Modern Organic chemistry-Trends in the field (CH-641)

Organized jointly by Professors Nicolai Cramer, Jieping Zhu and Jérôme Waser, the seminars usually take place on Wednesday at 17:15. Unless indicated otherwise, the lecture takes place in BCH 2218.

Upcoming Seminars


Past Seminars

"Photochemistry, Organocatalysis & Enzymes: New Radical Opportunities

24-01-202424-01-2024

With: Professor Paolo Melchiorre, University of Bologna, Industrial Chemistry Department
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"New methods in photochemistry and photocatalysis"

24-01-202424-01-2024

With: Professor Daniele Leonori, RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Organic Chemistry
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Recent advances in the chemistry of ynamides: from synthesis to applications

27-11-202327-11-2023

With: Prof. Gwilherm Evano, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium https://www.ulb.be/fr/gwilherm-evano
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

ChemBio Seminar by Prof. Randall Peterson (University of Utah)

10-11-202310-11-2023

With: Prof. Randall Peterson, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, USA
Place and room: SV 1717
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Development of Photochemical Methods for DNA Encoded Library Synthesis” – CH641

09-11-202309-11-2023

With: Prof. Gary a. Molander, University of Pennsylvania
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69994128262?pwd=UDY2TTc1OWdMRHJRbnZXZGpQdXE4Zz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

« Boron-Relayed Strategies for C-C Bond Formation” – CH641

08-11-202308-11-2023

With: Prof. Doran Didier, TU Darmstadt
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Tinkering with Metal-Carbene Chemistry”

11-10-202311-10-2023

With: Prof. Aloïs Fürstner, Max-Planck Institut
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"TM-catalyzed Formation of Bulky Stereogenic Centers: Concepts and Mechanistic Insights" – CH641

25-09-202325-09-2023

With: Prof. Arjan W. Kleij, ICIQ Tarragona
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Branched Dienes as a Platform for Selective Catalysis” – CH641

25-09-202325-09-2023

With: Prof. Clément Mazet, University of Geneva
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) Lectureship – Prof. Scott Denmark (University of Illinois)

20-09-202320-09-2023

With: Prof. Scott Denmark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Halogen–Bonding Catalysis for Organic Synthesis

04-07-202304-07-2023

With: Prof. Govindasamy Sekar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Synthesis of Novel Multi-functional Scaffolds from Sulfonyl Phthalides

04-07-202304-07-2023

With: Prof. Irishi N.N. Namboothiri, Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Bombay, India https://www.chem.iitb.ac.in/~irishi/
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Reductive Metalation of Unsaturated Bonds by Taming Radical Anions

25-04-202325-04-2023

With: Prof. Hideki Yorimitsu, The University of Kyoto, Japan
Place and room: Génopode A
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Catalytric C-H functionalization of hydrocarbons and proteins: dehdrogenation, C-C bond-formation, and amyloid degradation

27-03-202327-03-2023

With: Prof. Motomu Kanai, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Place and room: Génopode A
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Endowing Organometallic Catalysts with a Genetic Memory: Artificial Metalloenzymes"CH-640

22-02-202322-02-2023

With: Professor Dr. Thomas R. Ward, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Improving Efficiency in Heterocyclic Synthesis via Catalytic and Multicatalytic Reactions” (CH-640)

15-02-202315-02-2023

With: Prof. Mark Lautens, University of Toronto, Canada https://sites.chem.utoronto.ca/chemistry/staff/ML/index.php
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Intensification and Electrification of Flow Chemistry for Organic Synthesis” (CH-640)

10-02-202310-02-2023

With: Prof. Thomas Wirth, Cardiff University  
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Reversible Catalytic Reactions” (CH-640)

08-02-202308-02-2023

With: Prof. Mark Lautens, University of Toronto, Canada https://sites.chem.utoronto.ca/chemistry/staff/ML/index.php
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Oxidative Strategies for the Synthesis of Complex Pyridinium Salts” (CH-640)

25-01-202325-01-2023

With: Prof. Sarah Wengryniuk, Temple University, USA
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62806493888
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Sustainability as a driver for innovation: water-based chemistry enabled by surfactants

