@KatayevL

Assistant Professor | Faculty of Science | Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences @DCBPUnibern | University of Bern (CH)

 UNIBE, Bern, Switzerland
katayevlab.com/
Joined July 2019
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From stoichiometric donor–acceptor assemblies to catalytic turnover: what makes EDA complex catalysis work? Check out our latest review in Angewandte Chemie, exploring the design principles and mechanistic requirements of EDA complex catalysis.✨✨ doi.org/10.1002/anie.1736780
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Ohmiya Lab@OhmiyaLabSep 30
Our work on a dual photoredox/cobalt catalytic platform for the synthesis of α-chlorocarbonyls has been published in ACS Catalysis (@ACSPublications). Congrats, Asuka and Shotaro! doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6c0…
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ICOC@icoc_2026Sep 23
🌍Bringing together exceptional minds in chemistry! We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Dmitry Katayev @unibern, Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh @iitbombay, and Prof. Arjan W. Kleij @ICIQchem as Keynote Speakers at @icoc_2026 in Goa! 🇮🇳 icoc2026.com @KatayevL @ghoshpras @KLEIJ_ICIQ
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The @MacMillan_Lab publishes today in @Nature, “Dialkyl ether synthesis through heteroatom homolytic substitution.” Congratulations Johannes, Johnny, Jacqueline, Dave, and collaborators at @Merck on this fine work: bit.ly/4wBZRFm
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CHIMIA@CHIMIA_journalAug 19
The new issue of CHIMIA celebrating the SCS Major Awards 2025 and also containing all the information you need for the SCS Fall Meeting 2026 is out today! #FallMeeting #Switzerland #SCS #Chemistry #Awards @SwissChemistry
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🧪 New paper from the Dell’Amico group in @NatureCatalysis ! Meet PHOENIX 🐦‍🔥— a purely organic photocatalyst that can access a remarkably broad redox windows through sequential light absorption. shorturl.at/TUt44 Congratulations to all the authors 🎉
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As the possible ban of the CF₃-group comes closer, Vladimir Kubyshkin (@polyproline) has compiled a fantastic summary of its promising alternatives for agrochem/medchem projects! In @ChemicalScience: bit.ly/4g4fQWt
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Jayanta Dey@jayantaIacsJul 3
📢 Our review on nitrooxylation is out! Discover how nitrooxylation has evolved-from century-old methods to cutting-edge catalytic, photo-, electro- & mechanochemical strategies. 🔬✨ 🔗 Link: doi.org/10.1002/chem.7… Many thanks to @ChemEurJ, @KatayevLab, @unibern & @snsf_ch!
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ZhangLabOSU@ZhangLabOSUApr 30
Our postdoc Rahul Giri (@grahul360) has been awarded the SNSF Postdoc.Mobility 2025, supporting his 2-year research at The Ohio State University. He joined us after his PhD with Prof. D. Katayev (@KatayevL) University of Bern. Excited for the chemistry ahead! @snsf_ch @OSU_CBC
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Ritter Lab@ritter_labApr 29
In @Nature, we show that redox-active esters can be transformed into alkyl zinc species useful for transmetalation, providing a solution to rate matching in XEC reactions! First application: alkylation of alkenes via polar decarboxylative cross-coupling! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Hajime Ito@haj19932469Apr 27
Our new paper has been published to Angew. Chem. Congratulations Koji and Sota! "Monoselective Mechanochemical Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution Enabled by Crystal-Engineering-Guided Reaction Design" DOI: 10.1002/anie.2656827
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Big cheers to our PhD alumnus Dr. Sayan Kumar Jana on joining the Katayev Lab @KatayevL, University of Bern as a postdoc! 🎉 Wishing him exciting discoveries and great success ahead - keep shining! 📷 @dcsiiserkol @bm_iiserk
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J. Am. Chem. Soc.@J_A_C_SApr 2
Excited-State SNAr Reactions of Nitroarenes | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Excited-State SNAr Reactions of Nitroarenes

Abstract. Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) traditionally requires ground-state dearomatization to form Meisenheimer intermediates, restricting the

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Ready to install a nitro group? Pick your reagent and make it happen! Navigating Nitration Chemistry: A Practical Guide to Reagents, Mechanisms, and Selectivity is now @angew_chem Congrats to @HarryLecom5301 & @AJF_Chem @DCBPunibern, #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Reiser-group@reiser_groupMar 20
Complementing the McMurry Coupling and Alkene Metathesis: Photocatalytic denitrative homo- and cross-coupling of nitroalkanes towards the synthesis of alkenes: dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv…. See the parallel submission by @ParasramLab, the same but not the same 😀
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Check out what our lab and the @reiser_group stitched together contemporaneously. Both labs report a new olefination method via denitrative cross-coupling of readily accessible nitroalkanes on @ChemRxiv Parasram (image): chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.264…. Reiser: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.264…
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Waser Group@LcsoLabMar 18
The work of @josh_wwu @TobiasMilzarek and Matt on the synthesis of CF3-cycloproprenes using hypervalent iodine reagents and Cu(III) complexes is now published in Org. Lett. doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.…
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We’re happy to share our new work on “Triplet Energy Transfer-Mediated Intermolecular Paternò–Büchi Reaction for the Synthesis of CF3- Oxetanes” @JOC_OL (#OrgLett). Congrats to @YiningZhu1997, @AJF_Chem, E. Zhilin. @DCBPunibern, #OpenAccess, #chemistry 👉doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.…
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Nitrobenzyl compounds enable the masking of active pharmacological agents, allowing their release in a spatiotemporally controlled manner, either through the action of nitroreductases or exposure to light: bit.ly/4qWkJnU Try our nitrobenzyl cages in your research!
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Glad to share our latest contribution to nitration chemistry, from a computational perspective! You can read it here 👉 lnkd.in/eUxYw5H9
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