Alex M. Szpilman
@AMSzpilman
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Dad, Runner, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Head of @AUChemSciences . Research: Enolonium Species, Sun light mediated reactions, Nitroxides
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Today I was promoted to Full Professor. I want to thank all the people who supported. Special thanks to my mentors Mario Bachi and Erick
@CarreiraGroup
And of course to my wonderful group, past and present (see pics), who made and make the magic happen!
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Our paper has been published as a HOT paper 🌶🌶🌶
Direct Umpolung Morita-Baylis-Hillman like alpha-Functionalization of Enones via Enolonium Species (Szpilman)
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Wolf Prize winner Professor
@CarolynBertozzi
presenting her lecture at the
@WolfPrize_
Symposium on “Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience”
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#Peptidesynthesis
of di- and tripeptides up to gram scale. Solar light excitation of a DMAP-BrCCl3 charge-transfer complex generates the coupling reagent . Now
@angew_chem
Collaboration the Yoav Eichen Lab.
@DisAbhayM
@santra_dr
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Congratulations to
@AsitGhosh_Org
,
@KhYuriy
and Natalia Fridman! Single step access to 2-nitro-cyclopropyl-1-carbonyl compounds from enones via
#enolonium
species is now online
@JOC_OL
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I joined the
@CarreiraGroup
as a Postdoc in 2003. I second Corinna
@SchindlerLab
. Working hours were not dictated to me. Ever! I dedicated a paper to Erick for his mentor ship. For those asking about Guido Koch he was the first speaker at Erick’s 50 years birthday symposium.
As there is the request for
@CarreiraGroup
members to weigh in, I will do so as a former PhD student starting in 2005. When joining, I was aware of the letter but quickly realized that the impression given did not reflect reality. (1)
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Our paper has been selected as a HOT paper🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ by
@angew_chem
Now online in in the final version. Congratulations to all our co-authors Abhaya, Galit, Sourav, Andrii, Ortal, Jonatan and the only Yoav Eichen
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Seminar
@ChemistryDtu
Denmark. First live seminar in almost two years. And my mother, also a chemist, came to hear it.
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To the many people who reached out 🙏My family and students are safe (so far).These last hours have been harrowing. The incredible suffering inflicted upon innocents in their homes is online for all to see. We who have been called up will not rest until our people are safe again!
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Our paper on the "Direct Umpolung Morita‐Baylis‐Hillman like α‐Functionalization of Enones via
#Enolonium
Species" is online in the "Accepted Article" version
@angew_chem
Congratulations:
@Shlomy58152975
&
@santra_dr
& Gulab, &
@Rajakravi2012
#Umpolung
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Check out our full account on: Catalytic Atroposelective Aerobic Oxidation Approaches to Axially Chiral Molecules" Open Access in
@JOC_OL
Congrats to Lenin
@LVerdhi
@AsitGhosh_Org
and Natalia
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Promotion to Associate Professor Approved! Our Rector Prof. Zinigrad came to tell me in person. Thank you to all of my co-workers, for their ingenuity, hard work and
#RealTimeChem
; To my family for always being there; To Yoav Eichen, for always believing in me ... 1/4
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Congratulations to
@Subrata09894140
for his work on 2-fluorinated enones made using our unique Umpolung Morita-Baylis-Hilman methodology. Online and Open Access now in Organic Letters
@JOC_OL
#Enolonium
Species
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Tim
@tnoel82
took us on adventures in flow chemistry to enable reactivity not possible or limited in batch
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Finally we got to see our daughter for a few hours. This after 22 days of war. We feared for her life when she drove back to base on 7/10 to defend our country, passing close by areas in terrorist hands.
