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March 2024

18/03 Thomas Hintner joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome and have fun!

12/03 Congrats to Thomas Hintner for defending his MSc thesis. Looking forward to welcoming you as a PhD student.

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12/03 Great news from the FWF. The project "Exploring the Chemistry of Octadride Natural Products"  (10.55776/PAT1457923) was approved.

01/03 Tommy starts his second term as Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry Institute.

February 2024

16/02 Our new Bruker Alpha II has arrived.

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12–14/02 The 5th Alpine Meeting on Natural Products took place in Obergurgl. Great talks, beautiful location and perfect weather.

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January 2024

15/01 Dr. Mike Badart (Bayer AG, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) starts as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to the group and good luck!

08/01 Antonio has joined the lab for an internship. Welcome!

01/01 We wish you a healthy, peaceful, successful, and rewarding New Year!

December 2023

31/12 Dr. Christian Steinborn is leaving the group and will join Syngenta. Congratulations on your new position - we will miss you!

20/12 MSc Defensio of Henrik Janas. Congrats!

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01/12 Aldo is leaving for his internship with Boehringer Ingelheim. Good luck!

November 2023

12/11 Congrats to Christian, Immanuel and Julian for the acceptance of their research article "Synthesis of Waixenicin A: Exploring Strategies for Nine-Membered Ring Formation" in Chemistry - A European Journal. 

09/11 Prof. Mikula from the TU Vienna visits the IOC. Title of his presentation "Next-level chemical tools for bioorthogonal bond-cleavage"

07/11 IOC Törgellen will take place. Enjoy!

October 2023

23/10 Lieben Lecture by Prof. Bach (TU Munich) "Natural Product Synthesis from Different Perspectives"

19/10 Prof. Juha Siitonen (Aalto University) will give his talk "Total synthesis of polycylic racemic alkaloids"

06/10 Group outing to Seefelder Spitze. Congrats to the group for making it to the summit!

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02/10 Binder Lectureship - Prof. Gisbert Schneider (ETH Zurich)

02/10 Nora starts with her PhD. Welcome to the group and alle the best for your projects!

02/10 Daniel starts with his MSc. Welcome and all the best for your project.

September 2023

04/09 Sebastian starts with his MSc thesis! Welcome to the group and all the best for your project.

August 2023

29/08 Prof. Pieber (IST Austria) starts his PhD lecture "The hitchhiker's guide to flow chemistry". Enjoy!

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July 2023

18/07 Congrats to Dr. Christian Steinborn! Great talk and excellent PhD-Defensio.

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18/07 The Magauer Group 2023

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01/07 Tobi and Immanuel in the news. Newsroom of the UIBK: A new strat­egy enables molec­u­lar diver­sity

01/07 Time to say good bye to Dr. Kovac. All the best for your independent career at Palacký University Olomouc! We will miss you. 

June 2023

19/06 The Sosnovsky award ceremony will take please. Congrats again to Dr. Lukas Wein (UCLA, USA).

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15/06 Congrats to Immanuel and Tobias for the acceptance of their manuscript "Divergent Polyene Cyclization for the Total Synthesis of Greenwayodendrines, Greenwaylactams, Polysin and Polyveolinein Angewandte Chemie. Great breakthrough for the project CRAFTMOL funded by the European Research Council (ERC)!

May 2023

30/05 Congrats to Ondrej for securing anStart-up grant of the Experienta Foundation. Good luck for your independent career.

17/05 Team Xenicin in the Newsroom. Congrats.

15/05 Dr. Olivier Loiseleur from Syngenta will give his GÖCh lecture „Deliberations on natural products in modern agrochemical discovery“ at 05:15 pm at the CCB (L.EG.220).


04/05 Congrats to Christian and Team Xenicin (Immanuel and Julian) for the acceptance of their work in JACS. Well deserved!
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April 2023

26/04 Congrats to MSc Alex Mühlsteiger for passing his MSc defensio! 

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13/04 Congrats to Dr. Lukas Wein for also winning the Sosnovsky Award 2023! The award ceremony will take place on June 19, 2023. For further infos, see: Sosnovsky 2023

March 2023

13/03 Congrats to Dr. Lukas Wein (now Postdoc at Garg Lab, UCLA) for winning the Hypo Tirol Bank Dissertationspreises 2023! Well deserved.

08/03 Congrats to MSc Julian Lichtenegger for passing his MSc defensio! 

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06/03 Thomas has joined the lab for this MSc thesis. Welcome to the group and good luck with your project.

01/03  Henrik has joined the lab for this MSc thesis. Welcome to the group and good luck with your project.

February 2023

20/02 Congrats to Team Cornexistin (Chris, Aldo, Christoph) for the most recent publication in Chemistry - A European Journal. Great collaboration!

07/02 Thanks to Immanuel and Julian for presenting the group at the 2023 Innside Chemie Event. You did a great job!

