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IQCC Day 2025

Since 2023 every two months, the IQCC is organizing some sessions of IQCC networking. This activity is trying to promote networking between the people of the all Institute (PIs, postdocs, PhD students, master students and staff) and it is a chemistry-free event. Last Thursday 20th March the 2nd IQCC Day took place. This activity is part of the Networking IQCC activities. We did a BBQ. Below you can find

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2025, International Women’s Day – Women’s IQCC Forum

8th of March is International Women’s Day.  The IQCC has currently a rather favourable balance in gender ratio of staff members, both at the Master level (54%), PhD level (47%), postdocs (21%) and permanent researchers staff (29%). Notably, out of the 4 most recent permanent members, 2 are men and 2 are women, reinforcing one of

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Computational drug repurposing: approaches, evaluation of in silico resources and case studies

Repurposing of existing drugs for new indications has attracted substantial attention owing to its potential to accelerate drug development and reduce costs. Hundreds of computational resources such as databases and predictive platforms have been developed that can be applied for drug repurposing, making it challenging to select the right resource for a specific drug repurposing

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[Co3@Ge6Sn18]5–: A Giant sigma-Aromatic Cluster Analogous to H3+ and Li3+

Aromaticity is one of the most important concepts in chemistry and has been successfully extended to all-metal clusters. However, the study of all-metallic aromatic clusters remains in its early stages, with sigma-aromatic clusters mostly limited to small sizes (<12) that often require external stabilization. In this work, we report the first Ge/Sn-based trimer, [Co3@Ge6Sn18]5–, which

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Alicia Casitas receives Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award of RSEQ-Cat

Alicia Casitas receives Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award 2024 for young researchers of RSEQ-Cat Last week the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) announced that Dr. Alicia Casitas, former member at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award 2024, for his scientific career of quality and excellence. The Marcial Moreno-Mañas Prize for Young Investigators distinguishes annually one

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PhD defense Najoua Choukairi Afailal

Next Tuesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Najoua Choukairi Afailal, titled “Asymmetric oxidative dearomatization of arenes with biologically inspired oxidation catalysts”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Costas from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Wesley Brown (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Dr. Bert Klein Gebbink (Utrecht University) and  Dr. Montse Dieguez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of

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Sílvia Escayola receives Josep Castells award of RSEQ-Cat

Sílvia Escayola won the Josep Castells awards from the Real Sociedad Española de Química, Catalan section (RSEQ-Cat) for the best PhD in Chemistry in 2024. She did her PhD in the DIMOCAT group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Solà, Dr. Albert Poater and Dr. Eduard Matito about “Exploring

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Collaboration with Givaudan, Concentrol, AGC Pharma Chemicals, Esteve and Nanobots Therapeutics industries for five MACMoM students

During Feburary, five of the Master in Advanced Catalysis and Molecular Modelling (MACMoM) students started a internship in Givaudan, Concentrol, AGC Pharma Chemicals, Esteve, Nanobots Therapeutics 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 for up

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IQCC networking: February 2025

Since 2023 every two months, the IQCC is organizing some sessions of IQCC networking. This activity is trying to promote networking between the people of the all Institute (PIs, postdocs, PhD students, master students and staff) and it is a chemistry-free event, On Friday 14th February took place a new session of IQCC networking, we did a board/cards games

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Merging photoredox with metalloenzymatic catalysis for enantioselective decarboxylative C(sp3)-N3 and C(sp3)-SCN bond formation

The scope of nature’s catalytic abilities has been expanded by recent advancements in biocatalysis to include synthetic transformations with no biological equivalent. However, these newly introduced catalytic functions represent only a small fraction of reactions utilized in synthetic catalysis. Here we present a biocatalytic platform that combines photoredox and metalloenzymatic catalysis for enantioselective radical transformations.

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