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:
TeamsTitle: 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)