January 2023

19/01 Prof. Dr. Christian Ducho (Universität Saarland): From nucleoside-derived natural products to modified oligonucleotides

16/01 Tommy receives the Research Award by the Südtiroler Sparkasse (Forschungspreis der Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse).

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16/01 CMBI Lecture Prof. Jacek Jemielity (Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland): Chemical modifications of mRNA for therapeutic applications

01/01 Happy New Year. Thanks to everyone for the support throughout the year and all the best for 2023!

December 2022

24/12 Happy Holidays and enjoy the remaining days of 2022!

15/12 Dr. Pieber (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces will visit the CCB to give his talk about "The Wavelength Matters - Controlling the selectivity of photocatalytic reactions using different colors of light".

13/12 Congrats to Immanuel for receiving a TWF Jung-Investigator Fellowship! Well deserved.

02/12 Dr. Habiger is leaving the lab for his new position with Symrise. All the best for your new adventure!

November 2022

18/11 Great talk by Prof. Andrei Yudin (University of Toronto). Thanks for your visit.

17/11 The TCI Chemistry Brunch hosted by Dr. Dirk Schubert takes place.

14/11 Congrats to Dr. Christoph Habiger for an excellent PhD Defensio! 

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October 2022

20/10 Congrats to Jan for the acceptance of this manuscript "Total Synthesis of the Dihydrooxepine-Spiroisoxazoline Natural Product Psammaplysin A" in JACS. Well done and keep up the great work! Jan in the news.

17/10 Congrats to Dr. Lukas Wein for securing a Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship! All the best for your postdoctoral stay with Prof. Neil Garg (UCLA, USA).

05/10 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. Awesome!

September 2022

30/09 Enjoy the CMBI Meeting!

27/09 Congrats to Immanuel for the acceptance of his manuscript "Short, Divergent and Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Bioactive ent-Pimaranes" in Organic Letters. Well deserved. Keep up the great work!

15/09 Congrats to Jan and the whole Team Psammplysin to accomplish the synthesis of Psammaplysin A. Awesome work!

August 2022

02/08 Congrats to Lukas for his most recent publication in the British Journal of Pharmacology (together with the Schaefer group): "KS0365, a novel activator of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 3 (TRPV3) channel, accelerates keratinocyte migration" Journal: 

July 2022

28/07 Anavi Serna (Rice University (USA) is leaving the lab. Thank you very much for the fantastic work and all the best for your future studies!

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20/07 Congrats to Clemens Dietrich for successfully defending his MSc thesis. All the best for your future career in industry!

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14/07 The Boehringer Ingelheim INCEM Meeting takes place in Innsbruck. Great to see former coworkers and students! 

05/07 Congrats to Dr. Lukas Wein for an excellent PhD Defensio! 

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June 2022

20/06 The GÖCh Dieter Binder Lectureship on Medicinal Chemistry takes place at the CCB. For more infos: https://www.goech.at/post/dieter-binder-lectureship-on-medicinal-chemistry

15/06 CCB roof deck visit.

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May 2022

16/04 Anavi from Rice University (USA) has joined the lab for an internship. Welcome to the group and good luck with your project!

April 2022

15/04 Julian and Manuel are joining the lab for their MSc/BSc thesis. Welcome and good luck with your projects.

01/04 Dr. Tobias Pinkert joins the lab for his postdoctoral studies. Welcome to Innsbruck and the group!

March 2022

16/03–18/03 The 4th Alpine Meeting on Natural Products/ERC Kick-off meeting takes place in Obergurgl. Thanks to everyone for contributing!

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February 2022

01/02 The ERC Consolidator Grant CRAFTMOL starts today. Looking forward to many exciting discoveries and our kick-off meeting in Obergurgl in March 2022.

January 2022

31/01 The ERC Starting Grant HALODRUGSYN officially ends today. Thanks to all former coworkers for making this project highly successful!

21/01 Tobias Pinkert, incoming postdoctoral fellow from the University of Münster, is visiting the lab. Was great to see you in person! Looking forward to your start,

01/01 Happy New Year to everyone!

December 2021

23/12 Happy Holidays and all the best for 2022.

06/12 Happy Saint Nicholas Day to everyone.

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November 2021

25/11 Congrats to Liesa and Nico for receiving a TWF Jung-Investigator Fellowship! Well deserved.

12/11 Congrats to Ivy for the acceptance of his publication "Ring-Expansion of 1-Indanones to 2-Halo-1-naphthols as an Entry Point to Gilvocarcin Natural Products" in Organic Letters!

11/11 Congrats to Lukas for the acceptance of his manuscript "Total Synthesis and Late-Stage C–H Oxidations of ent-Trachylobane Natural Products" in Angewandte Chemie!

15/11 GÖCH Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture by Dr. Weinstabl "Discovery of orally available and selective SMARCA2 PROTACs" Dand Dr. Gollner "Synthesis of Conformationally Restricted MDM2-p53 Inhibitors"

October 2021

11/10  Inaugural lecture by Prof. Langenbach!

