November 2023: Second paper from this collaboration with the Leitch group at the University of Victoria! Congrats to Jingjun, Tommy and Francois who were able to develop active, selective and stable single component precatalysts for asymmetric allylic alkylation applications. The paper just got accepted in Nature Communications.
October 2023: Congrats to Elias for passing his viva. Thanks to Sami Lakhdar and Chris Jones for examining his work.
March 2023: Nicolas and Sidonie's paper on the DNA-templated [2+2] photocycloaddition of aplysinospins has been accepted in Chemical Communications. Another paper from this amazing collaboration with the Poupon, Smietana and Evanno groups.
August 2022: Nicolas and Sidonie's paper on the development of modified DNA/RNA hybrids for asymmetric catalysis has been accepted in JACS Au. This is also paper #20 from our collaboration with the Smietana group.
June 2023: Congrats to Tommy for passing his viva. Thanks to Ross Denton and Oriol Planas for examining his work.
May 2022: François, Sidonie, Tania and Luuk's work on the enantioselective synthesis of γ-butenolides through a C5-selective palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation of siloxyfurans in collaboration with the Leitch group and Eli Lilly has been accepted in Nature Synthesis.
February 2022: Congrats to François for passing his viva. Thanks to Guy Lloyd-Jones and Paul Davies for examining his work.
January 2022: Tommy's paper on the functionalisation of hydantoins under phase-transfer catalysis has been accepted in ACS Organic & Inorganic Au.
May 2021: Elias' and Jinlei's paper on the difluoromethylation of enol silanes under photoredox conditions has been accepted in Organic Letters.
July 2020: Congrats to Tanya for passing her viva. First remote viva for the SA group. Thanks to Pat Guiry and Xacobe Cambeiro for examining her work.
July 2020: Nico and Martin's paper to prepare enantioenriched branched acrylonitriles is finally out in Organic Letters.
April 2020: In these hard times, our last paper on the synthesis of enantioenriched branched acrylonitriles has been uploaded on ChemRxiv. Well done Nico and Martin!
March 2020: Tania's paper on the aerobic oxidation of alcohols with DDQ/HNO3 is out now in OPR&D
January 2020: Justine's work on DNA-based asymmetric inverse electron-demand hetero-Diels-Alder has just been accepted in Chem. Eur. J.
December 2019: A new doctor from the SA group, Congrats Dr. Sidonie Aubert!
December 2019: Sidonie and Marine's review on spatial and temporal control of chemical processes is out in Nature Rev. Chem.
October 2019: Nico's paper on the sequential C-selective electrophilic difluoromethylation/Pd-catalyzed decarboxylative protonation is finally out in Org. Lett.
July 2019: Martin successfully passed his viva. Congratulations Dr. Cattoen!
May 2019: We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on a project involving asymmetric catalysis and multi-step synthesis. See details here
May 2019: Congratulations to Nico for his work on Sequential Difluoromethylation which has just appeared online on ChemRxiv.
May 2019: Congratulations to Justine for her review in ChemCatChem from our collaboration with Michael Smietana
April 2019: The group welcomes Louis who is going to stay with us during the summer
March 2019: Congratulations to Tania and Sidonie for their paper which just got accepted in Org. Lett.
February 2019: Congratulations to Sidonie who won the best poster prize at the 2019 RSC Regional Organic Meeting held at the University of Greenwich.
January 2019: Congratulations to Justine, Sidonie and Nicolas. Their paper on DNA-based asymmetric catalysis was accepted for publication in Chemical Science.
January 2019: Congratulations to Tao. His second paper on Pd-AAA was accepted for publication in Organic Letters.
October 2018: The group welcomes Célia and Elias who will be spending some time with us.
August 2018: Tao's paper on Pd-AAA was highlighted in Synfacts.
August 2018: Nicolas' and Adam's paper on DNA-templated chemistry was highlighted in Nature Reviews Chemistry.
July 2018: Congratulations to Nicolas and Adam for their work on DNA-templated chemistry which was accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie.
April 2018: What a team !!! Meet François, Ines, Martin, Claire, Tania, Kalina, Sidonie, Luuk and Nico.
