Short-term Scientific Missions
Ms Megan Seymour, University of Edinburgh, Scotland ,UK.
"EPR spectroscopy of 4f1 and 5f1 cerium and uranium coordination compounds".
with Karsten Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
20 March - 30 March 2017.
Ms Lindsey Monger, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
"Reactivity of a novel Pd(II) complex with alkenes and carbon monoxide".
with Barbara Milani, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
23 January 2017 - 24 February 2017.
Mr Andrea Squarcina, University of Padova (NMC LAB), Italy.
"Synthetic Transition Metal Co-factors as Bio-inspired Catalytic Anti-Oxidants".
with Aidan Mc Donald, School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
1 January 2017 - 31 March 2017.
Ms Mara Pinto, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal.
"Manganese N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes in Catalytic Water Oxidation".
with Julio Lloret Fillol, ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
16 January 2017 - 17 February 2017.
Mr Mihály Purgel, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
"DFT Studies on the Palladium(II) – Alizarin Red S system".
with Maria Jose Calhorda, U Lisboa, Portugal.
15 February 2017- 29 March 2017.
Mr Gabriel Menendez Rodriquez, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
"Electrochemical studies on hydroxypyridine-carboxylate Cp*Ir WOCs".
with Dennis Hetterscheid, Leiden University, NL.
15 January 2017 - 15 March 2017.
Mr Leo Heim, Department of Chemistry Universität zu Köln , Germany.
"Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide with Cobalt-TriPhos catalysts".
wih Baz de Brun, Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL.
1 October 2016 - 30 November 2016.
Ms Claudia Miceli, Department of Chemical Sciences via Marzolo, 135131, Padova Italy.
"Bifunctional Vanadium and Aluminum Aminotriphenolate Complexes as Catalysts For CO2 Fixation".
with Arjan Kleij, ICIQ Tarragona Spain.
31 August 2016 - 31 October 2016 and 1 January 2017 - 30 March 2017.
Ms Ana Fernandes, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal.
"Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Metal N-Heterocyclic Carbenes".
with Mats Tilset, Department of Chemistry University of Oslo, Norway.
23 October 2016 - 18 November 2016.
Mr Cristiano Glessi, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
"Synthesis of Ar-BICAT molecules to be used as ancillary ligands for palladium and platinum complexes".
with Mats Tilset, Department of Chemistry University of Oslo, Norway.
15 September 2016 - 14 December 2016 and 16 January 2017 - 16 February 2017.
Mr Jong-Hoo Choi, Department of Chemistry Universität zu Köln , Germany.
"New Generation of Cost-Efficient highly active Iron SNS and SN’NN’S Pincer Catalysts for Reactions in Hydrogenation / Dehydrogenation".
with Karl Kirchner, TU Wien, Vienna , Austria.
1 July 2016 - 27 August 2016.
Ms Ilaria Corbucci, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
"Pyridine-Carbene Iridium Catalysts for Water Oxidation: Changing the Length of a Peripheral Alkyl Chain".
with Martin Albrecht, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Bern Switzerland.
1 March 2016 - 29 May 2016.
Ms Sara Realista, Departamento de Química e Bioquimica, U Lisboa, Portugal.
"Schiff base complexes for CO2 electroreduction".
with Marc Robert, Paris Diderot University, Paris .
30 January 2016 - 27 February 2016 29 May 2016 - 4 June 2016.
Ms Zahra Mazloomi , ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
"New hybrid ligands for iridium-mediated water oxidation".
with Martin Albrecht, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Bern Switzerland.
12 January 2016 - 11 April 2016.
Mr David Johnson, Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland.
"A Computational Study of Ruthenium Metal Vinylidene Complexes: Novel Mechanisms and Catalysis".
with Agusti Lledos, Departament de Química Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
5 October 2015 - 29 November 2015
Ms Rositha Kuniyil, ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
"Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Methods to Study CO2 Binding and Activation".
with Stuart Macgregor, Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland.
16 September 2015 - 15 December 2015.
Mr Nikolaus Gorgas, TU Wien, Vienna , Austria
"Non-noble transition metal pnp pincer complexes as catalysts for homogeneous formic acid dehydrogenation".
with Luca Gonsalvi, Institute for the Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds National Research Council (ICCOM-CNR) Florence, Italy.
1 September 2015 - 21 September 2015.
Mr Simone Bertini, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy.
"New Iridium and Vanadium catalysts for small molecules activation: an exploratory approach".
with Martin Albrecht, UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4. Ireland
9 July 2015 - 28 August 2015.
Ms Carla Casadevall, ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
"Mechanistic insights of Co-catalysed light-driven Water Oxidation (WO) reactions".
with Marten Ahlquist,KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy ,Stockholm ,Sweden.
29 August 2015 - 30 September 2015
Ms Angela Vivancos, University College Dublin Ireland.
"Iridium complexes for oxidation and dehydrogenation".
with Mathias Beller,Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse , Rostock, Germany.
26 September 2015 - 23 December 2015.
Ms Federica Bertini, Institute for the Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds National Research Council (ICCOM-CNR) Florence, Italy.
"Novel iron complexes for catalytic formic acid disproportionation to
methanol and amine methylation".
with Thibault Cantat CEA Saclay Paris, France.
07-June 2015 to 27-June - 2015
Ms Eva Zolnhofer, Friedrich – Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
“Computational Analysis of Highly Reactive Cobalt Nitrido Intermediates Applying NBO 6.0”.
with Eric Clot at Universite, Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
11-May-2015 to 31-May-2015
Ms Vera Rosar, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste
“Comparing BIAN & DAB Pd-catalysts in CO/styrene and ethylene/acrylate copolymerization: a DFT study”.
with Stuart Macgregor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
01-March-2015 to 15-May-2015
Ms Francesca Milocco, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste
“Synthesis of formazanate molecules to be applied as ancillary ligands for palladium complexes”.
with Edwin Otten at University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
01-March-2015 to 30-April-2015
"EPR spectroscopy of 4f1 and 5f1 cerium and uranium coordination compounds".
with Karsten Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
20 March - 30 March 2017.
Ms Lindsey Monger, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
"Reactivity of a novel Pd(II) complex with alkenes and carbon monoxide".
with Barbara Milani, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
23 January 2017 - 24 February 2017.
Mr Andrea Squarcina, University of Padova (NMC LAB), Italy.
"Synthetic Transition Metal Co-factors as Bio-inspired Catalytic Anti-Oxidants".
with Aidan Mc Donald, School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
1 January 2017 - 31 March 2017.
Ms Mara Pinto, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal.
"Manganese N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes in Catalytic Water Oxidation".
with Julio Lloret Fillol, ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
16 January 2017 - 17 February 2017.
Mr Mihály Purgel, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
"DFT Studies on the Palladium(II) – Alizarin Red S system".
with Maria Jose Calhorda, U Lisboa, Portugal.
15 February 2017- 29 March 2017.
Mr Gabriel Menendez Rodriquez, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
"Electrochemical studies on hydroxypyridine-carboxylate Cp*Ir WOCs".
with Dennis Hetterscheid, Leiden University, NL.
15 January 2017 - 15 March 2017.
Mr Leo Heim, Department of Chemistry Universität zu Köln , Germany.
"Hydrogenation of carbon dioxide with Cobalt-TriPhos catalysts".
wih Baz de Brun, Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL.
1 October 2016 - 30 November 2016.
Ms Claudia Miceli, Department of Chemical Sciences via Marzolo, 135131, Padova Italy.
"Bifunctional Vanadium and Aluminum Aminotriphenolate Complexes as Catalysts For CO2 Fixation".
with Arjan Kleij, ICIQ Tarragona Spain.
31 August 2016 - 31 October 2016 and 1 January 2017 - 30 March 2017.
Ms Ana Fernandes, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal.
"Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Metal N-Heterocyclic Carbenes".
with Mats Tilset, Department of Chemistry University of Oslo, Norway.
23 October 2016 - 18 November 2016.
Mr Cristiano Glessi, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy.
"Synthesis of Ar-BICAT molecules to be used as ancillary ligands for palladium and platinum complexes".
with Mats Tilset, Department of Chemistry University of Oslo, Norway.
15 September 2016 - 14 December 2016 and 16 January 2017 - 16 February 2017.
Mr Jong-Hoo Choi, Department of Chemistry Universität zu Köln , Germany.
"New Generation of Cost-Efficient highly active Iron SNS and SN’NN’S Pincer Catalysts for Reactions in Hydrogenation / Dehydrogenation".
with Karl Kirchner, TU Wien, Vienna , Austria.
1 July 2016 - 27 August 2016.
Ms Ilaria Corbucci, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
"Pyridine-Carbene Iridium Catalysts for Water Oxidation: Changing the Length of a Peripheral Alkyl Chain".
with Martin Albrecht, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Bern Switzerland.