04/10  Semester starts. Have a great time and all the best for 2021-2022.

September 2021

15/09 Elias Schmidhammer (University of Innsbruck) is joining the group for his PhD studies. Welcome back to the group and good luck for your project(s)!

06/09 Jan Paciorek (Masaryk University, Czechia) is joining the group for his PhD studies. Welcome to Austria, to the group and good luck for your project(s)!

01/09 Jasmin Ferreira (University of Cape Town, South Africa) is joining the group for her PhD studies. Welcome to Austria, the group and good luck for your project(s)!

August 2021

20/08 Congrats to Dr. Julian Feilner for passing his PhD defense. Well done and all the best for your new adventure in New York.

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20/08 Congrats to Elias for passing his MSc defense. Looking forward to your return for your PhD studies.

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11/08 The 3rd Alpine Meeting on Natural Products takes place in Obergurgl, in the heart of the Ötztaler Alps. Thanks to everyone for participating, the great scientific talks and congrats to the group for reaching the summit of Hangerer (3021 m) together as a team. Looking forward to 2022.

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July 2021

09/07 Tommy receives the Research Award of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

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June 2021

25/06 Congrats to Lukas for winning a Poster Prize at the 21st Tetrahedron Symposium.

24/06 Congrats to Julian and Immanuel for the acceptance of their manuscript "Bifunctional Polyene Cyclizations: Synthetic Studies on Pimarane Natural Products" in Chemistry - A European Journal!

08/06 Congrats to Team Heterocycle - Franz, Immanuel, Lukas, Niklas -  for the acceptance of their manuscript "Synthesis of Pyrroles via Consecutive 6π- Electrocyclization/Ring-Contraction of Sulfilimines" in JACS! Press release of the UIBK: Newsroom

08/06 Congrats to Christian and Raphael (now at Boehringer) for the acceptance of their manuscript "Evolution of a Strategy for the Total Synthesis of (+)-Cornexistin" in Chemistry - A European Journal!

May 2021

31/05 Dr. "Franz" and Dr. "Ivy" are leaving the lab for their postdoctoral studies. All the best and thank you for the great time. We will miss you.

April 2021

19/04 Tamara has joined the lab for her Bachelor thesis. Welcome.

04/04 Happy Easter to everyone. Dyeing Easter Eggs

March 2021

01/03 Congrats to Dr. Ivica Zamarija for passing his PhD defense. Well done and all the best for the upcoming months.

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01/03 Tommy starts his term as Head of Organic Chemistry Institute.

01/03 Kevin and Alex have left the group to start with Boehringer Ingelheim (Vienna) and Bayer AG. All the best for your new positions.

February 2021

15/02 Congrats to Tommy for receiving the "2020 Liechtenstein Award".

08/02 Nicolas Müller (LMU Munich/ETH Zurich) is joining the group as a PhD student. Welcome to Innsbruck.

01/02 Congrats to Dr. Alexander Rode for passing his PhD defense. Well done and all the best for your career at Bayer.

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January 2021

18/01 Congrats to Dr. Franz-Lucas Josef Herbert.... Haut for passing his PhD defense. Well done and congrats for securing your postdoctoral position in the Martin lab at ICIQ.

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13/01 Congrats to Julian and Franz for the acceptance of their manuscript "Beyond the Isoprene Pattern: Bifunctional Polyene Cyclizations" in Chemistry A European Journal.

01/01 Happy New Year and all the best for 2021!

December 2020

20/12 Congrats to the Furan Team (Lukas, Christoph, Franz) for the acceptance of their manuscript "Rapid Assembly of Tetrasubstituted Furans via Pummerer-type Rearrangement" in JACS.

09/12 We are really grateful for receiving funding for our ERC Consolidator Project "CRAFTMOL".

November 2020

16/11 Dr. Ondrej Kovac from Palacký University Olomouc (Pospíšil Group) is joining the group as an Experientia Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome to Innsbruck!

October 2020

06/10 Thanks to the FWF for funding our stand-alone project "Synthesis of Polycyclic Terpenoids Enabled by C–H Oxidation".

01/10 Aldo Tancredi joins the group as a member of the ARDRE PhD program. Welcome to the group!

September 2020

21-23/09 The Young Chemist Summit takes place. What a great program. Enjoy!

August 2020

04/08 Alex Mühlsteiger is joining the group for his Bachelor thesis. Welcome to the group!

July 2020

30/07 Congrats to Kevin for passing his PhD Defense. Well done Dr. Sokol and all the best for your future career at Boehringer Ingelheim (Vienna).

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29/07 Congrats to the Team "Epoxide" on the acceptance of their publication "Synthesis of Vicinal Quaternary All-Carbon Centers via Acid-catalyzed Cycloisomerization of Neopentylic Epoxides" in Organic Letters.

