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- Scholarship funded postdoctoral position at Organic Chemistry department on Sustainable Production of Hydrogen
- Deadline for application: 2022-03-31
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Prof. Belén Martín-Matute was elected as a member of the advisory board of the Chemistry European Journal (Chem. Eur. J.), published by Wiley-VCH. Chem. Eur.J. is a prominent journal in chemistry in Europe with several contributions from our Department. Membership in the advisory board is a recognition of Belén's excellent scientific work. The Department proudly congratulate to Belén to this new assignment.
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Chemists from Stockholm University present a new study in the high impact publication Chem, "Diarylation of N- and O-nucleophiles through a metal-free cascade reaction". The method presents an energy efficient, metal-free, robust and sustainable way to produce diaryl- and triarylamines as well as diaryl ethers.
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Professor Belén Martín-Matute was invited as Associate Editor in Organic Letters (OL). OL is a top journal in organic chemistry (IF= 6), published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The choice of Belen by the ACS/OL is a recognition of her great scientific achievements. The Department of Organic Chemistry is proud that one of its faculty members is invited to this prestigious position.
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The majority of the PIs at the department are included along with many other eminent fellow scientists in the list of World's Top 2% Scientists! The ranking is based on c-score, a composite indicator for career-long impact. Per Siegbahn, Jan-Erling Bäckvall, Björn Åkermark, Fahmi Himo, Kalman Szabo, Margareta Blomberg, Pher Andersson, Hans Adolfsson, Berit Olofsson and Göran Widmalm are all listed.
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The list can be downloaded from here:
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The L´réal-Unesco For Women in Science Sweden Prize with support of The Young Academy of Sweden, aims at highlighting promising women in the early stages of their research career in science and creating role models for future generations. The prize will be awarded next time in 2021. From June 1st until September 27th 2020 the call for application is open If you meet the criteria we look forward to your application.
Utlysningen är öppen 1 juni - 27 september och du som uppfyller kriterierna är välkommen att ansöka.
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Prof. Belén Martín-Matute elected in the International Advisory Board of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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Berit Olofsson (Stockholm University, Sweden) will join the Angewandte Chemie International Advisory Board in 2020.
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- Nicklas Selander, biträdande lektor vid Institutionen för organisk kemi arbetar kontinuerligt med att utveckla sin undervisning baserat på studenternas återkoppling. Han har på tre år lyckats leda ett utvecklingsarbete av en av de svåraste kurserna vid institutionen där han skapat en tydlig progression med inspelade konceptföreläsningar, filmer om nyckelbegrepp i kursen, som stöd för studenternas förståelseutveckling. Han handleder också assistenter för undervisningen, och fungerar därmed som rollmodell för andra att utvecklas i sitt akademiska lärarskap. Nicklas Selander tar sig an utmaningar, såsom att ha studenter med funktionsnedsättningar i kursgruppen, med professionalitet och systematik som när han bjöd in till ett möte med studievägledare och berörda studenter för att skapa så goda förutsättningar för lärande som möjligt för alla studenter. Nicklas Selander uppskattas mycket för sina begripliga och handfasta förklaringar till svåra avsnitt och erbjuder studenterna stöd att förstå det centrala och svåra i en interaktiv miljö.
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Lindbomska belöningen 2019, 10 000 kr
Professor Berit Olofsson,
Institutionen för organisk kemi,
Stockholms universitet
"för hennes forskning rörande utveckling av selektiva organiska reaktioner med användning av hypervalenta jodreagens." - The recent research by M. Costantini and M. Montesinos in the Mendoza lab in collaboration with AstraZeneca Göteborg has demonstrated a unified approach towards the enantioselective synthesis of carbon stereocenters. Key to this discovery is a new stable and practical reagent that is equivalent to a "chiral C-H unit", which is ubiquitous in organic compounds. Mendoza and his team aim to reduce the gap between custom organic synthesis and conventional construction work, in which a small set of precursors, tools and machinery is routinely used to build distinct objects with different sizes and shapes.This new synthetic concept has been highlighted in the cover of the prestigious journal of the German Chemical Society: Angewandte Chemie.
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Göran Widmalm, professor i organisk kemi vid Stockholms universitet, har utsetts till mottagare av Ulla och Stig Holmquists vetenskapliga pris i organisk kemi 2018.
Ulla och Stig Holmquists vetenskapliga pris i organisk kemi delas årligen ut till en forskare med huvudsakligen nationell verksamhetsbakgrund inom ämnet organisk kemi och som gjort banbrytande forskningsinsatser inom detta område. Prissumman är cirka två miljoner kronor.
Motivering:
Göran Widmalm, professor i organisk kemi, tilldelas priset för sina betydelsefulla insatser inom kolhydratområdet. Han har bedrivit forskning kring NMR-spektroskopisk analys av komplexa kolhydrater och har utvecklat nya syntesmetoder för framställning av oligosackarider och glykokonjugat.
Priset delas ut vid Uppsala universitets vinterpromotion den 25 januari 2019.
Läs mer om Ulla och Stig Holmquists vetenskapliga pris i organisk kemi. - Chemical synthesis of everything from pharmaceuticals to new materials often requires the use of toxic solvents and metals. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Abraham Mendoza will expand the chemists' toolbox with more sustainable methods. Inspired by nature, he uses the energy of light to control and catalyse environmentally friendly chemical reactions.
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Twentieth century developments in chemical synthesis have been necessary for our modern world; they have been fundamental to the manufacture of effective pharmaceuticals, material for roads and illuminated molecules for mobile displays, to name a few things. The benefits for mankind are reflected in how 58 of 108 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded to discoveries related to the development of new synthesis methods.
However, one problem in chemical synthesis is that reactions are often based upon toxic solvents and expensive metals. Some substances also require synthesis to be carried out in many steps, which increases waste and is expensive. Dr. Abraham Mendoza from Stockholm University is therefore working on the development of more effective and environmentally friendly tools for chemists. Using light energy and cheap elements such as aluminium, lithium and iron, he wakes chemical molecules to life and facilitates chemical reactions. He will also develop chemical catalysts that can enable the re-use of waste from the petrochemical industry.
- We are developing methods for a faster and more effective manufacture of chemicals using reagents that are already in the labs. But we make them behave differently by using LED-light chains such as the ones you may have at home, Abraham Mendoza says.
The reactions that Abraham Mendoza is rationalizing are foundational for chemists and may thus contribute to more sustainable chemistry in many different industries.
- I am very happy for Wallenberg Academy Fellowship giving me and my research group the stability needed to reach such ambitious goal, he says.
- Professor Belén Martín-Matute, Department of Organic Chemistry, got 35.785 million kronor for her project "Catalytic Composites for Sustainable Synthesis."
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The world has an abundance of water and carbon dioxide, but they are too stable to be of interest to industry. However, with one oxygen atom removed, they become hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide respectively. Both of these are extremely useful in plastics, agricultural chemicals and lubricants. The problem is that hydrogen gas is extremely flammable when mixed with air and that carbon monoxide is deadly when breathed. But, if you could use them as soon as they're made you could sidestep that dangerous middle stage.
‐ By using a porous composite material, hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide can be used in the next chemical process immediately. So we can use renewable resources without needing complicated experimental setup while also minimising the risk to people who work with the chemicals, says Belén Martín-Matute.
Nicklas Selander
The research activities at the department cover many areas of experimental and theoretical organic chemistry, including selective synthesis, transition metal-catalyzed organic transformations, hypervalent iodine chemistry, green chemistry, PET chemistry and bioorganic chemistry as well as medicinal chemistry at the DDD platform at SciLifeLab.
The education offered at the department includes several courses at the bachelor level, and a master program in organic chemistry. In addition, we offer practical projects in the research front, which regularly attract exchange students to the department. We have a comprehensive research education program, with about 40 PhD students, in organic chemistry.
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