The Olofsson Research Group

Berit has been awarded Arrheniusplaketten, read the award motivation here! The medal will be recieved at a lecture December 6.

Erika's STAR Protocol, which describes the diarylation method in detail, has been published!

Erika has joined Varinder Aggarwal's group at Bristol University for a 3 month PhD exchange.

The synthesis of cyclic and acyclic ortho-aryloxy diaryliodonium salts for chemoselective functionalizations is now published in Chem. Eur J., congrats Erika & Niels!

Ester has joined Daniele Leonori's group in Aachen for a 3 month PhD exchange.

We welcome Benjamin Gunschera as a new PhD student in the group!

Our mechanistic study of VBX reactions: "Explaining Regio-Divergent Vinylations with Vinylbenziodoxolones", is now published in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations Ester!

Conferences summer 2022:

• Erika and Ester presented posters at BOSS in July.
• Berit gave a lecture and Ester presented a poster at EuChemS in August.
• Berit was part of the organizing committee for the Young Investigator Workshop in August.
• Berit will give a lecture at Medicinal and Organic Chemistry Symposium in September.

We welcome Miguel de Vries Ibanez for a 3 month internship in the group!