1 March 2016 - 29 May 2016.
Ms Sara Realista, Departamento de Química e Bioquimica, U Lisboa, Portugal.
"Schiff base complexes for CO2 electroreduction".
with Marc Robert, Paris Diderot University, Paris .
30 January 2016 - 27 February 2016 29 May 2016 - 4 June 2016.
Ms Zahra Mazloomi , ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
"New hybrid ligands for iridium-mediated water oxidation".
with Martin Albrecht, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Bern Switzerland.
12 January 2016 - 11 April 2016.
Mr David Johnson, Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland.
"A Computational Study of Ruthenium Metal Vinylidene Complexes: Novel Mechanisms and Catalysis".
with Agusti Lledos, Departament de Química Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
5 October 2015 - 29 November 2015
Ms Rositha Kuniyil, ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
"Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Methods to Study CO2 Binding and Activation".
with Stuart Macgregor, Heriot-Watt University, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland.
16 September 2015 - 15 December 2015.
Mr Nikolaus Gorgas, TU Wien, Vienna , Austria
"Non-noble transition metal pnp pincer complexes as catalysts for homogeneous formic acid dehydrogenation".
with Luca Gonsalvi, Institute for the Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds National Research Council (ICCOM-CNR) Florence, Italy.
1 September 2015 - 21 September 2015.
Mr Simone Bertini, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy.
"New Iridium and Vanadium catalysts for small molecules activation: an exploratory approach".
with Martin Albrecht, UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4. Ireland
9 July 2015 - 28 August 2015.
Ms Carla Casadevall, ICIQ Tarragona, Spain.
"Mechanistic insights of Co-catalysed light-driven Water Oxidation (WO) reactions".
with Marten Ahlquist,KTH Royal Institute of Technolgy ,Stockholm ,Sweden.
29 August 2015 - 30 September 2015
Ms Angela Vivancos, University College Dublin Ireland.
"Iridium complexes for oxidation and dehydrogenation".
with Mathias Beller,Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse , Rostock, Germany.
26 September 2015 - 23 December 2015.
Ms Federica Bertini, Institute for the Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds National Research Council (ICCOM-CNR) Florence, Italy.
"Novel iron complexes for catalytic formic acid disproportionation to
methanol and amine methylation".
with Thibault Cantat CEA Saclay Paris, France.
07-June 2015 to 27-June - 2015
Ms Eva Zolnhofer, Friedrich – Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
“Computational Analysis of Highly Reactive Cobalt Nitrido Intermediates Applying NBO 6.0”.
with Eric Clot at Universite, Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
11-May-2015 to 31-May-2015
Ms Vera Rosar, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste
“Comparing BIAN & DAB Pd-catalysts in CO/styrene and ethylene/acrylate copolymerization: a DFT study”.
with Stuart Macgregor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
01-March-2015 to 15-May-2015
Ms Francesca Milocco, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste
“Synthesis of formazanate molecules to be applied as ancillary ligands for palladium complexes”.
with Edwin Otten at University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
01-March-2015 to 30-April-2015
Dr Rocio Marcos Escartin, Division of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm, Sweden
“A versatile Co aminopyridin pentadentate complex for both water oxidation & water reduction reaction”
with Julio Lloret-Fillol at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain
01-March-2015 to 31-March-2015
Mr Markus Kinauer, Institut für Anorganische Chemie Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
“EPR characterisation of an open shell iridium imido complex”
with Bas De Bruin at University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19-January-2015 to 23-January-2015
Mr Vlad Pascanu, Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University
“Development of Ru@MOF and Pd@MOF Water Oxidation Catalysts”
with Xavier Sala at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
01-November-2014 to 16-January-2015
Mr Stefan Mozina, Department of Physical and Organic Chemistry (K-3) "Jozef Stefan"Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia.
