The final main project of my PhD (Iridium catalysis applied to the generation and Diels-Alder reaction of dienamines) is finally out today in J. Am. Chem. Soc. : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… It was a collective effort, I am grateful to Yaseen A. Almehmadi and Zeng-Rong for making this possible!

General Iridium-Catalyzed Reductive Dienamine Synthesis and Five-Step Synthesis of Catharanthine out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Many congratulations to Pablo Gabriel , Yaseen A. Almehmadi and Zeng Rong (now Toste Group)!! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Happy to see this work out on ChemRxiv! BIMPs can now be used to enantioselectively desymmetrise phosphonate esters! Always a pleasure to do some #compchem with Fernanda Duarte and Dixon Group. And a massive congrats to Michele Formica, Alistair Farley, Yao and Naoto! #teameffort

Switchable, diastereodivergent photocatalytic carbocyclisation of α-amino radicals out now in Angewandte Chemie in collaboration with AstraZeneca! Many congratulations to Andrew Maitland, @JamieLeitch165, Ken Yamazaki (#compchem with Trevor A. Hamlin)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

A Three-Component Ugi-Type Reaction of N-Carbamoyl Imines Enables a Broad Scope Primary α-Amino 1,3,4-Oxadiazole Synthesis, out now in J Org Chem/Org Lett! Congrats to Dan MR, Lizzie and Tanya Rogova! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A New Organocatalytic Desymmetrization Reaction Enables the Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Madangamine E - out now on ChemRxiv! Congrats to Shinya (回復しつつあるドット虚無), benshennan1, Ken Yamazaki (for #compchem with Trevor A. Hamlin), Angel and Vasu! doi.org/10.33774/chemr…

Anyone else having issues with the green 1 mL HENKE-JECT syringes from Fisher Scientific? The ink just rubs off all syringes we recently bought... has never been a problem before.

So ecstatic to have received this award! Many thanks to the GDCh and Clariant for the support. Can't wait to start my postdoc position with the Schoenebeck Group this summer!

It is finally done! Thank you to Robert Paton and Donohoe Group for a wonderful and thought provoking viva! And thank you to Fernanda Duarte and Dixon Group all group members past and present for their wonderful support over these last four (five) years. It has been truly amazing

Happy to share an orthogonal C-O coupling of aryl germanes, which tolerates halides, silanes and boronic acid derivatives and proceeds at r.t. under air-tolerant and base-free conditions. Congratulations Amit and Avet.   pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Glad to see this exciting work on enantioselective desymmetrization of P(V) compounds out in the world. 😃😃 Massive congrats to the whole team Ken Yamazaki Yao, Naoto, Bran, Alistair Farley Fernanda Duarte, Dixon Group, and especially Michele Formica!

Marvin, Tanya and Franziska have been on tour in Canada this week to present lectures and posters at the 23rd ISFC in Quebec and OMCOS in Vancouver. Congratulations to Marvin for winning the OMCOS Rhodium poster award! #OMCOSXXI #ISFC2023

It was great fun co-writing this minireview with Markus and Eric in the Schoenebeck Group! Congratulations to everyone involved. I learned a lot more about organogermanes and their synthetic value as robust and orthogonal coupling partners. Now I hope you will as well. 😊😊

Total Synthesis of the Allenic Macrolide (+)-Archangiumide | Journal of the American Chemical Society Total Synthesis Drug Discovery and Synthesis Highlights #Macrolide #Archangiumide #Au #Allene pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

A great opportunity for anyone interested in doing a postdoc in computational chemistry! See post below for more details :)

We are pleased to report the "Dynamic stereomutation of vinylcyclopropanes with metalloradicals" nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out this overview of our work with AgOCF3: a direct quantitative synthesis starting from the solids triphosgene and AgF & applications in (i) substitutions to make R-OCF3 compounds or (ii) as precursor to O=CF2 to access alkyl/aryl, NCF3 & NCF2H carbamoyl fluorides.

Ever wondered how to put a trifluoromethyl group on nitrogen? Thought methods to make N-CF3 compounds are scarce? Check out our group's developments in the area to access N-CF3 amines, amides, carbamates, ureas, hydrazines, indoles, oxindoles, quinolones, formamides & beyond: