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Giacomo Crisenza
@gemcrisenza.bsky.social
EU/IT Chemist⚗️| Lecturer @UoMChemistry (UK)
Synthetic radical chemistry⚡️💡| Sustainable catalysis🔄
Passionate about InterMilan🐍, amaro Braulio and good food

📍Manchester, United Kingdom | 🌐 www.crisenzalab.net
📢📜In this #Synpacts (@synlettjournal.bsky.social), we showcase how electrosynthesis enabled the design of innovative diastereo- and enantioselective alkene 1,2-difunctionalization reactions. These contributions have inspired a complementary “Sew & Cut” strategy
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Thieme E-Journals - Synlett / Abstract
Thieme E-Books & E-Journals
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October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We are seeking a motivated candidate to apply for the prestigious Bicentenary PhD Scholarship at the University of Manchester👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

Interested applicants should contact me at giacomo.crisenza@manchester.ac.uk. We welcome applications from the UK and worldwide🗺️

Info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[FSE Bicentenary PhD] New Electrosynthetic Strategies to Nitrile Covalent Warheads, and Their Application to the Development of Electrochemically-Activated Prodrugs for Targeted Drug-Delivery at The ...
PhD Project - [FSE Bicentenary PhD] New Electrosynthetic Strategies to Nitrile Covalent Warheads, and Their Application to the Development of Electrochemically-Activated Prodrugs for Targeted Drug-De...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thanks @organicportal.bsky.social for the very kind highlight!
Reactions of Alkenes: The Jia Synthesis of Kalmanol
www.organic-chemistry.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
📢 Come join us in sunny Southampton ☀️

The opening for our Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Synthesis is now live!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=3086025EB

Deadline: Thurs 29th May 2025
Start date: Flexible – anytime from now to early 2026

@unisouthampton.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🧑‍🔬Lots of new faces in our lab: a big welcome to Pol, Erick and Hugo; who join our Team as PDRA, visiting PhD and Master’s student, respectively! Best of luck⚡️💡

www.crisenzalab.net/team
Team — CrisenzaLab
www.crisenzalab.net
April 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Buona festa della Liberazione🌹 #25Aprile
April 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
Interested in carrying out postdoctoral research at the interface of artificial intelligence, organic chemistry and catalysis? Join us in this collaborative project with the Bures group!!

Please follow the link below for further information:

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Catalysis and Machine Learning:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀
January 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
This years TruJamEnzaBridge Christmas social was a success! A jolly Christmas quiz organised by Ben and Ruth - congrats to the academics for winning the quiz! Great food and even better drinks after, finishing with an inspiring speech by both George and Ben…here’s to next year :)
December 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Kudos to Taciano for securing the Oustanding Oral Presentation Prize🏆at the Postgraduate Symposium on Future Directions on Chemical Synthesis, yesterday at the University of Bath – way to go!

(thanks @perrychem.bsky.social for taking the picture📸)
December 17, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
The University of Manchester, making an impact since 1824 !

As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to celebrate our university's 200th anniversary mechanochemically 🔨

@official-uom.bsky.social purple and gold colours are revealed by the impact of a hammer on a mechanochromic elastomer. #UoM200
December 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
Super handy homologation protocol from the Silvi group at U Nottingham (I don't ~think they're on here yet?)

Carboxylic acid, PC, Nitroethylene and 1 C extension!
#ChemSkyPaperPile
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.4c13630
Iterative One-Carbon Homologation of Unmodified Carboxylic Acids
The one-carbon homologation of carboxylic acids is a valuable route to construct families of homologues, which play fundamental roles in chemistry and biology. However, known procedures are based on m...
pubs.acs.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Warm getaways are overrated...🇮🇸
December 9, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
Excited to see this fantastic project from Trowbridge Group published!

We had so much fun contributing the computational insights
@jamesob2.bsky.social

A great exp-comp collaboration exploring targeted photoactivation of periodate for oxenoid reactivity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Oxenoid Reactivity Enabled by Targeted Photoactivation of Periodate
The targeted photoactivation of periodate provides a novel and operationally straightforward method for accessing oxenoid-type reactivity. Computational studies have revealed a geometric transition i...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Great to see our recent paper highlighted on @naturesynthesis.bsky.social !

Thanks @drtwest for writing the article🔗👇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Electrochemical fragmentation for alkene difunctionalization - Nature Synthesis
Nature Synthesis - Electrochemical fragmentation for alkene difunctionalization
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Reposted by Giacomo Crisenza
Check our latest paper in @BeilsteinInstitut.hessen.social.ap.brid.gy JOC.

We explore how FLPs drive stereoselective CO2-epoxide transformations, advancing CCU technologies.

Part of the "Adaptive experimentation and optimization in organic chemistry" issue.
👉 beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...
Computational design for enantioselective CO2 capture: asymmetric frustrated Lewis pairs in epoxide transformations
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
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November 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Thrilled to see our first contribution out in JACS! Taciano, Roberto, Órla & Ben developed a practical, broad-scope and selective strategy for alkene 1,2-syn-difunctionalization, combining 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with electrochemical radical activation🪡✂️

📜🔗: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
General Alkene 1,2-syn-Cyano-Hydroxylation Procedure Via Electrochemical Activation of Isoxazoline Cycloadducts
Stereoselective alkene 1,2-difunctionalization is a privileged strategy to access three-dimensional C(sp3)-rich chiral molecules from readily available “flat” carbon feedstocks. State-of-the-art appro...
pubs.acs.org
November 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM