News
September 2016
Acid-catalyzed initiation of radical reactions: a new article from our group appears in Org. Lett. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b02419) and is announced on Twitter.
Article: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.orglett.6b02419
Announcement on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JOC_OL/status/781135177921728513
August 2016
Timo Krüger from the Universität of Münster starts in our group to prepare his bachelor thesis.
Michael Perryman, previously in the Hanessian group at Montréal, Canada, starts as a postdoc.
Welcome!
July 2016
Thiol-Ene + oxygenation: Yue‘s article appears in Synlett.
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0035-1562480
June 2016
Radical polymerisation: in collaboration with the group of Prof. Thomas Junkers in Belgium, one of our synthetic methods was used to prepare polymers; published in Macromolecules (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00192).
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00192
April 2016
HAT or ET? A mechanistic study, in collaboration with the groups of Prof. Thiel (MPI Mülheim) and Prof. Bietti (Rome), is published in ACS Catalysis (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b00944).
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.6b00944
February 2016
Rik Verschueren, master student at the KU Leuven in Belgium, starts as an intern in our group for the next five months – welcome!
August 2015
A mechanistic study of alkenyl peroxides and their relationship with the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation appears online in Angewandte Chemie, see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201505648/abstract
July 2015
A new publication from our group has appeared online in Synlett, a radical reaction for the synthesis of oxindoles, see here: https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0034-1381052
Julian Riegger joins our group as a bachelor student – welcome!
June 2015
Max Hasenbeck joins our group as a bachelor student – welcome!
Bertrand leaves the group and will soon start as a postdoc in Paolo Melchiorre’s group at the ICIQ in Spain. All the best!
March 2015
Dr. Hui-Lan Yue joins our group as a postdoc - welcome!
March 2015
Chem. Eur. J. has highlighted our recent mechanistic study on their Facebook site and has made it free-to-read for the next two weeks.
https://www.facebook.com/ChemistryAEuropeanJournal
January 2015
A new mechanistic study appears online in Chem. Eur. J. (Chem. Eur. J., 2015): a result from the first collaboration with Dr. Martin Breugst from Cologne, who performed the calculations.
December 2014
Our first two mechanistic studies on the Cu-catalyzed oxidative coupling with N-phenyl tetrahydroisoquinolines (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011 und 2012) have been cited over 100 times each.
A short review on oxidative coupling reactions, our research focus, appears in the journal G.I.T. Labor-Fachzeitschrift (in German): „Chemische Synthese: Funktionalisierung von C-H-Bindungen durch oxidative Kupplung unter Verwendung von Sauerstoff“, see: http://www.git-labor.de/forschung/chemie-physik/chemische-synthese-funktionalisierung-von-c-h-bindungen-durch-oxidative-kupp
November 2014
Naeem finished his PhD at the University of Cologne with magna cum laude (very good), congratulations!
October 2014
Anda and Sophia from Greece join the group for two months, funded by the ERASMUS-programme – welcome!
September 2014
A kinetic study on the reaction mechanism of the Cu-catalyzed oxidative coupling reaction with amines (N-phenyltetrahydroisoquinoline) appears online in J. Org. Chem. (J. Org. Chem., 2014, 79 (24), pp 12033–12040).
July 2014
Bertrand and Martin present research results at the EUCHEM Conference on Organic Free Radicals in Prague (http://www.uochb.cz/web/structure/1259.html).
June 2014
Bertrand finishes his PhD at the University of Cologne with grade 0,7 (magna cum laude, very good).
Our paper on the acid catalyzed oxidative addition of ketones to olefins (publicaton 33) is highlighted in SYNFACTS (Synfacts 2014, 10(7), 0758).