Seminars

Upcoming

2020-2024

Speaker: Prof. Luis Echegoyen (Universitat de Texas (El Paso) USA and ICIQ (Tarragona) Spain)

Date: 2024-11-15 – 12:50

Location: Aula PB6 de la Facultat de Ciències

Title: Fullerenes as Molecular Receptacles to Stabilize Species with Actinides Inside ans as Catalysists for HER ans in Solar Cells


Speaker: Dr. Albert Artigas (IQCC – Universitat de Girona, Spain)

Date: 2024-11-15 – 12:30

Location: Aula PB6 de la Facultat de Ciències

Title: Rhodium promoted cyclisation reactions of fullerenes with diverse polyunsaturated substrates: a mechanistic perspective


Speaker: Prof. Steven Stevenson (Purdue University Fort Wayne)

Date: 2024-11-14 – 17:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Fullertubes: Discovery, Isaltion and Emerging Applications


Speaker: Dr. Carles Fuertes Espinosa (IQCC – Universitat de Girona, Spain)

Date: 2024-11-14 – 17:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Light-Driven Molecular Motors in Confined Spaces


Speaker: Dr. Massimo Christian D’Alteiro (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Date: 2024-11-14 – 12:30

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Stereoselective Lactide Polymerization at Al-Salen Complexes: Clues from DFT modelling


Speaker: Prof. Uwe T. Bornscheuer (Institute of Biochemistry, Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, University of Greifswald)

Date: 2024-11-07 – 15:00

Location: Teams

Title: Enzyme discovery & engineering to create biocatalysts suitable for organic synthesis and plastic
Recycling
(abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Michel P. Doyle (University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), Texas, USA)

Date: 2024-11-04 – 11:30

Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Vinyldiazo Compounds and Their Amazing Transformations (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Alex Guo (Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh (Pensilvania), USA)

Date: 2024-10-16 – 12:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Spectroscopic Investigations of Iron-Containing Metalloenzymes: New Intermediates and Novel Mechanisms (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso (Ikerbasque Research Professor, POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country)

Date: 2024-09-19 – 11:30

Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Extending, Distorting and Stacking Nanographenes into 1D, 2D and 3D Structures


Speaker: Prof. Tanguy Saget (Institute Chemistry Of Substances Natural University Paris-Saclay)

Date: 2024-08-29 – 11:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Intermolecular C(sp3)-H amination: stereoselective synthesis of pyrrolidines and unusual site-selectivities


Speaker: Dr. Heidi Klem (Thermodynamics Research Center, Materials and Measurements Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST))

Date: 2024-06-21 – 11:30

Location: Sala E8, Facultat de Ciències

Title: QMzyme: A Python toolkit to facilitate QM-based biomolecular modeling


Speaker: Prof. Yoshiaki Nakao (University of Kyoto, Japan)

Date: 2024-06-17 – 12:00

Location: Aula E10, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Synthesis and reactivity of Al–Ni bimetallic complexes


Speaker: Prof. Robert S. Paton (Colorado State University, USA)

Date: 2024-06-13 – 11:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Data-driven predictions of organic reactivity and selectivity (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Leo Gross (IBM Research Europe, Switzerland)

Date: 2024-06-11 – 12:00

Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Generation and Characterization of Cyclocarbons (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Juan Vicente Alegre-Requena (University of Zaragoza-CSIC, Spain)

Date: 2024-02-29 – 12:00

Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Automation of computational chemistry and machine learning workflows (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Rafael Gramage-Doria (Rennes Institut of Chemical Sciences, University of Rennes, France)

Date: 2024-02-29 – 10:30

Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Homogeneous Metal Catalysis: from Sustainable Transformations to Supramolecular Approaches


Speaker: Dr. Julia Contreras (Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université/CNRS, France)

Date: 2024-02-19 – 12:00

Location: Sala LEAR, Aulari comú

Title: Constructing new models to predict superconductivity (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Alexandros Zografos (University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date: 2024-02-09 – 11:30

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Simplifying biosynthesis: How to access the natural complexity following easy steps (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Lluís Artús (Department of Chemistry, KTH Stockholm)

Date: 2024-01-10 – 12:00

Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Monturiol, Parc Científic

Title: Simulation of MOFs with classical MD (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Kjell Jorner (Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich)

Date: 2024-01-10 – 12:00

Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Monturiol, Parc Científic

Title: Semi-empirical π-electron theory – a blast from the past (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Johannes Klein (University of Groningen – The Netherlands)

Date: 2023-10-10 – 10:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: From Closed-Shell Gold Complexes to Radical Reactivity: Breaking X-H Bonds via PCET


Speaker: Prof. Stephen K. Hashmi ()

Date: 2023-10-05 – 16:45

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Aspects of Gold Catalysis


Speaker: Prof. Enrique Garcia-España (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)

