MolDesignS Lab

A special thanks to @DebroyeG for co-organizing and the RochaLab team for the help setting it up!

Super proud to share the success of the @IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast held at @KU_Leuven! With the support of @KULeuvenChemie, we hosted over 60 enthusiastic participants. A big shoutout to our speakers for their openness during the Q&A session👩‍🔬 #GWB2024 #WomeninSTEM

Our preprint on AgOSF₄X salts is out! We show a new prep for the Ag adducts and how they react with 1° amines to form RNSOF₂—both processes were only reported with SOF₄ gas so far. Tremendous work by @ArmirZogu, Karim and Stefanos! @MolDesignS tinyurl.com/var3azmw

Enabling SF5 compound synthesis: Now unveiled in #OrgLett from @Reza_Kordnezhad, @WimDeBorggraeve, and team, a method for on-demand SF5Cl gas generation using a safe, commercial reagent replacing lecture bottles. This approach unlocks SF5Cl applications. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Reza just gave an outstanding presentation on our latest SF5Cl chemistry at #mocs2023 in Blankenberge

Highlighting Organic Chemistry in Portugal - September 22 2023 eventbrite.ie/e/highlighting…

We are thrilled to share a new HF-free technology that converts fluorspar to fluorochemicals. Enormous congratulations to the amazing team of chemists who made this recurring dream a reality! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @CalumPatel @ScienceMagazine @OxfordChemistry @Fluo_Rok

Only two more weeks until our annual flagship event, the @EuChemS_DOC Young Investigator Workshop #YIW2023. This year we meet in Leuven, Belgium. Looking forward to interacting with all the Young Investigators! yiw2023.eu

Check out #RoboChem 🤖, this automated platform can do the entire substrate scope for our photocatalytic methodologies. We showcased it for 4 reaction classes and it improves chemist's yields every single time! When the students showed me the first results, i was speechless 🤯

Delighted to share our recent paper on a novel #polyketidesynthase-mediated mechanism for O-methyloxime formation which has just been accepted for publication in @angew_chem ! 🥳Great collaboration with @MolDesignS @kullbmd @BristolChem & Rega Institute! bit.ly/41ZIkYs

Interested to join our group @BiomagMfb in San Sebastián @CICbiomaGUNE as an #MSCA fellow? Projects envisaging 18F-labeling of exotic functional groups and/or de-novo PET tracer design for unprecedented targets are available. PM to discuss further.

Our work on the chemistry of thiazyl trifluoride (NSF₃) is out today in @angew_chem (bit.ly/3o8JbIt)! We report a way to make this beautiful, gaseous fluorosulfane and react some S-F bonds to make various thiazynes. Very happy with this one!🥳

Highlighting Organic Chemistry in the Czech Republic - May 19 at 9 am CET Registration via: eventbrite.ie/e/highlighting…

Join the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of @EurJIC and @EurJOC! Share your chemistry moment with a picture or video of your favorite reaction, experiment, lab setup, or workup! Tag @EurJIC or @EurJOC, and use #MyChemMoment

Prof. Jean Jeener (ULB) was honored with the Otto-Stern lifetime achievement Award by the German Magnetic Resonance community. More than 50 years after conceiving 2D NMR the chemical community is still much indebted for his creativity and original thinking. Congratulations Jean!

Are you looking for a #postdoc position? Are you interested in materials and high-tech tools? We have an open position on atomic layer deposition #ALD for EUV lithography! Check it out: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… 🙏 RT much appreciated!

Great work by all the co-authors! @KexinSu3 @VerhelstLab @LucVanMeervelt @ErmalIsmalaj @JoaDemaerel @BingYuLi5 @WimDeBorggraeve

Our work on thiazyl fluorides is online on @ChemRxiv: bit.ly/3ZOx1Bh. We show how S≡N triple bonded sulfur(VI) fluorides can be prepared from NSF₃ gas in typical SuFEx conditions. The real trick however was making the gas itself, which was solved by @BingYuLi5.

📢 We will be hosting the hybrid 17th European FDSS Functional Drug Screening System Users meeting, organized by @HamamatsuPhoton in Leuven (Groot Begijnhof) on Thursday June 29th, 2023. Check hamamatsu-news.de/promo/23_fdss/… for information & registration. @EuroCalcium #kinetic #calcium

Latest paper from group member @balcaen_tim on 'Revealing the three-dimensional murine brain microstructure by contrast-enhanced computed tomography'. Result of a fruitful collaboration with @contrast_team doi.org/10.3389/fnins.…