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PhD defense Carla Magallón

Next Monday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Carla Magallón Gubau, titled “ Bioinspired ligands and model systems for the elucidation of oxygen activation and cross-coupling reactions mediated by first-row transition metals”, supervised by Anna Company and Xavi Ribas from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències (find us here) Date: May

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Cover JOC on Successive Diels–Alder Cycloadditions of Cyclopentadiene to [10]CPP-C60: A Computational Study

The Journal of Organic Chemistry features on its front cover the recently published research article “Successive Diels–Alder Cycloadditions of Cyclopentadiene to [10]CPP?C60: A Computational Study”. The cover art describes computationally the functionalization of the [10]CPP?C60 by cyclopentadiene through successive Diels–Alder cycloadditions reaching the hexakis adduct system. The graphics depict the successive cycloadditions over the [10]CPP?C60

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IQCC Science Slam, May 12, 12.30h

Since 2015 the IQCC is organizing a Science Slam. Next week on Thursday May 12th the IQCC organizes the sixth 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

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IQCC opened its doors to 12 high-school students from INS Vallvera

A few times a year, the IQCC opens its doors and gives the opportunity to high-school students to know our work through exciting lectures and computational and experimental workshops. This provides the secondary school pupils the possibility to get a feel for the research and have real-time chemistry in their hands. Last week, it was

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Collaboration with Procter-Gamble international industry for three MACMoM students

In March and April, three of the Master in Advanced Catalysis and Molecular Modelling (MACMoM) students have started a internship in P&G company (Belgium) to perform their Master research project (TFM). Internship in a company is an optional module of the MACMoM Master, in which the students can perform a full-time internship in a company

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Helena Girame wins poster prize at BioExcel School

Between March 25 and April 1 took place the BioExcel School on Biomolecular Simulations, which included a poster session. Helena Girame, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs and Dr. Ferran Feixas, presented a poster titled “How the Assignment of Protonation States in Distal Residues May Alter Protein-Ligand Binding in Molecular Dynamics Simulations”. Helena’s poster

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Ferran Feixas starts as new Ramón y Cajal Fellow

On March 1st, 2022, Dr. Ferran Feixas started a new position at the Department of Chemistry, University of Girona, as a Ramón y Cajal (RyC) Fellow. The Ramón y Cajal Fellowship program is co-financed by the European Commission’s European Social Fund through the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. These grants are aimed at promoting the

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Time Evolution of the Millisecond Allosteric Activation of Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase

Proteins reshape their function in response to environmental changes through allosteric regulation. Allostery is the process in which two distinct sites within a protein or protein complex are functionally coupled. In allosterically regulated enzymes, the binding of a molecule (allosteric effector) at a distal site alters the thermodynamic and/or kinetic parameters of the catalytic reaction

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Yago García-Rodeja, new María Zambrano fellow at IQCC

Dr. García-Rodeja has recently become a new member of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) as a María Zambrano Fellow. Dr. García-Rodeja received his PhD in Chemistry from Complutense University of Madrid in 2018. During his PhD, he worked with Prof. Israel Fernández on understanding the reactivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related

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Through-Space Interaction of Tetraphenylethylene: What, Where, and How

Tetraphenylethylene (TPE) is the most prominent representative of the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) class of molecules, a family of compounds that has intense fluorescence in the aggregate state. AIEgens have found applications in biosensing, cell imaging or luminescent materials. This work investigates how the emission color of TPE depends on through-space interactions between the phenyl substituents

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