Date: 2023-07-17 – 15:00

Location: Sala Actes, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Supramolecular Medicinal Chemistry of Polyamines


Speaker: Prof. Georgii Nikonov (Department of Chemistry, Brock University, Canada)

Date: 2023-07-07 – 15:30

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Ge(0) compound with ambiphilic reactivity (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Doron Pappo (Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Date: 2023-06-21 – 15:00

Location: Aula PB4, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Multicopper Clusters Enable Oxidative Phenol Macrocyclization (OxPM) (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Nelaine Mora-Diez (Department of Chemistry, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada)

Date: 2023-06-01 – 12:00

Location: Aula PB2, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Computational Studies of Antioxidant Activity (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Steffer Lindert (Ohio State University (US))

Date: 2023-05-17 – 15:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Computational Protein Structure Prediction from Mass Spectrometry Data (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Diego Peña (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Espanya)

Date: 2023-04-27 – 12:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Combining Organic Chemistry with Surface Science: from Benzyne to Graphene and Single-Molecule Reactions (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Roberto A. Chica (Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada))

Date: 2023-02-15 – 12:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Harnessing Conformational Flexibility to Design more Efficient and Selective Enzymes


Speaker: Prof. Sebastian Kozuch (University of the Negev, Israel)

Date: 2023-02-13 – 12:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Some Bonding and Kinetic Aspects of Organocatalysis


Speaker: Prof. Ian A Tonks (Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota)

Date: 2023-02-08 – 12:00

Location: Sala LEAR – Aulari Comú

Title: Ti-Catalyzed Oxidative Amination Reactions: A Platform For Reaction Discovery (abstract)


Speaker: MSc. Alessandro Nicola Nardi (Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)

Date: 2023-02-08 – 12:00

Location: Sala LEAR – Aulari Comú

Title: Theoretical-computational modelling of the electronic and structural properties of nucleic acids in solution (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Juan Granja (University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain))

Date: 2022-10-27 – 16:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Supramolecular Chemistry of Cyclic Peptides


Speaker: Msc. Colin Pierce (University of Minnesota (US))

Date: 2022-09-21 – 10:00

Location: Sala E10, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Extending the activity of promiscuous enzymes to unnatural reactions


Speaker: Prof. Lawrence Que Jr. (University of Minnesota (US))

Date: 2022-09-12 – 10:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Diiron Diamond Core Complexes and Their Role in Effecting C–H bond cleavage


Speaker: Prof. Lawrence Que Jr. (University of Minnesota (US))

Date: 2022-09-09 – 11:30

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Nonheme Fe(V)=O Oxidants for Cleaving C–H Bonds


Speaker: Dr. Nebra Noel (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III)

Date: 2022-07-21 – 16:30

Location: Aula E10, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Unusual RedOx Cycles for Aromatic Trifluoromethylation


Speaker: Dr. Jose Óscar Carlos Jiménez-Halla (University of Guanajuato)

Date: 2022-07-15 – 11:00

Location: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències

Title: Recent Efforts in Activating C-X Bonds and Small Molecules Using p-block compounds (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Thomas Boddaert (Université Paris-Saclay)

Date: 2022-06-16 – 16:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Cyclobutane Derivatives: Photochemical Synthesis and Applications (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Ruben Martín (ICIQ)

Date: 2022-05-24 – 12:00

Location: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències

Title: –


Speaker: Dr. Héloïse Dossmann (Sorbonne Université)

Date: 2022-05-19 – 12:00

Location: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències

Title: Experimental evaluation of ligand electronic effects on cyclopentadienyl iron complexes (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Thibault Cantat (CEA/Université Paris-Saclay)

Date: 2022-05-17 – 10:00

Location: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències

Title: Formic acid and CO as key ‘power molecules’ in the catalytic conversion of CO2 to chemicals


Speaker: Prof. Emilio Palomares (Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ), Tarragona )

Date: 2022-03-22 – 12:00

Location: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències

Title: Going slow to go far: A journey through molecules for solar cells


Speaker: Dr. Cedric Colomban (Institut des Sciences Molécularies de Marseille)

Date: 2021-11-04 – 12:00

Location: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències

Title: Caged copper and iron complexes for predictable chirality control at the metal core and selective transformations


Speaker: Prof. Michael Mastalerz (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Date: 2021-07-12 – 12:00

Location: GoToMeeting

Title: Organic Cages & Capsules – From Giant to Small, From Labile to Stable (abstract)


Speaker: Dr. Matteo Cavalleri (Wiley)

Date: 2021-04-27 – 16:00

Location: GoToMeeting

Title: A peek inside the black box of scientific publishing


Speaker: Dr. Per-Ola Norrby (AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg)

Date: 2021-04-15 – 10:00

Location: GoToMeeting

Title: From mechanisms to reaction selectivity


Speaker: Prof. Dr. Moniek Tromp (University of Groningen)

