What's new

07/2024

Congratulations to Sebastian for successfully defending his PhD last week! Well done, Dr. Graf!

01/2024

We are pleased to welcome Markus back to the team after successfully completing his Master’s thesis. We're also excited to introduce Thomas as a new member of our group. Looking forward to the great contributionsto the AK Breder!

09/2023

Today we said goodbye to our valued postdoc Tao, who was with us for the last three years. We will miss you and wish you the best of luck for your future!

06/2023

Our lab has expanded by two new members this month:

Sonam is joining us from India as a Post Doc and will be working on heavy-atom hydrogen-bond-modulated ring extension reactions.

Jana has started her Master Thesis on Selenium-mediated semipinacol rearrangements.

It's good to have you here and we wish you a great and successful time in our group!

05/2023

Very warm welcome to our two new group members:

Ludwig finished his Master Thesis in our group and is coming back for his PhD on the topic of photo-aerobic natural product syntheses. Welcome back!

Markus is starting his Master Thesis on photo-induced substitution reactions of selenides. Great to have you with us!

We wish the best of luck to both of you!

11/2022

Congratulations to Kilian an Caro for their newest publication on the multicatalytic synthesis of 1,3-dioxan-2-ones in The European Journal of Organic Chemistry! Check it out here.

10/2022

In october we had to say goodbye to two of our beloved group members, Poorva and Bernhard, who are now starting their careers in industry. We wish you a great start and success in all your future positions!

09/2022

We are happy to report that our paper on Se-H bonds enabling photoredox-catalytic semipinacol rearrangement has been accepted at Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congratulations to Sooyoung, Amit, Katerina and Daniela!