April 2018: Congratulations to Tao for his work on palladium-catalysed allylic alkylation of succinimideswhich was accepted for publication in Chem. Eur. J.
March 2018: The group welcomes Kalina and Claire who will be spending some time with us.
February 2018: Congratulations to Marllon for his work on palladium-catalysed allylic alkylation of 4-substituted isoxazolidin-5-ones, which was accepted for publication in Chem. Eur. J.
January 2018: Sidonie and Martin's work in collaboration with the Kostakis Lab on dinucleating Schiff base ligands in Zn/4f coordination chemistry was accepted in Dalton Trans
January 2018: The group welcomes Ines and Valentin who will be spending some time with us.
January 2018: Back in London after spending a week in India.
November 2017: Congratulations to Martin, Nicolas and Mansour for their work on palladium-catalysed allylic alkylation of hydroxyphosphonateswhich was accepted for publication in Adv. Synth. & Catal.
October 2017: The group welcomes Francois, Nicolas, Bilal, Sachi and Franchesca.
September 2017: COST CHAOS - A fantastic initiative - Meeting in Bath
September 2017: My second Gregynog Synthesis Meeting. Still love it.
August 2017: Another great GECO
May 2017: The group welcomes Susnata to initiate what is going to be a fantastic collaboration with the Maiti group at IIT Bombay.
May 2017: Great talks at the 23rd Lakeland Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry in Grasmere
April 2017: Our review on DNA-based asymmetric catalysis is now online!
April 2017: The group welcomes Louis and Jennifer. They both joined the team for a four-months placement.
January 2017: Congratulations to Marllon and Jeremy for their work pertaining to some Pd-AAA chemistry applied to butyrolactoneswhich was accepted for publication in Org. Lett.
January 2017: The group welcomes a few new members. François joined us from ENSCM for his M.Sc. thesis, while Tanya and Nicolas just started their PhD.
December 2016: Merry Christmas everyone
November 2016: Congratulations to Marine. After the L’OREAL-UNESCO Women in Science fellowship she received the Prix Le Monde de la recherche 2016
November 2016: Congratulations to Martin and El Hachemia for their work pertaining to Tsuji-Trost type C-allylation of hydrazones which has just been accepted for publication in Chem. Commun.
September 2016: Met some great people and heard some cool chemistry at the Gregynog Synthesis Meeting
July 2016: The team welcomes Samiha and Bilal who will be spending the next month with us 🙂
June 2016: The team welcomes Ege and Bengi who will be spending the next couple of months with us 🙂
June 2016: Congratulations to Nicolas and Erica for their work pertaining to RNA-based asymmetric catalysis which has just been accepted for publication in Chem. Commun.
May 2016: The team welcomes Nicolas and Eliott who will be spending the next three months with us.
April 2016: Congratulations to Karen, Nicolas, Erica, Rinah and Aude for their work in the field of DNA-based asymmetric catalysis which has just been accepted for publication in ACS Catal.
March 2016: Our paper entitled DNA-cellulose: An economical, fully recyclable and highly effective chiral biomaterial for asymmetric catalysis was highlighted in Synfacts.
January 2016: The team welcomes Sidonie Aubert and Oscar Gayraud who just started their PhD and Masters degree respectively. Sidonie and Oscar will both be working on some new biohybrid-mediated asymmetric catalysis project.
October 2015: The team welcomes Martin Cattoen who just started his PhD. Martin will be involved in the DNA project.
October 2015: Officially started at Queen Mary University of London
October 2015: Congrats to Marine who successfully defended her PhD today
October 2015: Congratulations to Marine who is one of the 2015 awardees of the L'OREAL-UNESCO Women in Science fellowship
October 2015: Officially promoted to CNRS Research Director
September 2015: Here it is ... the CNRS bronze medal
March 2015: Our paper entitled DNA-cellulose: An economical, fully recyclable and highly effective chiral biomaterial for asymmetric catalysis is featured on the front cover of the latest issue of Chem. Commun.
March 2015: Our paper entitled High Spatiotemporal control of spontaneous reactions using ultrasound-triggered composite droplets has just been highlighted in Advances in Engineering.
