Leonori Lab

Group-run account for the Leonori Research Group at RWTH Aachen University. Catalysis. Photoredox. Organic Synthesis.

[Alessandro Ruffoni @alexandros4285]

🎓A fully funded PhD position in PHOTOCATALYSIS is available in the Ruffoni Research Group at Kiel University.
📝 📩send: Letter of motivation, CV, MSc and BSc certificates compiled into a single PDF by 25.04.2025 to:📧 [email protected] Subject: PhD-Ruffoni

[Naoki Yasukawa @n_yasukawa]

Checkout the Front Cover Art for our manuscript: "Photocatalytic Strategy for Decyanative Transformations Enabled by Amine-Ligated Boryl Radical (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c04701)" in @JOC_OL (@ACSPublications) #MyACSCover

[Fabio Juliá @FabioJulia7]

If you wonder about how to harness innate excited-state reactivity in TM photocatalysis to design new synthetic methods, you can find some guidelines and a rationalization attending to orbitals in this Perspective, just published in @ACSCatalysis :
https://t.co/FrEZJhPx9c
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[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

https://t.co/WbbypK1Kh4

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

Happy to share our latest results in @angew_chemie on the photochemical permutation of indazoles into benzimidazoles @RWTH
Also, make sure you check a related work from the @SarpongGroup also in @angew_chem
https://t.co/QIYWCOtKyY

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

Congratulations to the authors Thiago, Connie, @dbyildiz1, @Martina66310480 and @alexandros4285

[Alessandro Ruffoni @alexandros4285]

Join our team! We are seeking passionate PDRA and PhD candidates interested in exploring synthetic methodologies and photochemical transformations. 💡#PhDOpportunity #SyntheticChemistry #Photochemistry #JoinOurTeam🧪

[SYNLETT Journal @synlett_journal]

Discover the latest research of Hairong Lyu @HairongLyu and co-workers highlighting the use of a sp²-sp³ #diboron reagent to access diverse functionalized olefins and acylboranes 🧪

Learn more 👉https://t.co/wCIkzcGpmY

[Chemistry News @ChemistryNews]

Light-driven method simplifies synthesis of complex heterocycles https://t.co/XdSg255QuV

[Chem @Chem_CP]

Online now: Excited-state protonation and reduction enables the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes https://t.co/iNNdgWxeTw

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

Congratulations to the authors @J_CorpasChem @evariverachao @dr_emarpa @alexandros4285 and the rest of the team including our academic partners and industrial collaborators in Minakem!

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

Our latest publication in @Chem_CP demonstrates the umpolung Birch-like reduction of naphthalenes by photoexcitation employing a very mild acidic solvent (HFIP) and amine-boranes as reductants with high functional group compatibility ⬇️🔗
https://t.co/5HQKI77TUx

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

In this strategy we explore the transient increase of the aromatic basicity after photoexcitation to promote the protonation step, forming an intermediate carbocation which is trapped in situ with Et3N-BH3, by-passing the very low redox potential of aromatics.

[Giacomo Crisenza @GEMCrisenza]

Thrilled to see our first contribution out in @J_A_C_S! @uaitaciano, Roberto, Órla & Ben developed a practical, broad-scope and selective strategy for alkene 1,2-syn-difunctionalization, combining 1,3-DCs with electrochemical radical activation🪡✂️

📜🔗:https://t.co/dMNZjQMRMy

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

@Nature Well done to Baptiste, @MaialenAlonso8, @GiovanniLonardi, Dilara, Connie, @tds_fm, Yan and @alexandros4285. Thank you also to our collaborators Volker, Maria and Martin from @sanofi and Pep from @JanssenUS

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

Excited to share our latest work on chemical permutation, now published in @Nature! Using photochemical conditions, we've developed a method to selectively and predictably transform the structures of thiazoles, isothiazoles, and other azole systems.

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

@Nature https://t.co/9mp1DEHo6R

[Leonori Lab @LeonoriLab]

@Nature Building on pioneering studies by Pavlik, Maeda, and Vernin, this research demonstrates a way to reconfigure heteroaromatic structures—enabling one ring system to serve as a starting material for synthesizing another.

[Javier Corpas Pardo #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo @J_CorpasChem]

Check out our most recent work for the synthesis of alkynyl boranes from SOMOphilic alkynes as part of the special issue on boryl radical chemistry
@Synthesis_1969
@thiemechemistry
Congrats to all the team @dr_emarpa @evariverachao and Luka!!
https://t.co/I4E8XtdxVl