The researchers of the Organic Chemistry Section carry out cutting-edge research in various areas, actively participate in knowledge transfer, support companies in our environment and strive to provide quality training to students of various degrees, masters and doctoral programs.
Our Section is open to students and researchers interested in actively working in these areas and to professionals and companies who want to establish a collaboration with the academic environment in order to face the new challenges that our society poses.
Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry
Supramolecular chemistry of hybrid cyclophane-cyclopeptide receptors and mixed monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles in water
By Dr. Stefan Kubik, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Date and Venue: November, 22nd, 2024 at 12:00; Eduard Fontserè lecture hall of the Faculty of Physics (UB)
A 1 GHz NMR at the University of Barcelona
The most advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instrument in Spain has now been fully operational for over a year at the University of Barcelona. In the attached videos, we explain what NMR is and explore the societal impact of its applications to biomolecules, all in a way accessible to a general audience.
Last Thursday, November 14, a group of doctoral students from the Organic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry programs at the University of Barcelona (UB) visited the plant and laboratories of AGC Pharmaceuticals Europe in Malgrat de Mar (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7263169527771713537/). The students from the PDQO, Albert Ruiz, Eduard Balaguer, and Yisong Wen, presented their thesis projects to the company’s executives and researchers.
After the presentations, a guided tour of the facilities was conducted, where the doctoral students had the to see firsthand the different areas tha
t make up a modern CDMO (Contract Research & Development Organization), such as the development laboratories, the kilolab, the production plant, the micronizer, and the wastewater treatment plant.
Dr. Xavier Companyó, new Associate Professor in the Organic Chemistry Section
Last Thursday, November 7th, our colleague, Dr. Xavier Companyó, successfully defended and obtained a permanent position as Associate Professor in our Section through a public competition.
Congratulations, Xavier!
Dr Xavier Companyó, new Associate Professor in the Organic Chemistry Section
Last Thursday, November 7th, our colleague Dr. Xavier Companyó defended and obtained, in a public competition, a permanent position of Associate Professor in our Section.
Congratulations, Xavier!
The European Innovation Council funds two UB projects to develop cutting-edge technologies
Two University of Barcelona projects have been selected by the European Innovation Council to develop cutting-edge technologies within the 2024 Pathfinder Open call. Marta Estrader and Josep Puigmartí Luis, researchers from the UB’s Faculty of Chemistry, lead two consortia to promote advances in the remote detection of aquatic pollution and cell alignment in tissue bioprinting, respectively.
Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Faculty of Chemistry Marta Estrader, a member of the UB’s Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), coordinates the WATERsense project, funded with three million euros over four years. The aim is to “remotely detect the presence of pollutants in water at any time”, explains Estrader. “Therefore, we will develop magneto-optical nanosensors that will be able to encapsulate certain pollutants (from pesticides to products derived from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry) on the previously functionalized surface. These substances can be identified using vibrational Raman spectroscopy”, she adds.
The innovation of the WATERsense technology lies in the fact that “through a small device that will be installed in rivers, lakes or any point of water, it will be possible to quickly detect the presence of contamination, and the results will be sent immediately via the internet, which will reduce the overall cost compared to the methodology used today”, says Estrader.
Eventually, WATERsense will make it possible to carry out careful analyses of variations in water quality in relation to changes in socio-economic activity or in the demography of a certain place or region. The project involves researchers from the University of Vigo, the Austrian Institute of Technology, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Lightnovo.
More information: https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/eic-pathfinder-2024