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The chemistry developed by Semmelhack and later by Stahl
@UWMadisonChem
with the addition of our chiral nitroxides allows the first aerobic oxidative kinetic resolution of axially chiral molecules. Congratulations to Lenin
@LVerdhi
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First speaker was our dear friend Corinna
@SchindlerLab
who shone a light on some phenomenal photochemical azetidine synthesis
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“Once more into the breach my friends…” second, and very tasty, conference dinner. With Tobias
@ritter_lab
Franziska
@Schoenebeck_Lab
@PappoDoron
@AhmadMasarwa2
@Aromaticist
and many more
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And starting 2020 with a paper on "Azido-Enolonium Species in C–C and C–N Bond-Forming Coupling Reactions" now online
@JOC_OL
Congrats to
@Atulmore1
and Sourav Santra
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This week Jerome Waser
@LcsoLab
visited us as a Gale Foundation Breakthrough Researcher giving an enriching workshop for graduate students and postdocs as well as a spectacular seminar.
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Watching the
@WolfPrize_
announcement with the group Congratulations to
@CarolynBertozzi
Ben Cravatt
@scrippsresearch
&Bonnie Bassler
@Princeton
#wolfprize
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We develop new
#SyntheticMethods
in
#OrganicSynthesis
Thanks to ISF, IIA and MOD funding we now have openings for two
#PhD
students and two
#Postdoctoral
Fellows. See our
#research
at and submit your application by email. Retweets much appreciated!
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Congratulations to
@AsitGhosh_Org
,
@KhYuriy
and Natalia Fridman! Single step access to 2-nitro-cyclopropyl-1-carbonyl compounds from enones via
#enolonium
species is now online
@JOC_OL
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Thank you to the Organizers for opportunity to be a Plenary Speaker at the ICCAS
#PingleWomensCollege
#NITWarangal
Visiting
#India
for the first time
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Impressions from the Frontiers in Organic Synthesis and Catalysis in hot of Ilan
@GroupMarek
60th Birthday :
@AhmadMasarwa2
presenting his tribute and introducing his selective synthesis and activation of poly boryl alkenes.
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Cris
@NevadoLab
opened the second session of the day with a talk about gold catalysis and why it is special. She was also awarded an honorary membership in the Israel Chemical Society.
#BdRotschild
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Group meeting: Ortal presented
@LevinChem
’s cool paper on nitrogen deletion and
@LVerdhi
taught us the Thorpe-Ingold effect
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The last paper from
@atulmore1
work in our group is published
@JOC_OL
demonstrating the In(III) catalyzed synthesis of Vinyl Indoles and Bis-Indolyl-Methanes under mild conditions. Mechanistic studies are included
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50 minutes ago a terrorist attempted to enter Ariel University. Students locked themselves in their dorms. The army scared the intruder or intruders away. Everyone is safe.
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Morning session of the
#11AsiaEuropSynthesis
Symposium included talks by Antonio
@Echavarren_Lab
Debabrata
@maiti_iitb
and Geraldine
@GroupMasson
showcasing metal mediated organic synthesis
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We have two fully funded openings for
#PhD
students in synthetic organic
#CHEMISTRY
. Candidates should have a MSc. Excellent candidates with a BSc can apply for a combined MSc/Ph.D. Retweets much appreciated.
#realtimechem
#Umpolung
#catalysis
Apply to amszpilman
@gmail
.com
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The most important slide. From my talk at the
#ICS2022
“Something New under the Sun. Following Ilan
@GroupMarek
that delivered the keynote on “Nucleophilic substitution on quaternary Carbon Stereocenters”
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Toasting in honor of
@AsitGhosh_Org
,
@KhYuriy
and Natalia’s newly accepted paper in
@JOC_OL
on nitro-cyclopropanes. Stay tuned for a link when it comes online !
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Privileged to spend some time with Jonatan and
@el75787382
Bat-El today. First time together since the Black Sabbath 7/10. The rest of my group is either evacuated to
#india
, or on leave due to the war. Another, minor, but very significant for the students, cost of this war.
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Thank you
@kurtilaszlo
for visiting us and giving an outstanding seminar. Students stayed behind for over half an hour after the seminar to discuss chemistry with Laszlo!
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The 11th Asian-European Symposium on Metal Mediated Organic Synthesis kicks of with….a dinner because being in Israel means lots of excellent food. Pic courtesy of
@TroelsTs
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Second speaker at the Adama-BGU symposium: Miquel Costas from
@IQCCUdG
who spoke on Mn catalyzed enantio selective C-H oxidation
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One of the Israel Chemical Society teams the finish line of the Mountain2Valley relay race. After 174 km of running through the beautiful countryside of Northern Israel. With ICS President
@KeinanEhud
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The best way to end a conference: with a Galla dinner! With
@GelmanGroup
@MarkGandelman
@ritter_lab
@SamerGnaim
Arkadi Vigalok, Ye Zhu,
@maiti_iitb
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Thank you to the organizers for the invitation (and the beer)
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@ChemicalScience
You forgot to mention
@CarolynBertozzi
who developed this particular chemistry and was awarded the 2022 Nobel prize for it.
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Thank you to Professor Roman
@DobrovetskyG
for visiting us and an insightful and exciting seminar on the reactivity of Phosphenium catalysts and reagents!
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Congratulations to Sourav for his method for Cumene hydroperoxide (SM for acetone and phenol) and aromatic ketones via Visible-Spectrum Solar-Light-Mediated Benzylic C–H Oxygenation Using 9,10-Dibromoanthracene As an Initiator
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Outstanding party on the occasion of Asit Ghosh's and Purbasa Bashuri's First Wedding Anniversary - Thank you for letting the group be part of the joy on your special day! אושר ועושר
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Congratulations to
@Rajakravi2012
who passed his 1 year Ph.D. candidate exam with flying colors!
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Congratulations to Raz that passed her proposal exam and is now officially on the direct PhD track!! Thank you to examiners
@FGrynszpan
and
@mifridm
!!
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Goodbye to Lenin
@LVerdhi
who is leaving us after 5.5 years (PhD +postdoc) to take up a position
@EPFL_CHEM_Tweet
with Nicolai Cramer. Thank you Lenin for helping build the group into what it is today and wishes for lots of success and happiness in your future!
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At the Israel Chemical Society meeting Galla with
@ChemicalBiology
@angew_chem
@DobrovetskyG
Fridman, Meijler, Alfonte and Shabbat
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Cristina
@NevadoLab
kicks of the second morning of the
#ECOFR2018
with a fire work of radical synthetic reactions
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Talk by
@Nieves_P_R
on her work on elegant asymmetric double addition of alcohols and alkynes to diazo compounds.
@LcsoLab
#ISySyCat
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Cover by
@Ella_Maru
#OnTheCover
Solar and Visible Light Assisted Peptide Coupling (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 22/2021) (Szpilman)
@AMSzpilman
@MishraAbhayaK
@santra_dr
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Visited
@CHEMUCPH
today! Finally got to meet Michael
@PittelkowLab
and Jiwoong
@TheLeeLab_Chem
. Also great to see
@ChristianAOlsen
again .
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The Hypervalent Iodine people at the Batsheva de Rothschild conference Subrata, Alex,
@BeritLab
Olofsson, Raja, Raz, and Bat-el . A great conference in a beautiful place-Ein Gedi at the Dead Sea.
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Our group has received an Israel Science Foundation grant that will support our research on the chemistry of
#enolonium
species for the next four years. Tomorrow at 11:15 I will give a short talk with an overview of the results we have received so far
@ESOC2019
#esocwien
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Congratulations to Raja
@Rajakravi2012
who has just completed his Ph.D. on the subject of enolonium species. Hopefully to be published soon. Raja is the 10th Ph.D. graduate from our group. Raja, we wish you lots of success in the future as a postdoc at
@PappoDoron
group. ❤️
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How to make Nitrocyclopropanes using
#Enolonium
Species ?
@AsitGhosh_Org
has the answer! Poster at the
#ICS2022
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Goodbye party for
@KhYuriy
who is leaving us today as Dr Lipisa to join the Altmann group
@ETH_DCHAB
as a postdoctoral fellow. Thank you Yuriy for your time with us and lots of continued success.
#PhDone
Hoping for the safety of your parents in Kharkiv 🇺🇦
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I missed out on a few lectures due to my daughter’s graduation ceremony but I was proud to chair
@TroelsTs
who described catalytic depolymerization reactions of huge importance and Tobias
@ritter_lab
who gave an insightful overview of his groups chemistry over the years
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Congratulations to Raja
@Rajakravi2012
who gave his final PhD seminar today. Now on to thesis and paper writing.
