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L’ICIQ és una fundació del sector públic dedicada a la recerca en química que afronta grans reptes globals com l’emergència climàtica, la transició energètica i la salut de les persones. Des del 2014, ha estat distingit amb tres acreditacions d’excel·lència Severo Ochoa, consolidant-se com a centre de referència en catàlisi sostenible, energies renovables i medicina molecular. Amb seu a Tarragona, l’ICIQ compta amb més de 300 professionals —més de 260 dels quals es dediquen directament a la recerca—, distribuïts en 19 grups de recerca que desenvolupen projectes científics d’avantguarda combinant metodologies experimentals i computacionals. El centre ha obtingut 26 ajuts del Consell Europeu de Recerca (ERC), i nou dels seus investigadors i investigadores principals son professors i professores ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats). L’ICIQ col·labora activament amb el món acadèmic i la indústria per transferir tecnologia, promoure aplicacions innovadores i formar talent científic al llarg de totes les etapes de la carrera investigadora, d’acord amb el segell europeu d’excel·lència en recursos humans (HRS4R). Com a centre CERCA i membre fundador del BIST, l’ICIQ està compromès amb la ciència oberta, la sostenibilitat, la igualtat d’oportunitats i l’impacte social de la recerca. Més informació a www.iciq.cat © 2025. Tots els drets reservats.
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In the realm of organic chemistry, carbocations play a pivotal role as highly reactive intermediates in the synthesis of complex molecules. While cyclase enzymes construct terpenoid natural products through carbocation ...
We report a method for the base-mediated transformation of ether-tethered acrylic ester-based cyclic carbonates into functionalized cyclic acetals. The protocol builds on the use of hydroxyalkyl-substituted cyclic carbonates ...
Identifying molecular structures from vibrational spectra is central to chemical analysis but remains challenging due to spectral ambiguity and the limitations of single-modality methods. While deep learning has advanced ...
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We report the quantitative self-assembly of an endohedrally functionalized octa-imine cage from two calix[4]pyrrole scaffolds via dynamic covalent chemistry. The cavity combines size and shape complementarity with enzyme-like ...
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Catalysis Science & Technology, Evgeny Pidko and Núria López would like to acknowledge Weixue Li for their contributions to the Digital Catalysis themed collection as a Guest Editor. This article is part of the themed ...
Assessing the sustainability of plastic chemical recycling requires realistic feedstocks and catalysts designed within sustainability-led frameworks (Plastic-to-X). We link catalyst design and systems analysis to study ...
Recently, electron donor–acceptor (EDA) complex-mediated organic synthetic strategies have emerged as powerful tools for diverse bond-forming transformations; however, their efficiency often diminishes when ionic reactants ...
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a highly versatile electrochemical technique capable of discretizing each electrochemical parameter in complex systems by employing a broad frequency spectrum. When EIS is ...
Herein, it is demonstrated that biobased poly(menthene carbonate) (PMC) can be conveniently used to enable catalysis-promoted atom looping thereby creating functionalized synthons and new types of repolymerizable monomers. ...
Visible-light-mediated difunctionalization of nonactivated alkenes offers a sustainable and efficient strategy for constructing diverse molecular frameworks relevant to medicinal chemistry, polymer science, and synthesis ...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as powerful biomarkers for early-stage disease detection and prognosis support. However, their reliable quantification in complex biological fluids remains a significant challenge. Here, we ...
Catalysis is essential to modern chemical manufacturing and environmental sustainability. Yet, traditional catalyst discovery remains slow, resource-intensive and constrained by human-centred trial-and-error workflows. The ...
Self-assembled molecules (SAMs) are widely used as hole-selective contacts in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). They are traditionally designed to facilitate charge injection by aligning their highest occupied molecular orbital ...
Although C(sp2)– and C(sp3)–OMe bonds are arguably the simplest and most atom-economical derivatives in the alcohol series, these linkages have rarely been utilized as coupling partners in the context of metal-catalyzed ...
