Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist. Synthetic organic chemistry, with adventures in C-H activation, photoredox catalysis and flow chemistry.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2017
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Ligand design broadens NiI-catalysed C(sp2)–heteroatom couplings of aryl bromides at low catalyst loadings dlvr.it/TVhdGl
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🎤 Next on stage: our next invited speaker, Anastasios Polyzos from the University of Melbourne, Australia! 🇦🇺✨
He’s travelled all the way from the other side of the world to share his wonderful science with us! The floor is yours, Anastasios! 🙌 Enjoy the talk! 🚀#Photocat2026
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It is my great pleasure to announce that on Wednesday July 15th, we will host @MCWhiteGroup in the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry of @uoaofficial
delivering a talk at 12:30!!! It is a great honor to host Xristina in Greece!!! Καλώς ήρθες Χριστίνα!!
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Excited to share our latest results at 24-ICOS today at Lodz-Poland. I would like to thank the organizing committee for the warm hospitality!
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It was such a pleasure to host @PolyzosAP from the University of Melbourne yesterday in the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry of @uoaofficial!!! What an exciting talk on multiphoton catalysis!!!
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Tomorrow July 7th, we will host @PolyzosAP in the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry of @uoaofficial delivering a talk at 13:00! In an attempt to further strengthen our relationship with Australia and University of Melbourne, Tasos has helped us a lot in our endeavours in flow!!
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A career with a natural interest in total synthesis nature.com/articles/s41570-0…
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Another great application of our Co-Mediated Radical Ligand Transfer (RLT) Photoredox Catalysis Platform for alkene difunctionalization is now @JACS_Au Congrats @SubrataChem, @AJF_Chem, #BesaKadriu
@DCBPunibern, @SwissChemistry, #OpenAccess, #chemistry
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Read this marvellous story about my #chemistry colleague, Anastasios Polyzos @PolyzosAP : ‘The real ‘magic’ of biology happens at invisible, chemical scales’ pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…
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The chemistry laureate who built a whole new field of chemistry – Richard Robson.
Read more about Robson's prize-awarded research: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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** PhD Completion Seminar **
Tom Andrews @ChemistryUoM
"Intelligent Automation and Optimisation Methods for Heterogeneous and Non-Ideal Continuous Flow Synthesis Platforms"
October 10, 2025 | 12-1 pm | Bio21 Auditorium
ALL WELCOME!
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🚀 Featured in JACS! @PolyzosAP powers the breakthrough in Electroinduced Reductive & Dearomative Alkene-Aldehyde Coupling. Rapid alternating polarity (rAP) electrolysis made it possible! ⚡️
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This week's #Primer is on #flowchemistry, a method for conducting chemical reactions through tubing to increase efficiency and yields. The team, led by @DuncanLBrowne, features the expertise of @BaumannGroupUCD, @PolyzosAP, and @AnnaGSlater.
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*** PhD Completion Seminar ***
Liam Franov @ChemistryUoM
"Synthetic Strategies via Electroreductive Activation of Alkenyl and Aryl π-Systems"
Thursday 17 July | 11 AM-12 PM | Bio21 Auditorium
ALL WELCOME!
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A postdoctoral position, funded by the @LeverhulmeTrust for up to 36 months, is available to join my group @EdinburghChem . The project focuses on biomimetic approaches to natural product synthesis.
Deadline: 18th April 2025.
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Prof. Anastasios Polyzos @PolyzosAP from @UniMelb delivered an exciting talk at #NOSTOCC2025 on "New Strategies in Catalytic Radical Carbonylation of Organohalides." Harnessing radical pathways for innovative carbonylation chemistry! #Catalysis #RadicalChemistry #OrganicSynthesis
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I'm thrilled to share that my first first-author paper has been published in @angew_chem! We have developed a method for the site selective β-C–H arylation of amino acid residues in peptides using an amidoxime ether as a directing group @Hutton_Lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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An exhilarating keynote session by Prof. Anastasios Polyzos (@PolyzosAP) from @ChemistryUoM on photoexcited Palladium complexes and their role in enabling directed C(sp3)-H functionalisations, leaving the audience dazzled and inspired. #ISCHA2024
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We are looking for a Laboratory Supervisor to oversee the smooth operation of our 1st-year undergraduate chemistry labs and lead a team of technical and demonstration staff to ensure effective lab operations. Applications close: 27 Oct 2024 11:55 PM AEDT
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