LATEST NEWS

We warmly welcome back our new PhD student, Luca, to the Katayav Lab!  

We warmly welcome our new Master's student, Xavier, to the Katayav Lab!  

We want to congratulate Yining for winning Chemistry Europe Best Poster Award during the 24th International Conference on Organic Synthesis in Łódź, Poland, he presented his recent work "Triplet Energy Transfer-Mediated Intermolecular Paterno-Buchi Reaction for the synthesis of Trifluomethylated Oxetanes" ...

We warmly welcome our new PhD student, Tian to the Katayav Lab  

We are happy to share that our newest review article, called "Nitrooxylation in Organic Synthesis: From Classical Nitrate Ester Formation to Modern Catalytic Strategies" has been accepted in Chemistry – A European Journal. Congratulations to Jayanta.

We warmly welcome our new PhD student, Peter to the Katayav Lab  

We warmly welcome our new PhD student Giulia, Post-Doc Sayan & visiting PhD student Bartosz, to the Katayav Lab  

We are happy to share that our newest review article, called "Navigating Nitration Chemistry: A Practical Guide to Reagents, Mechanisms, and Selectivity" has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congratulations to Harry & Anthony.

We are happy to share that our newest article, called "Triplet Energy Transfer-Mediated Intermolecular Paternò-Büchi Reaction for the Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Oxetanes" has been accepted in the Organic Letters Journal. Congratulations to Yining, Anthony & Egor.

We warmly welcome our 6 new Bachelor students, David, Simeon, Dennis, Sarah, Sofia, and Marc, to the Katayav Lab!  

We are happy to share that our newest article, called "Electrophilic and Radical Ability of Organic Nitrating Reagents" has been accepted in the Journal Of Organic chemistry, Congratulations to Anthony & Harry.

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"