News Archive
2023
2023-10-01
Ajit and Ronit joined the group as postdocs. Welcome aboard!
2023-09-15
Kacper has successfully defended his thesis entitled: "Synthesis of triaryl phosphines and phosphine oxides by metal-free P-arylation with diaryliodonium salts" and has been awarded the M.Sc. degree. Congratulations!
2023-08-09
Our collaborative work with the group of Prof. Joanna Sulkowska from CeNT UW about the mechanism of methyl transfer in Nep1 enzyme is published in Comput. Struct. Biotechnol. J. Congratulations to all the Authors!
2023-07-13
Somayyeh's and Robert's paper on the electrochemical intramolecular oxidative spiro-oxacyclization of naphthol and phenol derivatives is published in Synthesis. Congratulations!
2023-07-10
Aliaksandr, a biotechnology student from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, has joined the group for a summer internship. Welcome aboard!
2023-06-26
Natalia's paper on the electrochemical asymmetric diacetoxylation of styrenes mediated by chiral iodoarene catalyst is published in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations!
2023-06-26
Sudeep has successfully defended his thesis entitled: "Novel synthetic reactions employing hypervalent iodine compounds: oxidations and arylations" and has been awarded the Ph.D. degree. Congratulations!
2023-06-21
Irek has successfully defended his thesis entitled: "Oxidative dearomatizing methoxylation of phenols under galvanostatic conditions" and has been awarded the M.Sc. degree with honors. Congratulations!
2023-05-22
Marcin has participated in the Ekiden Relay Marathon as a guest member in one of the Faculty of Chemistry teams. Congratulations to all runners for great results: [Team 1][Team 2]
2023-05-19
The preprint of Natalia's work on the asymmertic electrochemical diacetoxylation of styrenes using a chiral iodoarene electrocatalyst has been added to ChemRxiv.
2023-05-09
Postdoc positions availableWe are looking for candidates for postdoctoral researchers. See the Vacancies section for details.
2023-04-11
The preprint of Somayyeh's and Robert's work on the electrochemical spirolactonization and spiroetherification of arenols has been added to ChemRxiv.
2023-03-30
Our undergrad student Ireneusz Tomczyk has been announced the recipient of the Ministry of Education and Science scholarship for significant scientific achievements for academic year 2022/2023. Congratulations!
2023-03-22
The preprint of our collaborative work with the group of Joanna Sulkowska on the modelling of Nep1 enzyme and its catalytic mechanism has been added to bioRxiv.
2023-01-20
Sudeep's paper on the metal-free S-arylation of phosphorothioate diesters and related compounds with diaryliodonium salts is published in Organic Letters. Congratulations!
2023-01-11
We bid farewell to Abhishek. Good luck with your future endeavors!
2022
2022-10-13
The preprint of Sudeep's work on the metal-free arylation of phosphorothioates and related compounds has been added to ChemRxiv.
2022-09-05
Karol's and Irek's work on the enantioselective dearomatizing para-methoxylation of phenols is published in Tetrahedron Lett. Congratulations!
2022-07-14
Abhishek's work on the dearomatizing Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction with pyridinium salts as electrophiles is published in Adv. Synth. Catal. Congratulations!
2022-04-13
The work by the group of Joanna Kargul and others on graphene functionalized with metal-organic wires, with a small synthetic contribution from our laboratory, is published in Chem. Mater. Congratulations to everybody involved for great collaboration!
2022-04-11
Position availableWe offer a position for a Ukrainian scientist, who came to Poland after 24 February 2022. Please see the announcement for details.
2022-04-01
We have participated in the ACS Spring 2022 Meeting in San Diego. High profile science, nice presentations, and good time in sunny California!
2022-02-28
The preprint of Abhishek's work on the Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction with N-alkylpyridinium electrophiles has been added to ChemRxiv.
2022-01-01
Marcin has been announced the recipient of the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award for 2022! The Award is presented every year to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career as assistant or junior professors.
2021
2021-12-20
Sudeep's, Natalia's, and Adams's work on the arylation of thiols with diaryliodonium salts is published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. Congratulations!
2021-11-10
Robert has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
2021-10-18
The preprint of Sudeep's, Natalia's, and Adams's work on the arylation of thiols with diaryliodonium salts has been added to ChemRxiv.
2021-10-12
Somayyeh has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
2021-10-09
Marcin delivered a talk at the Modern Organic Synthesis Symposium organized in honor of the 80th birthday of Professor Janusz Jurczak. We extend our sincere congratulations to Prof. Jurczak on his great jubilee!
2021-09-20
Natalia has successfully defended her Master thesis entitled "Synthesis of aryl sulfides by arylation of sulfur nucleophiles with diaryliodonium salts". Congratulations!
2021-07-14
Irek has successfully defended his Bachelor thesis entitled "Synthesis of fluorescent probe for studies of NFκB pathway". Congratulations!
2021-07-08
Adam has successfully defended his thesis and has been awarded the Ph.D. degree with honors. Deepest congratulations!
2021-06-22
Ph.D. defense
1st of July 2021 at 10:00, Adam Rajkiewicz will defend his thesis entitled "Novel synthetic methods based on hypervalent iodine compounds as functional groups donors: N–heterocyclic carbene catalysis and beyond". The dissertation will be held remotely and everybody interested in participating can obtain the access link on request by e-mailing rnd.chem@uw.edu.pl. We warmly invite you to join Adam on this special day!
2021-03-30
Ph.D. student positions availableWe are looking for candidates interested in pursuing the Ph.D. program in our group. See the Vacancies section for details.
2021-03-30
Postdoc position availableWe are looking for candidates for a postdoctoral researcher. See the Vacancies section for details.
2021-02-23
Our two undergrad students, Natalia Wojciechowska and Ireneusz Tomczyk, have been announced the recipients of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarships for exceptional research achievements. Congratulations!
2020
2020-11-02
Abhishek has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
2020-09-30
We bid farewell to Adam. Good luck with your future endeavors!
2020-09-16
Sudeep's and Manoj's paper on the oxidative phenolic coupling leading to Pummerer's ketone is published in Tetrahedron Lett. Congratulations!
2020-07-01
Karol's and Irek's paper, made in collaboration with Dr. Aneta Drabinska from the Faculty of Physics UW and the group of Dr. Renata Solarska from CeNT UW, on the mechanism of oxidative dearomatization of phenols by hypervalent iodine(III) reagents is published in Chem. Eur. J. Congratulations!
2020-06-23
Our collaborative work with the groups of Prof. Joanna Sulkowska from CeNT UW and Prof. Ya-Ming Hou from Thomas Jefferson University about the mechanism of methyl transfer in TrmD enzyme is published in ACS Catalysis. Big congratulations to Agata.
2020-04-10
The preprint of Karol's and Irek's work, made in a collaboration with Dr. Aneta Drabinska from the Faculty of Physics and the group of Dr. Renata Solarska at CeNT, on the mechanism of oxidative dearomatization of phenols by hypervalent iodine(III) reagents has been added to ChemRxiv.
2020-03-12
Marcin has received the University of Warsaw Rector's Distinction.
2020-02-28
Postdoc position avaliable
We are looking for candidates for a postdoctoral researcher, please see the Vacancies section for details.
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