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Aromatic ring-opening metathesis
A remarkable achievement by Valeriia: aromatic rings can be addressed for ring-opening metathesis. Many congratulations! Arene metathesis is feasible and versatile by transition metal alkylidene catalysis.
Atroposelective Wittig Reaction
Great achievement by Kalipada, Zhengxing and Janis: Phosphine redox catalysis enables the enantioselective synthesis of atropisomers by an arene-forming Wittig reaction.
Catalyst Control over Pentavalent Stereocenters
Many congratulations Anton and Jianyang for demonstrating that stereoselective catalysis is capable of controlling stereocenters with bonds to five residues: a key milestone in our research.
Valeriia Hutskalova selected as one of the winners at the Syngenta chemistry workshop for talented PhD students
1st Prize: Best Presentation Award for Tanno Schmidt at the Swiss Summer School on Organic Synthesis
Congratulations Tanno for winning the 1st Prize: Best Presentation Award at the Swiss Summer School on Organic Synthesis, sponsored by Helvetica and Chemistry Europe.
Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2023 for Xingxing Wu
Many congratulations to Xingxing Wu (now Professor at Guizhou University) for winning the 2nd Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2023: the Board of Helvetica Chimica Acta selected his work «X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of…
Poster/Short Presentation Prize for Valeriia at the 27th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry in Oxford, UK
Very well done Valeriia. At the 27th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry in Oxford, UK, Valeriia was awarded the Poster/Short Presentation Prize.
Atroposelective Redox Organocatalysis
Many congratulations Daniel and Kalipada for developing atroposelective phosphine/phosphine oxide redox catalysis for the isoquinoline-forming Staudinger–aza-Wittig reaction.
Catalyst Control over Threefold Stereogenicity
By the selective synthesis of atropisomeric sulfones with stereogenic C–S axes, catalyst control over threefold stereogenicity was feasible. Many congratulations Tanno, Stephan and Andreas!