Date: 2021-04-07 – 10:00

Location: GoToMeeting

Title: X-ray Spectroscopy Techniques Probing Active Species in Homogeneous Catalysis


Speaker: Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher (Dep. of Chemistry and Applied Biosc. (ETH Zürich))

Date: 2021-03-23 – 10:00

Location: GoToMeeting

Title: Have you ever pulled on a molecule? Chemical Reactivity by Interactive Quantum Mechanics (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik (University of Toronto)

Date: 2020-12-14 – 16:00

Location: GoToMeeting

Title: We have no time for science as usual (abstract)


Speaker: Prof. Alexey A. Popov (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden))

Date: 2020-02-24 – 12:00

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Internal design of endohedral metallofullerenes toward bulk and surface single molecule magnetism


Speaker: Dr. Sara H. Kyne (School of Chemistry, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia))

Date: 2020-01-29 – 15:30

Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències

Title: Mechanistic Studies of Radical Reactions: Improving Efficiency of Chain Processes (abstract)


2015-2019

Title

Dr. Sergio Posada-Pérez
(Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences. Université Catholique de Louvain. Louvain, Belgium)

Date: 2019-12-20  16:00
Location: Aula PB24, Facultat de Ciències


 
Computational materials science towards environmentally friendly materials (abstract)

Dr. Nico Kress
(Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (United Kingdom))

Date: 2019-10-10  10:30
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY ON THE CYTOCHROME P450 MEDIATED C-H HYDROXYLATION OF NON-AROMATIC N-HETEROCYCLES (abstract)

Prof. Beatriz Royo
(ITQB Lisboa (Portugal))

Date: 2019-09-26  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Manganese N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes i Catalysis

Prof. Olivia Reynaud
(Institut Universitaire de France (France))

Date: 2019-07-23  17:00
Location: Sala PB-24, Facultat de Ciències


 
Dioxygen and copper: Insights from a supramolecular perspective

Dr. J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla
(University of Guanajuato (Mexico))

Date: 2019-07-04  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Selective Reaction Routes in Multicomponent Reactions: A Computational Study

Dr. Álvaro Muñoz
(Universidad Autónoma de Chile (Chile))

Date: 2019-06-28  
Location:


 
The shielding cone. A unifying propery between planar and shperical aromatics

Prof. Moniek Tromp
(University of Groningen – The Netherlands)

Date: 2019-06-27  12:00
Location: Sala LEAR


 
X-ray Spectroscopy Techniques Probing Active Species in Homogeneous Catalysis

Dr. Isaac Garcia-Bosch
(SMU University – Texas, USA)

Date: 2019-06-26  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus de la Facultat de Dret


 
Cu-romoted oxygenation and oxidation reactions applied to green organic synthesis

Massimo Christian D’Alterio
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Napoli, Italia)

Date: 2019-06-05  15:30
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
From catalytic cycles to material properties: development of an integrated theoretical and experimental approach

Dr. Nihan Çelebi-Ölçüm
(Yeditepe University – Istanbul, Turkey)

Date: 2019-05-09  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències



 
Towards a unified computational approach for catalyst identification and discovery

Dr. Gregorio Guisado-Barrios
(Universitat Jaume I, Institute of Advance Materials (INAM) – Castelló, Spain)

Date: 2019-03-22  12:00
Location: Sala Gavarres, Facultat de Ciències


 
1,2,3-Triazolylidene and Imidazolylidene Ligands: Synthesis, Complexation, Reactivity and Applications

Prof. Javier Adrio
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Spain)

Date: 2019-02-07  12:00
Location: Aula E10, Facultat de Ciències


 
Expanding the Scope of Metal Catalyzed 1,3-dipolar Cycloaddition of Azomethine Ylides

Jean-Pierre Oudsen
(Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam (UvA)(The Netherlands))

Date: 2018-10-25  15:30
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
Combining theory and experiment, an X-ray absorption spectroscopy study on iron polymerization catalysts (abstract)

María A. Izquierdo
(Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials
University of Groningen (The Netherlands))

Date: 2018-10-23  15:30
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
Non-radiative decay paths in optoelectronic materials: A TDDFT and CASPT2 study (abstract)

Prof. Andy Borovik
(University of California (USA))

Date: 2018-09-17  12:00
Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències


 
Molecular Complexity and Inorganic Chemistry: Utilizaing Non-Covalent Interactions to Control Function (abstract)

Prof. Josene Toldo
(Uppsala University (Sweden))

Date: 2018-07-05  15:30
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Monturiol


 
A Three-state model for Photo-Fries rearrangement (abstract)

Prof. Mats Tilset
(University of Oslo (Norway))

Date: 2018-06-20  12:00
Location: Aula E8, Facultat de Ciències


 
Small-molecule chemistry at Au(III)

Prof. Nicholas J. Turner
(Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (United Kingdom))

Date: 2018-06-12  
Location:


