extracting Chemical Concepts with Effective Fragment Orbitals”, supervised by Dr. Pedro Salvador from IQCC. The jury members will be Prof. Miquel Solà i Puig (Universitat de Girona-IQCC), Dr. Dominik Munz (Saarland University) and Dr. Mercedes Alonso Giner (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty
This week the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Emerging Scientific Talent 2025 award of Societat Catalana de Química, for his outstanding scientific career. The Emerging Scientific Talent Award for Young Investigators distinguishes annually one excellent young talented Catalan researcher (<40 years) for their scientific
Every year in May since 2008 is organizing the Ciència en equip – Petits grans científics i científiques. Its goal is to promote scientific education among young people. By applying the scientific method, students observe phenomena, formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments, draw conclusions, and develop theories related to the scientific concepts they are working on. This year, 7th of May
Last 8th May took place the Spring edition of the IQCC Forum, a quarterly meeting-place where high-quality science will be discussed. The IQCC Forum gives the opportunity for PhD and postdoc members of the IQCC to present their work to a wide audience. This will lead to better knowledge of the work that is being performed in
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
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