We are very excited to share with everyone our new article on Angewandte Chemie, in which Yuesu and Sébastien team up to show how flow chemistry can be used to master an excellent but challenging nitrosation agent dinitrogen trioxide (N2O3) in accurate concentrations. The article is an exquisite work, with careful explanations on both the practical and theoretical aspects of the chemistry, including gas flow synchronization and computational probing for the reaction mechanism.

And even better: it’s an open access article. So make sure you take a moment to check it out.

At CiTOS this summer we’ve had the great pleasure of welcoming three university students. Elise Merville (Chime ParisTech- PSL), Marine Brossy (ITECH Lyon), and Stephanie Reyes (University of Puerto Rico). They each contributed to ongoing projects here in CiTOS while enjoying a special summer here in Liege.

We’re grateful for their work here and wish them the best of luck with their ongoing studies.

We invite you all to take a look at Romain’s new publication on the synthesis of cyclic phosphates as monomers to produce polyphophoesters! The article is the result of a collaboration between three research groups: CiTOS (ULg), the CERM (ULg) and CARIM (Maastricht University). It describes a complete story from raw materials, to monomers, to polymers to characterization of physicochemical and/or cytotoxicity properties.

By the way, this article is part of the themed collections: 2022 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection and 2022 ChemSci Pick of the Week Collection! So take a moment and follow the link.

Guillaume has set off to the USA, in the Abolhasani Lab, at the North Carolina State University (NCSU). He’ll be working for 3 months there on the self-optimizing reactions through Bayesian optimization applied to CdSe quantum dots synthesis. We’re very happy for this great new opportunity, we wish Guillaume the much success and eagerly wait for his return to CiTOS.

Sadly, on April 15th, it was time to say goodbye to Carlotta. She has since returned to the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy) where she continues to work on her dissertation project, under the guidance of Dr. Maurizio Selva. We wish her continued success!

You can keep updated on her progress through ResearchGate.

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 😉