The results of a fantastic multidisciplinary collaborative project coordinated by Stallforth and Wariner groups is now published in Science. It’s a really cool story and we are happy to have contributed! Link to the paper is available at our publications page.

We continue the work on latent nucleophiles in Lewis base catalysis. This time it is on enantioselective allylation of silyl enol ethers. Read more about this work at our publications page.

The results of a collaborative project with the Beemelmanns group on synthesis of 3-methylene-5-hydroxy esters via Barbier allylation is now published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. Read more about this work at our publications page.

Lucas joins the group as a MSc thesis student after working with us as an intern. He will be working on a new exciting project. Good luck with your science Lucas!

Fantastic collaborations lead to fantastic discoveries. Congratulations to the Helleday group, the entire collaborative team behind this work, and especially to Maurice and Carolos who led the study. We are very happy to have contributed to this paper. Read more about it on our publications page.

After a lengthy renovation, we are finally back to our labs in IOMC and we are excited to continue our synthetic work!

Michael has completed his MSc thesis with us and defends his thesis on November 24th. Good luck with the defense Michael! Expectations are high…

Milica has been an intern with us since March this year. She liked it so much that she decided to stay for her PhD. Good luck with your research Milica!

Juliane has sucessfully finished her MSc studies in our group and defended her thesis. Her next stop: PhD position in the Brendel group at FSU Jena. All the best for your future research Juliane!

We were happy to contribute to the Tetrahedron special issue on System-Oriented Development of Organocatalysis. Congrats to Hiro Ohmiya for doing a great job of editing this special issue and congrats to Fritz, Milica and Max for doing a great job in the lab and in presenting their results. Read more about this work at our publications page.

Nikita finished his thesis and successfully defended. We are sad to see him leave, but we wish him all the best for his MSc studies at RWTH Aachen.

Denis has successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Drikermann and good luck with your new job as an associate consultant with BridgingIT! 

Robert is an old friend of ours. After completing his BSc thesis with us, he rejoins us for his MSc work. This time he will be working on a very different project with total synthesis of a natural product as the main goal.

Our paper on Z-selective reductions of alkynes in the presence of phosphines and water is out in Organic and Biolomecular Chemistry. Well done Fabia, Denis and You. Special thanks to Stephan Kupfer and Johannes Steinmetzer for a fruitful collaboration! Read more about this work at our publications page.

Our group has started using Chemotion electronic notebook. This effort is a part of the National Research Data Infrastructure project NFDI4Chem. Special thanks to Prof. Christoph Steinbeck and his NFDI4Chem team in Jena and to our colleagues from KIT for sharing their expertise and experience with the new system. We are grateful to Markus Lange, our group Chemotion coordinator, and Michael Duong for daring to be the early adopters and for helping with the implementation. The future is digital!

Nikita is in the final stage of his BSc degree program and will be working with Markus on his BSc thesis. Good luck taming the latent nucleophiles Nikita!

Milica joins us in the midst of the pandemic. Perfect time to be researching anti inflammatory agents! We are happy to finally have her in Jena. All the best for your research Milice!

Michael (re)joins us for his MSc thesis work. He is on the path to becoming our resident phosphorus expert. Good luck for your exciting project Michael!

Juliane will be working with us on her MSc thesis. She is putting a new twist on latent nucleophiles. Good luck with your research Juliane!