The group in Spring 2024. From left to right, back to front: Pierre, Stefano, Alexandre, Josh, Carlo, Clément, Xingyu, Duncan, Yuji, Vladyslav, Helena, Najung, Christine, Diana, Emma, Daphne, Tin, Jerome.
The Group in Spring 2024
From left to right, back to front: Pierre, Stefano, Alexandre, Josh, Carlo, Clément, Xingyu, Duncan, Yuji, Vladyslav, Helena, Najung, Christine, Diana, Emma, Daphne, Tin, Jerome.
LATEST NEWS
November 25: The traditional Christmas dinner of LCSO has taken place with raclette at the refuge d’Ecublens.
November 25: The work of Emma on the diastereoselective synthesis of N-heterocycle substituted cyclobutanes has been accepted in Chem. Eur. J. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202403986).
November 22: Diana Cavalli successfully defended her PhD thesis. She is the twenty-eight PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
November 21: Jérôme Waser has been named best teacher in the chemistry and chemical engineering section at EPFL for 2024. Congratulations! Read the interview.
October 31: The full studies of Tin, Duncan and André on the direct photoexcitation of carbonyl cyclopropanes with computation insights from Matt has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: /10.1002/anie.202417719)
October 19: The work of Xiangdong combining CpBX reagents with gold and silver catalysis was just published in JACS. (DOI: /10.1021/jacs.4c10996)
October 17: Diana has successfully passed her final PhD exam. Congratulations!
October 6: The review of Nieves on the interface of (pseudo)cyclic hypervalent iodine and carbene chemistry is now published in Synthesis. (DOI: 10.1055/a-2418-8285)
October 1: Nina Aregger and Valentas Olikauskas joined the group as PhD students. Welcome!
October 1: Josh has successfully passed his candidacy exam. Congratulations!
September 27: The LCSO Alumni meeting took place at EPFL, bringing together alumni both online and in person, it was wonderful to reconnect and celebrate!
September 18: Vlad has successfully passed his final PhD exam. Congratulations!
September 15: After his master’s internship last spring, Clément Tanguy joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome back!
September 2: Jozef Kristek, from the Pospisil Lab, joined the group as a visiting PhD student. Ohla Mykhailenko also started her master’s thesis. Welcome!
August 31: Congrats to Xingyu for winning a runner-up oral presentation award at the Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2024!
August 15: Tether chemistry alert: the work of Helena, Mikus and Lucas on endo vs exo selective carboamination of propargylic alcohols is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202411383)
August 9: Xingyu Liu successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the twenty-seventh PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
August 8: We had fun at the LCSO Summer group outing doing a Foxtrail in Thun.
June 13: How to access more substituted aminocyclobutanes? The latest work of Emma, a strategy based on a Ficini reaction/hydrogenation sequence is now published in Chem. Eur. J. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401810)
June 4: Xingyu has won the award for the best poster presentation at the SNE Chem Bio retreat. Congratulations!
May 29: Xingyu with the help of Olha and Adriana developed new non-natural amino acids containing an EBx reagent for solid and solution phase peptide synthesis, leading to new ways towards macrocycles, now accepted in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404747)
May 28: The work of Vladyslav on accessing cyclopropeniums via a radical-polar crossover approach is now in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202404265)
May 27: The work of Stefano on the annulation of BCBs with dienes has been published in Chemical Science. (DOI: 10.1039/D4SC02767A)
May 23: Najung has successfully passed her candidacy exam. Congratulations!
May 23: Elusive sigma-type cyclopropenium equivalents accessed via a new hypervalent iodine reagent (CpBX), and gold-catalyzed reactions. The work of Xiangdong with computation from Matt is now in Nature Chemistry. (DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01535-8)
May 14: The last work of Diana on the synthesis of lactones via an organic-dye catalyzed alkynylative cyclization is now published in Organic Letters. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01078)
April 12: Julien Borrel successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the twenty-sixth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 3: In his latest paper in Beilstein JOC, part of the special issue on hypervalent iodine, Julien thoroughly details the complex journey to determine the optimal conditions for the azido-alkynylation of alkenes (DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.64)
February 9: The last work of Pierre and Raphael together with Angel and Ruben (Zhu group) on the Cu- and Fe-catalyzed benzylic C-H azidations is now published in Helvetica. (DOI: /10.1002/hlca.202400004)
January 21: Christine has won the award for the best poster presentation at the Swiss Snow Symposium 2024. Congratulations!
January 15: Carlo Baldassari joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!