Excited to share that our group is moving to @RWTH . I would like to thank all my former colleagues for 7 great years at @UoMChemistry and I now look forward to working with new ones!
Leonori Lab
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Group-run account for the Leonori Research Group at RWTH Aachen University. Catalysis. Photoredox. Organic Synthesis.
- Our work on aniline synthesis from cyclohexanones has been published in @nature today. I wanted to congratulate @DigheShashi, @FabioJulia7 @AlbertoLuridia1 for their work. Great collaboration with James @AstraZeneca! nature.com/articles/s4158…
- Excited to share our latest work on halogen-atom transfer out today in @ScienceMagazine. We wanted to use a H• to abstract an halogen and identified a process that is under quantum tunnelling control.
- Happy to share our latest work on photexcited nitroarenes just published in @NatureChemistry. Check out how we turn them into complex azepanes in just two steps. nature.com/articles/s4155…
- Our new C–H borylation of azines has just been published in @Nature. We use boryl radicals and achieve orthogonal selectivity to the one of Ir/Rh-based approaches!
- Happy to share the final version of our work on nitroarenes as ozone surrogates just published in Nature. 1/3 nature.com/articles/s4158…
- Take a look at our latest work just published in @NatureCatalysis . We have developed a general platform for the desaturative synthesis of aminated heteroaromatics. nature.com/articles/s4192…
- Happy to share our latest review on polar effects in radical reactions just published in @NatureSynthesis. We hope you find it useful! nature.com/articles/s4416…
- 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.
- Our new protocol for the C–H amination of arenes with alkyl amines has been published in @NatureChemistry ! nature.com/articles/s4155… #latestageamination #realtimechem
- Find our latest publication in @NatureSynthesis on XAT mediated alkylation of both aryl halides and aryl boronic acids. Photogenerated amine-ligated boryl radical can be an effective XAT reagent in nickel and copper catalysed X-coupling reactions!
- Check out our most recent work in @J_A_C_S. Carboxylated amine-borane serves are boryl radical precursor in radical borylation of styrenes and imines to form novel sp3-organoboron materials directly applicable in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling.
- Our most recent work published in @ACSCatalysis presents a common strategy for the formation of C-C, C-N AND C-O bonds by merging aryl-radical mediated XAT🔦 with Cu-catalysis🔃. Check it out at:

