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New room for the IQCC clusters

On October 9, an open day was held to see the new space where several clusters of the IQCC are located (BETA and Krillin). The new room is bigger and will allow us to grow in the number of computing machines. Also, it allows a better distribution of hot and cold air currents. Now, the

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PhD defense Marc Montilla Busquets

Next Tuesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Marc Montilla Busquets, titled “Decomposition of (non)linear optical properties ”, supervised by Dr. Josep Maria Luis and Dr. Pedro Salvador from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Science Date: Tuesday Oct 22nd, 2024 Time: 11am We wish him good luck and all the best! Girona, Oct  17th, 2024

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Marc Garcia-Borràs receives the Cadence/OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty award

Last week the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs, Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the the Cadence/OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty award managed by the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, for his scientific career of quality and excellence. The ACS

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Selective Cross-Metathesis Versus Ring-Closing Metathesis of Terpenes, Taking the Path Less Travelled

A diiodo ruthenium olefin metathesis pre-catalyst was employed to achieve remarkably selective cross-metathesis reactions of prenylated 1,6-dienes, effectively overcoming the entropically favored intramolecular ring-closing metathesis. This reaction was investigated using Density Functional Theory (DFT) computations and fine-tuned through the application of a Design of Experiments (DoE) approach. The potential of this innovative process was demonstrated

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European Researchers’ Night 2024 at IQCC

Every year in September since 2008, the IQCC is organizing together with the Scientific Culture and Digital Communication (C4D) unit of the UdG, the Diputació de Girona and the Girona City Council the European Researchers’ Night with the aim to bring science closer to the Girona general public. The European Researchers’ Night is a coordianted

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Ten IQCC researchers have been included in Stanford University global list of 2% top scientists

The standardized citation metric analysis published by Ioaniddis (popularized as Stanford University global list of 2% top scientists) has become a world-recognized rank of scientific output performance based on scientific publications. The newest version 2024 includes 9 IQCC researchers (Miquel Solà, Miquel Costas, Marcel Swart, Albert Poater, Sílvia Osuna , Lluís Blancafort, Xavier Ribas, Jordi Mestres (visiting professor) and Alexander Voityuk (emeritus)). In addition, the career analysis report includes 10 IQCC

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IQCC networking: September 2024

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 Thursday September 19th took place a new session of IQCC networking, we did a soccer match and a

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New collaboration agreement between Prof. Miquel Solà and Arcelormittal

One of the priorities of the IQCC is to strengthen the connections with industry, both nationally and internationally. Continuation of ongoing collaborative research efforts and initiating new joint projects are a high priority for the institute. Actually, there are several collaborations with the private sector. Furthermore, this month, Prof. Miquel Solà has started a new one with the

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Couple-close construction of non-classical boron cluster-phosphonium conjugates

Heteropolycyclic molecular systems, which are essential components in the fields of materials and pharmacology, frequently consist of 2D extended organic aromatic rings. Here, we introduce a type of inorganic-organic hybrid 3D conjugates by merging an aromatic boron cluster with a phosphine and a ?-conjugated unit. To achieve this, a couple-close synthetic strategy via B–H activation

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IQCC Science Slam 2025, October 1st 12:30h

Since 2015 the IQCC is organizing a Science Slam. On Tuesday October 1st the IQCC organizes the IX 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 (2 minutes). Place: PB4,

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