 
Design and evolution of new biocatalysts for organic synthesis (abstract)

Prof. Sabine L. Flitsch
(Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (United Kingdom))

Date: 2018-06-12  
Location:


 
Design and implementation of de novo biosynthetic cascades (abstract)

Dr. Jesús Acapulco
(University of Oxford (United Kingdom))

Date: 2018-06-08  12:00
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Monturiol


 
Nucleation and Growth of Boron Nitride Nanotubes (abstract)

Prof. James Mayer
(Yale University (USA))

Date: 2018-05-29  12:00
Location: Aula Magna (Facultat de Ciències)


 
Adventures in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer, from molecules to nanocrystals

Dr. Matthias Lein
(Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand))

Date: 2018-05-10  12:00
Location: aula E10, Facultat de Ciències


 
A Free Energy Decomposition Analysis (abstract)

Prof. Luis Echegoyen
(University of Texas – El Paso (USA))

Date: 2018-05-09  
Location:


 
From Serendipitous Discoveries to Practical Applications: The Buckyball Story

Prof. Josep M. Poblet
(Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain))

Date: 2018-04-27  10:45
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Computational Modelling of Polyoxometalates: From Redox Properties to Photocatalysis

Prof. Luis Echegoyen
(University of Texas – El Paso (USA))

Date: 2018-04-18  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Buckyball Maracas: New Endohedral Fullerene Structures, Reactivity and Supramolecular Interactions

Prof. Sergio Castillón
(Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain))

Date: 2018-03-20  12:00
Location: Aula E8


 
Métodos de síntesis de vinilaziridinas con y sin metales de transición

Prof. Sam P. de Visser
(The University of Manchester (United Kingdom))

Date: 2018-03-15  11:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Nonheme iron hydroxylases and halogenases: How does the protein influence the product distributions? (abstract)

Prof. Lutz Ackermann
(Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (Germany))

Date: 2018-02-22  16:30
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Selectivity Control in C-H Activation

Prof. Célia Fonseca Guerra
(Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands))

Date: 2018-02-22  
Location:


 
The Role of Alkali Metal Cations in the Stabilization of Guanine Quadruplexes: Why K+ is the best

Dra. Alicia Casitas
(Institut Català d’Investigació Química (Tarragona, Spain))

Date: 2018-02-15  12:00
Location: Aula E8, Facultat de Ciències


 
Cleavage of stron sigma-bonds mediated by low-valent base metal complexes: from fundamental organometallic studies to photocatalysis

Prof. Karol Grela
(University of Warsaw (Poland))

Date: 2017-12-21  12:30
Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències


 
Making olefin metathesis work: current advances and retreats

Dr. Arkaitz Correa
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Basque Country, Spain))

Date: 2017-11-20  11:30
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Merging Heterocyclic Chemistry & Sustainable C-H Functionalization

Prof. David J. Tozer
(Durham University (United Kingdom))

Date: 2017-11-16  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Density functionals from density scaling

Dr. Leonardo Belpassi
(University of Perugia (Italy))

Date: 2017-11-15  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Bond analysis in a relativistic framework: charge displacement analysis via natural spinors for chemical valence (abstract)

Prof. Dr. Petra Imholf
(Freie Universität Berlin (Germany))

Date: 2017-10-27  
Location:


 
How networks can help understanding enzymatic function

Dr. Jordi Frigola
(Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona Dr. Josep Trueta (Girona, Spain))

Date: 2017-03-29  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Replicative helicase, a key player of chromosome replication (abstract)

Prof. Sam P. de Visser
(University of Manchester (United Kingdom))

Date: 2017-03-15  
Location:


 
Nonheme iron hydroxylases and halogenases: How does the protein influence the product distributions?

Prof. Célia Fonseca Guerra
(Vrije Universiteit (The Netherlands))

Date: 2017-02-22  17:00
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
The Role of Alkali Metal Cations in the Stabilization of Guanine Quadruplexes: Why K+ is the best (abstract)

Dr. Julia Contreras-Garcia
(Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (France))

Date: 2017-02-16  12:45
Location: Aula E10, Facultat de Ciències


 
From quantum topology and bond alternation to topological insulators (abstract)

Dr. Sara H. Kyne
(University of Lincoln (United Kingdom))

Date: 2017-02-07  12:30
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
Iron catalyzed atom transfer radical addition reactions (abstract)

Dr. Lucia Viglianti
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China))

Date: 2017-01-17  13:00
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) phenomenon: organic molecules shine with a new “light” (abstract)

Dr. Joaquim Jornet Somoza
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Basque Country, Spain))

Date: 2016-12-20  11:00
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
TD-DFT Study on Light Harvesting Systems: LHC-II case (abstract)

Dr. Joaquim Jornet Somoza
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Basque Country, Spain))

Date: 2016-12-20  
Location:


