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Fritz Deufel
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Chemistry PhD Candidate 👨‍🔬,🏳️‍🌈. Currently activating C–H bonds and trying to understanding how🤔
Almost would have given up when the computationally predicted selectivies just wouldn't want to explain the experimental observation... Glad to have eventually solved it... Check out the OA publication if you are interested in how we overcame the issues. doi.org/10.1002/anie...
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Congrats and all the best Dr. XuXu!!! 🫰🎉🥳
Huge congradulations to Dr. Tianxiao Xu on successfully defending his PhD! 🥳👨🏻‍🎓 We wish you all the best for your future endeavours. You will be missed dearly!
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Huge congradulations to Dr. Tianxiao Xu on successfully defending his PhD! 🥳👨🏻‍🎓 We wish you all the best for your future endeavours. You will be missed dearly!
May 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Spring has finally arrived even in front of the chemistry department 🌸🤩
That gives some extra motivation for thesis writing.

#unikiel #otto-diels-institut
April 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Using racemization as a potential tool to prevent enzyme mutation-induced inhibition loss?

Shout out to Kinga and everyone on these new metallo-β⁠-lactamase inhibitors.
Looks like the easter bunny 🐰🥚 was busy over the holidays fighting antibiotic resistance 🤔.

doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Dynamically chiral phosphonic acid-type metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors - Communications Chemistry
Metallo-β-lactamases dismantle most β-lactam antibiotics and cause antibiotic resistance, however, no metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors are clinically available. Here, the authors report stereodynamicall...
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Congratulations to Edis and @sourjyamal.bsky.social, who have completed their studies on a new and efficient approach towards gamma-alkylidene lactones directly from carboxylic acids and lactones now posted on @chemrxiv.bsky.social
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #chemsky #chemistry
April 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Check out how our team realized the mechanism with no apparent absorption in the "normal" UV-vis spectrum. Spearheaded by Julian and Martin!
EDA complexation of two donor molecules initiating radical cation cyclizations
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January 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Big congrats to Tianxiao and @sourjyamal.bsky.social 👏
What a journey and for sure not always a pleasant one. Super happy to see your amazing and hard work finally out to see for everyone 🫰
Super proud of Tianxiao Xu and Sourjya Mal
@sourjyamal.bsky.social, who - after a more than half-year publication-process-odyssey - have published their method on the gamma-lactonization of carboxylic acids, including highly challenging beta-non-quaternary substrates doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
The Direct Pd-Catalyzed γ-Lactonization of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids
A direct palladium-catalyzed γ-lactonization of free carboxylic acids via C–O reductive elimination as a key step is described. Notable aspects of this protocol include the use of convenient and easil...
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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A (somewhat belated due to missing picture but) massive congratulations🎉to our team member Rita, who recieved an RSC best poster award at the International Symposium on C-H Activation at the IIT Bombay on Monday! A very well deserved recognition of her soon to be published work.
December 12, 2024 at 7:42 AM