Department of Chemistry
Research Group Sparr
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.
Great achievement by Kalipada, Zhengxing and Janis: Phosphine redox catalysis enables the enantioselective synthesis of atropisomers by an arene-forming Wittig reaction.
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.
Congratulations Tanno for winning the 1st Prize: Best Presentation Award at the Swiss Summer School on Organic Synthesis, sponsored by Helvetica and Chemistry Europe.
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…
Very well done Valeriia. At the 27th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry in Oxford, UK, Valeriia was awarded the Poster/Short Presentation Prize.
Many congratulations Daniel and Kalipada for developing atroposelective phosphine/phosphine oxide redox catalysis for the isoquinoline-forming Staudinger–aza-Wittig reaction.
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!
Valeriia was recognized by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for her ongoing PhD work. Many congratulations!