 
TD-DFT Study on Light Harvesting Systems: LHC-II case

Dr. David Mendive-Tapia
(Université de Montpellier (France))

Date: 2016-10-28  12:00
Location: Sala IQCC, Edifici Narcís Monturiol, Parc Científic i Tecnològic


 
Towards a systematic convergence of multi-layer (ML) multi-configuration time-dependent hartree nuclear wavefunctions: the ML-spawning algorithm (abstract)

Second Supramolecular Symposium
(IQCC)

Date: 2016-10-21  
Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències


 
Link to the article

Dr. Giovanni Li Manni
(Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany))

Date: 2016-10-04  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Stochastic-CASSCF and Multi-Configuration Pair-Density Functional Theory: A new era for strongly correlated molecular systems (abstract)

Young researchers symposium between UG and IQCC
(IQCC and UG)

Date: 2016-04-04  
Location: Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències


 
Link to the article

Dr. David J. Nelson
(University of Strathclyde (Scotland))

Date: 2015-12-09  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Structure/Activity Relationships in Catalytic C-H and C-X
Functionalisation Reactions (abstract)

Prof. Karlin Kenneth D.
(Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, US))

Date: 2015-11-24  10:30
Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències


 
Formation and reactivity of primary copper(I)-dioxygen adducts

Prof. Wesley R Browne
(University of Groningen (The Netherlands))

Date: 2015-07-28  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Shedding light on mechanisms in catalysis (abstract)

Dr. Frederic Banse
(Université Paris-Sud (France))

Date: 2015-06-04  15:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Bioinspired activation of small molecules using nonheme iron complexes

Dr. Balazs Pinter
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium))

Date: 2015-05-25  12:30
Location: Sala IQCC


 
Understanding the thermodynamic driving force for ligand-based redox-activity conceptual rules for designing redox active ligands (abstract)

Dr. Josep Cornellà
(ICIQ (Tarragona, Spain))

Date: 2015-04-24  12:00
Location: Aula E8


 
Nickel Catalysts for the Activation of C–O Bonds and CO2: From Mechanistic Studies to Synthetic Applications

Dr. Guido Clever
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany))

Date: 2015-04-09  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Switchable and Allosteric Guest Binding in Self-Assembled Coordination Cages

Prof. Stefano Di Stefano
(Università di Roma La Sapienza (Italy))

Date: 2015-03-12  11:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Theoretical Aspects of Ring-Chain Equilibria and Implications for Real Dynamic Libraries (abstract)

2010-2014

Title

Mr. Stepan Stepanovic
(University of Belgrade (Serbian))

Date: 2014-12-16  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
DFTstudy of spin state preferences in substitueted polypyrazolylborato transition metal complexes (abstract)

Prof. Massimo Bietti
(Universitat Rome tor Vergata (Italy))

Date: 2014-09-25  12:30
Location: aulari CE Girompren


 
Reactions of the Cumyloxyl Radical with Amides and Hydrogen Bonded Phenols. The Role of Structural and Medium Effects on the Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactivity and Selectivity

Dr. Fabrizio Santoro
(CNR Pisa (Italy))

Date: 2014-09-18  16:00
Location: FC C1-E2


 
RECENT PROGRESSES TOWARDS THE TIME-DEPENDENT CALCULATION OF VIBRONIC SPECTRA OF FLEXIBLE AND (OR) NONADIABATIC SYSTEMS (abstract)

Dr. Graham A. Worth
(Birmingham University (UK))

Date: 2014-09-18  16:00
Location: FC C1-E2


 
Quantum Dynamics Simulations of Photo-excited Molecules – From Grid-based to Direct Dynamics (abstract)

Dr. Tomás Rocha-Rinza
(CINESTAV (Spain))

Date: 2014-07-15  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Some applications and developments within the QTAIM and IQA

topological methods (abstract)


Zsuzsanna Benda
(Eötvös University (Hungary))

Date: 2014-07-15  13:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Details of the Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces of Adenine by Coupled-Cluster Techniques (abstract)

Prof. Jacek Styszynsky
(University of Szczecin (Poland))

Date: 2014-07-08  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Relativistic effects in molecules: metal carbonyl cations [M(CO)n]

x+ (abstract)


Dr. Maja Gruden-Pavlovic
(University of Belgrade (Serbian))

Date: 2014-05-29  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Density Functional Theory and Intrinsic Distortion Path in the analysis of the Jahn-Teller effect (abstract)

Doctorand Antony Stasyuk
(Warsaw University (Poland))

Date: 2014-05-26  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Acidic C-H bond as proton donor in excited-state intramolecular
proton transfer
(abstract)

Dr. Marko Hapke
(Universität Rostock (Germany))

Date: 2014-05-19  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Synthesis and catalysis of Co(I)-complexes in cycloaddition reactions – Photochemistry and more

Dr. Lynn Kamerlin
(Uppsala University, Sweden)

