Members of the lab participated in the annual meeting of the SRC (Société Royale des Chimistes). This year, the meeting took place in Liège, around the theme of “Scientific communication”.

It was a nice opportunity to meet chemists from across Belgium, as well as present and discuss our research. Romain, Pauline and Isaline were very proud to showcase posters on phosphate polymerisation, nitrosoarenes and olefin carboxylation.

It’s an exciting day at the CiTOS, with another one of our members heading out to work at MIT! Thomas will be working at the Myerson lab in a postdoctoral position in collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical company.

We Dr. Toupy the best of luck in Boston and in science!

We are very eager to communicate on our progress toward the implementation of an automated flow platform. This adventure started ca 12 months ago and our efforts converged into a modular flow platform. Version 1.0 features automated valves, a thermoregulated flow reactor (adaptable for photochemistry) and a fraction collector.

The entire setup is orchestrated through LabVIEW. We are in the process of developing pumps to complement the setup. More to come soon.

Thanks to a rare showing of the Belgian sun, the whole CiTOS team was happy to celebrate a gradual return to social events: the annual barbecue on the Sart Tilman campus was a great opportunity to welcome new members to the group 😉

Michele Desiante, from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, joins the group as an Erasmus student.

Welcome, Michele!

William Burtonboy and Maximilian Zoschg  join the group as Master students.

Welcome, William and Maximilian!

Noémie has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Integrated Continuous Flow Photoreactor: Photooxidation of sulfides with Singlet Oxygen” on Wednesday, March 24. She is now working with IBA.

The work on the continuous flow electrophilic amination of enolizable ketone substrates with nitroso derivatives is now published in the journal Green Chemistry (A modular, low footprint and scalable flow platform for the expedient ?-aminohydroxylation of enolizable ketones – Green Chemistry (RSC Publishing) )

Michael produced another beautiful cover artwork that is featured as a front cover of the April issue.

Maurane Moors and Yasemin Sicim join the group as Master students.

Geoffroy Kaisin also joins the group as an industrial partner from O&OC.

Welcome to everyone !

Romaric has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Continuous flow strategies for the upgrading of biobased molecules” on Friday, September 18. He is now heading to Jensen’s group at MIT (Jensen Research Group – MIT Department of Chemical Engineering) with a BAEF fellowship (BAEF – Belgian American Educational Foundation)