June 2020

18/06 Congrats to Christian (UIBK), Raphi (Astra Zeneca) and Dave (Bayer Crop Science) for the acceptance of their manuscript "Total Synthesis of (+)-Cornexistin" in ACIE! Great job.

15/06 Niklas joined the group for this Master's thesis. Welcome to the group!

02/06 Dr. Nicholas Tappin from the University of Bern (Renaud Group) is joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to Innsbruck!

May 2020

19/05 Clemens joined the group for this Master's thesis. Welcome to the group!

04/05 Immanuel joined the group for this Master's thesis. Welcome to the group!

01/05 Lab is still running on a two-shift basis. 

April 2020

20/04 Lab is running again! Thanks to everyone for making this possible.

March 2020

11/03 Congrats to Julian for the acceptance of his work on "Transannular Polyene Cyclizations" in Angewandte Chemie. Well done!

February 2020

25/02 Prof. James GLeason (McGill University) is visiting. The lecture will be held at 04:15 pm.

January 2020

24/01 Prof. Darren Dixon (Oxford University)  is visiting as a BritInn Fellow. The lecture will be held at 04:00 pm.

24/01 Congrats to Lukas for winning a Poster Prize at the 2nd Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry!

15/01 Liesa is joining the group for her PhD thesis. Great to have you back!

01/01 Happy New Year to everyone and all the best for the upcoming adventures!

December 2019

06/12 Tommy receives the scientific Research Award of the City of Innsbruck.

01/12 Congrats to Lukas for accomplishing the bio-inspired C–H oxidation of mitrephorone B to mitrephorone A. The synthesis represents a great example for the power of modern C–H activation methods. The results of this work will appear in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

November 2019

27/11 Congrats to Christian for solving an exceptionally challenging synthesis problem. Great job! 

04/11 Julian has joined the lab for his Bachelor Thesis. Welcome to the group!

October 2019

21/10 Teddy has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

17/10 Annual group Hike takes place. Congrats to the group for summiting Hohe Munde!

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02/10 Tobias has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

01/10 Matthias is leaving for his postdoctoral adventure in the Noël group. All the best and good luck!

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September 2019

02/09 Students from the BG/BRG Steyr Werndlpark are visiting the CCB to learn more about chemistry. Welcome!bg_brg_steyr_visit

02/09 Julien has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

August 2019

13/08 Congrats to Franz and the team for the acceptance of his manuscript entitled "A Synthetic Entry to Polyfunctionalized Molecules through the [3+2]-Cycloaddition of Thiocarbonyl Ylides" in JACS.

July 2019

23/07 Enjoy the Group BBQ!

June 2019

15/06 Dr. Höfler from the MPI Mühlheim (List Group) is joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to Innsbruck!

07/06 Congrats to Matthias for passing his PhD Defense with honors. Congrats Dr. SMat!

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03/06 Liesa has joined the lab for her Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

03/06 The Lieben Lecture takes place. Congrats to Prof. Dirk Trauner (NYU) for being the 2019 Lieben Lecture Awardee. Also great to have Prof. Siegel (Tianjin University) as our second speaker.

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May 2019

24/05 Gabri is leaving the group to start a job in industry. All the best for your future research endeavours! We will miss you.

01/05 Prof. Dr. Hammann (Evotec/Sanofi Aventis) visits the Institute.

01/05 Welcome Mario and Niklas!

April 2019

31/03–02/04 The second Alpine Meeting on Natural Products takes place in Obergurgl!

March 2019

22/03 Lara has successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Weisheit!

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11/03 Dr. Schiesser from Astra Zeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden is visiting the Department.

09/03 Congrats to Matthias for the acceptance of his manuscript entitled "Ring-Expansion Approaches for the Total Synthesis of Salimabromide". This work will appear in the Tetrahedron Special Issue Honoring Ryan Shenvi

04/03 Robin has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

February 2019

04/02 Christoph joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome back!

January 2019

28/01 Dr. Barber from Bayer Crop Science  gave an inspiring talk about "The chemistry behind the aminoisothiazoles: a new class of herbicides"

07/01 Big C joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome back!

December 2018

14/12 The X-Mas party takes place at Soulkitchen. Happy Holidays!

01/12 Congrats to Sofia and Franz for receiving a TWF Jung-Investigator Fellowship! Well deserved.

November 2018

21/11 Raphi has successfully defended his PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Wildermuth!

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October 2018

25/10 Our high pressure apparatus now has a protective shield. Safety first!

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11/10 The Groupouting to Seefelderspitze takes place. Enjoy the Golden Oktober!

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01/10 Great talk my Prof. Mingji Dai (Purdue University, USA). Perfect start to the winter term!

September 2018

03/09 Lukáš Maier has joined the lab as an "Experientia" Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome to the group Lukáš!

03/09 Tobias has joined the lab for an internship. Welcome to the group!

