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07/2025
Our group member Caro had her last day in the lab. We had a great time together and we wish you all the best for your future!
06/2025
Congratulations on successfully defending your PhD Kilian. Wishing you all the best for the journey ahead!
04/2025
Our master student Davide is heading back to Italy after 6 months in our labs. It’s been great having him in the group, and he will definitely be missed. We wish him all the best in his next chapter!
02/2025
We are excited to welcome our new master's students, Christian and Julia, to the group! We look forward to the fresh perspectives and energy they bring!
01/2025
Today, we bid farewell to our wonderful postdoc Sonam, who has been with us for nearly two years. It’s been a pleasure having you as part of the team, and we wish you all the success in your future pursuits! You will be greatly missed.
12/2024
We are happy to report that our paper on a Selenium pi-acid-catalyzed asymmetric migratory Tsuji–Wacker Oxidation has been accepted at JACS. Very proud of our group members Eduard, Sooyoung, and Jana for this great achievement!
10/2024
Very warm welcome to our new group member Davide Torz who has joined us for the duration of his master thesis as a visiting scientist from the group of Professor Claudio Santi at the Perugia University. Glad to have you with us!
10/2024
Congrats to Thomas for submitting his Master thesis!
08/2024
Very excited to announce that after plenty of dedication and hard work our latest research is now published in Nature Magazine! Our study introduces a novel method for the heterolysis of homopolar and symmetric σ-bonds, and we are proud to see it featured not only in the journal itself, but also on the Nature Podcast and in Nature News and Views, so check it out! A huge congratulations to Anna, Caro, Poorva, and the entire team who contributed to this achievement.
We’d also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our collaborators from the Nürnberger and Rehbein groups. Working together on this project has been a rewarding experience, and we’re excited to see the impact of this work in the field.
07/2024
Congratulations to Sebastian for successfully defending his PhD last week! Well done, Dr. Graf!
06/2024
We are excited to announce our latest publication on Intermolecular Aza-Wacker Coupling of Alkenes, now available in ACS Catalysis. Check it out for new insights into Photo-Aerobic Selenium-π-Acid Multicatalysis. Congrats to Tao and Theresa!
05/2024
Congrats to Poorva for successfully defending her PhD and all the best for you future outside the Breder Workgroup!
05/2024
We are delighted to welcome Georg to our group for his Master Thesis on sigma bond heterolyses.
Welcome aboard, Georg! We're excited to have you with us.
03/2024
Congratulations to Jana for successfully finishing her Master Thesis and all the best for your future endeavors!
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 master student in our group. Looking forward to the great contributionsto the AK Breder!
01/2024
Illuminating new mechanistic investigation in collaboration with the Siewert Lab in Göttingen was just accepted in ChemSusChem. Nice work Sebastian, Theresa and Tao!
12/2023
We are very excited to share our new work on Asymmetric Photoaerobic Ternary Selenium-Sulfur Multicatalysis. Congratulations to Tao, Sebastian, Christopher, Felix, Bernhard and Theresa! Check it out!
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!
11/2022–12/2022
We had a blast talking about our selnium chemistry in Brazil at the 10th Workshop of the Selenium and Sulfur Redox and Catalysis Network (WSeS-10) in Rio de Janeiro
and at the 15th International Conference on the Chemistry of Selenium and Tellurium (ICCST-15) in Florianopolis!
Great work from Carolin, Daniela, Kilian, Eduard, and Anna on their poster presentations!
And we are very proud of Theresa who not only was selected to give an additional oral presentation on her topic but also won the prize for the best poster at the WSeS-10! Check out her accompanying interview with PeerJ here.
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!
Theresa Appleson - 14.07.2025 12:13
