Joe Woods
jfwoods.bsky.social
Joe Woods
@jfwoods.bsky.social
Self-assembled materials
Postdoc in the Wennemers Group, ETHZ
PhD in the Rickhaus Group, UZH
Great start to the week with our latest carpyridine findings out in @jacs.acspublications.org! Water and carpys now self-assemble together, forming linear stacks as revealed by micro-ED. Check it out: doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
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A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water
The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Joe Woods
🚨 New preprint from our group! We report a photocatalytic, regiodivergent method to functionalize saturated N-heterocycles at the α- or β-position. The metal-free reaction runs in water with a flavin catalyst and gives rapid access to sought-after piperidines. Check it out here: 🔗 tin.al/DqxU
May 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Joe Woods
🚨 Happy to share a new preprint – our group’s first!
🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

We report a novel synthetic method to access cyclic ethers from diketones, powered by simple borane catalysts.

Thanks to the whole team for their excellent work!
April 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM