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2023
May 31: The last work of Mikus and Lucas on the synthesis of propargyl silane using a migratory Sonogashira reaction is now accepted in Chemical Communications (DOI: 10.1039/D3CC01847D).
May 3: Mikus and Julien won a ChemistryTravelAward 2023 from SCS and SCNAT. Congratulations!
April 30: @LcsoLab has now more than 10’000 followers on twitter!
April 29: LCSO participated to the EPFL Open Days: we hosted interested visitors from all generations.
April 19: The last work of Emma, Vincent and Matt on the annulation of aminocyclobutanes and indoles is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202302420).
April 14: Nina Declas successfully defended her PhD thesis. She is the twenty-third PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 13: A preprint of the work of Xingyu in collaboration with the Heinis group on the synthesis and use of the first Peptide-EBX reagents is now available on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-jskfd).
April 1: Elodie Delavictoire joins the group to do her master thesis with the support of an ISIC master grant. Welcome!
March 29: Nieves has won a runner up prize for her poster presentation at the NCCR Catalysis retreat. Congrats!
March 17: Tin has won a runner up prize for his poster presentation at the RSC Twitter conference. Congrats!
March 7: The LCSO winter group outing has taken place with hiking, Fondue and Tobogganing in Leysin.
February 14: The compilation of X-ray, MEP and NMR data on EBX reagents of our group is now available at Helvetica Chimica Acta (DOI: 10.1002/hlca.202200175).
February 9: Christine has passed her first year candidacy exam. Congrats!
January 30: A preprint of the work of Nieves on enantioselective three component reactions with diazo compounds and EBx reagents is now available on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-78fk0).
January 27: A preprint of the work of Tin and Andre on the photocatalyzed cycloaddition of cyclpropanes with alkynes, alkenes and bicyclobutanes is now available on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-s8j30).
January 24: Elija has passed her final PhD exam. Congrats!
January 20: Eliott Le Du successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the twenty-second PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
January 19: The review of Eliott on alkynylation with hypervalent iodine reagents is now accepted in Chemical Communications (DOI: 10.1039/D2CC06168F).
January 9: Prof. Mark Lautens has joined us for six weeks during his sabbatical!
2022
December 6: The LCSO Christmas dinner has taken place a the restaurant Itoya.
November 24: Mingming has been awarded a top 8% distinction of EDCH for his PhD thesis. Congrats!
November 23: Eliott has passed his final PhD exam. Congrats!
November 21: The work of Stephanie and Franck on the fine-tuning of hypervalent iodine reagents in photoredox-catalyzed reactions and preliminary results for new transformations is now accepted in Helvetica Chimica Acta (DOI: 10.1002/hlca.202200161) in the Prof. Janine Cossy/Bürgenstock president issue.
November 6: The review of Ashis on Pd-Catalyzed functionalization of alkenes and alkynes using removable tethers is now accepted in Tetrahedron (DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2022.133135).
November 4: Nina has passed her final PhD exam. Congrats!
October 24: The review of Raphael on azidation with hypervalent iodine reagents is now accepted in Synthesis (DOI: 10.1055/a-1966-4974).
October 12: Great day for LCSO, both the work of Nina on tyrosine functionalization and of Tin on cyclopropane alkynylation are now accepted in Chem. Sci. (DOI: 10.1039/D2SC04558C and DOI: 10.1039/D2SC04344K).
October 4: Our grant at the SNSF has been approved. Two new PhD positions will be open at LCSO in July 2023!
September 26: Tin has been selected to present his work in a short talk at the IASOC summer school. Congrats!
September 15: Helena Sole Avila come back to the group to start her PhD. Welcome!
September 8: Yuji and Diana were awarded a runner up prize for their posters at the SCS fall meeting. Congratulations!
September 6: The work of Eliott and Julien on the alkynylation of azadipeptides with EBXs is now accepted in Org. Lett. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02625).
September 5: Emma successfully passed her first year candidacy exam. Congratulations!
September 2: The yearly LCSO Alumni meeting took place at BCH with a “gala cold buffet”.
September 1: Yuji successfully passed his first year candidacy exam. Congratulations!
August 22: André successfully defended his master thesis. Congratulations!
August 22: LCSO is now also on LinkedIn to share news about the group for people not active on twitter.
August 17: After two years “COVID break” the LCSO summer group outing could take place again: Hike and wine tasting in Lavaux.
August 8: The review of Mingming and Tin on the activation of aminocyclopropanes via radical intermediates is now accepted in Chem. Soc. Rev. (DOI: 10.1039/D2CS00090C).
July 29: Nieves was awarded a APOSTD 2022 postdoctoral fellowship from Generalitat Valenciana. Congratulations!
July 15: The work of Stefano on the enantioselective (4+3) annulation of cyclopropanes and azadienes for the synthesis of azepanones is now accepted in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202209006).
July 11: The work of Ashis, Thomas and Stefano on the first Pd-catalyzed aminoacetoxylation of alkenes using N,O-acetal tethers is now accepted in Org. Lett. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01838).
July 1: Dylan Cleveland from Cambridge University joins the group for a Summer internship. Welcome!
July 1: Oleksandr Liashuk from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University joins the group as a visiting PhD student for one year. Welcome!
June 24: Ashis Das successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the twenty-first PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
June 13: The work of Ashis , Luca and Mikus on catalytically formed chiral auxiliaries via hydroalkoxylation is now accepted in ACS Catal. (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c01809).
June 3: Stephanie Amos successfully defended her PhD thesis. She is the twentieth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 29: Mingming Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the nineteenth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 22: Raphael Simonet-Davin successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the eighteenth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 20: Stephanie Amos has successfully passed his PhD exam and is allowed to proceed to her public PhD defense. Congratulations!
March 1: New semester means new group members: Lucas Eichenberger starts his apprenticeship, André Bossonnet and Antonin Homassel their master thesis and Maria Casas Munoz her internship at LCSO. Welcome!
February 24: After 2 years exile at floor 0, LCSO is finally back on 4th floor in brand new labs!
February 15: The work of Emma and Eliott on the synthesis of polycyclic aminals starting from dipeptides is now accepted in Chem. Commun. (DOI: 10.1039/D2CC00167E).
February 9: The work of Emmanuelle and Raphael on selective C-H azidation of N-terminal proline is now accepted in Chem. Eur. J. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200368).
February 1: Christine Marty joins the group for her PhD. Welcome!
January 27: A preprint of the work of Tin on photomediated C-C and C-H alkynylations of cyclopropanes has been deposited on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-vf5gm ).
January 26: Raphael Simonet-Davin has successfully passed his PhD exam and is allowed to proceed to his public PhD defense. Congratulations!
January 24: Pierre and Tin have successfully passed their candidacy exam and are definitively admitted in the doctoral school. Congratulations!
January 14: The work of Mikus on extending the catalytically formed chiral auxiliary concept from hydrogenation to cyclopropanation and epoxidation is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202113925 ).
January 12: Ashis Das has successfully passed his PhD exam and is allowed to proceed to his public PhD defense. Congratulations!
January 3: Dr. Tobias Milzarek joins the group as Postdoc. Welcome!
January 1: Jerome becomes editor-in-chief of Helvetica Chimica Acta together with Prof. Eva Hevia from the university of Bern.
2021
December 6: Mingming Wang has successfully passed his PhD exam and is allowed to proceed to his public PhD defense. Congratulations!
November 26: Bastian Muriel has been awarded the top 8% PhD thesis distinction for EDCH in 2021. Congratulations!
October 21: The review of Emmanuelle and Elija onthe use of hypervalent iodine reagents for the modification of peptides and proteins is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202112287 ).
October 21: Our Full LCSO Brain Storming Session has taken place again after cancellation last year due to COVID.
October 14: The Organic chemistry seminars start again after a long COVID interruption.
October 6: Mael Djaid from EPFL and Jonas Dechent from LMU joined LCSO for their master internship and thesis respectively. Welcome!
September 24: Guillaume Pisella successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the seventeenth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
September 22: Helena Sole joins the group for her master internship. Welcome!
September 15: New PhD students at LCSO: Emma Robert is back for her PhD and Yuji Kamei starts his PhD as a shared student with the Fierz group. Welcome!
September 10: The most successful SCS fall meeting ever for LCSO: Stephanie wins the award for the best oral presentation and Nina the runner-up poster prize!
September 5: Six LCSO members participated to the Swiss Summer School in catalysis and sustainable chemistry chaired by Jerome and Bill Morandi with the support of the SCS and NCCR catalysis .
August 26: It is now already the one year anniversary of the @LCSOJournalClub!
August 18: The work of Stephanie, Diana and Franck on photomediated deoxyalkynylation is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202110257 ).
August 17: Alumni news: Dr. Luca Buzzetti former postdoc at LCSO has started to work as a R&D Lead Chemist at F.I.S. (Fabbrica Italiana Syntetici S.p.A). Congratulations!
August 3: The work of Ming-Ming and Tin on diamine synthesis via the diazidation of alkenes and strained ring has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06700).
August 2: Dr. Xiangdong Li joined LCSO for his postdoc after a postdoc in the Alcarazo Group. Welcome!
August 1: Alumni news: Dr. Romain Tessier former PhD at LCSO has started to work as a Scientist Discovery Chemist for Janssen. Congratulations!
July 16: Najung Lee from Cambridge University joined LCSO for her summer internship. Welcome!
July 15: The work of Nieves and Guillaume on copper-catalyzed multi-component reactions of EBX, diazo compounds and anilines is now accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c01423).
July 9: The work of Stephanie, Diana and Franck on photomediated deoxyalkynylation is now available as a preprint on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-56f12 ).
July 7: Our collaborative work with the (Matile group) at the university of Geneva on EBX and EBZ reagents as inhibitors of thiol-mediated uptake has been accepted in Helvetica Chimica Acta (DOI: 110.1002/hlca.202100085).
June 25: The work of Vladyslav and Bastian on quinoline synthesis from cyclopropenes has been accepted in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01775).
June 17: Our traditional MOM synthesis competition could finally take place together with the Cramer and the Zhu group. Congrats Cédric Fung (Cramer) and Stephanie for the best synthesis!
June 1: Dr. Thomas Rossolini joins LCSO for his postdoc after a PhD in the Dixon group. Welcome!
May 31: Dr. Luca Buzzetti leaves LCSO after 2.5 years: Good luck for your future Luca!
May 28: Bastian Muriel successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the sixteenth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
May 27: The work of Abhaya, Romain and Durga on the first amphiphilic EBX reagents has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202106458).
May 26: The work of Vincent and Emma on the activation of DA aminocyclopropanes has been chosen as “pick of the week” by Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/D1SC01127H).
May 12: The last results of Eliott and Matt in collaboration with the Magnier group on new N‐Heterocyclic Alkynyl hypervalent iodine reagents have appeared in Chemistry A European Journal (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202101475).
May 5: The last results of Vincent and Emma on the activation of DA aminocyclopropanes bearing a single ester group for annulation with indoles have appeared in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/D1SC01127H).
April 8: Thanks to COVID we have the largest ever LCSO delegation participating to the online ACS Spring meeting with 5 group members giving an oral presentation!
March 28: Our Journal Club has now an independent twitter account: @LCSOJournalClub.
March 18: Alumni news: Former group postdoc Dr. Durga Hari has started his independent carrier as assistant professor at IISC Bangalore: Congratulations!
March 3: Alumni news: Former group member Dr. Florian de Nanteuil has now come back to EPFL to work as scientific collaborator at SwissCat+ Florian will certainly contribute greatly to this initiative!
March 3: The website and logo of the NCCR Catalysis have been launched today. Eight LCSO members participate to this major effort in catalysis in Switzerland supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
February 8: Welcome to Tin Nguyen, our new PhD student from the Ecole Polytechnique and Paris Sarclay University and Emma Robert, our new master student from Ecole Supérieure CPE Lyon.
January 15: The last results of Elija and Javier in collaboration with the Heinis group on new hypervalent iodine reagents for cys-cys and cys-lys peptide stapling have appeared in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202014511).
January 11: Welcome to Pierre Palamini, our new PhD student from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Chime de Montpelier.
January 7: The last results of Eliott and Marion on the photoredox-catalyzed oxidative functionalization of small peptides have appeared in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/D0SC06180H).
2020
December 10: The first online LCSO Alumni meeting has taken place in replacement of the traditional Christmas dinner canceled due to COVID reasons.
December 3: Bastian Muriel has successfully passed his PhD exam. Congratulations!
November 21: The last results of Durga, Guillaume, Matt and Artem on a [4+2] annulation reaction with benzene proceeding at room temperature have appeared in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012299).
November 18: The last results of Bastian on the reaction of azide radicals with cyclopropenes have appeared in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013516).
November 12: Marion Garreau successfully defended her PhD thesis. She is the fifteenth PhD student to obtain their degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
November 12: Welcome to Diana Cavalli, our new PhD student from the University of Basel.
November 10: The personal account of Stefano, Ugo, Bastian, Phill, Luca and Mikus on palladium-catalyzed alkenes and alkynes functionalization has appeared in Synlett in the special issue dedicated to Prof. Trost (DOI: 10.1055/a-1308-0021).
November 10: The last results of Ming-Ming and Seongmin on annulation reaction of aminocyclopropanes have appeared in Organic Letters (DOI: 110.1021/acs.orglett.0c03528).
October 30: Luca has won a poster award at the online Industrial Chemistry Symposium. Congratulations!
October 30: The review of Nina and Guillaume on vinylbenziodoxolone (VBX) reagents has now appeared in Helvetica Chimica Acta in the special issue dedicated to Prof. Togni (DOI: 10.1002/hlca.202000191).
October 14: Marion Garreau has successfully passed her PhD exam. Congratulations!
October 3: The last results of Luca, Mikus and Phill on catalytically formed chiral auxiliaries for amino alcohol synthesis have now appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c09177).
September 23: Welcome to Xingyu Liu, our new PhD student from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.
September 22: Mikus and Julien have successfully passed their first year candidacy exam: Congrats!
September 22: The last results of Stephanie and Stefano on the photocatalytic Umpolung of enol ethers and enamides for the synthesis of amino alcohols have now appeared in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03655B).
September 18: LCSO Alumni Dr. Yifan Li has now started his independent career as assistant professor in ShanghaiTech University. Congrats Yifan!
September 2: Welcome to Vladyslav Smirnov, our new PhD student from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyev.
September 1: Our collaborative work on photochemical functionalization of heterocycles with the Kokotos group started by Erikka during her visit supported by the COST CHAOS action with Marion has now appeared in Chemistry A European Journal ( DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002868).
August 26: A preprint of the last results of Luca, Mikus and Phill on catalytically formed chiral auxiliary for amino alcohol synthesis is now available at ChemRXiv ( DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12855218.v1 ).
August 24: The five most interesting articles form the weekly LCSO journal club will be from now on posted on twitter!
August 7: Welcome to Dr. Nieves Ramirez-Hernandez our new postdoc from the Gonzalez Gomez group at the University of Alicante.
August 1: Official start of the NCCR Catalysis with Jerome as co-director.
July 9: LCSO Alumni Dr. Paola Caramenti has now started to work as a scientist in discovery process research at Janssen: Congrats!
June 29: Marion‘s organic dyes enable the Hu group to develop a new C-N coupling reaction, the results have just appeared in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01769).
June 18: The last work of Ming-Ming on the oxidative ring-opening of cyclopropylamides using photoredox catalysis is now just accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202007864).
June 16: The last work of Nina on the Umpolung of enol ethers to access oxy-allyl cation equivalents with hypervalent iodine reagents is now just accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202006707).
June 9: The preprint of the work of Stephanie and Stefano on the photocatalytic addition of EBX reagents onto enecarbamates and enol ethers is now available on ChemiRxiv (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.12445577.v1).
May 29: The review of Vincent and Bastian on the catalytic enantioselective ring-opening of cyclopropanes is now just accepted in Chemical Reviews (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00109).
May 29: The review of Stephanie, Marion and Luca on accessing reactive intermediates via organophotoredox catalysis is now just accepted in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.16.103).
May 26: The last work of Eliott in collaboration with the Severin group on triazene substituted D-A cyclopropanes is now just accepted in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01527).
May 20: Our work on the ethynylation of thiols in biomolecules has been highlighted in ChemistryViews.
May 20: Ming-Ming Wang has been awarded a Chemistry Travel Award of the Swiss Chemical Society. Congratulations!
May 1: The last work of Guillaume and Alec on the copper-catalyzed oxyvinylation of diazo compounds with VBX reagents is now just accepted in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01150).
April 29: Phillip Greenwood successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the fourteenth PhD student to obtain his degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 22: Second COVID bilateral online group meeting of LCSO, this time with the groups of Prof. Maurizio Prato at Trieste and San Sebastian.
April 1: The first bilateral online group meeting of LCSO with the Noel Group at TU Eindhoven has taken place.
April 1: The last work of Romain, Raj and Javier on ethynylation of cysteine is now accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202002626). This was a highly successful collaboration with the Biofunctional Chemistry group at the University of Strasbourg and the Adibekian group at Scripps Florida.
March 31: The traditional LCSO Spring Group Photo this year unfortunately via Zoom due to COVID.
March 25: The first organic seminar online has taken place with Prof. Song Lin from Cornell University.
March 19: The last work of Guillaume and Alec on the three component reaction of alcohols, diazo compounds and EBX reagents is now accepted in Chemistry a European Journal (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202001317)!
March 16: Due to the expanding COVID-19 pandemics, LCSO labs are closed for an unknown time.
March 2: Congratulation to Dr. Franck Le Vaillant, former LCSO PhD, who has been selected to participate to the (Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting)!
February 7: Welcome to Dr. Emmanuelle Allouche our new postdoc joining from the (Charette group)!
January 22: Phill Greenwood has successfully passed his PhD exam: Congratulations!
January 13: Welcome to Dr. Abahya Mishra our new postdoc joining from the (Szpilman group)!
2019
December 31: The last work of Julien and Guillaume on the copper-catalyzed oxyalkynylation of thiiranes is now accepted in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b04157)!
December 24: Our ultimate synthesis of TIPS-EBX with process and product safety studies performed by Merck has now been published in Organic Process Research and Development (DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.9b00498)!
December 19: Good bye party for Javier who is leaving the group after more than 2.5 years of postdoc: Good luck for your future outside LCSO.
December 16: The Swiss State has awarded 17 million Swiss Francs to the project suchcat (Sustainable Processes Through Catalysis) with Jerome as co-director!
December 13: The LCSO Christmas party has taken place at the Royal Savoy: 30 current and past LCSO members to celebrate also Jerome’s promotion to full professor.
December 13: Elija has successfully passed her first year candidacy exam. Congrat!
December 10: Raphael has received a teaching excellence award for his contribution to a new service course in organic chemistry. Congratulation!
December 4: Franck Le Vaillant has received the special “top 8%” distinction for his PhD thesis. Congratulation!
November 21: The work of Franck and Marion in collaboration with the Corminboeuf lab on fragmentation-alkynylation cascades has been included in the personal choice of associate editor Paolo Melchiorre at Chemical Science .
October 18: The last work of Bastian and Alec on the synthesis of bicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes has been included in the hot article collection in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C9SC03790J ).
October 10: The artwork of Franck and Paola for the review of Franck on “somophilic” alkynylation has been selected for the back cover in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C9SC90218J).
October 8: The last work of Bastian and Alec on the synthesis of bicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes by (3+2) annulation of cyclopropenes with aminocyclopropanes is now accepted in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C9SC03790J )!
September 24: Nina and Eliott have successfully passed their first year candidacy exam. Congrat!
September 21: The work on doubly orthogonal cysteine labelling by Romain, Javier and Raphael together with Nora in Fierz group has been highlighted in Synfacts (DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1690936).
September 17: The group is growing! This month Mikus and Julien joined LCSO as PhD students and Seongmin as visiting master student. Welcome!
September 14-15: Active participation of the LCSO members to the Open Days of EPFL.
September 7: Raphael has received the runner-up poster award in the chemical biology section at the SCS Fall meeting: Congrat!
September 5: Our preview on the great work of the Powers group on the mechanism of aerobic oxidation of organic iodines is now online in CHEM (DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.08.005 ).
August 28: Traditional Summer Group Outing! We visited the Vallorbe Caves, Jurapark and the Lac de Joux. Here some pictures: Group Outings
August 13: The review of Franck on the the “Third Way” to transfer triple bonds has been published in Chemical Science(DOI: 10.1039/C9SC03033F ).
July 18: Bastian has won one of the the Royal Society of Chemistry Poster Prizes at the ESOC conference. Congratulations!
July 18: Small rings strike again! The work of Mingming on the 1,3-Difunctionalization of aminocyclopropanes has been accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201907060 ).
July 11: Jerome has been promoted to full professor by the ETH board!
July 5: Start of the move of the LCSO labs to the temporary laboratories at the first floor for renovation.
July 2: The work of Romain, Javier and Raphael, in collaboration with Prof. Fierz on the use of EBX reagents for the labeling of peptides and proteins has been accepted in Chem . Congratulations! (DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.06.022 ).
July 2: The work of Marion on photoredox-catalyzed decarboxylative alkynylation of peptides has been highlighted as Synfacts of the month by Yamamoto and Wu in the category peptide chemistry! (DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1689776 ).
June 13: Waser Group @LcsoLab has now 1000 followers. Thanks for following us!
May 17: Paola Caramenti successfully defended her PhD thesis. She is the thirteenth PhD student to obtain her degree at LCSO. Congratulations! She will now join the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner at MPI Mülheim as a SNF postdoctoral fellow.
May 5: The work of Phill on the use of carbonate salts as CO2 source in the palladium-catalyzed carboxy alkynylation of propargyl amines has been accepted in Eur. JOC . Congratulations! (DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201900500 ).
April 18: The paper by Marion and Franck on the C-Terminal Bioconjugation of Peptides through Photoredox Decarboxylative Alkynyation has been accepted in Angew. Chem. Congratulations! (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901922 ).
March 27: The preprint of the work of Guillaume of on the copper-catalyzed vinylation of diazo compounds with vinylbenziodoxolones (VBX) reagents is now available on ChemRxiv (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.7892513.v1 ).
March 18: The new traditional (Spring group photo ) of LCSO members is now available.
March 1: Dr. Vincent Pirenne from the group of Yannick Landais at the University of Bordeaux joins LCSO for his postdoc. Welcome!
February 22: Franck Le Vaillant successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the twelvth PhD student to obtain his degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
February 12: Paola and Nina’s publication has been chosen as a hot article by Chemical Science!
February 8: The work of Stephanie on the synthesis of alkynyl sulfoxides with EBX reagents is now accepted in J. Org. Chem. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00050 ).
February 8: Julien Borrel from CPE Lyon has now started his master work at LCSO with an ISIC master grant.
February 4: The work of Paola and Nina on new reagents for the Umpolung of enamides is now accepted in Chem. Sci. (DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05573D ).
January 25: Romain Tessier successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the eleventh PhD student to obtain his degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
January 15: LCSO has now two new members! Warm welcome to Elija who is starting her PhD, and to Luca who is starting a postdoctoral fellow.
January 8: The work of Phill and Erwann on the tethered functionalization of propargylic amines is now accepted in Chem. Eur. J. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900020).
January 7: The work of Nina and Franck on the synthesis of hydantoins with hypervalent iodine reagents has been published in Org. Lett. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b03843). This is publication number 100 for Jerome!
2018
December 4: Romain Tessier successfully passed his PhD exam in front of an impressive jury composed of Prof. Jieping Zhu, Christian Heinis, Thomas Wirth and Gonçalo Bernardes. His public defense will be on January 25. Congratulations!
November 28 : Our 10-year journey in hypervalent iodine chemistry is now available in Acc. Chem. Res. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00468).
November 20: Franck Le Vaillant successfully passed his PhD exam in front of an impressive jury composed of Prof. Clemence Corminboeuf, Jieping Zhu, Geraldine Masson and Daniele Leonori. Congratulations!
November 7: Franck Le Vaillant has received a SNF postdoctoral fellowship to join the Cornella group at MPI Mulheim. Congratulations!
October 23: Raj Nandi has now finished his postdoctoral stay at LCSO and will go back to India. Good luck Raj!
October 11: Raphael Simonet-Davin successfully passed his PhD candidacy exam. Well done!
October 8: Ashis Das successfully passed his PhD candidacy exam. Well done!
October 7: Julien Borrel from CPE Lyon has received an ISIC Master Grant to join LCSO on February 2019. Congratulation!
October 1: LCSO has received a grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation to support his research on “Exploiting Strained Bonds for Innovative Chemical Synthesis”.
September 24: Raphael Simonet-Davin was selected for an oral presentation at the Ischia Summer School. Congratulation!
September 21: Phill Greenwood has won a poster prize at ICOS. Congratulation!
September 18: Nina Declas and Eliott Le Du are now starting their PhD in the group.
September 15 : Our work about the safety profile of ABX as azidation reagent and safer alternatives is now published in J. Org. Chem. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02068). It has been selected by the editors for ACS for open access! (ACS Etitor’s Choice)
September 10: Mingming Wang successfully passed his PhD candidacy exam. Well done!
September 7: Marion Garreau has won a runner up prize for her poster at the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulation!
August 21 : The work of Paola and Raj on the metal-free coupling of Indole-BX reagents with electron-rich heteroarenes has been highlighted by Timothy Swager and Martin Peeks in the journal Synfacts. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1610510)
August 9 : Our first pre-print at ChemRxiv about the safety profile of ABX as azidation reagent and safer alternatives is now online! (DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.6946058.v1)
July 16: The LCSO group outing 2018 has taken place: sailing on the lake of Geneva!
July 12: The cover page for our recent article on photoredox mediated fragmentation-alkynylation of cyclic oxime ethers designed together with Anya from the Corminboeuf group is now online in Chemical Science .
July 9: The teaching website of LCSO has been updated, including the first English version of the Asymmetric Synthesis bachelor course.
July 9: Our comprehensive overview on alkynylations and vinylations using hypervalent iodine reagents is now available in Patai.
July 4: Stefano Nicolai received the award for the best poster presentation at the 6th International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry in Cardiff. Congratulations!
June 7: Daniele Perrotta received a SNF postdoctoral fellowship to join the group of Chris Vanderwal at UC Irvine. Congratulations!
June 6: Our recent work on fine-tuned organic photoredox catalysts for fragmentation-alkynylation cascades has been selected as hot article by (Chemical Science).
May 30: The last results of Franck Le Vaillant , Marion Garreau and Stefano Nicolai on organic dyes for photoredox mediated fragmentation-alkynylation cascades with computation performed by Ganna Gryn’ova in the Corminboeuf group have been accepted for publication in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01818A).
May 25: The last results of Erwann Grenet, Ashis Das and Paola Caramenti on the Rhodium-catalyzed C–H functionalization of heteroarenes using indoleBX have been published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.14.102 ).
May 4: The last results of Paola Caramenti and Raj Nandi on the metal-free coupling of indoles with electron-rich arenes have been accepted for publication in Chemistry- A European Journal (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802142).
May 4: Daniele Perrotta successfully defended his PhD thesis. He is the tenth PhD student to obtain his degree at LCSO. Congratulations!
April 25: Durga Hari leaves LCSO after four years of highly successful postdoc. He will now join the Aggarwal group at the University of Bristol. Good luck Durga!
April 23: Paola Caramenti and Franck Le Vailant received a SCS-SCNAT Travel Award to go to the BOSS and ICHIC conferences respectively. Congratulations!
April 5: Daniele Perrotta successfully passed his PhD exam in front of an impressive jury composed of Prof. Jieping Zhu, Nicolai Cramer, Daniel Werz and Paolo Melchiorre. Congratulations!
March 5: The work of Franck Le Vaillant on decarboxylative cyanation/alkynylation maide it into the most downloaded articles in Chemical Science!
February 23: The work of Daniele Perrotta has been further highlighted on the faculty website and several news portals, such as Science Daily.
February 21: The last results of Erwann Grenet on the C-H heteroarylation of benzaldehydes with IndoleBX reagents have been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b00337).
February 20: The last work of Daniele Perrotta and Ming-Ming Wang on the enantioselective desymmetrization of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800494).
February 9: Guillaume Pisella successfully passed his PhD candidacy. Congratulation!!!
February 1: Nina Declas joins the group for a Master internship. Welcome and good luck!
January 15: Stephanie Amos is now starting her PhD. Welcome back at LCSO!
January 12: Errika Voutyritsa from the Kokotos group at the University of Athens joins LCSO for two months PhD exchange supported by the COST project CHAOS.
January 10: Raj Nandi has won the award for the best oral presentation at the ICCHD conference in Kolkata. Congratulations!
2017
December 15: The LCSO Christmas Dinner has taken place at the Ethiopian Restaurant Nil Bleu in Lausanne.
December 1: Stefano Nicolai has been officially promoted to permanent scientist. He is now officially the “big brother” of the group. Congratulations!
November 28: Jerome has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant 2017!
October 31: A full account of the work of Paola Caramenti on Indole- and Pyrrole- BX reagents has appeared in Helvetica Chimica Acta (DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201700221).
October 27: The LCSO 10 years anniversary celebration has taken place at EPFL including a symposium given by current and previous LCSO members and a Raclette party.
October 23: Marion Garreau has successfully past her first year exam and is definitively accepted in the doctoral school. Congratulation!
October 17: Ms. Nina Declas from CPE Lyon was awarded an ISIC Master Grant to join LCSO next year. Congratulation!
October 1: Raphael Simonet-Davin from EPFL and Ashis Das from IIT Kanpur join LCSO for their PhD. Welcome!
September 27: Bastian Muriel has successfully past his first year exam and is definitively accepted in the doctoral school. Congratulation!
September 15: MingMing Wang from the group of Jin-Quan Yu at the SIOC in Shanghai joins LCSO for his PhD. Welcome Ming Ming!
September 6: The last results of our collaboration with the Ariafard group on the mechanism of gold-catalyzed domino cyclization-alkynylation reactions with EBX reagents have appeared in Dalton Transactions (DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03154H).
August 25: The last results of Johannes Preindl and Shyamal Chakrabarty on the dearomatization of N-heterocycles via annulation with aminocyclopropanes have appeared in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C7SC03197A).
August 10: A new generation of benziodoxolone reagents: the last results of Paola Caramenti and Stefano Nicolai on the first synthesis of Indole and Pyrrole benziodoxolone reagents and their use in C-H functionalization have appeared in Chemistry A European Journal (DOI:10.1002/chem.201703723).
July 20: The new website on the stability of benziodoxole reagents is now available online.
June 19: The last results of Durga Hari on the enantioselective oxyalkynylation of diazo compounds have appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI:10.1021/jacs.7b04756).
June 13: The last results of Bastian Muriel and Ugo Orcel on the tethered Pd-catalyzed carboamination of allylic alcohols have appeared in Organic Letters (DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01524).
June 12: The last results of Sebastien Alazet, Franck Le Vaillant and Stefano Nicolai on azidolactonization with benziodoxol(on)e reagents have appeared in Chemistry-A European Journal (DOI:10.1002/chem.201702599).
May 2: Raj Nandi from the group of Dr. Guillaume Vincent at the University of Paris-Sud joined LCSO for a postdoc. Welcome Raj!
May 2: The overview article of Franck Le Vaillant on decarboxylative alkynylation and cyanation is now available in Chimia (DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2017.226) in the special issue for prize laureates of the fall meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society 2016.
April 14: The last results of the research of Yifan Li and Felipe Saenz in collaboration with the Corminboeuf and the Sivula groups on the use of domino reactions for the synthesis of organic materials and the estimation of their properties has appeared in Chemistry: A European Journal (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701139).
March 1: Erwann Grenet from the group of Dr. Xavier Salom-Roig at the University of Montpellier and Javier Ceballos from the group of Prof. Herbert Waldmann at the MPI Dortmund joined LCSO for their postdoc. Welcome Erwann and Javier!
February 17: Ugo Orcel has successfully defended his PhD after having passed the final exam on November 2. He is the ninth PhD student to finish his PhD at LCSO. He will now join the group of Prof. Bernhard Breit at the University of Freiburg for his postdoc. Congratulation Ugo and good luck for the future!
February 1: Stephanie Amos from the University Claude Bernard in Lyon has joined LCSO for her master work supported by an ISIC Master Grant. Welcome Stephanie!
January 15: Guillaume Pisella from Chimie ParisTech has joined LCSO for his PhD. Welcome Guillaume!
January 6: The research website of LCSO has been updated with the results of 2016!
2016
December 22: The last results of the research of Franck Le Vaillant and Matt Wodrich on the decarboxylative cyanation of carboxylic acids have appeared in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04907A).
December 20: The last results of the research of Ugo Orcel on diamines synthesis have been highlighted in Chimia in the Swiss Science Concentrates of December.
December 1: The LCSO Christmas Dinner has taken place in the restaurant Le Cinq in Lausanne.
November 28: LCSO and the group of Prof. Alexander Adibekian at the University of Geneva received a Sinergia grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation for a new collaborative project on the identification of biological targets of organic molecules using hypervalent iodine probes. A team of two PhD’s and two postdocs will be hired half in Geneva and half at EPFL to work on this new interdisciplinary project.
November 21: Ugo Orcel received a EarlyPostdoc.Mobility grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation to join the group of Prof. Bernhard Breit at the University of Freiburg. Congratulations!
November 10: The overview article of Ugo Orcel on the use of in situ tether formation for olefin functionalization has appeared in Chemical Science (DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04366F ).
November 2: Ugo Orcel has successfully passed his PhD exam. Congratulation! His public defense will be in early 2017.
October 27: The personal account of Jerome Waser on the background behind the discovery of reactions with benziodoxole reagents at LCSO has appeared in Synlett (DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1589409).
October 15: Welcome to Marion Garreau from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier who has joined LCSO as PhD student!
October 13: Sophie Racine has successfully defended her PhD after having passed the final exam on September 14. She is the eight PhD student to finish her PhD at LCSO. She will now join the group of Prof. Neil Garg at UCLA for her postdoc. Congratulation Sophie and good luck for the future!
September 26: LCSO has participated to the first COST meeting on C-H Activation in Organic Synthesis (CHAOS).
September 26: Welcome to Verity Barber from the University of Edinburgh who has joined LCSO for a one year internship.
September 16: The last results of the research of Ugo Orcel on diamines synthesis via in situ tether formation have appeared in Angewandte Chemie(DOI: 10.1002/anie.201607318).
September 15: Welcome to Bastian Muriel from the University of Bordeaux who has joined LCSO as PhD student!
September 15: Congratulations to Franck Le Vaillant for winning the best poster presentation award for organic chemistry at the Swiss Chemical Society 2016 fall meeting.
September 1: Dr. Johannes Preindl from the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung joins LCSO as a postdoctoral fellow: Welcome Johannes!
August 18: The LCSO group outing has taken place in the vineyards and underground lake of Valais.
July 27: Our work on the copper-catalyzed oxyalkynylation of diazo compounds (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00278) has been selected for an abstract in ChemInform (DOI: 10.1002/chin.201633094).
July 19: The last results of the research of Sophie Racine and Bence Hegedus on annulation reactions of thioalkynes and Donor-Acceptor cyclopropanes have appeared in Chemistry – A European Journal (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602755).
July 6: Jerome has received the Springer Heterocyclic Chemistry Award at the XXVII European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry in Amsterdam .
July 3-6: The 5th International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (ICHIC 2016) has taken place in Les Diablerets. A strong delegation of LCSO participated to the conference and helped in the organisation.
May 31: Sophie Racine received a EarlyPostdoc.Mobility grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation to join the group of Prof. Neil Garg at UCLA. Congratulations!
April 29: The results obtained by the Matile Group at the University of Geneva using our EBX reagent for the termination of cell-penetrating poly(disulfide)s have appeared in Polymer Chemistry (DOI: 10.1039/C6PY00562D ).
April 19: The results obtained by Gergely Tolnai and Jonathan Brand on the alkynylation of tryptophan in peptides with TIPS-EBX have appeared in a special issue of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry dedicated to C-H Functionalization (DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.74).
March 29: LCSO receives a SNF grant to support its research in strained ring chemistry. Two PhD theses will be financed with a start between Fall 2016 and Spring 2017.
March 29: Yifan Li has been awarded the Outstanding Oversea Self-Financed PhD Student Award by the Chinese Scholarship Council. Congratulation Yifan!
March 18: Dr. Durga Hari has been selected for the Bayer Postdoc Workshop. Congratulation Durga!
March 15: Our review on cyclic hypervalent iodine reagents was one of the most accessed articles in February in Angewandte Chemie.
March 9: Yifan Li has successfully defended his PhD after having passed the final exam on January 12. He is the seventh PhD student to finish his PhD at LCSO. Congratulation Yifan and good luck for the future!
March 1: Dr. Sébastien Alazet from the group of Dr. Thierry Billard at the University of Lyon joins LCSO as a postdoctoral fellow: Welcome Sébastien!
February 17: Our review on the use of cyclic hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions has appeared in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201509073).
February 12: The last results of Durga Hari on the copper-catalyzed oxyalkynylation of diazo compounds have appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00278).
February 3: A full account of the research of Sophie Racine and Jeremy Vuilleumier on the synthesis of nucleoside analogues via annulation reactions has appeared in a special issue of the Israel Journal of Chemistry dedicated to Donor-Acceptor cyclopropanes (DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201500090).
February 1: Bastian Muriel from the University of Bordeaux joins the group for his master work. Welcome!
January 25: The latest results of Victoria Vita and Paola Caramenti involving the enantioselective synthesis of homoallylic azides and nitriles via palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation have been highlighted in Synfacts (DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1561196).
January 22: Jerome’s author profile has appeared in Angewandte Chemie doi/10.1002/anie.201600180 .
January 12 : Yifan Li passed successfully his final PhD exam. Congratulation! he will have his public defense in March.
January 9: The research and group outing websites have been updated with the most exciting results and events for 2015.
January 3: Jerome has been selected for the Springer Heterocyclic Chemistry Award (See also the news on the Swiss Chemical Society website ). He will receive the award at the XXVII European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry in Amsterdam in July 2016.
2015
December 16: The group Christmas dinner has taken place at the restaurant Eat Me, including current and past members of LCSO.
December 14: The latest research results by Matthew D. Wodrich and Paola Caramenti involving combined computational and labelling studies on the mechanism of the addition of thiols to EBX reagents have been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b03241).
November 18: The latest research results by Victoria Vita and Paola Caramenti involving the enantioselective synthesis of homoallylic azides and nitriles via palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation have been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b03002).
November 15: Yifan Li received a EarlyPostdoc.Mobility grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation to join the group of Prof. Tim Swager at MIT. Congratulations!
October 21: Bastian Muriel from the University of Bordeaux received a ISIC master grant: He will join the group in February 2016. Congratulation!
October 10: Registration is now open for the 5th Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (ICHIC 2016). A group has also been created on Linkedin for the conference.
October 1: Phillip Greenwood from the Imperial College London joins LCSO for his PhD: Welcome Phil!
September 16: The results of the group of Prof. Kay Severin on the reactivity of 1-alkynyltriazenes including an example of annulation with aminocyclopropanes done with the help of Daniele Perrotta and Sophie Racine have appeared in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507033).
September 1: Bence Hegedus from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics joins LCSO as a ISIC master grantee: Welcome Bence!
August 30: Our book chapter on alkynylation with hypervalent iodine reagents has appeared in Topics in Current Chemistry (DOI: 10.1007/128_2015_660).
August 28: The traditional group outing of LCSO has taken place at Val-de-Travers: Hike in the Gorges de l’Areuse and absinthe degustation!
August 15: Patricia Dominguez Rivas joins the group as an administrative assistant apprentice: Welcome Patricia!
August 7: Maria Victoria Vita has successfully defended her PhD after having passed the final exam on June 10. She is the sixth PhD student to finish her PhD at LCSO. Congratulation Victoria and good luck for the future!
July 27: Our research involving metal catalysis has been highlighted in Johnson Matthey Technology Review (DOI: 10.1595/205651315×688587).
July 24: The latest research results by Franck Le Vaillant and Thibaut Courant involving the decarboxylative alkynylation of carboxylic acids using EBX reagents and photoredox catalysis have been published in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505111).
July 24: The first results obtained by the group of Prof. Adibekian at the University of Geneva in the use of the EBX reagents synthesized by Reto Frei and Durga Hari for proteome-wide profiling of targets of cysteine-reactive small molecules have been published in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505641).
July 14: Our research on EBX reagents has been highlighted by Prof. Daniel B. Werz in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503405).
July 6: Charlotte Sornay from EPFL joins the LCSO for a summer internship. Welcome Charlotte!.
July 1: The research results by Stefano Nicolai and Peter Swallow involving the carboalkynylation of alkenes have been published in Tetrahedron in the special issue dedicated to Prof. Barry M. Trost. (DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2015.06.030).
June 10 : Maria Victoria Vita passed successfully her final PhD exam. Congratulation! She will have her public defense at the beginning of August.
May 6 : The website of the 5th International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (ICHIC 2016) is now online. The conference will take place in Les Diablerets on July 3-6, 2016 and will be chaired by Jerome Waser.
May 4 : Dr. Shyamal Chakrabarty from the group of Prof. Armido Studer at the University of Münster joins the LCSO as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Shyamal!.
May 1 : Lionel Schouwey from EPFL joins the LCSO for his PhD studies. Welcome Lionel!.
April 15: Bence Hegedus from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has received an ISIC Master Grant to join LCSO for his master work in September 2015.
April 13: An extended range of benziodoxol(on)es hypervalent iodine reagents as well as nucleoside analogues synthesized in our laboratory are now commercially available at Aspira Scientific.
April 7: The latest research results by Yifan Li involving platinum-catalyzed domino reactions with benziodoxole reagents have been highlighted on the EPFL Faculty of Basic Sciences news website.
March 30: The highlight of Maria Victoria Vita on the late stage azidation of C-H bonds has now appeared in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501666).
March 27: The LCSO has received a grant of the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) to support its project on Multi-Functionalization and Domino Reactions for Accessing Molecular Complexity. The project will start in June 2015 and will support two PhD students.
March 24: The latest research results by Daniele Perrotta, Sophie Racine, Jeremy Vuilleumier and Florian de Nanteuil involving the [4+2]-annulations of aminocyclobutanes have been highlighted in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501135).
March 24: The LCSO is now also on Twitter (LCSO lab (@LcsoLab)).
March 16: Paola Caramenti from University of Milano joins the LCSO for her PhD studies. Welcome Paola!
March 16: Felipe Saenz from EPFL joins the LCSO for an internship. Welcome Felipe!
March 10: The latest research results by Yifan Li involving platinum-catalyzed domino reactions with benziodoxole reagents have been published in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201412321).
February 27: The latest research results by Ugo Orcel involving the palladium-catalyzed vicinal amino alcohols synthesis from allyl amines by in situ tether formation and carboetherification have been published in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201500636).
February 16: Jorna Kalim joins the LCSO for her semester research project. Welcome Jorna!
February 13: Felipe Saenz and Jeremy Vuilleumier have successfully defended their master thesis (numbers 9 and 10 at LCSO). Congratulations!
February 5: The latest research results by Daniele Perrotta, Sophie Racine, Jeremy Vuilleumier and Florian de Nanteuil involving the [4+2]-annulations of aminocyclobutanes have been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00149).
February 1: The results of Maria Victoria Vita published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/ol5028333 ) involving the enantioselective synthesis of polycyclic carbocycles via an alkynylation–allylation–cyclization strategy have been highlighted in Synfacts (DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1379830).
January 29: The latest research results by Chun Chen involving the three-component synthesis of alkynyl sulfones have been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00015 ).
January 14: Our work on the alkynylation of thiols has been highlighted in chemistryworld.
January 3: The Research website of LCSO has been updated with the last exciting results from our group.
2014
December 17: The Christmas dinner has taken place at the Restaurant Watergate.
December 17: The latest research results by Reto Frei, Thibaut Courant and Matthew Wodrich involving the cyanation of thiols with benziodoxole reagents have been published in Chemistry – A European Journal (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406171 ).
November 17: Franck Le Vaillant from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France, joins the LCSO for his PhD studies. Welcome Franck!
November 13: A full account of the work of Reto Frei, Matthew Wodrich, Durga Hari, Pierre-Antoine Borin and Clément Chauvier on the alkynylation of thiols has now appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/ja5083014 ).
November 7: Florian de Nanteuil received a SNF postdoctoral fellowship to join the group of Prof. Chris Vanderwal at UC Irvine: Congratulations!
October 15: The dinner to celebrate the promotion of Jerome to associate professor has taken place at the Restaurant Les Chevreuils
October 15: The latest research results by Maria Victoria Vita involving the enantioselective synthesis of polycyclic carbocycles via an alkynylation–allylation–cyclization strategy have been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/ol5028333 ).
September 15: Romain Tessier from University Pierre et Marie Curie, France joins the LCSO for his PhD studies. Welcome Romain!
September 15: Felipe Saenz and Jérémy Vuilleumier from EPFL start their master thesis at LCSO.
September 15: The latest research results by Dr. Chun Chen involving the alkynylation of phosphorus derivatives with EBX reagents have been published in Chemical Communications (DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06851C ).
September 12: The annual group outing of LCSO has taken place together with the Zhu and Cramer group at the carting center in Payerne.
September 1: Paola Caramenti from University of Milano joins the LCSO for an internship. Welcome Paola!
August 5: Marko Stojanovic from EPFL joins the LCSO for a summer internship. Welcome Marko!
July 28: The latest research results by Eloisa Serrano and Florian de Nanteuil involving the extension of the scope of the [3+2] annulation of aminocyclopropanes have been published in Synlett as part of a cluster dedicated to activated cyclopropanes (DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1378512).
July 7: Charlotte Sornay from EPFL joins the LCSO for a summer internship. Welcome Charlotte!
June 27: Florian de Nanteuil has successfully defended his PhD after having passed the final exam on June 20. He is the fifth PhD student to finish his PhD at LCSO. Congratulation Florian and good luck for the future!
June 27: Our feature article describing the chemistry of aminocyclopropanes and aminocyclobutanes has now appeared in Chemical Communications (DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03194F ).
June 24: The latest research results by Sophie Racine, Florian de Nanteuil and Eloisa Serrano involving the synthesis of nucleoside analogues via [3+2] annulation have been published as a hot paper in Angewandte Chemie (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404832).
May 22: Jerome Waser has been appointed as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry by the ETH Board.
May 12: Maria Victoria Vita and Yifan Li have received the SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Chemical Society. Congratulations!
May 1: Dr. Durga Hari from the group of Prof Burkhard König at Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg joins the LCSO for his postdoctoral stay. Welcome!
April 22: The latest research results by Florian De Nanteuil, Eloisa Serrano and Daniele Perrotta involving the dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation of aminocyclopropanes has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/ja5024578).
March 2: Jerome Waser has been selected as a new member of the Young Academy of Europe.
February 3: Dr. Thibaut Courant from the group of Géraldine Masson at Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN), and Jérémy Vuilleumier (EPFL) join the LCSO for their postdoctoral stay and project study respectively. Welcome aboard!
January 20: Daniele Perrotta joins the LCSO for his PhD studies. Welcome Daniele!
January 10: The latest results published by Reto Frei involving the total synthesis of jerantinine E has been selected by the journal Synfacts to highlight its important insights (DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1340354).
2013
May 1: Dr. Durga Hari from the group of Prof Burkhard König at Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Regensburg joins the LCSO for his postdoctoral stay. Welcome!
April 22: The latest research results by Florian De Nanteuil, Eloisa Serrano and Daniele Perrotta involving the dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation of aminocyclopropanes has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/ja5024578).
December 1: Dr. Chun Chen from the group of Prof. Varinder Aggarwal at the University of Bristol joins the LCSO for a postdoctoral stay. Welcome Chun!
November 28: Jerome Waser receives the 2014 Werner Prize from the Swiss Chemical Society. Congratulations!
October 14: The latest research results by Reto Frei involving the first total synthesis of jerantinine E has been published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201305533). This natural product was biologically evaluated in collaboration with the groups of Florenz Sasse and Sandrine Gerber-Lemaire.
August 29: Yifan Li’s work describing the “Zinc–gold cooperative catalysis for the direct alkynylation of benzofurans” has been published in Beilstein J. Org. Chem. (DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.9.204).
August 16: Maria Victoria Vita wins the prize for the best poster and Reto Frei the award for the best oral presentation at the Swiss Summer School 2013 for Synthesis and Catalysis. Congratulations!
August 5: Sophie Racine and Eloisa Serrano have passed their first year exam. They are now definitively accepted in the doctoral program of EPFL. Congratulations!
July 24: Our recently developed thiol alkynylation method (DOI: 10.1021/ja4044196) has been highlighted on the EPFL homepage and by The Chemical Engineer-Today.
July 19: Florian De Nanteuil’s work describing the “Synthesis of Aminocyclobutanes by Iron-Catalyzed [2+2] Cycloaddition” has been published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201303803).
July 19: Jerome Waser has been awarded the ERC starting grant 2013. There will be consequently openings for both PhD students and postdoctoral fellows at LCSO around January 2014. For interested candidates, more information can be found under the following link: Openings in the Group Website.
July 1: The latest research results by Florian De Nanteuil and Joachim Loup involving “Catalytic Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Aminocyclopropanes” has been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/ol401616a).
June 28: Maria Victoria Vita wins one of the poster awards at the 14th Tetrahedron Symposium in Vienna, Austria. Congratulations!
June 18: The latest research efforts by Reto Frei involving “A Highly Chemoselective and Practical Alkynylation of Thiols” has been published as a communication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/ja4044196).
June 17: The latest research results by Maria Victoria Vita involving the “Azidation of Keto Esters and Silyl Enol Ethers with a Benzidoxole Reagent” has been published in Organic Letters (DOI: 10.1021/ol401229v).
May 17: The latest results of Davinia Fernández González and Jonathan P. Brand entitled Ethynylbenziodoxolones (EBX) as Reagents for the Ethynylation of Stabilized Enolates” have been published in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300266). This work also contains the first safety profiling of the EBX reagents done by Régis Mondière at Syngenta Crop Protection.
May 15: Florian De Nanteuil received the 2013 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Chemical Society. Congratulations!
May 10: The latest research efforts by Yifan Li and Jonathan P. Brand involving the “Gold-Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of 2- and 3-Alkynyl Furans” has been published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201302210).
April 8: Clément Chauvier from ENS Cachan joins the LCSO for his master work. Welcome!
March 20: The last results of the research of Stefano Nicolai and Raha Sedigh-Zadeh “Pd(0)-Catalyzed Alkene Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation with Aliphatic Bromoacetylenes” have been published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. (DOI: 10.1021/jo400254q ).
February 20: Reto Frei receives a prestigious Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship to continue his postdoctoral research work at LCSO. Congratulation!
February 18: Pierre-Antoine Borin, master student at EPFL, joins the LCSO for his semester project. Welcome!