Date: 2014-05-12  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Chemically-Driven Protein Evolution in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily (abstract)

Dr. Carles Ayats
(Institut Català d’Investigacions Químiques (Spain))

Date: 2014-04-25  12:00
Location: Aula E4


 
Supported Organocatalysts for Enantioselective Reactions in Continuous Flow

Dr. Julia Contreras-Garcia
(CNRS (France))

Date: 2014-04-10  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Understanding the fundamental role of pi/pi, sigma/sigma, and sigma/pi dispersion interactions in shaping carbon-based Materials (abstract)

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mata
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany))

Date: 2014-04-08  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
A hierarchy of embedding approaches for the study of molecular properties (abstract)

Prof. Kara Bren
(University of Rochester, USA)

Date: 2014-03-20  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Engineered Cytochromes for Solar Fuels (abstract)

Dr. Josep Llaveria
(University of Bristol (United Kingdom))

Date: 2014-02-18  12:00
Location: Aula E6


 
SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS BY TRANSITON METAL-CATALYZED REACTIONS

Prof. Matthias Bickelhaupt
(VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date: 2014-01-24  12:00
Location: Aula E8


 
Halogen Bonds and the sigma-Hole Myth (abstract)

Dr. Eugeni Roura
(University of Queensland (Australia))

Date: 2013-12-19  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Molecular and computational biochemistry in the hunt for the real cola taste without sugar (abstract)

Dr. Robert Zalesny
(Wrocław University of Technology (Poland))

Date: 2013-12-19  13:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Physical origins of interaction-induced electric dipole properties of molecular complexes (abstract)

Dr. Jordi Solà
(Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (IQAC-CSIC) (Spain))

Date: 2013-12-05  12:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
A short walk through Supramolecular Chemistry (abstract)

Dr. Sambhu N. Datta
(Indian Institute of Technology (India))

Date: 2013-10-30  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Theoretical Investigation of Stilbene as Photochromic Spin Coupler (abstract)

Prof. Paola Belanzoni
(University of Perugia (Italy))

Date: 2013-10-16  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Tuning a metal-oxo group for water oxidation (abstract)

Prof. Paolo Carloni
(German Research School for Simulation Sciences (Germany))

Date: 2013-09-13  16:00
Location: PB25


 
Multiscale modeling of membrane proteins

Prof. Sergei Baranovski
(University of Marburg (Germany))

Date: 2013-09-09  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Electron Glass

Prof. Dimitri G. Gusev
(Department of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada)

Date: 2013-06-21  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Catalytic Reduction of Esters (abstract)

Dr. Igor Larrosa
(Queen Mary, University of London (United Kingdom))

Date: 2013-05-31  12:00
Location: Aula Magna


 
From C-C to C-H activation: new transformations for organic synthesis

Prof. Massimo Bietti
(Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche of the Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy))

Date: 2013-05-21  12:00
Location: Aula Magna


 
Reactivity patterns of alkoxyl radical in hydrogen abstraction reactions from aliphatic C-H bonds. The role of structural and medium effects

Dr. Driess Matthias
(Technische Universität Berlin (Germany))

Date: 2013-04-03  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Unifying Catalysis Through Synthesis of Hybrid Materials (abstract)

Dr. Balazs Pinter
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium))

Date: 2013-03-21  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Structural and electronic contributions to redox non- innocent behavior (abstract)

Prof. F. Matthias Bickelhaupt
(VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date: 2013-01-22  13:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Bite Angles in Catalytic Bond Activation: Steric and Electronic Tuning (abstract)

Dr. Jon M. Matxain
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia (Spain))

Date: 2013-01-17  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Natural Orbital Functional Theory Applied to Biologically relevant systems: Oxydative Stress in Amino Acid Side Chains (abstract)

Dr. Fernando Ruipérez
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia (Spain))

Date: 2013-01-17  12:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Structure and bonding in transition metal containing systems: natural orbital functional and wavefunction-based calculations (abstract)

Prof. Mario Piris
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia (Spain))

Date: 2013-01-15  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
NOF Theory of the molecular electronic structure (abstract)

Prof. Henrik Ottosson
(Uppsala University, Sweden)

Date: 2013-01-11  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Excited state aromaticity and
antiaromaticity: Opportunities for photophysical and photochemical
rationalizations (abstract)

Dr. Ryosuke Miyake
(Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University (Japan))

Date: 2012-12-12  13:00
Location: PB24


 
Properties of crystalline nano-cavities of metallo-macrocyle with dipeptide ligand (abstract)

Dra. Marta Mas-Torrent
(Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) (spain))

Date: 2012-11-19  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Organic Field Effect Transistors: From the Molecule to the Device

Dr. Ivan Castillo Pérez
(Instituto de Química, UNAM (Mèxic))

Date: 2012-10-23  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Complejos de cobre inspirados en enzimas monooxigenasas con donadores bencimidazólicos, y tioéter

