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With heartfelt sadness, the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry announces that our friend and colleague Prof. Jack Dunitz passed away peacefully on September 12, 2021, at the age of 98 after a short illness. He will be sorely missed. chab.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Catalyst-controlled stereoselective Barton--Kellogg olefination enables the synthesis of all four stereoisomers of overcrowded alkenes, as reported by the Sparr group Christof Sparr University of Basel #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

In Memoriam Prof. Dr Jack David Dunitz FRS (1923-2021). Published in The Herald. In his autobiography, Jack wrote “I do not regret a minute of it. If I had another life I would be happy to live it along much the same lines as I have lived this one”. heraldscotland.com/news/19629342.…

Tenure-track assistant professorship in inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel University of Basel. Application deadline 31st of January 2022 jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen…

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Stereoselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Acridinium Salts by the Catalyst-Controlled Cyclization of ortho-Quinone Methide Iminiums (Sparr) Christof Sparr University of Basel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Atroposelective arene-forming alkene metathesis | ChemRxiv doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Synthesis of Atropisomeric Two-Axis Systems by the Catalyst-Controlled syn- and anti-Selective Arene-Forming Aldol Condensation (Sparr) Daniel Moser Christof Sparr #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Christof Sparr Christof Sparr University of Basel describes X-ray crystallographic studies of quasi-racemates for absolute configuration determinations #Dunitz_Issue #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hl…

Atroposelective Arene-Forming Alkene Metathesis. Very well done Zlatko: Alkene metathesis to catalytically control stereogenic axes by traceless arene formation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

New in our Pioneering Investigators collection 🎉 'Photocatalytic deracemisation of cobalt(iii) complexes with fourfold stereogenicity' by Christof Sparr and first author Tanno Schmidt 🔓 rsc.li/3sCYQyl

o-Quinodimethane Atropisomers: Enantioselective Synthesis and Stereospecific Transformation (Sparr) Christof Sparr #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Atroposelective Arene-Forming Alkene Metathesis (Sparr) Christof Sparr #openaccess dedicated to Karl Gademann onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Catalyst Control over Threefold Stereogenicity: Selective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Sulfones with Stereogenic C-S Axes (Christof Sparr and co-workers) Christof Sparr #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Atroposelective P(III)/P(V)=O Redox Catalysis for the Isoquinoline-Forming Staudinger-aza-Wittig Reaction (Christof Sparr and co-workers) Daniel Moser @ KalipadaJana14 Christof Sparr #AngewandteVIP #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Huge milestone for the group as our "Light Enabled Deracemization of Cyclopropanes by Al Salen Photocatalysis" is published nature! Congratulations to Carina, MorackLab, Julia, Olga, Niklas, @LichtMuck, Constantin G. Daniliuc & Johannes! @WWU_Muenster #OpenAccess nature.com/articles/s4158…

Exciting news! Our latest paper in Chem. Sci. introduces new organic photosensitizers with simultaneous singlet and triplet excited state reactivity doi.org/10.1039/D3SC02… Huge thanks to the incredible team: Valeriia, Christof Christof Sparr, and Oliver Oliver Wenger