Matthias Krumbs was honoured with the poster price of the 27th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Congress in Kyoto for his work on the Total Synthesis of a Pentasaccharide Fragment from Arabinogalactan and its Application for Allergy Prevention. Congratulations!
The article Visible Light Enables Aerobic Iodine Catalyzed Glycosylation was selected as cover picture of issue 28 of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry.
We congratulate Lisa Marie Kammer who was honoured with the MDPI poster award for her work on Visible Light-Induced Sulfonylation/Arylation of Styrenes in a Double Radical Three-Component Photoredox Reaction at the XVIII International Conference on Heterocycles in Bioorganic Chemistry (Bioheterocycles) in Ghent, Belgium.
The article Synthesis of 2,3-Dihydro-4-Pyridones, 4-Quinolones and 2,3-Dihydro-4-Azocinones by Visible-Light Photocatalytic Aerobic Dehydrogenation was selected as Very Important Paper and also appears in ChemPhotoChem Hot Topic: Photochemistry and ChemSusChem Hot Topic: Sustainable Chemistry.
The recently published review article "Non-toxic cyanide sources and cyanating agents" was selected for the inside front cover of the latest issue of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
The article "Photoredox-Alkenylation of Carboxylic Acids and Peptides: Synthesis of Covalent Enzyme Inhibitors" published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry was selected for "ACS Editors' Choice" (View ACS LiveSlides presentation) and as cover picture.
The recently published article "Synthesis of α-Aminonitriles using Aliphatic Nitriles, α-Amino Acids, and Hexacyanoferrate as Universally Applicable Non-Toxic Cyanide Sources" was selected for the cover picture of the latest issue of Green Chemistry.
Within the framework of the Syntax Workshop organized by Prof. Till Opatz, participants from African and European universities came together on August 7-9 to discuss current aspects of green chemistry and modern synthetic methods in the synthesis of natural products and pharmaceutical ingredients. The three-day workshop, offered the participants the opportunity to get detailed insights in state of the art topics like biocatalysis, flow technology, photochemistry and xylochemistry by a remarkable team of lecturers like Roger Sheldon, Charles de Koning, Kennedy Ngwira (all Johannesburg), Hans-Joachim Knölker (Dresden), Oliver Kappe (Graz), Hans-Günther Schmalz (Köln) and Till Opatz (Mainz).
We thank all speakers and participants for the great time!
In a very successful collaboration between the healthcare company Sanofi and our group, a series of natural fatty acids, known as FAHFAs were synthesized and their antidiabetic action was investigated. Contrary to previous reports, it was found that none of these molecules was able to achieve positive effects on clearly defined endpoints in metabolism. In the hope of a constructive discussion on the discrepancy between the two studies, these results have now been published in Cell Metabolism.
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The recently published article "A Regio‐ and Diastereoselective Anodic Aryl–Aryl Coupling in the Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (−)‐Thebaine" was selected for the cover picture of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie.