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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.
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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.
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Valeriia Hutskalova selected as one of the winners at the Syngenta chemistry workshop for talented PhD students

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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.
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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…
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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.
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Atroposelective Redox Organocatalysis

Many congratulations Daniel and Kalipada for developing atroposelective phosphine/phosphine oxide redox catalysis for the isoquinoline-forming Staudinger–aza-Wittig reaction.
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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!
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Valeriia Hutskalova recognized by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Valeriia was recognized by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for her ongoing PhD work. Many congratulations!
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Atroposelective Arene-Forming Alkene Metathesis

Very well done Zlatko: Alkene metathesis catalytically controls stereogenic axes by traceless arene formation.