Daniel – Part III Student

Pawel – Part III Student

Robert – PhD Student

After an excellent presentation and a thorough scientific discussion with the jury members – Dr. Laurence MIESCH, Prof. Zheng-Hui GUAN, and Prof. Matthias BELLER, Michel successfully defended his PhD thesis and was granted a doctorate title. Congratulations, and good luck for the future! Special thanks to the jury members!

After an excellent presentation and a thorough scientific discussion with the jury members – Prof. Marine DESAGE-EL MURR, Prof. Chao WANG, Prof. Timothy DONOHOE, and Prof. Jacek MLYNARSKI, Bruno successfully defended his PhD thesis and was granted a doctorate title on 20/12/2023. Congratulations and good luck for the future! Special thanks to the jury members!

We report a method that enables chemoselective decarboxylative thianthrenation of a broad range of (hetero)aryl carboxylic acids forming high value-added (hetero)aryl thianthrenium salt reagents  under mild conditions, creating an attractive two-step pathway for the divergent functionalization of these abundant starting materials, as exemplified here by modifications of a series of pharmaceuticals.

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202410616

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In this paper, we present a metabolism-inspired artificial system designed to respond to multiple stimuli, operating within an integrated network of mechanistically distinct reactions. Our approach enables the efficient performance of multi-stage processes using three simple starting materials, controlled by specific triggers, and catalysed by a multifunctional Pd/Pt complex, leading to the preferential synthesis of ten products.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202404684

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Regio- and enantioselective arylation of unactivated beta-C(sp3)−H bond of primary alcohols was achieved under mild conditions by constructing a cooperative system merging relay catalysis with dynamic kinetic resolution of transient aryl aldehyde intermediates, demonstrating new opportunities in multicatalysis to execute otherwise challenging transformations.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202408418

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Shu-ting Li joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome Shu-ting!

In this communication, we report our recent study on the isoselective hydroformylation of propylene – an industrially desired but elusive transformation – enabled by non-canonical iodide-assisted palladium catalysis. The publication was selected by the editors as a Hot Paper.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202116406

In this review article in a special issue of Synthesis – “Bürgenstock Special Section 2021 – Future Stars in Organic Chemistry’, we provide an overview of different approaches in the field of C–H borylation reactions mediated by group 9 metal-based catalysts that target the control of the activity and the selectivity of the reaction, with the main focus on recent studies.

https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1711-5889

In this Perspective, we discuss the challenges of controlling the stereoselectivity of reactions occurring through free-radical intermediates. In the context of the recent work of Yang et al. (Science 374, 1612 (2021)), we highlight the opportunities of conducting such reactions (and beyond!) in the presence of engineered enzymes,