What's new

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!

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!

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!