February 18: The latest work of Gergely Tolnai, Stephanie Ganss and Jonathan Brand on the C2-selective direct alkynylation of indoles has been selected by the journal Synfacts for its important insights.
January 11: Stefano Nicolai has successfully defended his PhD. He is the fourth student to finish his thesis at LCSO. Congratulation!
2012
December 19: Sushi was on the menu for this years Christmas dinner.
December 18: The last results of the research of Gergely Tolnai, Stephanie Ganss and Jonathan Brand “C2-Selective Direct Alkynylation of Indoles” have been published in Organic Letters. (DOI: 10.1021/ol3031389 ).
December 13: Reto Frei has won the Firmenich prize for the best poster presentation at the CUSO Science Days 2012 in Geneva. Congratulation!
November 29: Stefano Nicolai has successfully passed his PhD exam. Congratulation!
November 22: Stefano Nicolai has won both a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship and a Von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship to support his stay in the group of Prof. Thorsten Bach at the TU München. Congratulations!
November 1: Fides Benfatti has started to work as a Team Leader R&D Chemistry at Syngenta Crop Protection. She is the first postdoctoral fellow of LCSO to join industry. Good luck for your future career!
October 18: Florian de Nanteuil won one of the Teaching Excellence Awards 2012. Congratulations!
October 1: Ugo Orcel from the Ecole Nationale Supéreure de Chimie de Montpellier joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
September 13: Reto Frei has won the runner up prize for his poster presentation at the Swiss Chemical Society Fall meeting at the ETH in Zürich. Congratulation!
September 3: Jonathan Brand has started to work as a development chemist at Givaudan. He is the first PhD student of LCSO to join industry. Good luck for your future career!
September 1: Ulrike Warzok, master student at the Freie Universität Berlin, joins the LCSO for an internship. Welcome!
August 30: Jerome Waser has won the Silver Medal of the European Young Chemist Award 2012 at the EUCHEMS conference in Prague.
August 15: The traditional summer group outing of LCSO has taken place at Signal de Bougy. Adventure park and Swin golf: again a full and enjoyable day!
August 6: Joachim Loup from EPFL joined the group for his master work. Welcome!
August 2: Sophie Racine from the University of Fribourg/Bern joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
July 17: Jerome Waser has been selected as a finalist for the European Young Chemist Award 2012. The final will take place on August 29, 2012 at the EUCHEMS conference in Prague.
July 17: Eloisa Serrano successfully defended her master work in Lyon, she is now back at LCSO, but as a first year PhD student. Congratulation!
July 16: Pascal Tripet, master student at the EPFL, joins the LCSO for a summer internship. Welcome!
June 30: Jonathan Brand has been selected to participate to the Roche Symposium – Leading Chemists. Congratulation!
June 22: Jonathan Brand has successfully defended his PhD. He is the third student to finish his thesis at LCSO. Congratulation!
April 18: Our tutorial review “Electrophilic alkynylation: the dark side of acetylene chemistry ” has been published in Chemical Society Reviews. (DOI: 10.1039/C2CS35034C )
March 29: Jonathan Brand has been selected as a finalist for the DSM Science & Technology Awards 2012. Congratulation!
March 29: The LCSO has joined the NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research) for chemical biology. A new PhD position on the synthesis of bioactive compounds becomes now available in addition to the PhD position on the development of catalytic methods.
March 22: The last results of the research of Jonathan Brand ” Synthesis of 1-[(Triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]-1λ3,2-benziodoxol-3(1H)-one and Alkynylation of Indoles, Thiophenes, and Anilines ” have been published as a practical synthetic procedure in Synthesis. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1290589 )
March 21: The last results of the research of Jonathan Brand ” Ethynyl Benziodoxolones for the Direct Alkynylation of Heterocycles: Structural Requirement, Improved Procedure for Pyrroles, and Insights into the Mechanism ” have been published in Chemistry a European Journal. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200200 )
March 16: The last results of the research of Fides Benfatti ” Catalytic Enantiospecific [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes with Ketones ” have been published in Chemistry a European Journal. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103971 )
February 24: The last work of Florian de Nanteuil on the synthesis of cyclopentylamines starting from aminocyclopropanes has been selected as “Synfact of the Month” by the journal Synfacts (doi/10.1055/s-0031-1289986).
February 21: As in 2010 and 2011, the LCSO receives a Roche Unrestricted Research Grant to support our work at EPFL on the synthesis and functionalization of heterocycles. We thank F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd for their continuing interest in our research and their precious support.
February 13: Eloisa Serrano from ENS Lyon joined LCSO for her master project. Welcome Eloisa!
February 6: Nicolas Guichard joined LCSO for his semester research project. Welcome Nicolas!
January 20: Filippo De Simone successfully defended his PhD! He is thesecond student to finish his thesis at the LCSO. Filippo will now join the group of Prof. Ben Davis in Oxford as a SNF postdoctoral fellow.
January 20: The last results of the research of Jonathan Brand ” Para-Selective Gold-Catalyzed Direct Alkynylation of Anilines ” have been published in Organic Letters. (DOI: 10.1021/ol203289v )
January 3: The LCSO welcomes three new members. Yifan Li joins the group as first year PhD student, Gergely Laszlo Tolnai joins the group as exchange PhD student and Ms. Véronique Bujard is the new administrative assistant of the LCSO. Welcome everyone!
2011
December 21: The last results of the research of Fides Benfatti ” Iron-Catalyzed [3 + 2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes with Aldehydes: Stereoselective Synthesis of Aminotetrahydrofurans ” have been published in Organic Letters. (DOI: 10.1021/ol203144v )
December 15: Filippo De Simone passed successfully his final PhD exam. Congratulations! He will have his public defense on January 20th.
December 1: The group Christmas dinner has taken place at the Restaurant “Le Guillaume Tell” in Aran.
November 25: Davinia Fernández González successfully defended her PhD! She is the first student to finish her thesis at the LCSO. Click here to view some pictures of Davinia’s public PhD defense.
November 24: The last results of the research of Filippo De Simone ” Formal Homo-Nazarov and Other Cyclization Reactions of Activated Cyclopropanes ” have been published in Chemistry a European Journal. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102583 )
November 18: Jerome Waser has been awarded the Schläfli Prize 2011 of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
November 9: The last results of the research of Stefano Nicolai ” Pd(0)-Catalyzed Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation of Olefins for the Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Pyrrolidines ” have been published in Organic Letters. (DOI: 10.1021/ol2029383 )
October 21: The last results of the research of Florian de Nanteuil ” Catalytic [3+2] Annulation of Aminocyclopropanes for the Enantiospecific Synthesis of Cyclopentylamines. ” have been published in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201106255)
October 13: Davinia Fernández González passed successfully her final PhD exam. Congratulation! She will have her public defense on November 25.
October 3: Etienne Donckele joined LCSO for his semester research project. Welcome Etienne!
October 1: Dr. Reto Frei form the group of Prof. Helen E. Blackwell at the University of Wisconsin-Madison joins the LCSO for a postdoctoral stay. His research is supported by a Swiss State grant in the framework of the COST action CM0804. Welcome Reto!
October 1: The LCSO is now four years old! A short review of the group’s research has appeared in a special issue of Chimia at the occasion of the 10th birthday of the ISIC institute at EPFL. (DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2011.649 )
September 21: Florian de Nanteuil passed successfully his first year exam and is now definitively accepted in the doctoral school of the EPFL. Congratulation!
September 16: Stefano Nicolai wins the prize for poster presentation at the HTI conference. Congratulation!
September 9: Filippo De Simone wins the first prize for poster presentation at the Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulation!
September 7: Jonathan Brand receives an award for one of best contribution to the Syngenta Workshop for Talented Young Chemists. Congratulation!
September 2: Maria Victoria Vita wins an award for one of the best poster presentations during the CUSO summer school 2011 in Villars. Congratulation!
August 16: The LCSO summer group outing 2011 has taken place at the Lake of Gruyère. Kayaking, hiking and grilling: it was a nice and full day!
August 8: Aurore Delachat, bachelor student at EPFL, joins LCSO for a summer internship. Welcome Aurore!
August 2: Maria Victoria Vita, master student from the University of Bologna, joins LCSO for her PhD. She will be supported by a Swiss National Science Foundation grant. Welcome Victoria!
July 18: Nicolas Gaeng, bachelor student at EPFL, joins LCSO for a summer internship. Welcome Nicolas!
July 1: As in 2010, the LCSO receives a Roche Unrestricted Research Grant to support our work at EPFL on the synthesis and functionalization of heterocycles. We thank F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd for their continuing interest in our research and their precious support.
May 27: The selected PhD candidate accepted the offer from LCSO. All currently funded PhD and postdoc positions are consequently attributed.
May 18: Stefano Nicolai received the 2011 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Chemical Society. Congratulation!
May 5: Our latest work developed by Jonathan Brand ” One-pot gold-catalyzed synthesis of 3-silylethynyl indoles from o-alkynylanilines ” has been published in the thematic issue “Gold catalysis for organic synthesis” (Ed. F. Dean Toste) of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. (DOI:10.3762/bjoc.7.65)
April 15: The last results of the research of Stefano Nicolai” A Palladium-Catalyzed Aminoalkynylation Strategy towards Bicyclic Heterocycles: Synthesis of Trachelanthamidine. ” have been published in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201100718)
March 28: The LCSO received a grant from the Secrétariat d’état à l’éducation et à la recherche (SER) to support his project: “Total Synthesis and Modification of Gonioma and Aspidosperma Alkaloids: New Anticancer Agents” in the framework of the COST CM0804 collaboration (Chemical Biology with Natural Products). This grant will support a new postodoc position at LCSO, starting in October 2011.
March 23: The LCSO received a Swiss National Science Foundation grant to support his project on “New Catalytic C-C Bond Forming Reactions: Asymmetric Alkynylation of Enolates“. This grant will support a new PhD position at LCSO, starting between June 2011 and January 2012.
February 15: Our SYNPACTS highlight on Filippo De Simone Work entitled ” Cyclization of Aminocyclopropanes in Indole Alkaloids Synthesis” has been published in Synlett. (doi/10.1055/s-0030-1259553)
February 15: After the opening ceremony in Bern, the year of chemistry 2011 has officially begun in Switzerland.
2010
December 21: Davinia Fernandez Gonzalez wins the third price for the Security Award 2010. Congratulation!
December 10: The Master Projects 2011 are now available for a master at LCSO.
December 3: The LCSO received a Roche Unrestricted Research Grant to support our work at EPFL on the synthesis and functionalization of heterocycles. We thank F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd for their interest in our research and their precious support.
November 20: Our reagent TIPS-EBX is now commercially available from Sigma-Aldrich! (Catalogue number: 728365)
November 4: Davinia Fernandez Gonzalez wins one of the teaching excellence awards 2010. Congratulation!
September 15: Florian de Nanteuil joined the group for his PhD. Welcome Florian!
September 6: Antti Neuvonen joined the group for his master work. Welcome Antti!
September 2: Our featured article ” Benziodoxole-based hypervalent iodine reagents for atom-transfer reactions” has been published in Chemical Communications. (DOI:10.1039/C0CC02265A)
August 20: The last results of the research of Jonathan Brand ” Direct Alkynylation of Thiophenes: Cooperative Activation of TIPS-EBX with Gold and Bronsted Acids” have been published in Angewandte Chemie. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201003179)
July 20: Our latest work developed by Davinia Fernandez Gonzalez ” Ethynyl-1,2-benziodoxol-3(1 H)-one (EBX): An Exceptional Reagent for the Ethynylation of Keto, Cyano, and Nitro Esters ” has been published in Chemistry A European Journal. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201001539)
June 23: Our latest work developed by Filippo De Simone “Catalytic Selective Cyclizations of Aminocyclopropanes: Formal Synthesis of Aspidospermidine and Total Synthesis of Goniomitine” has been selected for the Inside Cover in Angewandte Chemie.
June 8: Our latest work developed by Filippo De Simone is now available ASAP in Angewandte Chemie : “Catalytic Selective Cyclizations of Aminocyclopropanes: Formal Synthesis of Aspidospermidine and Total Synthesis of Goniomitine”.
May 3: Jonathan Brand received the 2010 SCNAT Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences. Congratulation!
April 12: A PhD offer made by the LCSO to a candidate has been accepted. There are consequently no open position at LCSO any more.
April 06: Fides Benfatti joined our group for Post-Doc as a Marie Curie Fellowship. Welcome Fides!
March 26: Mr. Antti Neuvonen from Aalto University Helsinki received the ISIC Master Grant to finance his master work at the LCSO. He will join the group in September 2010. Congratulation!
March 22: A SNF (Swiss Science National Foundation) grant is obtained by the LCSO to finance the project “Cyclization Reactions: New Access towards Active Substances against Cancer and Neurologic Diseases”. A new PhD position is now available at LCSO!
March 1: Our work on Direct Alkynylation of Indole and Pyrrole Heterocycles has been highlighted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200906755) .
February 23: Our latest work developed by Jonathan Brand is now available ASAP in Synlett : “Synthesis of Chiral Bifunctional (Thio)Urea N-Heterocyclic Carbenes”. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219543) .
February 19: Ms. Stephanie Ganss from Technische Universität Darmstadt received the ISIC Master Grant to finance her master work at the LCSO. She will join the group in June 2010. Congratulation!
February 1: Baihua Ye successfully defended is master thesis at LCSO. Congratulation!
2009
December 11: Our latest work developed by Stefano Nicolai with the help of Stephane Erard and Davinia Fernandez is now available ASAP in Org. Lett.: “Pd-Catalyzed Intramolecular Oxyalkynylation of Alkenes with Hypervalent Iodine” . (DOI: 10.1021/ol9027286) . Congratulation!
December 8: After the inaugural workshop at Certosa di Pontignano in Siena, Italy, the LCSO definitively joined COST call CM0804: Chemical Biology with Natural Products. This collaboration network will allow the LCSO to use its synthetic skills in biologically relevant challenges.
November 27: Stefano Nicolai successfully passed his first year exam. He is now definitively accepted to the EPFL doctoral program. Congratulation!
November 5: Our latest work developed by Jonathan Brand is now available ASAP in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: “Direct Alkynylation of Indole and Pyrrole Heterocycles” . (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200905419) . Our work has been selected as Hot Paper.
October 9: Tanguy Saget successfully defended is Master thesis in Montpellier. Congratulation!
October 1: A collaboration agreement has been signed between the LCSO and Lonza for master projects.
September 25: Jonathan Brand successfully passed his first year exam. He is now definitively accepted to the EPFL doctoral program. Congratulation!
September 15: Baihua Ye from EPFL joins the LCSO for his master work.
July 29: Summer group outing at ” Glacier d’Aletsch”.
July 04: Julie Charpentier from EPFL joins the group for a summer internship.
April 27: Filippo De Simone received the 2009 SCNAT Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences. Congratulation!
April 01: Tanguy Saget from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier joined the group for his master work.
March 23: LCSO group meetings are now online! Every week, problems and literature abstracts discussed will be reported.
January 30: Filippo De Simone successfully passed his first year exam. He is now definitively accepted to the EPFL doctoral program. Congratulation!
January 29: The first independant work of LCSO developed by Filippo is now available ASAP in Org. Lett. : “Catalytical Formal Homo-Nazarov Cyclization” . (DOI: 10.1021/ol802970g)
January 12: Jose Ignacio Osuna Siles from the University of Granada joined the group for an Erasmus internship.
January 6: Stefano Nicolai joined the group as a PhD student.
January 5: Letizia Gullifa joined the group for her apprenticeship training under the supervision of Filippo.
2008
December 17: Group Christmas Party at Cafe de l’Eveche.
December 12: Jerome received the Thieme Journal Award 2009.
December 5: Mr. Tanguy Saget from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier received the ISIC Master Grant to finance his master work at the LCSO. He will join the group in April 2009. Congratulation!
November 22: Jonathan Brand received the “GlaxoSmithKline Certificate for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Organic Chemistry 2007-2008 Academic Year” for the best master grade at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier: Congratulation!
September 29: Riccardo Torosantucci joins the group for an internship.
September 26: Davinia Fernandez-Gonzalez passed her end of first year exam and is definitively accepted in the doctoral program of the EPFL. Congratulation Davinia!
September 17: Jonathan Brand joins the group as a PhD student.
September 1: Stéphane Erard joins the group for his master work.
August 26: Summer group outing at Lake Tanay-Grammont together with the Chemical Synthesis Laboratory.
July 7: Noviyan Darmawan joins the group for an Erasmus internship.
Mai 5: Julien Andres join the group for a summer internship.
April 1: A SNF (Swiss Science National Foundation) grant is obtained by the LCSO to finance the project “New Catalytic C-C Bonds Forming Reactions”.
January 12: After Installation of the glove box and solvent system, the laboratory is now fully functional.
January 1: Filippo De Simone joins the group for a PhD after having successfully mastered all the hurdles of the application process.
2007
October 10: The laboratory is baptized as “Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic Synthesis” and becomes a new unity of the Institute.
October 1: Judit Plattet joins the group as an administrative assistant.
October 1: Davinia Fernandez-Gonzalez joins the group as the first PhD student.
October 1: Jérôme Waser is appointed as assistant professor in organic chemistry at the EPFL