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We were entrapped by Dean
@Toste_Group
talk on the use of flexible cages as catalyst that not only could speed up reactions but even change the reaction outcome aka product
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Nuno
@MaulideLab
opening the morning session with a firework of his group’s chemistry.
#ISySyCat
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Better materials through better understanding of the aromaticity of polybenzoid molecules? Who better to ask than Renana
@Aromaticist
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Great day
@OpenU_Israel
. In addition to the
@WolfPrize_
winners the speakers included
@mifridm
@AshrafBrik
@london_lab
@MeijlerMichael
and Irit Sagi
@irit_irit
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Richmond
@SarpongGroup
demonstrates the power of bond breaking, peripheral functionalization, and skeletal editing strategies in natural product chemistry with a view towards impacting medicine
#ISySyCat
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Thank you to students and faculty
@chemistrytau
for hosting me today. Had a great day with discussions on chemistry, the Nobel prize, publishing, student life, history of chemistry and it’s future and lots more. Great fun!
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Our review on Synthesis and Reactions of Borazines, the so-called inorganic (aromatic) benzenes, was selected for the cover page of Synthesis by the editors!. Congrats to co-author Dr Ishita Neogi for this honor
@Boron_Chemistry
Want to know how to make Borazines or how they react ? See our latest review now online in the final version. With Dr. Ishita Neogi 👉
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Check out the picture of the audience right before my lecture. As noted “booziest conference session ever”
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@Boron_Chemistry
Want to know how to make Borazines or how they react ? See our latest review now online in the final version. With Dr. Ishita Neogi 👉
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Karl Anker
@JorgensenGroup
demonstrates the amazing diversity that is accessible with
#Organocatalysis
applied to higher order
#cycloadditions
. And also literally takes a page out of Hoffmann’s note book on the
Woodward-Hoffmann rules
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The group
#Hanukkah
party. This time the sweetness of the sufagniot and of welcoming new graduate students Ortal, Raz, and Yonathan is mixed with the sadness of saying goodbye to Sourav
@santra_dr
who is leaving after three years of 🌞 Chemistry. Lots of success 2 all!
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Finishing of the day in a spectacular fashion with
@sarah_reisman
winner of the first Margaret Faul Women in Chemistry Awardee . Congratulations Sarah!
@ESOC2019
#esocwien
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Raja
@Rajakravi2012
Poster at the
#ICS2022
featured new Umpolung results based on
#Enolonium
Species
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The last undergrad has weighed his benzoin product. The teaching lab is empty. Now time to do some reactions of my own. Then the (online ) exam period beckons.
#RealTimeChem
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Ever felt like making binary ionic liquid energetic materials (things that go boom) ? We did. Check out this little thing done in collaboration with the Eichen lab, Gottlieb and Bernstein (Rafael)
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The Chess master is here. Phil
@BaranLabReads
not only bends the rules. He breaks them to up the game .
@ESOC2019
#esocwien
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In the last week I was reunited with one of my group alumni. His research was published in several well received papers and he continues doing research to solve important scientific problems. Now we serve together to protect Israeli civilians.
#OnDuty
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Finally after a two year Corona induced break the 5th Adama-Ben Gurion University in Organic Chemistry is taking off
@PappoDoron
@MeijlerMichael
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And Vlad
@Gevorgyanlab
finished the session with an energetic talk on palladium radical chemistry
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Truly sad news. During my time at the ETH he was always happy to discuss ideas, offer advice, and encouragingly joke when an idea turned out to be too unrealistic
With heartfelt sadness, the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry announces that our friend and colleague Prof. Jack Dunitz passed away peacefully on September 12, 2021, at the age of 98 after a short illness. He will be sorely missed.
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Last day of the
#BdRotschild
began with Peter Schreiner’s
@prsgroupjlu
fascinating talk about the origin of sugar molecules in space as investigated using high level physical organic chemistry tools.
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