A recent paper (Kim et al. Nature Commun. 2019, 10, 4983) claims that there is a double charge transfer in the first singlet excited singlet state in TMTQ (an oligomer composed of a central 1,6-methano[10]annulenes, M10A, and 5-diacyanomethyl-thiophene exocyclic groups, see Figure 1) that is stabilized by the Baird aromaticity acquired by the central M10A […]
It is with great sadness that we have learnt that Prof. Victor Snieckus has passed away at the age of 83. Two members of the DIMOCAT group did research stays in Canada in his research group. Prof. Anna Roglans (as a post-doctoral fellow from 1995-1996 in Waterloo) and Dr. Anna Pla-Quintana (a three-month pre-doctoral stay […]
At the beginning of November 2021, Gibu George joined the DiMoCat group as a PhD researcher in training with a FI-SDUR fellowship financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya. During his PhD, he will be working on charge transfer processes with a focus to fullerene donor/acceptor dyads and fullerene:perovskite hybrid solar cells. His work will be […]
The FRONT COVER of issue number 83 of volume 56 refers to the recently published article “All-metal Baird aromaticity”. The work has been carried out by Prof. Jun Zhu at the University of Xiamen and Dandan Chen, Dr. Dariusz W. Szczepanik, and Prof. Miquel Solà members of the DiMoCat group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis […]
The Chemistry: A European Journal features in its FRONT COVER of issue number 57 of volume 26 the recently published article “Proving the origin of adaptive aromaticity in 16-valence-electron metallapentalenes”. The work has been carried out by Prof. Jun Zhu at the University of Xiamen and Dandan Chen, Dr. Dariusz W. Szczepanik, and Prof. Miquel Solà members of […]
This work is the result of a joint collaboration of the DiMoCat group with the groups of with groups of Prof. A. Shafir of the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia, Prof. A. B. Cuenca of the Químics de Sarrià, Prof. S. Lethu of the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, and Prof. J. Zhu […]
The development of catalytic methodologies involving the formation of C-C bonds to enable the generation of cyclic systems constitutes a field of great relevance in synthetic organic chemistry. One paradigmatic process to accomplish this goal efficiently is the transition-metal catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition reaction since it permits the formation of a wide range of highly functionalized […]
The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) features in its FRONT COVER the recently published article “Too Persistent to Give Up: Aromaticity in Boron Clusters Survives Radical Structural Changes”. The work has been carried out by Prof. Francesc Teixidor, Prof. Clara Viñas, and Dr. Ines Bennour of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Prof. Jordi Poater […]
Whereas the aromaticity of closo boranes is widely accepted, less is known about the aromaticity of nido boranes. This work carried out by Prof. Francesc Teixidor, Prof. Clara Viñas, and Dr. Ines Bennour of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Prof. Jordi Poater at the University of Barcelona (previous DiMoCat member) and Sílvia Escayola […]
Exploration and comprehension of chemical bonding is one of the central tasks in chemistry. Here, a new non‐covalent interaction, a nido‐cage···π bond, is discovered in a collaborative work between Deshuang Du and Prof. Yan from Nanjing University and Prof. Jordi Poater at the University of Barcelona (previous DiMoCat member) and Prof. Miquel Solà from the […]