NEWS !
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December

Matti Kasurinen's M.Sc. Thesis
was accepted by the Faculty on December 5th

November

Professor Franzen participated at The 12th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry (IKCOC-12)
with a presentation. Kyoto / Japan, November 12 - 16.

September

Associate Professor Nuno Rafael Candeias joined the Department and the Research Group in field of Synthesis


July

Professor Franzen participated at The 19th International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-19)
with a presentation. Melbourne / Australia, July 1 - 6.

June

Yu Wang's Doctoral Thesis
was accepted by the Faculty on June 6th


The public defence of M. Sc. Yu Wang's Doctoral Thesis titled "Chiral Indole ligands : Preparation and
Application in Catalytic Asymmetric Allylic Substitutions"
was arranged at TUT on 1.6.2012 (auditorium S1)


The 3rd National Summerschool in Synthetic Chemistry (7-8.6) was
arranged in Turku / Ĺbo at Ĺbo Akademi University

Invited teachers were :
Prof. Richard Göttlich (Justus-Liebig Universität, Germany)
Prof. Jacek Mlynarski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Prof. Youjun Xu (Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China)

March

The laboratory presented a poster at the ACS Spring meeting Chemistry of Life
venue : San Diego, California (USA) (March 24th – March 29th)

Noora Kuuloja's Doctoral Thesis
was accepted by the Faculty on March 7th

February


The public defence of M. Sc. Noora Kuuloja's Doctoral Thesis titled "Organoboron Compounds: Substrates for
Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling and Asymmetric Conjugate Addition"
was arranged at TUT on 2.3.2012 (auditorium S1)

An Associate Professor position in the field of synthetic organic chemistry
is open at the Department. The deadline for application was 29.2.

January

The laboratory has moved to konetalo-building (K3310)

The paper titled
"Synthesis of 2-Aryl-substituted Chromans by Intramolecular C-O
bond formation (Y. Wang, R. Franzén )
has been accepted for publication in Synlett (2012)

The paper titled
"Rh-IndOlefOx Catalyzed Conjugate addition / Heck-type Coupling of
organoboronics to a Lactam or a Lactone (N. Kuuloja, M. Vaismaa, R. Franzén )
has been accepted for publication in Tetrahedron (2012)

The paper titled
"N1-Functionalized Indole-Phosphine Oxazoline (IndPHOX) ligands in Asymmetric
Allylic Substitutions" (Y. Wang, M. Vaismaa, K. Rissanen, R. Franzén )
has been accepted for publication in Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2012)

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