Isolation of Fidaxomicin and Shunt Metabolites from Actinoplanes deccanensis (Karl Gademann and co-workers) Erik Jung, 𝙺𝚊𝚛𝚕 𝙶𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚗, UZH Chemistry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hl…

On the 10th of November 1970, an explosion that occurred during the preparation of a diazonium salt from anthranilic acid injured two students - one of them seriously!

Diazonium salts can be explosive, stay save.

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We are looking to hire a researcher as a PhD student. Would you like to bridge the gap between mechanochemistry and hypervalent iodine? Do you want to work in a sustainability-driven environment? If so, see below for more information. Closing date is 23rd April 2024.

Protocol for the Photocatalytic Hydroxyalkenylation of Alkenes Using 1,2-Bis(phenylsulfonyl)ethylene and Water (Ilhyong Ryu and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hl…

152.1 Best out of two weeks this time: First An Umpolung Alder-Ene reaction of byclobutanes reported by Junbiao Chang and co-workers from Henan Normal University in Nature Communications
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Thiol-mediated uptake (TMU) is an intriguing enigma in current chemistry and biology. Our new paper in ACS Central Science provides a solid basis to understand TMU, enable and prevent entry into cells along at least three orthogonal dynamic covalent networks

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🔔Last chance to apply for a contributed talk at the Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2024
Don't miss this opportunity!
🗓️Deadline for abstract submission is April 21
More info: ptf24.scg.ch
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Time for another Organometallics Tutorial . . . Peter Wolczanski walks us through Aspects of Transition Metals Pertinent to Organometallic Chemistry: Properties, Periodicity, Curiosities and Related Main Group Issues. Please have a look, highly recommended: doi.org/10.1021/acs.or…

Congratulations to Julien Borrel for becoming the 26th doctor of the group! Wish you all the best for the future! 🎉

Public PhD defense of Julien Borrel starting now EPFL Chemistry Waser Group starting now!

One last position for a PhD Waser Group to start between August 2024 and January 2025 is now available for a collaborative catalysis project. If you are interested hurry up, as the application process will close on May 15, 2024.
More information at: epfl.ch/labs/lcso/grou…

It is Spring and time for a new Waser Group group picture!

If you are interested to apply for a Young Talent Fellowship to perform your final master work Waser Group (or any of the other fantastic NCCR Catalysis labs), the deadline is approaching! (30.04.2024).

Augmented memory is out in JACS Au!

Super proud of Jeff Guo, who is pushing the limits of sample-efficient de novo molecular design! Well done!

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Very pleased to share one of my postdoctoral works from the Heinis lab. Now published in Angewandte Chemie #openaccess #macrocycles
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Celebrating NCCR Catalysis Phase II in Bern today!

Organic chemistry seminar and scs lecture Swiss Chemical Society HelvChimActa of prof Kazuaki Ishihara K. Ishihara Lab. 石原研 starting now EPFL Chemistry

Out in Digital Discovery : benchmarking reaction representations for reaction barriers pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…. Thanks to initial work with semester student Malte Franke, finalised with the team Ksenia Briling yannick clemence corminboeuf, funding NCCR Catalysis NCCR-MARVEL EPFL

Next stop today EPFL Chemistry at 16h15 in BCH 2201! Swiss Chemical Society Lectureship

Editing Tetrasubstituted Carbon: Dual C–O Bond Functionalization of Alcohols Enabled by Pd-Based Dyotropic Rearrangement | JACS
Zhu Group EPFL Chemistry Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights #Editing #TetrasubstitutedCarbon #COFunctionalization #Dyotropic #Pd #Rearrangement pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…