August 2018

23/08 Congrats to Matthias for his appearance in the most recent "Synfact of the Month"!

09/08 Prof. Tim Newhouse from Yale University is visiting the Department. Thanks Tim for giving a highly inspiring lecture!

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06/08 Immanuel Plangger is joining the team for an internship. Welcome Immanuel!

July 2018

23/07 Jonah is joining the group for an internship. Welcome to the group!

01/07 Congrats to Matthias for the acceptance of his most recent work "Total Synthesis of Salimabromide, a Tetracyclic Polyketide from a Marine Myxobacterium" in JACS!

01/07 Lukas is rejoining the group for his PhD thesis. Welcome back Lukas!

June 2018

19/06 Congrats to Dr. Lukáš Maier for being awarded a prestigious Experientia Foundation Fellowship. Lukas will join the lab in September. Looking forward to your stay with us!

04/06 Dr. Gabriele Prina Cerai from the Morandi Lab is joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome to the group Gabri!

May 2018

15/05 Our new glovebox was installed.


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April 2018

25/04 Tommy speaks at the Wissensdurst Festival 2018 @NAX. Thanks to the organizer and the great audience!


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23/04 Tommy was elected to the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

18/04 Christian has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

13/04 The "Lange Nacht der Forschung" event takes place across Austria!

10/04 Christoph has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

March 2018

14/03 First Alpine Meeting on Natural products takes place in Obergurgl!

February 2018

19/02 Congrats to Franz and Raphi for the acceptance of their manuscript entitled " A Negishi cross-coupling reaction enables the total synthesis of (+)-stachyflin" in Tetrahedron.

06/02 Our new high-pressure set-up arrived today. This will enable us to conduct reactions at up to 14 kbar.
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06/02 Congrats to Alex for winning the Poster Award at the "1st Alpine Winter Conference on Medicinal and Synthetic   Chemistry".

05/02 Electryfying chemistry is now possible with our new ElectraSyn 2.0!
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January 2018

08/01 Congrats to Tatjana and Raphi for acceptance of their manuscript "9-Membered Carbocycles: Strategies and Tactics for their Synthesis" in Chemistry - A European Journal!

08/01 Tatjana has successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Huber!
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08/01 Giandomenico from the Melchiorre Group joins the group for an exchange stay. Welcome!

December 2017 

21/12 Happy Holidays!
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18/12 The new automated melting point apparatus has been installed!
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14/12 Adriana has successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Grossmann!
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11/12 David has joined the lab for his Master Thesis. Welcome to the group!

04/12 Johannes has successfully defended his PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Feierfeil!
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01/12 Congrats to Johannes on the acceptance of his manuscript "De Novo Synthesis of Benzannelated Heterocycles" in Chemistry - A European Journal!

November 2017 

20/11 Inaugural Lecture (5.15 pm, CCB)

15/11 Julian has joined the lab for his PhD Thesis. Welcome to the group!

13/11 Tesi has successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Preuhs!
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02/11 Congrats to Raphi on the acceptance of his manuscript "A Modular Synthesis of Tetracyclic Meroterpenoid Antibiotics” in Nature Communications" and thanks to the Brönstrup Group for the highly appreciated collaboration!

October 2017 

30/10 Congrats to Alex for receiving a 2017 Römer-Award for his Master thesis!

10/16 Lukas Wein joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group Lukas!

 

10/13 Congrats to the group for climbing the Patscherkofel. 
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September 2017 

09/24 Congrats to Raphi for finishing the 44. Berlin Marathon!

09/18 Matthias and Franz have finally moved to join the group at Innsbruck.

09/15 Expansion of the lab space and installation of additional fume hoods.

August 2017 

08/29 Aylin Hirschvogel joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome to the group Aylin!

08/27 Meet Tommy at the Villars Summer School 2017.

08/10 The brand-new Rayonet system arrived and completed our photochemistry set-up!
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July 2017 

07/26 The lab is moving to the University of Innsbruck.
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07/20 Magauer/Trauner Farewell BBQ

June 2017 

20/06 Inspection of our future labs at the University of Innsbruck. Looking forward to our visit.

16/06 Congrats to Tatjana, Tesi and Christa for the acceptance of their manuscript in JOC. You can read about their efforts to access Jerantinine E here: JOC Article

MAY 2017 

09/05 The new group page is currently under construction and will be available at www.uibk.ac.at/organic/magauer.

01/05 Franz is joining the group for his PhD thesis. Welcome Franz!

APRIL 2017

22/04 Congrats to Alex, Ben, Johannes and Raphael for finishing the Andechs Trail Run. Great job!!Participants of the Andechs trail run 2017

12/04 Tommy has accepted an offer from the University of Innsbruck as Full Professor of Chemistry. Looking forward to our move in August!
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12/04 The Spartan–Odyssey workshop with Dr. Peter Trojanowski takes place. Special thanks to Tatjana for the organisation.

MARCH 2017

01/03 Matthias has joined the lab for the second part of his PhD thesis. Welcome to the group Matthias!

01/03 Alex is rejoining the group for his PhD thesis. Welcome back Alex!

FEBRUARY 2017

23/02 Tommy wins the 2017 DECHEMA Early-Career Researcher Prize for Natural Product Research. Thanks to everyone!

15/02 Sofia is rejoining the group for her PhD thesis. Welcome back Sofia!

09/02 Thanks to Kevin for taking care of the HPLC-MS installation. Well done!HPLC-MS

02/02 Ivica joins the lab for his PhD thesis. Welcome to the group!

01/02 Official start of the ERC project "HALODRUGSYN".

 


JANUARY 2017

01/01 Happy New Year everyone!

01/01 The group-owned Shimadzu HPLC will be equipped with a MS detector. Installation begins today

December 2016

19/12 Klaus has successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Speck!
Klaus Speck and Thomas Magauer

03/12 Tommy was awarded the Arnold Sommerfeld-Prize 2016 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences at the Münchner Residenz, Herkulessaal. (Laudatio)
Tommy was awarded the Arnold Sommerfeld-Prize 2016
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02/12 Cedric will receive the Klaus-Grohe Prize 2017 of the GDCh in Bern. Congrats and Happy Awarding!

01/12 The anual Trauner-Magauer Joint Christmas Party takes place!
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01/12 The group receives Funding from the Dr. Otto-Röhm Gedächtnisstiftung

November 2016

29/11 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of his Perspective article "Bioinspired Total Syntheses of Terpenoids" in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!

17/11 Congrats to Klaus on the acceptance of his manuscript "Evolution of a Polyene Cyclization Cascade for the Total Synthesis of (–)-Cyclosmenospongine" in Chemistry - A European Journal!

16/11 Cedric is leaving the lab to start a new adventure at Berkeley (Sarpong Group). Have fun and enjoy your time in beautiful California. The group will miss you!
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14/11 Kevin joins the lab for his PhD thesis. Welcome to the group Kevin!

October 2016

27/10 Congrats to Cedric and Klaus for beeing awarded a Römer PhD Prize 2016! The award ceremony will take place on December 2, 2016.

12/10 Cedric has successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations Dr. Hugelshofer!
Cedric and Thomas

06/10 Tommy receives the Dozentenpreis of the Chemical Industry Fund (FCI) in Hannover. [Dozentenpreis 2016]

September 2016

24/09 Ben Marsh from the University of Nottingham (Adviser: Prof. Chris Hayes) joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome to the group!

14/09 Congrats to Klaus and Raphael on the acceptance of their manuscript "Convergent Assembly of the Tetracyclic Meroterpenoid (-)-Cyclosmenospongine via a Non-Biomimetic Polyene Cyclization" in Angewandte Chemie! Great Job!

13/09 Magauer group hike at Rofan, Austria. Have fun and enjoy!
Panorama BärenkopfGroup picture

07/09 Group Dinner takes place at Monsoon-Glockenbach. Enjoy!


06/09 Tommy receives the ORCHEM Young Investigator Award of the Liebig Association. Congrats to Dirk Trauner for being awarded the Emil Fischer Medal!
Dirk Trauner and Tommy

01/09 Thanks to Sandoz, Austria for supporting the group with lab equipment!

August 2016

13/08 The group will receive an ERC starting grant! Great job Magaueritas and Magauerinos!

02/08 Ruben Andringa from the University of Groningen (Prof. Adriaan Minaard) joins the lab for an internship. Welcome to the group!

July 2016

26/07 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of his manuscript "A Divergent Approach to the Marine Diterpenoids (+)-Dictyoxetane and (+)-Dolabellane V" in Chemistry - A European Journal!

22/07 The Magauer-Trauner joint BBQ takes place. We also had a chance to update our group photo!
Group Picture

19/07 Alexander Rode joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group Alex!

02–03.07 Great program at the URCUP Conference!
Group Picture

June 2016

15/06 Congrats to Teresa and Adriana on the acceptance of their manuscript "Rapid Access to Orthogonally Functionalized Naphthalenes: Application to the Total Synthesis of the Anticancer Agent Chartarin" in Angewandte Chemie!

May 2016

13/05 Simon Schnell joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

09/05 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of the Communication "A Bioinspired Cyclization Sequence Enables the Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Dictyoxetane" in JACS!

01/01 Thanks to the group for their creativity.
Cover

April 2016

16/04 Congrats to Klaus and Johannes for completing the Andechs Trail-Expert Run! Thumbs up!
Klaus, Johannes and Tommy

05/04 Meet Tommy at Bayer Berlin.

