The ESFC is a triennial academic conference on Fluorine chemistry founded in 1965. The conference is held in Europe, but traditionally it brings together the fluorine community from all over the world. The scientific programme of the Symposium covers all the areas of fluorine chemistry relevant to fundamental and applied research. The 19th ESFC will…
FAPESP has recently approved Bruno’s undergraduate research scholarship. In his work, Bruno will be investigating the behavior of a curious class of compounds called hypofluorites. In our daily lives, we commonly come across a “cousin” of Bruno’s research interest: hypochlorites. Even though they are indeed similar, hypofluorites are far more unstable and have an intriguing…
We have just published a paper about the Ishikawa’s reagent, a fluorination reagent. The work was done in collaboration with prof. Matheus P. Freitas and Laize A. F. Andrade from the Federal University of Lavras. This compound has diastereotopic H and F atoms, which were used to understand the conformational preferences of this molecule experimentally by…
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Julia and Bruno, who are joining Cormanich’s Group this year! Julia is our first master’s student and Bruno is the second undergraduate student in group. Julia is going to work on fluorinated crown-ethers, while Bruno will study organic hypofluorides. You can find more details about them in…
Our research group, located at the I-224 laboratory from the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), is now receiving applications for undergrad, Master’s (MS) and PhD students, who can be awarded with scholarships from FAEPEX (undergrad and MS) and FAPESP (undergrad, MS and PhD). Appliers should send an e-mail to cormanich@unicamp.br and also to…
Last week FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) approved Marco’s Undergraduate Reasearch scholarship. In this project, Marco is going to investigate the physical-chemical properties of various peroxides and disulfides. His investigations will be performed experimentally employing NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry) and IR (Infrared Spectroscopy), and theoretically using ab initio and DFT calculations. Some disulfides and…
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) has a special grant for young researchers called “Young Investigator Award“. The Young Investigator Award aims to create job opportunities for highly qualified young researchers, especially in emerging research institutions in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Prof. Rodrigo Cormanich’s project was selected and approved, and to celebrate that, the…
In July 2018, Prof. Rodrigo Cormanich presented his work entitled ‘Steric, electrostatic and hyperconjugative interactions in perfluorinated n-alkanes’ in the 22nd Internation Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, which was held in the University of Oxford. In this work, Prof. Rodrigo Cormanich in collaboration with his PhD student, Luís Henrique, is trying to elucidate by means of…
This photo was taken on August 3rd 2018 and marks the beginning of the group. Although the group was already working on several research projects, prof. Cormanich was living in the US along a year for a postdoc and was advising the students only by email and (sometimes) Skype. As soon as he got back…