Oxygenation of organic substrates by iron metalloenzymes occurs with high levels of selectivity, mainly because of the exquisite control of both the primary and the secondary sphere of the iron center. Lots of efforts have been done in reproducing the efficiency of enzymatic systems, mainly tuning the first coordination sphere of the metal with very
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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. Yesterday it was the turn for the visit of
Next Friday (10th of December, 11.00h, Sala de Graus – Facultat de Dret) will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Lorenzo D’Amore, titled “Enzymatic and bioinspired iron oxidation chemistry: a computational study”, supervised by Sílvia Osuna and Marcel Swart from IQCC. We wish him good luck and all the best! Girona, December 3, 2021
Dual-Function Enzyme Catalysis for Enantioselective Carbon–Nitrogen Bond Formation This study reports a new biocatalytic platform for creating new carbon-nitrogen bonds in a very selective and efficient way, with applications in the pharmaceutical and industrial fields. The selective formation of these bonds is relevant for the synthesis of new bioactive and pharmacological compounds. To achieve this,
Last October 28th, close to 700 students from 22 different high schools all around Catalonia participated in the live conference by Marcel Swart. They could learn what a chemist does, in particular a computational chemist, with the talk “I’m a Chemist”. The pupils shared very interesting questions and answers about being a not “normal” chemist with him. This talk belongs to
Dr. El Bakouri has recently become a new member of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) as a Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. El Bakouri was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Henrik Ottosson’s group in Uppsala University, Sweden. During his Postdoc, Dr. El Bakouri focused on the role of excited-state (anti)aromaticity in energy related applications. Dr. El Bakouri received his
The journal Dalton Transaction features on its front cover the recently published research article “Catalysis of CO2 reduction by diazapyridinophane complexes of Fe, Co, and Ni: CO2 binding triggered by combined frontier MO associations involving a SOMO”, a collaboration between Kyushu University and IQCC. The previous study on the photochemical CO2 reduction into CO catalyzed by the
Recently Giorgio Olivo, a former IQCC member, started his independent career as an Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry at “La Sapienza” university of Rome, Italy, in the Department of Chemistry. Giorgio was a post-doctoral fellow (two as a Juan de la Cierva fellow) at IQCC for five years (2016-2020), working in the QBIS-Cat group with
The journal ChemElectroChem features on its front cover the recently published research article “The Dual Effect of Coordinating -NH Groups and Light in the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction with Pyridylamino Co Complexes”, a collaboration between ICIQ and IQCC. CO2 electroreduction could be improved by applying conceptualized strategies to overcome catalytic bottlenecks. In this regard, we report
Next Friday (3rd of December 11.30h, virtual) will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Marco Cianfanelli, titled “Carboxylic Acids as Directing Groups for Intramolecular Catalytic Oxidation of Unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds with Bioinspired Catalysts”, supervised by Miquel Costas and Xavi Ribas from IQCC. If you want to follow the online defense, please send an email