04/04 Sofia Torres Venegas from the University of Vienna (Prof. Nuno Maulide) joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

March 2016

21/03 Tommy receives the ADUC-Prize at the CDT Heidelberg.
Tommy
Copyright: Tobias Schwerdt

07/03 Franz-Lucas from the FU Berlin joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

01/03 Congrats to Raphael und Klaus for the acceptance of their manuscript "Gold(I)-Catalyzed Enyne Cyclizations: Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of (+)-Aureol" in Synthesis. The results of this work will appear soon in the "Cyclization Tactics and Strategies" themed issue.

February 2016

24/02 Great people and science at the 28th Irseer Natural Product Conference!
Pictures of the Irseer Natural Product Conference

18/02 The annual Trauner-Magauer Ski Trip takes place in Saalfelden, Austria. Happy Skiing!

01/02 Prof. Mario Waser ist visiting the Department of Chemistry. Meet him at the OC Colloquium at 11.15 am.

January 2016

21/01 Just received our brand-new Anton Paar polarimeter. Happy polarizing!

21/01 Congrats to Adriana for the acceptance of her manuscript "Trihaloethenes as Versatile Building Blocks for Organic Synthesis" in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. This review will appear soon in the "New Talent" themed issue.

01/01 Happy New Year!

 


December 2015

15/12 Meet Tommy at the Pacifichem 2015 in Hawai!

11/12 The anual Trauner-Magauer Joint Christmas Party takes place!

01/12  Congrats to Tatjana and Lara for the acceptance of their Review "Synthesis of Xenia diterpenoids and related metabolites isolated from marine organisms" in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. This review will appear in the  Thematic Series “Natural Products in Synthesis and Biosynthesis II”.

November 2015

23/11 Christa is back in the lab for another month before starting her PhD in Konstanz!

05/11 New DAICEL Chiralpak columns for our HPLC!

October 2015

28/10 The Tokyo-LMU-Symposium is taking place at the IZB. (Lecture Program)

12/10 Prof. Jun Takaya from TTITECH is visiting for the first talk of the Merck-Banyu Lecture Series!Huisgen Takaya and Tommy

05/10  HTI Conference at Schloss Beuggen

September 2015

27/09 The Beilstein Symposium takes places in Prien (Lecture Program)Participants of the Beilstein Symposium 

16/09 AK Magauer Group Hike - Mieminger Kette/Zugspitze

01/09 Visit at Bayer Pharma AG, Wuppertal. 

01/09 Lara joins the lab for her PhD thesis. Welcome back to the group!

August 2015

18/08 Thanks to Prof. Xiaoguang Lei, Prof. Guangxin Liang, Prof. Yunfei Du, Prof. Dawei Ma and Prof. Hanfeng Ding for organizing a fantastic lecture tour!
Jinan Superman

10/08 Our paper "Ring Opening of Bicyclic[3.1.0]hexan-2-ones" in Angewandte Chemie is Online.

01/08 – 21/08 Lecture tour @ Peking University, Nankai, SIOC Chinese Acadamey of Science and Zhejiang University Hangzhou

July 2015

20/07 Congrats to Johannes and Adriana on the acceptance of their Communication "Ring Opening of Bicyclic[3.1.0]hexan-2-ones: A Versatile Synthetic Platform for the Construction of Substituted Benzoates" in Angewandte Chemie.

13/07 Prof. Ronald Micura (Universität Innsbruck) visits the Department of Chemistry!

06/07 Prof. JE Bäckvall (Stockholm) visits the LMU!

01/07 The final funding period of the SFB 749 starts.

June 2015

22/06 Prof. David Milstein (Weizman Institute) is visiting!

Mai 2015

11/04 Christa joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome!

April 2015

26/04 The legendary Bürgenstock Conference celebrates its 50th birthday! A week of scientific excellence.

01/04 No April Fool's: Congrats to Klaus on the acceptance of his manuscript "Sequential O–H/C–H Bond Insertion of Phenols initiated by the Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cyclization of 1-Bromo-1,5-Enynes" in Organic Letters. The paper is online!

March 2015

16/03 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of the Communication "Total Synthesis of the Leucosceptroid Family of Natural Products" in JACS. This paper just appeared online!

05–06/03  Evaluation of the SFB 749 "Dynamik und Intermediate molekularer Transformationen"

02–04/03 CDT 2015 is taking place in Regensburg. Link to GDCh CDT 2015

February 2015

08-11/02 The annual Trauner-Magauer Ski Trip takes place in Saalfelden, Austria.

05/02 Tommy receives a JSP Fellowship for the Bürgenstock Conference 2015 in Brunnen, CH.

04/02 Congrats to Tatjana on the appearance of her manuscript in J. Org. Chem.!

January 2015

21/01 Audrey from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris joins the lab for an internship. Welcome to the group!

16/01 The Beilstein Video is online! Congrats to Cedric, Klaus and Adriana!

07/01 Lara joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome!

