Meanwhile, in Austria…. JC and Hubert participated in the IMRET17 conference! It was a great conference filled with many interesting speakers.

From CiTOS, JC gave a talk centered around leveraging temperature to intensify reactions for flow. One of the most relevant aspects of the research presented is the development of a priori tools that allow to estimate optimal reaction conditions before experimentation. This work represents the fruit of many years of hard work here at the University of Liège and we are happy to share it with the flow chemistry community at Graz!

Hubert presented his creative automation of a flow system for nitration reactions—developed in-house using accessible, affordable components. This system is part of a US FDA funded project focused on producing essential medicines from biosourced starting materials. The project will be further developed downstream by our collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Please join us in welcoming Mathilde, our latest PhD student  at CiTOS!
Mathilde Croissant, a recent graduate from the Ecole européenne de chimie polymères et matériaux de Strasbourg (ECPM), has joined CiTOS to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Jean-Christophe Monbaliu.

Supported by the WEL Research Institute, Mathilde’s research focuses on the application of computational chemistry and artificial intelligence to flow chemistry. Her work here at the University of Liège aims to develop innovative approaches that push the boundaries of modern chemistry through advanced computational techniques.

Introducing Louise Privat-Camblor, new PhD student in CiTOS. Louise is a chemical engineer graduated from École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille – ENSCL. After completing a master’s degree in medicinal organic chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), she decided to join us to complete her PhD under the supervision of Jean-Christophe Monbaliu.

Supported by the WEL Research Institute, Louise joins the team to develop the link between flow chemistry and process automation.

It’s been a little over a month since BOSSXVIII came to an end. It was a week full of impressive talks covering different areas within organic chemistry. A week with some great poster sessions and great poster prizes! A week with full of wonderful networking opportunities! No need to take our word for it: the feedback poles are in and the BOSS attendees agree!

At CiTOS, we are happy to have contributed to this great conference in organic synthesis. We are proud of our Belgian community of scientists and thankful to the wonderful speakers who joined in to share with the world their most recent advances.

After two years of working towards this conference, the conclusion of the BOSS marks the end of a wonderful chapter for CiTOS and will now remain as a happy memory of a very special week.

We’re happy to have Sergio Barbeira for a short internship where at CiTOS. Sergio  is a PhD student at the University of Santiago de Compostela, under supervision of Professor Martín Fañanás at the CiQUS . During his nearly two-month stay at CiTOS, Sergio will be focusing on expanding his expertise in flow chemistry. We’re excited to have him on board!

#LatePost! June brought two PhD students from the University of Puerto Rico for a short research internship at CiTOS. Nicole and Grecia are part of the team working on the synthesis of APIs from biosourced starting materials. Nicole specializes in the use of process analytical technology (PAT) while Grecia works on the optimization of  synthetic protocols using flow chemistry. Their project is part of our collaboration work with Dr. Cornelis Vlaar and Dr. Torsten Stelzer (University of Puerto Rico) and Dr. Alan Myrson (MIT), with NIPTE and the US-FDA.

They’ve spent the month of June been working at CiTOS, working in close collaboration with Hubert and Loïc and making great progress on the project!

We are very grateful to have had Anita as part of the team during the past two years. It is now sadly time to part ways! Anita has left a wonderful mark on the lab: outreach activities for school children, training of future CiTOS master students, great research in flow photochemistry, and her contagious laughter. We wish her the best in her future work!

Presenting: Carlotta Campalani, joining as a postdoc at CiTOS! Carlotta obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the Università Ca’? Foscari Venezia working on the valorization of biomass for the preparation of carbon quantum dots as photocatalysts. During her PhD, Carlotta joined CiTOS for a six month internship.

After her PhD, she joined the Molecular Catalysis group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion as a postdoc. Now, Carlotta joined Jean-Christophe Monbaliu and the CiTOS team as a postdoctoral researcher with a project on the sustainable synthesis of quantum dots using continuous flowchemistry.

It’s time to meet up at the Palais des Congrès for the XVIII edition of the Belgian Organic Chemistry Symposium. We’ve worked hard all year to prepare another great edition of this world-renowned conference in Organic Chemistry. Among the things to look forward to: the master class for Tetrahedron Chair Sarah Reisman; the conferring of the Janssen Prize to Melanie Sanford; Poster prizes from both the RSC and the ACS; and an amazing line up of speakers from all over the world.

Hope to see many of you soon here in Liege!

The lab now counts with a pilot scale flow reactor from Ehrfeld: the Miprowa Matrix! The Matrix is a great complement to the commercial pilot scale flow reactors from Corning available at the lab and opens the door to new chemistry trials. It’s an important addition to the FloW4all Flow Technology Resource Center, offering services in flow chemistry to the industrial and the academic research community. You can see more information at: www.flow4all.uliege.be !