Leonori Lab

🎓A fully funded PhD position in PHOTOCATALYSIS is available in the Ruffoni Research Group at Kiel University. 📝 📩send: Letter of motivation, CV, MSc and BSc certificates compiled into a single PDF by 25.04.2025 to:📧 aruffoni@oc.uni-kiel.de Subject: PhD-Ruffoni

Checkout the Front Cover Art for our manuscript: "Photocatalytic Strategy for Decyanative Transformations Enabled by Amine-Ligated Boryl Radical (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c04701)" in @JOC_OL (@ACSPublications) #MyACSCover

If you wonder about how to harness innate excited-state reactivity in TM photocatalysis to design new synthetic methods, you can find some guidelines and a rationalization attending to orbitals in this Perspective, just published in @ACSCatalysis : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… (1/3)

Congratulations to the authors Thiago, Connie, @dbyildiz1, @Martina66310480 and @alexandros4285

Happy to share our latest results in @angew_chemie on the photochemical permutation of indazoles into benzimidazoles @RWTH Also, make sure you check a related work from the @SarpongGroup also in @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Join our team! We are seeking passionate PDRA and PhD candidates interested in exploring synthetic methodologies and photochemical transformations. 💡#PhDOpportunity #SyntheticChemistry #Photochemistry #JoinOurTeam🧪

Discover the latest research of Hairong Lyu @HairongLyu and co-workers highlighting the use of a sp²-sp³ #diboron reagent to access diverse functionalized olefins and acylboranes 🧪 Learn more 👉thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…

Light-driven method simplifies synthesis of complex heterocycles chemistryworld.com/news/light-dri…

Online now: Excited-state protonation and reduction enables the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes dlvr.it/TGL0B9

Congratulations to the authors @J_CorpasChem @evariverachao @dr_emarpa @alexandros4285 and the rest of the team including our academic partners and industrial collaborators in Minakem!

In this strategy we explore the transient increase of the aromatic basicity after photoexcitation to promote the protonation step, forming an intermediate carbocation which is trapped in situ with Et3N-BH3, by-passing the very low redox potential of aromatics.

Our latest publication in @Chem_CP demonstrates the umpolung Birch-like reduction of naphthalenes by photoexcitation employing a very mild acidic solvent (HFIP) and amine-boranes as reductants with high functional group compatibility ⬇️🔗 cell.com/chem/fulltext/…

Thrilled to see our first contribution out in @J_A_C_S! @uaitaciano, Roberto, Órla & Ben developed a practical, broad-scope and selective strategy for alkene 1,2-syn-difunctionalization, combining 1,3-DCs with electrochemical radical activation🪡✂️ 📜🔗:pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@Nature Well done to Baptiste, @MaialenAlonso8, @GiovanniLonardi, Dilara, Connie, @tds_fm, Yan and @alexandros4285. Thank you also to our collaborators Volker, Maria and Martin from @sanofi and Pep from @JanssenUS

Excited to share our latest work on chemical permutation, now published in @Nature! Using photochemical conditions, we've developed a method to selectively and predictably transform the structures of thiazoles, isothiazoles, and other azole systems.

@Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Nature Building on pioneering studies by Pavlik, Maeda, and Vernin, this research demonstrates a way to reconfigure heteroaromatic structures—enabling one ring system to serve as a starting material for synthesizing another.

Check out our most recent work for the synthesis of alkynyl boranes from SOMOphilic alkynes as part of the special issue on boryl radical chemistry @Synthesis_1969 @thiemechemistry Congrats to all the team @dr_emarpa @evariverachao and Luka!! thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…