The Renaud Group

The first Bern Symposium on Radical Chemistry will be held on June 27-28, 2024 at the University of Bern. We will have an exciting scientific program! bsrc24.scg.ch

We are organizing the Swiss Summer School in Organic Synthesis in (August 27-31, 2023). We still opportunity accept participants. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering a broad range of topics. summer-school23.scg.ch #Chemistry #TotalSynthesis #syntheticmethod

Our first paper in Chemical Science: A Giese Reaction for Electron-Rich Alkenes - now published in Chemical Science #radicalchemistry Congratulations to Qi and Sankar pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

A very big thank you to all contributors to this special issue as well as Emmanuel and Richard for their superb coordinator/editor job. Nice dinner at Jack's brasserie.

Swiss Summer School: Trends in Organic Synthesis Open to PhD students / postdoc / academics / industrial scientists from Switzerland and abroad. #SwissSummerSchool #SwissChemistry #organicchemistry More info sem19-1.chemistrycongresses.ch/en/

There radical fluorination paper is out. We hope NFASs will become useful reagents. Thanks to Daniel and Fabian for the experimental work and to Harish and Hendrik for the calculations. Blog: chemistrycommunity.nature.com/users/189126-p… Paper: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Finally... Our paper "Radical Triggered Three‐Component Coupling Reaction of Alkenylboronates, α‐Halocarbonyl Compounds and Organolithium Reagents: The Inverse Ylid Mechanism" is online. dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.2…. #boron #radicalchemistry #renaudphi

Our article has been recommended on @F1000Prime f1000.com/prime/73229894…

A mild and efficient thiol-catalyzed deuteration of alkyl iodides via radical pathway using D2O as source of deuterium @renaudphi acspubs.co/608F30hlUfb

A chemoselective method to convert lactams into 2-monoalkylated cyclic amines using organocopper RCu reagents pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Hydrosulfonylation Reaction with Arenesulfonyl Chlorides and Tetrahydrofuran: Conversion of Terminal Alk... (Renaud) doi.wiley.com/10.1002/anie.2…

Pierre Mateo defended his PhD thesis last Thursday. Superb defense. Congratulations.

François Brucelle obtained a postdoc fellowship from the SNSF: he will join MIT (Mo Mavassaghi) this Summer.

Congratulation to François Brucelle who passed his PhD thesis on May 10. Great defense!

The thesis defense of Pierre Matéo will take place on Thursday May 30. Alexandre Alexakis (Geneva) is the external evaluator.

The thesis defense of François Brucelle will take place on Friday May 10. Nicolas Winssinger (Geneva) is the external evaluator.

Congratulation to Guillaume who defended brilliantly his thesis on Friday December 14.

The Ph.D. defense of Guillaume (Lomic) will take place on December 14. The external referee is Chrys Chatgilialoglu.

An updated group homepage will be online very soon.