We are thrilled to learn about JC’s award from Corning Advanced Flow Reactors! It’s been a little over 10 years since the beginning of CiTOS. During this time, the lab has grown significantly, in number of members, amount of equipment, but most importantly, in contributions to science and the field of flow chemistry.  The prize comes to crown this growth and has been highly celebrated by the lab and our friends. The Corning International Prize for Outstanding Work in Continuous-Flow Reactors has been awarded only once before to Prof. Klavs Jensen from MIT.

Jean-Christophe Monbaliu was among the speakers of this year’s Flow Chemistry European Summit, which took place last March 25-26 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Through his talk, he shared his experience on the synergy that exists between computational and flow chemistry. This combination of expertise is one of the core research values of the lab and encompasses some of the most important contributions of JC’s work. It was also a great opportunity also to catch up with other researchers in the field and build the flow chemistry community. 

Arthur, Cassian, and Nicolas! These three young new members of CiTOS will be working on their master’s thesis during the next year. Arthur will be teaming up with Hubert to work on the synthesis of APIs from biobased sources. Nicolas is now part of the Wel T research team, along with Réjane and Jingxing. And Cassain is tackling new reactions using dinitrogen trioxide with Yuesu. They’ve been off to a good start and are a great addition to the CiTOS team! We have high hopes for our young new members!

Last January, we had the arrival of two new PhD students at the lab! Réjane and Jingxing are teaming up to work on a Web Research Institute funded project to develop the synthesis of APIs. However, the crucial aspect of this project is the capacity to predict reaction conditions based on DFT calculations and machine learning, which will be the main goal of Jingxing’s thesis work. On the other hand, Réjane will focus on implementing reaction conditions in an in-house built automation system.

It’s a challenging project, with a high potential impact for the future of flow chemistry. Stay tuned to hear more updates on this work!

Flow Chemistry Europe, the meeting of the the Flow Chemistry Society took place last week in Malaga, Spain! JC was there to present some of the latest work from the lab. We encourage you to go to the official website and check out the photos https://flowchemistryeurope.com/.

Aside from a wonderful conference, the FCE had a beautiful venue. We’re happy to share with our followers some of the nice pictures that JC took during that trip. 

This year we had the honor of hosting Aurore and Antoine for four days of research work in our labs! These third year bachelor students worked under the direct guidance of Yuesu and Anita to develop their projects. Aside from being grateful for their hard work, we’re happy to have spent some fun times with together after work too.

We wish them the best for the final months of their bachelor’s program here at ULiege!

Work has begun in the lab for the organization of the 2024 edition of the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS). Next event will be held in the wonderful city of Liege. With Dr. J.C. Monbaliu leading the organization and Dr. Frank Glorius as symposium chair, the 2024 BOSS promises to be a memorable event.

You can take a look (and share) the flyer here.

Stay tuned for more information coming soon!

It’s now been a few months since we inaugurated the website for FloW4all! If you haven’t yet seen it, you can take a look here: http://flow4all.uliege.be

The FloW4all service platform manages the collaborations between CiTOS and external partners. These partnerships are  often with industrial collaborators interested in exploring the benefits flow chemistry may bring to their processes.

Take a look at the new website to see what we can offer!

Join us in celebrating Florian Barbaz, new PhD student here at CiTOS! Florian is part of the D Carbonize doctoral network. This EU funded project aims at the valorization of biocarbon and its applications for the chemical and polymer industry. Florian is part of project DC4, which focuses on the design of robust and modular homogeneous/heterogeneous catalytic routes, including continuous flow approaches, for the transformation of biocarbon into functional bio-based monomers.

Florian will be sharing his PhD research time between CiTOS, the University of Groningen with Paolo Pescarmona, and followed by a period at Corning!

You can read more about the project online! https://dcarbonizeproject.eu/