Why did Claude Monet love the colour blue so much? Well, it all began with four friends and a mistake...

Postdoc & PhD

Synfacts deadline & me

Amazing ways to use wood joints.

We thank the reviewers for their helpful suggestions x.com/FieraIngenieri…

Yesterday Ben signed the Nobel Laureates book. The page he is showing is the one with our Kohlenforschung Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler. Max Planck Society The Nobel Prize

Congratulations to the 2022 chemistry laureates! Watch the very moment that the 2022 chemistry laureates Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless received their Nobel Prize diplomas and medals during the 2022 Nobel Prize award ceremony. #NobelPrize

A theory on how the ancient pyramids in Egypt were built x.com/cheems_perrito…

…and today is his birthday. Happiest birthday Ben!

Sorry for being so late here, it took us literally years to get used to all these weird looking radical ions. First Release in Science Magazine today Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Photoredox Catalysis #ACPC Max Planck Society science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Online NOW J. Am. Chem. Soc. Organocatalytic DYKAT of Si-Stereogenic Silanes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Hui Zhou

On our birthday, we also want to say thank you to our community: our amazing researchers & staff at our Max Planck Institutes! Thank you for your incredible talent, dedication, enthusiasm, passion & hard work - we couldn’t do it without you!🤗👏*Now let’s all have some cake*!😉

Academia meets Industry: A breakthrough catalytic asymmetric synthesis of cannabinoids and menthol from neral in the shortest and most atom-economic route so far nature Read the story here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Celebration of three amazing scientific feats published in nature and Science Magazine by our three dazzling colleagues. Hui Zhou @JoyceAAGrimm Read the stories here👇 nature.com/articles/s4158… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share our work on the asymmetric catalytic Friedel-Crafts reaction of toluene and its hydrocarbon friends! Many thanks to Benni, Markus L. and of course Ben List for making this project possible

Wir sind sprachlos! Ferenc Krausz vom Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in München erhält zusammen mit Pierre Agostini und Anne L’Huillier den Physik-Nobelpreis 2023. Wir gratulieren! 👏🍾😊mpg.de/20915190/feren… #Nobelpreis #Physik The Nobel Prize Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Delighted to share my work AK List “A solid noncovalent organic double-helix framework catalyzes asymmetric [6 + 4] cycloaddition ” published on Science Magazine with these awesome guys Nils.Not Markus L. Benni and Dr. Zikuan Wang science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Great Idea for Poster presentation...!!! Via Caroline O'Donnell/O'Flaherty Lab (Linkedin) #scicomm #scienceoutreach #sciencetalk #scienceposter

Today J. Am. Chem. Soc. The Catalytic Asymmetric Mukaiyama–Michael Reaction of Silyl Ketene Acetals with Cyclic Enones: Short Routes to Jasmonates pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

The Catalytic Asymmetric Mukaiyama–Michael Reaction of Silyl Ketene Acetals with Cyclic Enones: Short Routes to Jasmonates | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…