Last week, our former member of IQCC Martí Gimferrer was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2023 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, he defended with success his PhD thesis on “Development and application of new methodologies for chemical bonding analysis”, supervised by Pedro Salvador. Now, Martí is continuing his research
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Last week, the SusChem announced that Dr. Jordi Soler received the XVI Premios SusChem Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos categoria Investiga for his best scientific publication on Engineered cytochrome P450 for direct arylalkene-to-ketone oxidation via highly reactive carbocatión intermediates. This prize is rewarded annually to young Spanish researchers. The SusChem Young Chemical Researchers Awards aim to recognize, encourage and promote scientific
Next Monday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Àlex Díaz Jiménez, titled “Exploring the reactivity of in situ generated metal vinylcarbenes”, supervised by Dr. Anna Pla-Quintana and Prof. Anna Roglans from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna de la Facultat de Ciències Date: Monday July 15th, 2024 Time: 10.30am We wish him good luck and all the best!
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
This month (June 9-13, 2024) took place the 4th International Conference on Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Castelli romani (Italy), which included a poster session. Dr. Laia Vicens and Dr. Margarida Borrell, postdoc researchers under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented a poster titled “Remote Amino Acid Recognition Enables Effective Hydrogen Peroxide at a Manganese Oxidation Catalyst” and “Atropoenantioselective
The aim of the European Young Chemists’ Award (EYCA) is to showcase and recognize the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. In particular the award is intended to honor and encourage younger chemists whose current research displays a high level of excellence and distinction. It seeks to recognize and reward younger
Dr. Jordi Mestres has joined the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) at the University of Girona as a visiting professor. He is the founder of the Chemotargets SL, a pioneer company in the Catalan biotech industry that has developed benchmark software in the field of pharmacology prediction and drug safety, today the softward is
This Friday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Míriam Pujals Crusat, titled “Supramolecular nanocapsules: regioselective functionalization of fullerenes and molecular recognition of endohedral metallofullerenes”, supervised by Prof. Xavi Ribas from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna de la Facultat de Ciències Date: Friday June 14th, 2024 Time: 10.30am We wish her good luck and all the best! Girona, June 10th, 2024
The tert-butyl group is a common aliphatic motif extensively employed to implement steric congestion and conformational rigidity in organic and organometallic molecules. Because of the combination of a high bond dissociation energy (~ 100 kcal mol-1) and limited accessibility, in the absence of directing groups, neither radical nor organometallic approaches are effective for the chemical
Inorganic fullerene clusters have attracted widespread attention due to their highly symmetrical geometric structures and intrinsic electronic properties. However, cage-like clusters composed of heavy metal elements with high symmetry are rarely reported, and their synthesis is also highly challenging. In this paper, we present the synthesis of a [K2(Bi@Pd12@Bi20)]4- cluster that incorporates a {Bi20} cage with