🕰️ In this Synfact Classic Martin Oestreich (Martin Oestreich) highlighted ‘The Murahashi Reaction: Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Vinyl Halides with Organolithium Reagents' reported by Murahashi S-I and co-workers from Osaka University in 1979. 🧪

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Copper-catalyzed silylation of aryl and alkenyl triflates with silylboronic esters avoiding base-mediated borylation is published. This reaction is first found at the ⁦Martin Oestreich⁩ lab, and I am grateful his kind guidance and support. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Keith will always hold a special place in my heart.

Every group member brings with them unique skills and talents and I have fond memories of (nearly) every one.

Keith’s death was a family, personal, and scientific tragedy.

The world is less good with him gone.

Many thanks for the visit Martin Oestreich including exciting (ground state) discussions and the talk on a firework of silicon cation chemistry! RWTH Aachen PatureauGroup Rene Koenigs Leonori Lab.

🌻Dieter Hoppe, Professor of #OrganicChemistry Universität Münster from 1992–2006, passed away on March 20. He had developed new #SyntheticMethods in general and he was a master of #AsymmetricSynthesis in particular. Into these fields he had been introduced by Ulrich Schöllkopf…

Wonderful visit of Eric Jacobsen at TU Berlin. Great science and nice discussions. Much appreciated! Jacobsen Lab

❇️ In this Synfact of the month Martin Oestreich (Martin Oestreich) highlighted the ‘Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrocyanation of Alkynes Using a Malononitrile as Transnitrilation Reagent` by Rousseaux SA. L. and co-workers from University of Toronto 😀

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Meera Mehta MehtaLab and Doug Stephan Doug Stephan at TU Berlin UniSysCat - Cluster of Excellence — Great to see both of you again!

Muliang’s and his wife’s Jinghui Perspective is out in Chem Catalysis Functional group transfer strategies unlock new synthetic avenues: Chem Catalysis cell.com/chem-catalysis…

A few new pictures of the mother and five kids playing. 😁

Readily accessible chiral frustrated Lewis pair catalysts: Asymmetric hydrosilylation of imines and quinolines (Chem Catalysis): cell.com/chem-catalysis… (@FLPchemist).

A foxhole in our garden…and now six cubs. What a joy this brings! #wildlife #berlin

This is simply not okay! 😩

With great sadness, we mourn the death of Professor Dieter Hoppe, who passed away on March 20th, 2024. He will remain in our memories as our scientific ancestor and a giant of Organic Chemistry.

This is truly sad news! Dieter Hoppe was such a kind and gentle human being! -- I thank you for all you have done for me, Dieter!

Read the Editorial written by Thorsten Bach Bach Lab 👉thieme-connect.de/products/ejour…

In our end of semester OC Colloquium given by Prof. Marisa Kozlowski ⁦Kozlowski Lab⁩ from University of Pennsylvania we learned about high-throughput screening for identifying selective catalysts. Thank you Marisa for an inspiring day ⁦Department Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy FU Berlin⁩ ⁦Freie Universität⁩

Electrophilic Activation of S-Si Reagents by Silylium Ions for Their Regio- and Diastereoselective Addition Across C-C Multiple Bonds (Martin Oestreich and co-workers) Martin Oestreich #AngewandteVIP #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

📢Registration is ✨OPEN✨

Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium 2024 “Main-group chemistry for modern catalysis and synthesis”, 📅Sept 10–12, 2024 in Limburg, Germany.

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Follow #BeilsteinMainGroup2024 for updates on speakers, etc.

Two simple reagents, HCHO and hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP), unleash new chemical magic! HCHO effectively “sucks” the alpha C-H bond from common alkyl amines in HFIP solvent, enabling hydride liberation without metals or light. It works for complex systems, too.