“Catalytic activation of dihalogens. Applications to the selective synthesis of halogenated building”
with Belen Martin-Matute at Stockholm University, Stockholm Sweden
01-October-2014 to 31December-2014
Ms Tanja Laine, Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University
“Evaluation of metal complexes for water oxidation”
with Antoni Llobet at Institut Catala D`Investigacio Quimica, Tarragona, Spain
01-October-2014 to 28-November-2014
Dr Jordi Garcia-Anton Aviño, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
“Activation of amines and ammonia by NHC-Ru, Rh or Ir complexes”.
with Martin Albrecht at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
30-June-2014 to 30-August-2014
Mr. Bilal Niscani, Ataturk University, Turkey
''Metal Catalysed Oxidative Halogenation''
with Giulia Licini at University of Padova, Department of Chemical Sciences
1-June-2014 to 31-July-2014
Ms Melanie LORION, L’Institut Parisien de Chimie Moleculaire, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
“DFT computational studies on Pd-catalyzed amination reactions”
with Maria Jose Calhorda, at Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
02-June-2014 to 04-August-2014
Mr Suresh Raju , Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.
"Rhenium catalyzed deoxydehydration: mechanistic studies using in situ Infra-Red spectroscopy"
with Peter Fristrup, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
19-May-2014 to 23-May 2014
Mr. Bilal Niscani, Ataturk University, Turkey
''Metal Catalysed Oxidative Halogenation''
with Giulia Licini at University of Padova, Department of Chemical Sciences
1-May-2014 to 31-May-2014
Ms René Pretorius, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin
''Gold triazolylidene complexes for the activation of C-H and other challenging bonds''
with Pedro J.Perez at Edificio Marie Curie, Universidad de Huelva
1-Apr-2014 to 30-May-2014
Ms Ana Pereira, Edificio Robert H Grubbs, Universidad de Huelva
''Iridium-mediated activation of amines and ammonia''
with Martin Albrecht at UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin
7-Mar-2014 to 31-May-2014 . .
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Ms Marte Sofie Holmsen, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
''Search for pi Complexes of Au(III) at High Pressures''
with Gábor Laurenczy at Institut Des Sciences Et Ingenierie Chimiques, Lausanne, Switzerland
15-Feb-2014 to 01-Mar-2014
Ms Eirin Langseth, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
''Search for pi Complexes of Au(III) at High Pressures''
with Gábor Laurenczy at Institut Des Sciences Et Ingenierie Chimiques, Lausanne, Switzerland
15-Feb-2014 to 01-Mar-2014 . .
"Rhenium catalyzed deoxydehydration: mechanistic studies using in situ Infra-Red spectroscopy"
with Peter Fristrup, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
19-May-2014 to 23-May 2014
Mr. Bilal Niscani, Ataturk University, Turkey
''Metal Catalysed Oxidative Halogenation''
with Giulia Licini at University of Padova, Department of Chemical Sciences
1-May-2014 to 31-May-2014
Ms René Pretorius, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin
''Gold triazolylidene complexes for the activation of C-H and other challenging bonds''
with Pedro J.Perez at Edificio Marie Curie, Universidad de Huelva
1-Apr-2014 to 30-May-2014
Ms Ana Pereira, Edificio Robert H Grubbs, Universidad de Huelva
''Iridium-mediated activation of amines and ammonia''
with Martin Albrecht at UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin
7-Mar-2014 to 31-May-2014 . .
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Ms Marte Sofie Holmsen, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
''Search for pi Complexes of Au(III) at High Pressures''
with Gábor Laurenczy at Institut Des Sciences Et Ingenierie Chimiques, Lausanne, Switzerland
15-Feb-2014 to 01-Mar-2014
Ms Eirin Langseth, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
''Search for pi Complexes of Au(III) at High Pressures''
with Gábor Laurenczy at Institut Des Sciences Et Ingenierie Chimiques, Lausanne, Switzerland
15-Feb-2014 to 01-Mar-2014 . .
Mr Alexis Mifleur, École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, Université de Lille
"Mechanism of the alkoxycarbonylation of chloroketones : from an experimental to a theoretical study"
with Stuart Macgregor at Heriot-Watt University
06-Jan-2014 to 28-Feb-2014
Mr Kevin Farrell, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin
"Catalytic activation of carbon monoxide by N-heterocyclic carbene rhodium(III) complexes"
with Barbara Milani at, University of Trieste
24-Feb-2014 to 04-Apr-2014
Ms Irene Bazzan, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Padova
"Innovative electrocatalytic pathways for carbon anhydride reduction with polyoxometalates"
with Marc Robert at University Paris Diderot
07-Jan-2014 to 07-Apr-2014
Dr Antonella Guerriero, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ICCOM-CNR
"The mechanism of formic acid dehydrogenation and NaHCO3 hydrogenation in water through high-pressure techniques"
with Gabor Laurenczy at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
2013-Nov-17 to 2013-Nov-30