Olena, Igor and Oliver participated in the Jenaer Teamlauf 2025. The Teamlauf is an annual charity event in Jena to support local organizations. A great opportunity to show that you can be sporty in your head and also in your legs!
Congratulations, Dr. Lange! Markus has done an excellent job in our group by publishing multiple papers and training the future generation of young scientists. We wish him all the best for his work as education coordinator at the CTC in Delitzsch.
Niklas Krüper stays in the group for his PhD work. Good luck with your research Niklas!
Niklas has successfully finished his MSc studies in our group and defended his thesis. We wish him all the best for his next steps!
Lucas Gregor is this years recipient of the Examenspreis for chemistry students at FSU Jena. A well-deserved honor for Lucas. Congratulations! You make us proud!
We open the lab doors to everyone curious about science… Nov 22nd from 6 pm till midnight. This year you can engage all the senses: see, smell, hear, touch and even taste the chemistry! More details at www.lndw-jena.de.
One would think that alcohols easily undergo allylation using MBH electrophiles. They don’t! Unless you give them a push with latent pronucleophiles. Read about it in Synlett (via the link on our publications page). Congrats on another publication for Markus and Abdulrahman who equally contributed to this study.
Welcome to the group Oliver! Good luck with your latent pronucleophiles. We hope they behave well in your hands.
Lenard has successfully finished his BSc studies in our group and defended his thesis. We wish him all the best for the MSc studies!
Lena was selected as the finalist of the 2024 UKRAINET PhD Thesis Presentation Contest in Saarbrücken this year. Her presentation was as impressive as always and she deservedly won the competition. Congrats Lena!
To enjoy the last warm days of summer, our group visited the Feengrotten in Saalfeld and had a nice BBQ afterwards.
Jephtahlyn Genevieve Attoh from Ghana joins us for three months for his IAESTE internships. Welcome to Jena and good luck with your project!
Ginie has successfully finished her BSc studies in our group and defended her thesis. We wish her all the best for the MSc studies!
Welcome to the group Sebastian! Have fun and enjoy the chemistry of organophosphorus compounds.
Martin Guarini-Roman from Spain joins us for three months for his IAESTE internships. Welcome to Jena and good luck with your project!
This month, our Ph.D. students Suresh, Olena and Milica are attending various conferences to present and share our work with the scientific community.
Suresh: 18th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium in Liège, Belgium; ACS Publication Symposium: Catalysis for Organic Synthesis in Vienna, Austria
Olena and Milica: Balticum Organicum Syntheticum 2024 in Riga, Latvia
A collaborative effort reveals that mycofactocin oxidation is linked to respiration and that MftG plays a crucial role in alcohol metabolism in mycobacteria. Congrats to everyone involved! Read about it via the link on our publications page.
A great collaborative effort led by the group of Oliver Werz (FSU Jena) with the help of groups of Dagmar Fischer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Tatu Pantsar (University of Eastern Finland) on bromo-substituted indirubins for inhibition of protein kinase-mediated signalling involved in inflammatory mediator release is now published in Bioorganic Chemistry. Congrats to everyone involved! Read about it via the link on our publications page.
Niklas is an old friend of ours from his BSc thesis days. He joins us again for his MSc thesis. This time he’s making a switch from total synthesis to photocatalysis (and a little bit of total synthesis if everything goes well). Good luck Niklas!
Welcome to the group Lenard! Good luck and have fun with Lewis base catalysis.
Welcome to the group Ginie! Good luck and have fun with photocatalysis.