Dr. Oscar Jimenez-Halla
(University of Würzburg (Germany))

Date: 2012-10-22  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Regioselectivity of Allenyl- and Propargyl- Phosphonate Pd-catalysed Cross-Coupling Reactions. Reaction Mechanisms and Effect of Heteroatom Substitution (abstract)

Prof. Larry Que
(University of Minnesota(USA))

Date: 2012-09-17  16:00
Location: Aula E6. Facultat de


 
High-Valent Iron: Structures, Spin States, and Reactivity

Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Yang
(Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China))

Date: 2012-07-24  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Novel fluorescent probes based on the intramolecular charge transfer compounds and proton transfer compounds

Prof. Dr. Yi Li
(Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHINA))

Date: 2012-07-24  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Photophysic and Photochemistry within Dendritic Systems

Prof. Klaus Pörschke
(Max-Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Germany))

Date: 2012-07-20  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Bispidine analogs of cisplatin, carboplatin, and oxaliplatin


Dr. Tomás Rocha Rinza
(Institute of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico(MEXICO))

Date: 2012-07-13  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Inclusion of electron correlation within the Interacting
Quantum Atoms energy partition by means of closed shell
coupled cluster theory (abstract)

Prof. Dr. Gerard Roelfes
(Stratingh Institute, University of Groningen (the Netherlands))

Date: 2012-07-06  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Artificial metalloenzymes for enantioselective catalysis

Prof. Dr. Alceo Macchioni
(Dipartimento di Chimica Università di Perugia (Italy))

Date: 2012-06-29  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Oxidative Splitting of Water Catalyzed by Iridium Complexes (abstract)

Dr. Duncan Mowbray
(Centro de Fiśica de Materiales CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donosti-San Sebastián (Spain))

Date: 2012-06-07  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Catalysis by Gold (abstract)

Prof. Dr. Didier Bourissou
(UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER – TOULOUSE (FRANCE))

Date: 2012-05-31  17:15
Location: Sala de Graus


 
METAL COMPLEXES DERIVING FROM POLYFUNCTIONAL LIGANDS: FROM UNUSUAL COORDINATION MODES TO ORIGINAL REACTIVITY PATTERNS


Dra Ester Barrabés
(Informatics and Applied
Mathematics Department(UdG))

Date: 2012-05-04  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Dynamical Systems Tools for the study of hydrogen atom in a circularly polarized microwave (abstract)

Prof. Dr. Luz H. Gade
(Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, (Germany))

Date: 2012-04-27  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Some Construction Principles in the Development of New Molecular Catalysts (abstract)

Dr. Manuel Lopez
(Universidad de Malaga (Spain))

Date: 2012-04-26  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Oligofenilenos, teofilinas y nanopartículas para la modificación de superficies (abstract)


Prof. Carme Rovira
(Parc Científic de Barcelona (Spain))

Date: 2012-04-20  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
The molecular mechanism of catalase by Car-Parrinello QM/MM metadynamics (abstract)

Dra. Alexandra Carvalho
(Universidade do Porto (Portugal))

Date: 2012-04-18  16:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
From MD studies on large biomolecules to DFT calculations on small models (abstract)

Prof. Gwilherm Evano
(Laboratoire de Chimie Organique – Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium))

Date: 2012-04-12  16:00
Location: Aula Magna. Facultat


 
From Natural Product Synthesis to Methodology:

Short Stories in Copper Catalysis (abstract)


Estudiant de Màster Abril Carolina Castro
(Departamento de Química, Universidad de Guanajuato (México))

Date: 2012-03-30  12:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Planar Hypercoordinate Carbon Atoms (abstract)

Prof. Mihai Putz
(Department of Chemistry, West University of Timisoara (Romania))

Date: 2012-03-21  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Reactivity Indices in Density Functional Softness Theory (abstract)

Dr. David Balcells
(Departament de Química, Unitat de Química Física,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain))

Date: 2012-03-16  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus. Facul


 
Mechanistic Insight into Metal-Catalyzed C-H Oxidation from a DFT Perspective (abstract)

Prof. Ilya D. Gridnev
(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Date: 2012-02-27  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
On the Mechanism of Stereoselection in the Important Enantioselective Reactions: Combined NMR and DFT Studies (abstract)

Dra. Lourdes F. Vega
(MATGAS Research Center, Campus UAB, Barcelona, Spain Carburos Metálicos, Air Products Group, Barcel)

Date: 2012-02-22  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
CO2 un problema o una oportunitat? (abstract)


Prof. Josep Lluís De la Rosa
(EASY Innovation Center, UdG)

Date: 2012-01-27  12:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Citation Auctions as a New Method for Boosting Science (abstract)

Prof. István Mayer
(Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary))

Date: 2011-10-19  15:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Molecular energy decompositions (abstract)


Prof. Kimihiko Hirao
(RIKEN, Advanced Institute for Computational Science (Kobe, Japan))

Date: 2011-10-13  12:00
Location: Sala de reunions C1


 
Recent Progress of LC-DFT. Do Kohn-Sham orbitals and orbital energies have physical meaning?

Dr. Albert Poater
(Institut Català de Recerca de l’Aigua (Spain))

Date: 2011-09-06  11:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
A computational perspective of olefins metathesis catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbene ruthenium (pre)catalysts (abstract)


Dr. Sergei Tretiak
(Theoretical Divison, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

Date: 2011-07-28  12:30
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Modeling of photoinduced relaxation pathways in conjugated polymers and carbon nanotubes (abstract)


Prof. Georgii I. Nikonov
(Brock University, Canadà)

Date: 2011-07-08  12:15
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Chemoselective Catalytic Reduction of Nitriles, Pyridines, and Acyl Chlorides


Dra. Célia Fonseca Guerra
(Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit (Netherlands))

Date: 2011-05-03  11:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Covalency in Hydrogen Bonds Causes Cooperativity in Guanine Quartets (abstract)


Prof. Todd J. Martínez
(Department of Chemistry, Stanford University (USA))

Date: 2011-04-28  11:00
Location: Aula PB33 – Ciències


 
Controlling Chemistry with Light and Force (abstract)

Dra. Deyana Tchitchekova
(Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts (USA))

Date: 2011-04-05  11:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Multi-electron molecular systems in intense short laser fields (abstract)


Prof. Michael Robb
(Chemistry Dept. Imperial College London (United Kingdom))

Date: 2011-03-29  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Mechanisms of Photochemistry and Photobiological reactivity: Studies using Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Dynamics (abstract)

Dr. Stefano Caprasecca
(University of Pisa (Italy))

Date: 2011-03-15  11:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Low energy electron collisions with small molecular clusters: a Multiple Scattering approach (abstract)


Prof. Adrian Roitberg
(University of Florida. Gainesville, FL (USA))

Date: 2011-03-01  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Protein Simulations at constant pH. Sometimes a pKa is not a pKa (abstract)


Prof. Noémi Barros
(University of Perpignan Via Domitia (France))

Date: 2011-02-10  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Mutiscale study of the magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures: surface and interaction effects (abstract)

Prof. Paul Geerlings
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium))

Date: 2011-02-03  17:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Conceptual DFT: the linear response function and third order derivatives (abstract)

Doctorand Miquel Huix
(Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier (France))

Date: 2010-12-23  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Conical Intersections and Double excitations within Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory (abstract)

Dr. Julien Preat
(Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Belgium))

Date: 2010-12-21  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Third Generation Photovoltaic Solar Cells: Prediction and Improvement of Metal-free Organic Dyes Properties (abstract)

Dr. Pablo D. Dans
(Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (Uruguay))

Date: 2010-10-22  12:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Hybrid All-Atom/Coarse-Grain Models for DNA Simulations in Implicit and Explicit Solvents (abstract)

Dra. Alisa Krishtal
(Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium))

Date: 2010-09-21  12:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
The role of anisotropy in the evaluation of dispersion energy (abstract)

UK Web Focus Brian Kelly
(UKOLN, University of Bath (UK))

Date: 2010-09-03  12:30
Location: Sala Ernest Lluch de


 
What Can We Learn From Amplified Events? (abstract)

Dr. William Tiznado
(Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile))

Date: 2010-07-29  10:30
Location: PCiT Aulari 2


 
Topological analysis of some electron density derived Functions (abstract)

Prof. Artem Masunov
(University of Central Florida (U.S.A.))

Date: 2010-07-20  11:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Theoretical principles and computational design of two-photon absorbing photochromic chromophores (abstract)

Dr. Durba Sengupta
(Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen (Netherlands))

Date: 2010-06-21  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
What Happens When a Bee Stings? Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Study the Mechanism of Action (abstract)


Directora Ejecutiva María Fernanda González
(InnoQuant (Spain))

Date: 2010-05-11  13:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Social Network Analysis (abstract)

Dr. David Lauvergnat
(Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université Paris-Sud (France))

Date: 2010-04-28  12:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Quantum dynamics of floppy molecular systems with ElVibRot and Tnum (abstract)

RCUK Academic Fellow Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes
(Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds (UK))

Date: 2010-04-13  11:00
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Structural bioinformatics: Getting the most out of your protein structure (abstract)

Dr. Rachel Crespo
(Universidad de la Habana (Cuba))

Date: 2010-03-23  12:00
Location: PCiT Aulari 1


 
Intermolecular complexes between nitric oxide (NO) and closed shell molecules: A theoretical study (abstract)

Prof. Javier García
(Departament de Física, Universitat de Girona)

Date: 2010-02-23  12:30
Location: Sala de Graus


 
Introducció a la computació quàntica (abstract)

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