This month (Sep 5-6, 2024) took place the IV Jornadas Españolas de Biocatálisis in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain), which included a poster session. MSc. Mario Bonachea, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna, presented a poster titled “Analyzing tryptophan synthase’s conformational changes” and won one poster prizes. Congratulations Mario! Girona, 16 September 2024 For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu
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Dr. Mou Mandal has recently become a new member of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC). Dr. Mandal did her PhD at the University of Hyderabad (India) on Cyclizations of Benzofused 1,6-Enyne/Diyne Systems Towards Synthesis of Diverse Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and Heterocycles under the supervision of Prof. R Balamurugan in 2022. At this moment, she holds
This Friday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Guillem Casadevall i Franco, titled “Development of novel computational protocols for the design of efficient enzymes”, supervised by Prof. Sílvia Osuna from IQCC and Dr. Javier Iglesias Fernández. Place: Sala de Graus de la Facultat de Dret Date: Friday Sep 13th, 2024 Time: 11am We wish him good
The ChemistryEurope journal features on its front cover the recently published research article “Introducing Weakly Ligated Tris(trifluoromethyl)copper(III)” by Prof. Xavi Ribas of the QBISCAT group and Dr. Pedro Salvador of the TCBioSys group at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona, also in collaboration with Dr. Petr Beier and Dr. Vladimir Motornov (Institute of Organic
Next Tuesday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Andrea Palone, titled “Bio-inspired Manganese-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-H Oxidation: Chiral Pool Expansion and Predictive Data Analysis”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Costas from IQCC and Prof. Massimo Bietti from Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy). Place: Aula Magna de la Facultat de Ciències Date: Tuesday July 30th, 2024 Time: 10.30am We wish him
Efficient methods for achieving desaturation of carbonyl compounds are highly sought after in organic chemistry. In contrast to synthetic approaches, enzymatic desaturation systems offer the potential to enhance sustainability and selectivity but have remained elusive. Here we report the development of an enzymatic desaturation system based on flavin-dependent ene-reductases for desymmetrizing cyclohexanones. This platform facilitates
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
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