March 2015: Our paper focused on the use of cellulose-supported ct-DNA in asymmetric catalysis has been highlighted in the CNRS website.
March 2015: Congratulations to Marine for her work pertaining to microfluidic mixing which has just been accepted for publication in Lab on a Chip.
February 2015: Our paper entitled DNA-cellulose: An economical, fully recyclable and highly effective chiral biomaterial for asymmetric catalysis has been highlighted in Chemistry World.
January 2015: Congratulations to Erica and Nicolas for their work pertaining to DNA-based asymmetric catalysis which has just been accepted for publication in Chem. Commun.
November 2014: Just came back from my trip to India. Had a blast. Met some fantastic chemists everywhere I went; IIS Bangalore, NCL Pune, IIT Kanpur, IICT Hyderabad, IIT Mumbai and at Syngenta in Goa.
November 2014: Congratulations to Tyffa who just got an offer from Merck in the US and good luck to Amandine who's starting her postdoc at Syngenta.
October 2014: The team welcomes Morgan Languet and Nicolas Duchemin who just started their PhD and Masters degree respectively. Morgan will be working on some new C-H activation reactions while Nicolas will handle the DNA project.
October 2014: Congratulations to Amandine who just got an offer from Syngenta for a postdoc.
June 2014: Our review entitled "Recent developments in alkyne borylations" has been accepted for publication in Tetrahedron.
May 2014: Congratulations to Erica who just got a position as a CNRS researcher. Erica will be joining Dr Laurent Micouin’s group at the Université René Descartes (Paris VI)
May 2014: Congratulations to Marine for her work on the spatiotemporal control of spontaneous reactions which has just been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
April 2014: The team welcomes Marllon Nascimento de Oliveira who just started his PhD. Marllon will be working on some new Pd-AAA reactions
February 2014: I passed my "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" last week. Thank you so much everyone for making that day so special.
January 2014: Just received the 2014 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award. Yay!
November 2013: Congratulations to Jérémy who passed his PhD viva and who will be joining Professor A. Zakarian's group as a PDRA. Good luck
October 2013: Our paper on mirror DNA-based asymmetric catalysis has been highlighted in the CNRS website.
October 2013: Congratulations to Jérémy, Saran, Sébastien, Alexis, Oscar and Candice for their work on the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation of allyl dienol carbonates published in full as an Account in Synlett.
September 2013: Congratulations to Jocelyn and Erica for their work on DNA-based asymmetric catalysis published in Angewandte Chemie.
September 2013: Congratulations to Amandine and Martin for their work on the non-enzymatic acylative kinetic resolution of allylamines published in Chem. Commun.
July 2013: I had a blast at the 5th Young Investigator Workshop of the EuCheMS which was held in Marseille. Got to meet some great people and listen to some cool chemistry.
May 2013: Congratulations to Marine. Her abstract "Ultrasound-induced bioorthogonal chemistry in-situ using composite droplets" has been accepted as one of the finalists in the Student Paper Competition at the 2013 IEEE-UFFC joint symposium which will be held in Prague in July.
January 2013: Congratulations to Jeremy, Oscar and Candice for their work on Pd-AAA published in Angewandte Chemie.
January 2013: Welcome to our new M2 student Rinah Joseph
January 2013: The team welcomes Dr. Erica Benedetti who joins as a PDRA. Erica will be working on our DNA-based asymmetric catalysis project funded by the ANR
October 2012: Modern Tools for the Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Molecules is finally out !
September 2012: Congratulations to Amandine and Sarah for their work on the non-enzymatic kinetic resolution of propargylamines published in Chem. Commun.
September 2012: Congratulations to Aude, Tom and Julian for their work on the total synthesis of myxothiazole Z, melithiazole G and cystothiazole F published in Chem. Commun.
June 2012: Congratulations to Jeremy for his work on furan chemistry published in Angewandte Chemie.
April 2012: Congratulations to Tyffa who passed his PhD viva and who will be joining Professor K. C. Nicolaou's group as a PDRA. Good luck
January 2012: Congratulations to Tyffa, Raphael and Julian for their work on the total synthesis of lyngbouilloside aglycon published in Org. Lett.
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