Bin Wang, visitor of the DiMoCat group

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During April 2022, we have had the visit of Bin Wang, a PhD student from the group of Prof. Frank de Proft in the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has visited us financed by HPC-Europa3 to work with Prof. Miquel Solà and Dr. Anton Stasyuk. His research has consisted in trying to locate the regions where the major electronic changes occur along a reaction coordinate in an organometallic reaction. It has been a pleasure to have Bin in our group for the last month. Before leaving he promised to come back to play football with the IQCC membres (he missed one of our matches!).

Yago García-Rodeja Navarro joins the DiMoCat group as María Zambrano fellow

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Starting 25th April 2022, Yago García Rodeja has joined the DiMoCat group as María Zambrano fellow for two years. He will be working on the aromaticity and reactivity of metalla-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Dr. García-Rodeja received his PhD in Chemistry from Complutense University of Madrid in 2018. During his PhD, he worked with Prof. Israel Fernández on understanding the reactivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and related compounds. During his PhD, six of his works were done in collaboration with the DiMoCat group. He had postdoctoral experience at Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA) and CNRS-Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA) for 3 years.

We wish him good luck in his research work!

Issue 8 of volume 87 of the J. Org. Chem. contains the Back Cover and two manuscripts of DiMoCat group!

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The Back Cover of issue number 8 of volume 87 refers to the recently published article “Successive Diels-Alder cycloadditions of cyclopentadiene to [10]CPP⊃C60”. The work has been carried out by Gerard Pareras, Sílvia Simon, Albert Poater and Miquel Solà, all (excepte Gerard) members of the DiMoCat group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis of the University of Girona.  The design and original idea of the artwork are acknowledged to Miss Coral Garcia-Fernandez and Dr. Gerard Pareras. The paper can be read in the following link:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.1c03116

In the same issue, there is another paper entitled “Highly Selective Synthesis of Seven-Membered Azaspiro Compounds by a Rh(I)-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization/Diels–Alder Cascade of 1,5-Bisallenes” by Jordi Vila, Miquel Solà, Anna Pla-Quintana, and Anna Roglans, all members of the DiMoCat group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis of the University of Girona. The paper can be read in the following link:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.2c00065