Catalysis – Synthesis – Organometallics – Mechanisms
Our goal is the discovery of new reactivity in order to overcome some of the toughest problems we are facing in organic chemistry today. We are developing fundamentally new catalytic bond formation and cleavage reactions, design new catalysts for these and other transformations, and investigate the underlying reaction mechanisms in depth using a variety of experimental and theoretical methods. Our couplings and disconnections lead to new synthetic strategies and give access to valuable precursors and building blocks for medicinal and physical organic chemistry. |
Latest News
2023-06-19 — Collaboration with the Dyrager and Swartling groups published in Chem. Eur. J., Robin and Hussain joined the group
A collaborative study of the photophysical and cytotoxic properties as well as the light-induced rearrangement of one of our indolin-3-ones has just been in Chem. Eur. J. (see here). Robin and Hussain joined the group for summer internships.
2023-02-14 — Synlett Account, new group members, and webpage update
An account on our higher-order titanium(III)-catalyzed methods has been published in Synlett — check it out here. Furthermore, our group has grown substantially! We welcome Amanda, Helina, and Lukas and took the opportunity to update this webpage a bit.
2022-05-27 — New publication together with the Gansäuer group
We just published an article in ChemCatChem on the use of titanocenes as tunable single-electron transfer catalysts. The work compiles a large amount of reduction potentials and other data gathered by cyclic voltrammetry of the last years in our labs. It further discusses how the reduction potential of these complexes can be tuned to improve low-valent titanium catalyzed reactions.
2022-04-04 — New PhD and Bachelor students, new group photo
Ritu joined the group for her PhD studies at Uppsala University. She previously completed her M.Sc. at Regensburg University. Robin will be carrying out his Bachelor thesis project in our group. Välkommna!
2022-03-01 — Change in group members and publications
2021-12-09 — We are hiring!
Two PhD positions and a postgraduate research position (1 year) will be announced in the coming days. Please have a look at www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs/ and the section "open positions" on this website.
2021-11-19 — Professorsinstallationen 2021
The 2021 University Inauguration of Professors took place on Friday Nov 19th. Among 85 new professors, Jan has officially been inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor in a ceremonial act after giving his inauguration lecture on Thursday Nov18th. Read more about the Inauguration of Professors here.
2021-11-07 — New website launched
Alive and kickin' ! Our group has found a new home on this newly designed website after moving to Uppsala in May 2021. We are still in the progress of adding new content, so stay tuned!