LATEST NEWS

Last Friday we wrapped up the year with our annual Christmas celebration, and it was exactly what we needed after a busy 2025 in the lab! After the gifts and games, we continued the festivities at a cozy restaurant in Bern, enjoying good food, great company. It’s always a pleasure to spend time together outside the...

We warmly welcome our new visiting professor, Viktor Iaroshenko, to the Katayav Lab

We are happy to share that our newest article, called "Chloroalkylation of Unactivated Alkenes via a Cobalt-Mediated Radical Ligand Transfer (RLT) Photoredox Catalysis Platform" has been accepted in Jacs Au, Congratulations to all the authors.

We are happy to share that our 3 newest articles have been accepted in Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS)

We are happy to share that our newest article about Bimolecular Homolytic Substitution (SH2) and Radical Ligand Transfer (RLT): Emerging Paradigms in Radical Transformations has been accepted in ACS Central Science

We warmly welcome our new postdoc Ismat Nawaz, to the Katayav Lab

Our group was proud to be represented in multiple ways at the SCS Fall Meeting 2025 at the University of Zurich:Vasiliki Valsamidou and Harry Lecomte presented their research with posters.Anthony Fernandes had the opportunity to give a short talk.Rahul Giri was awarded the Helvetica Prize for his recent...

We warmly welcome our new postdoc Jayanta Day, to the Katayav Lab

We are happy to share that our newest article about Dual-Functional Group Transfer Reagents for Dihalogenation Reactions has been accepted in Synlett Synpacts

We are happy to share that our newest article about Overcoming Challenges in Small-Ring Transfer: DirectDecarboxylative Hydroalkylation of Alkenes via Iron-ThiolCatalysis has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie

We are happy to share that Luca Condrau and Besa Kadriu successfully defended their master's theses, titled respectively "Functional Group Transfer Reagents for Sustainable Functionalization of Small Molecules" and "Mechanochemical and Electrochemical Approaches for Functional Group Installation in Organic Molecules"

We are happy to share that our newest article about Mechanochemical Nitration of Arenes and Alcohols Using a Bench-Stable Organic Nitrating Reagent  has been accepted in Green Chemistry

We are happy to share that our newest article about Fluorinated Radicals in Divergent Synthesis via Photoredox Catalysis been accepted in Account Chemical Research

We are happy to share that our newest article about Dual Functional Group Transfer Reagents for Dihalogenation Reactions has been accepted in Synlett Synpacts

We are happy to share that Dr. Rahul Giri successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled "Development of new functional group transfer reagents for the functionalization of hydrocarbons"

We warmly welcome our new master's student Michel Metzger and our new intern Luca Condrau

We are happy to share that Professor Dmitry Katayev received the 2024 SynthX-WIPOS Emerging Investigator Award. Prof. Katayev captivated the audience during the Young & Emerging Investigators’ Session on Day 2 of the Symposium with his lecture, Recent Innovations in Catalytic Nitration, highlighting his...

We are happy to share our newest article about Photoredox Radical/Polar Crossover Enables Carbo-Heterofunctionalization of Alkenes: Facile Access to 1,3-Difunctionalized Nitro Compounds has been accepted in Chemical Communications

We are happy to share that Dr. Subrata Patra successfully defended his PhD thesis, summa cum laude titled "Harnessing Radical Relay Strategies for the Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons Using FGTRs"

We are happy to share that Professor Dmitry Katayev received the 2025 Werner Prize for his important milestones advancing light and electricity driven carbon-hydrogen (CH) functionalization methodologies for a variety of substances, spanning from common feedstocks to complex molecules and materials. 

We are happy to share our newest article about Visible-Light-Mediated Vicinal Dihalogenation of Unsaturated C–C Bonds Using Dual-Functional Group Transfer Reagents

We are happy to share that the article about Mechanochemistry Drives Alkene Difunctionalization via Radical Ligand Transfer and Electron Catalysis was highlighted in IMPACTIVE

We are happy to share our newest article about Facile Access to Terminal Nitroalkanes via Anti-Markovnikov Hydronitration and Hydronitroalkylation of Alkenes Using Photoredox Catalysis

We are happy to share our newest article about Divergent Synthesis of Trifluoromethyl Ketones via Photoredox Activation of Halotrifluoroacetones

We are happy to share our newest article about Merging Iron-Mediated Radical Ligand Transfer (RLT) Catalysis and Mechanochemistry for Facile Dihalogenation of Alkenes

The SCS Fall Meeting is the major regularly organized event of the Swiss Chemical Society and one of the largest annual research conferences in Switzerland.

We are happy to share our newest article about Overcoming Challenges in O-Nitration: Selective Alcohol Nitration Deploying N,6-Dinitrosaccharin and Lewis Acid Catalysis

We are happy to share our newest article about Divergent Functionalization of Alkenes Enabled by Photoredox Activation of CDFA and α-Halo Carboxylic Acids

We warmly welcome our new PhD students

We are happy to share our newest article about Mechanochemistry Drives Alkene Difunctionalization via Radical Ligand Transfer and Electron Catalysis