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Talk #1 of this course is now LIVE! Check it out here: youtu.be/CV1pHGj-X20 This talk is also accompanied by a problem set which can be found at synthesis-workshop.com!

Gilles De Smet successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled ‘Transition metal catalyzed C-O bond activation in biomass derived building blocks’. Joint PhD between the Maes (UAntwerp) and Evano (ULB) group. Congratulations Dr. De Smet!

A super nice evening with Prof Gasser couple Gasser Group. Very glad you enjoyed the food😀

Tune in this week as Sebastian Brunen from AK List shares his work on asymmetric Friedel-Crafts reactions of unactivated arenes! youtu.be/mhVukTx6Ahc J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 29, 15708. Also a new problem set available on synthesis-workshop.com thanks to Peter Bellotti!

Episode #2 of the Synthesis Workshop Advanced Organic Chemistry course is live now - come watch Dennis Kutateladze teach kinetics!! Link: youtu.be/Owyoz3rdCX8

Clean Synthetic Strategies to Biologically Active Molecules from Lignin: A Green Path to Drug Discovery (Katalin Barta and co-workers) @Barta_Lab@HirschLab@Helmholtz_HIPS #OpenAccess thanks to #ProjektDEAL #AngewandteVIP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Join us as Dr. Hoimin Jung (Sukbok Chang group) shares his mechanistic work on rhodium-catalyzed acylnitrene transfer reactions! Huge thanks to Samiran Deb for hosting! Episode: youtu.be/yrFFd5C36yE Reference: Science Magazine 2023, 381, 525. KAISTPR KAIST Chemistry

IT CONTINUES! Check out Talk #5 in our Advanced Organic Course on the topic of Reversible Reactions, given by Julia Reisenbauer (PhD from @MorandiLab ETH Zurich, SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Frances Arnold Caltech)!! Link: youtu.be/6DLUrPOkbHU

Check out our recent ACS Catalysis article on Ag-free Pd-catalyzed remote C(sp3)-H alkenylation of cyclohexanamines with bromoalkenes in collaboration with the Nova group. Congratulations to Karthik Gadde, PhD and NARENDRAPRASAD REDDY of ORSY and all co-authors🎉🎉🎉👇pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Co/Ni dual atom catalyst for selective C-O bond scission in hydrogenolysis of lignin-derived methoxylated phenols, and in situ upgrading to nitrogen-containing compounds. Reported by the groups of Liao (GIEC, CAS) and Li Guizhou University sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔥Passionate about developing biobased flame retardants?🌱 Are you an enthusiastic PhD candidate to join our dynamic team?🚀 Then...explore the exciting details of this opportunity and apply now. 🔗uantwerpen.be/en/research-gr… 🗓️ Don't miss out – deadline is February 29th, 2024!

Advancements and Perspectives toward Lignin Valorization via O-Demethylation (Bert F. Sels and co-workers) KU Leuven UAntwerpen #AngewandteReview Maes Group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 ‘#CrossDehydrogenativeCoupling’ reactions obviate the need for substrate prefunctionalization and can offer additional advantages. In our next #Cheminar on Feb. 15, at 11 AM (CET), chaired by Debabrata Maiti (Debabrata Maiti), you will learn more. 👉 brnw.ch/21wGT7B

Check out the inside back cover of our review "Advancements and Perspectives toward Lignin Valorization via O‐Demethylation" A joint effort of the Maes and Sels research teams. Thanks to Joris Snaet for the great design. Congrats again to all the authors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

This week on Synthesis Workshop we continue our Advanced Organic Chemistry course as Terry McCallum gives us an introduction to radical clocks! Thanks to Xingfeng Bai for hosting and editing this talk!! Link: youtu.be/wYe4I8xReXA

Check out this review in our latest issue by Matt Carson & Marisa C. Kozlowski Kozlowski Lab Penn Chemistry on the recent advances in oxidative phenol coupling for the total synthesis of natural products Read the full article on our website🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

This week we're joined by Kevin Fengler García-Mancheño Lab who explains how to fine-tune halogen-bonding interactions in asymmetric catalysis!! Thanks to Xingfeng Bai for hosting! Link: youtu.be/D_YO5olbVsM Key paper: doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… Angewandte Chemie

Happy to share my recent paper "Selective C(aryl)-O Bond Cleavage in Biorenewable Phenolics" published Chem Soc Rev An output of my MSCA project Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions under the framework of Horizon Europe Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 Thanks to Gilles De Smet and Prof Maes Maes Group Learned a lot from them!

Turning Boron proteins into functional enzymes was the most challenging but rewarding project of my career (so far)! I learned so much during this project and want to thank all collaborators and members of the Roelfes and Mayer group narf42 for their support!

Join our team at ORSY! PhD position in Sustainable Organic Chemistry (Organic Synthesis/Catalysis) is open in the Prof. Maes group. Apply before January 31st, 2025! For more details and how to apply, please visit the Maes group web site: orsy-maes-group.be/jobs