06/07 Congrats to Tesi for the acceptance of her Digest Article "Carbon-Fluorine Bond Activation for the Synthesis of Functionalized Molecules"

01/01 Rapahel joins the lab for his PhD thesis. Welcome back to the group!

 


December 2014

11/12 Beilstein TV visits the Magauer Lab.

09/12 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of his SYNPACTS manuscript "Strategies for the Synthesis of Antifeedant Leucosceptroid Natural Products"

08/12 Prof. Matthew Gaunt (University of Cambridge, UK) is visiting and the anual Trauner-Magauer Joint Christmas Party takes place.

03/12 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of his collaborative manuscript. This paper just appeared in Organic Letters!

November 2014

07/11 Raphael has submitted his Master thesis and will join the group for his PhD studies in 2015. Looking forward!

October 2014

24/10  Tatjana is awarded the Römer-Preis 2014 for her Master thesis. Congrats!

16/10 Cedric joins the Li Group in Kunming, China for his research stay. Good luck!

01/10 AK Magauer - AK Trauner Oktoberfest visit @ Augustiner Festzelt

September 2014

17/09 Group Outing to Sonnjoch (2457 m), Karwendel, Austria. See Photos!

04/09 Cedric's paper in Angewandte Chemie is online. Congrats!

August 2014

11/08 Michael joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

07/08 Congrats to Cedric on the acceptance of his manuscript on the synthesis of antifeedant leucosceptroid natural products in Angewandte Chemie!

04/08 Nicole joins the lab for her Bachelor thesis. Welcome to the group!

01/08 The group is steadily growing and we just got additional research labs on the 1st floor!

July 2014

20–21/07 The URCUP conference is takin place in Wildbad Kreuth. Great location. Great conference!

01/07 Tatjana joins the lab for her PhD thesis. Welcome back to the group!

01/07 Johannes joins the lab for his PhD thesis. Welcome back to the group!

June 2014

29/06 Congratulations to Klaus and Cedric on having finished the "Stadtlauf Munich, 21.0975 km " in spite of pouring rain!

May 2014

20/05 Tatjana and Johannes "Master thesis BBQ".

19/05 Tatjana and Johannes have submitted their Master theses. Congratulations!

05/05 Raphael joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

April 2014

26/04 Our paper "A Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Fluorinated Naphthols" is online.

07/04 Summer term starts.

March 2014

04/03 Congrats to Jeffrey and Tesi on the acceptance of their manuscript on C–F bond activation in Chemistry - A European Journal!

04/03 Adriana is back and joins the lab for her PhD thesis. Welcome back home!

February 2014

21/02 Evaluation of the SFB TCRC 152 "TRiPs to Homeostasis"

06/02 "High-Pressure Transformations in Natural Product Synthesis" was accepted in Synthesis. Congrats Cedric!

30/01–02/02 AK Trauner/Magauer Joint Ski Trip "Newcomers in Total Synthesis", Saalfelden, Salzburg

January 2014

07/01 Michael joins the lab for his F-Praktikum. Welcome!

01/01 Happy New Year!

 


December 2013

12/18 AK Magauer "Christmas-Schnitzel-Party"

12/13 Klaus is awarded the Römer-Preis 2013 for his Master thesis. Congrats!

12/09 AK Trauner-AK Magauer joint Christmas Party

12/09 Lab Cleaning

12/01 Teresa is back and joins the lab for her PhD thesis. Welcome!

November 2013

11/18 Prof. Mulzer visits the LMU for his talk "Last reflections on total synthesis"

11/11 Tatjana joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

11/11 Johannes joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome to the group!

October 2013

The BJOC paper "The chemistry of isoindole natural products" appeared online. Congrats Klaus!

Our new Shimadzu HPLC-System was delivered and installed! 

September 2013

Cedric is awarded the Kekulé Mobility Fellowship. Congrats!

CIPSM Oktoberfest at LMU Munich (19–20.9.2013), Enjoy the lectures of Fu, Buchwald, Knochel, Toste, Wender,....!

August 2013

Emmy Noether fellowship awarded by the DFG

Jeffrey is back and joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome!

July 2013

Klaus is back and joins the lab for his PhD thesis. Welcome!

June 2013

Cedric joins the lab for his PhD thesis. Welcome!

May 2013

Adriana joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome!

March 2013

Daniel joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome!

February 2013

Teresa joins the lab for her Master thesis. Welcome!

Renovation of Lab F1.053 finally starts. Yippie Yippie Yeah!

 


December 2012

AK Trauner-AK Magauer joint Christmas Party

Andreas joins the lab for his Master thesis. Welcome!

Tommy wins the "Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2013"

November 2012

Klaus joins the group for his Master thesis. Welcome!

Jeffrey joins the group for his F-Praktikum. Welcome!

September 2012

Simone joins the group for her Master thesis. Welcome!

August 2012

Jutta joins the group for her Bachelor thesis. Welcome!

June 2012

The lab is launched

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