07-12-202207-12-2022

With: Dr Fabrice Gallou, Distinguished Scientist, Chemical and Analytical Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Organocatalysis and Central Chirality Playing Together for the Control of Axial and Helical Chiralities

25-11-202225-11-2022

With: Prof. Jean Rodriguez Aix Marseille Université, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille, Marseille, France https://ism2.univ-amu.fr
Place and room: Génopode C
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Vinyl Triflimides and Nitro Groups – Discovering Reactivity in New and Old Compounds

25-11-202225-11-2022

With: Prof. Meike Niggemann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany http://www.niggemann.oc.rwth-aachen.de/index.html  
Place and room: Génopode C
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“The Versatile Chemistry of N-Heterocycle-stabilized Iodanes (NHIs)“

23-11-202223-11-2022

With: Prof. Boris Nachtsheim, University of Bremen
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Leveraging Physical Organic Chemistry for Applications in Catalysis and Biomedicine”

23-11-202223-11-2022

With: Prof. Ryan Gilmour, University of Münster
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Metal-Free Diarylations and Vinylations – Discovering New Reaction Pathways with Iodine(III) Reagents”

04-11-202204-11-2022

With: Prof. Berit Olofsson, Stockholm University
Place and room: Genopode B UNIL
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Stereocontrol in Amine-Catalyzed Organocatalytic Chlorinations: The Red Pill

03-10-202203-10-2022

With: Prof. Mathias Christmann, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany https://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/chemie/chemie/forschung/OrgChem/christmann/index.html
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Catalytic enantioselective [2,3]- and [1,2]-rearrangements of allylic ylides and ethers

03-10-202203-10-2022

With: Prof. Andrew Smith, University of St Andrews, UK, https://ads-group.squarespace.com/
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Exploring New Reactions and Synthesis of Trivalent Iodine Compounds"

23-06-202223-06-2022

With: Prof. Naohiko Yoshikai, Tohoku University
Place and room: CE 1 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Stereoconvergent Synthesis with Configurationally Unstable Compounds”

01-06-202201-06-2022

With: Prof. Jeffrey Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Mechanistic Insights and Prediction in Organocatalysis – A Computational Approach"

11-05-202211-05-2022

With: Dr. Cristina Trujilo, Trinity College Dublin
Place and room: Genopode B (UNIL)
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Radical Alliances. Solutions and Opportunities for Organic Synthesis"

11-05-202211-05-2022

With: Prof. Samir Z. Zard, Ecole Polytechnique Pallaiseau, France
Place and room: Genopode B (UNIL)
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Catalytic Enantioselective Redox-Neutral Processes for Efficient Chemical Synthesis

09-05-202209-05-2022

With: Professor Yu ZHAO, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore https://zhaoyugroup.sg/
Place and room: Génopode B
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Sulfoxides as Substrate Activators: New Cross-Couplings for Materials and Medicines”

20-04-202220-04-2022

With: Professor David John Procter, The University of Manchester
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Alkenes as Universal Functional Group Progenitors”

13-01-202213-01-2022

With: Prof. Keary Engle, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla USA
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62033707589?pwd=cTVKRHVoc1BPc3VVY21Nbzd1OTdTZz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Metal-Catalyzed Methods for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Small Rings and Nitriles.”

07-12-202107-12-2021

With: Prof. Sophie Rousseaux, University of Toronto, Canada
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62214973569?pwd=QTdjcWtCcGh3eGFDci8rd1k2N3FIZz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Boron an emergent element in radical chemistry"

06-12-202106-12-2021

With: Prof. Armido Studer, Münster University, Germany
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Dearomatization of indoles for the total synthesis of natural products

23-11-202123-11-2021

With: Dr. Guillaume Vincent, Université Paris-Sud, France https://www.icmmo.u-psud.fr/fr/perso/guillaume-vincent/
Place and room: AUDITOIRE CE1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Biomimetic Natural Product Synthesis

23-11-202123-11-2021

With: Prof. Andrew Lawrence, University of Edinburgh, UK http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/professor-andrew-l-lawrence
Place and room: AUDITOIRE CE1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Taming multifaceted nickel catalysts: an academic fascination”

12-11-202112-11-2021

With: Professor Ruben Martin Romo, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
Place and room: Unil Lausanne-Genopode A
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Transborylation as a Turnover Strategy for Catalysis"

12-11-202112-11-2021

With: Prof. Stephen P. Thomas – School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Place and room: Unil- Genopode A
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"The many faces of copper: catalysis of cross- coupling and radical processes"

03-11-202103-11-2021

With: Professor Gwilherm EVANO
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Modern Synthetic Solutions Towards Fluorinated Scaffolds"

03-11-202103-11-2021

With: Dr. Tatiana Besset
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Organometallic Catalysis under Light Activation

14-10-202114-10-2021

With: Prof. Louis Fensterbank, Sorbonne University, France https://www.ipcm.fr/fensterbank-louis-787?lang=en  
Place and room: Auditoire CE1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Chemical Photocatalysis: More Energy, new Intermediates and Heterogeneous Catalysts

14-10-202114-10-2021

With: Prof. Burkhard Koenig, Regensburg University, Germany http://www-oc.chemie.uni-regensburg.de/koenig/index.html
Place and room: Auditoire CE1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“New carbene & carbyne transfer catalysis”

24-03-202124-03-2021

With: Prof. Marcos Suero, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia ICIQ
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/89231813836?pwd=d1ZLVmw3TWdOZXFuQi8rY1FCUldCQT09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Stereoselective Functionalization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons”

23-03-202123-03-2021

With: Prof. Uttam Tambar, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasProf.
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87396104288?pwd=VTlQcFI5QWZ3VlBaZFZwc3ZlMGdOQT09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Playing around post-condensations of Ugi and Passerini adducts

24-02-202124-02-2021

With: Prof Laurent El Kaim, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84130094814?pwd=dCtGQW1LYjJXWjNkYWRaRXpSS2xLZz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Beyond Multicomponent Reactions: Multiple and Extended Processes

24-02-202124-02-2021

With: Prof Rodolfo Lavilla, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84130094814?pwd=dCtGQW1LYjJXWjNkYWRaRXpSS2xLZz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Radical mediated functionalization of alkenes”

03-12-202003-12-2020

With: Prof. Philippe Renaud, University of Bern
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81681358461
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Redox Catalysis Strategies for Complex Molecule Synthesis”

02-12-202002-12-2020

With: Prof. Corey Stephenson, University of Michigan
Place and room: Zoom
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81768006030
Category: Conferences – Seminars

« Electrochemical Tools for Late-Stage Peptide Modifications”

14-10-202014-10-2020

With: Dr. Lara Malins, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Exploring new chemical territory through use of flow”

14-10-202014-10-2020

With: Prof. Timothy Noël, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Category: Conferences – Seminars

TBA

18-05-202018-05-2020

With: Prof. Michael Greaney, The University of Manchester, Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Group, Manchester, UK https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/michael-greaney(4afc2147-6332-4f28-ab62-2696e5226a15)/mygroup.html
Place and room: Génopode A
Category: Conferences – Seminars

TBA

18-05-202018-05-2020

With: Prof. Tibor Soos, Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary
Place and room: Génopode A
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Variations on hydrogen transfer reactions catalyzed by iridium and ruthenium catalysts"

26-02-202026-02-2020

With: Dr. Christian Bruneau, University of Rennes, FR
Place and room: BCH 2218
Category: Conferences – Seminars

“Cyclization processes with formation of two bonds on the same carbon through N-sulfonylhydrazones”

26-02-202026-02-2020

With: Professeur Carlos Valdès, University of Oviedo, Spain
Place and room: BCH 2218
Category: Conferences – Seminars

«The dark side of conformational analysis»

19-02-202019-02-2020

With: Prof. Andrei Yudin University of Toronto, Canada
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Catalyst Controlled Selective C–H Activation"

22-01-202022-01-2020

With: Dr. Manuel van Gemmeren, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Synthesis of new chemical motifs for design options in drug discovery"

22-01-202022-01-2020

With: Dr. James A. Bull, Imperial College London
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Bismuth Redox Catalysis"

13-11-201913-11-2019

With: Dr. Josep Cornella – Max Plack-Institut, Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Place and room: BCH 2201
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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