Yi-Hsuan Tsai, known to all as Anita, is the latest postdoctoral researcher to join our team! Anita completed her PhD in the IQUIR (Instituto de Química Rosario) at the National University of Rosario (Argentina). Her current work is supported by an Incoming Post-Docs in Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Agro-Biotech, Materials (IPD-STEMA) fellowship from the University of Liege. Anita will be working on the design and development of advanced, integrated and automated continuous flow technology to explore new frontiers of nitrosocarbonyl chemistry. Glad to have you onboard, Anita!

We have the great pleasure of welcoming back Michele Desiante. After having spent 3 months last year as an intern, Michele is back to begin his PhD in chemistry. Michele will be working on a collaboration project with the CERM laboratory at ULiege. He will be using microfluidics and photocatalysis to obtain organic scaffolds from biobased polyols and CO2.

Great to have you back, Michele!

We are very excited to share with everyone our new article on Angewandte Chemie, in which Yuesu and Sébastien team up to show how flow chemistry can be used to master an excellent but challenging nitrosation agent dinitrogen trioxide (N2O3) in accurate concentrations. The article is an exquisite work, with careful explanations on both the practical and theoretical aspects of the chemistry, including gas flow synchronization and computational probing for the reaction mechanism.

And even better: it’s an open access article. So make sure you take a moment to check it out.

At CiTOS this summer we’ve had the great pleasure of welcoming three university students. Elise Merville (Chime ParisTech- PSL), Marine Brossy (ITECH Lyon), and Stephanie Reyes (University of Puerto Rico). They each contributed to ongoing projects here in CiTOS while enjoying a special summer here in Liege.

We’re grateful for their work here and wish them the best of luck with their ongoing studies.

We invite you all to take a look at Romain’s new publication on the synthesis of cyclic phosphates as monomers to produce polyphophoesters! The article is the result of a collaboration between three research groups: CiTOS (ULg), the CERM (ULg) and CARIM (Maastricht University). It describes a complete story from raw materials, to monomers, to polymers to characterization of physicochemical and/or cytotoxicity properties.

By the way, this article is part of the themed collections: 2022 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection and 2022 ChemSci Pick of the Week Collection! So take a moment and follow the link.

Guillaume has set off to the USA, in the Abolhasani Lab, at the North Carolina State University (NCSU). He’ll be working for 3 months there on the self-optimizing reactions through Bayesian optimization applied to CdSe quantum dots synthesis. We’re very happy for this great new opportunity, we wish Guillaume the much success and eagerly wait for his return to CiTOS.

Jean-Christophe and members from the lab were glad to join over 700 delegates at the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS) in Namur. A terrific line-up, a couple of intense poster sessions where Pauline, Romain and Martin had a chance to discuss their research, and a great opportunity to meet chemists from the synthesis and flow communities!

Thanks to the organisers and save the date for the next edition of the BOSS in July 2024, which we’ll be happy to host in Liège.

Sadly, on April 15th, it was time to say goodbye to Carlotta. She has since returned to the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy) where she continues to work on her dissertation project, under the guidance of Dr. Maurizio Selva. We wish her continued success!

You can keep updated on her progress through ResearchGate.

Mathilde Quertenmont has just joined the team as a post-doctoral researcher, taking over a project in partnership with Oril (Servier). Mathilde completed her undergraduate and post-graduate studies at Université catholique de Louvain, in collaboration with UCB Pharma, in 2020, before working as an R&D engineer for Minakem. She will bring to the team a strong expertise in various areas of synthesis, including total synthesis, photo- and electrochemistry and organometallic catalysis.

Welcome to CiTOS, Mathilde! Continue reading Welcome to Mathilde – 2022, April →