Group members

Current group members

Peter Dinér

Associate Professor

Prathap Jeya Kaniraj

Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. Prathap Jeya Kaniraj is a post-doctoral fellow working on nickel-based catalysts on nanocellulose. During his Ph. D. studies, he worked on enantioselective synthesis using different transition metal catalyst at the Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI, India). He has also a post-doctoral experience from the TECHNION-Israel Institute of Technology in the group of Prof. Galiya Maayan.

Publication: Catalytic Reductions and Tandem Reactions of Nitro Compounds Using in Situ Prepared Nickel Boride Catalyst in Nanocellulose Solution Kaniraj Jeya Prathap, Qiong Wu, Richard T. Olsson, and Peter Dinér*, Org. Lett., 2017, 19 (18), 4746–4749

Björn Blomkvist

Ph. D. student

Björn Blomkvist is working on the development of Brønsted catalysis for sulfinylamides, acylhydrazones and sulfonamides.

Publications: Chiral sulfinamides as highly enantioselective organocatalysts ;

P. Dinér*, A. Sadhukhan, B. Blomkvist, ChemCatChem, 2014, 6, 3063

Giampiero Proetti

Ph. D. student

Philip Josephson

B. Sc. student

Viktor Nykvist

B. Sc. student

Wafa Qasim

B. Sc. student

Former members

Laura Mesas Sanchez

PhD student

Laura Mesas Sánchez worked kinetic resolutions of racemic alcohols using a ferrocene-based DMAP catalyst. She defended her thesis 2014 (28 Nov) entitled "Organocatalytic Acylation for the kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols – Synthetic Applications and mechanistic studies" .

Laura is currently working at Bioworks in Uppsala, Sweden.

Publications: a) A. E. Díaz-Álvarez, L- Mesas-Sánchez, P. Dinér*, Molecules, 2014, 9(19), 14273. b) L. Mesas-Sánchez, A. E. Díaz-Álvarez, P. Koukal, P. Dinér*, Tetrahedron, 2014, 70(24), 3807-3811. c) L. Mesas-Sánchez, Alba E. Díaz-Álvarez, P. Dinér*, Tetrahedron, 2013, 69(2), 753-757. d) A. E. Díaz-Álvarez, L. Mesas-Sánchez, P. Dinér* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52(2), 502-504.

Tamal Roy

Post-doctoral fellow

Tamal Roy is working on the development of new nucleophilic catalysts for enantioselective synthesis. He is currently working at medicinal Chemistry in Uppsala University, 2015-2016.

Arghya Sadhukhan

Post-doctoral fellow

Arghya Sadhukhan is working on the development of new nucleophilic catalysts for enantioselective synthesis, 2014-2015.

Publications: Chiral sulfinamides as highly enantioselective organocatalysts

P. Dinér*, A. Sadhukhan, B. Blomkvist, ChemCatChem, 2014, 6, 3063.

Alba Estrella Diaz-Alvarez

Post-doctoral fellow

Alba Estrella Díaz Álvarez worked on the synthesis of highly functionalized ferrocenes. Her work aimed toward the development of synthetic ion channels and application of ferrocenes within catalysis, 2011-2013.

Ágnes Lakó

Master student

Ágnes Lakó is aErasmus student an a master student from Engineering in Pharmaceutical Industry from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Ágnes is working on nickel catalyzed, ligand-free cross-couplings, 2017.

George Lasisi

Erasmus intern

George Lasisi from HAN University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen) is working on the nickel boride catalyzed reduction of organic compounds, 2017.

Stephan Majoor

Erasmus intern

Stephan Majoor from HAN University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen) is working on the development of new organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis, 2016-2017.

Guillermo Maassen

Erasmus intern

Guillermo Maassen from HAN University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen) worked on the development of new organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis, 2016.

Koen Bussink

Erasmus intern

Koen Bussink from HAN University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen) worked on the development of new organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis, 2015-2016.

Sebastian Kitzig

Master student

Sebastian Kitzig performed both his B. Sc. and M. Sc. (2012-2013) in my group and he was working on the synthesisof new inhibitors for the p38-kinase based on the azobenzene scaffold.

Sebastian started his Ph. D. studies in Berlin (2013).

Mattias Göransson

Bachelor student

Mattias Göransson performed his B. Sc. (2012) and synthesized a library of β-hydroxy-β-arylpropionates.

Jia-Fei Poon

Master student

Jia-Fei Poon performed both his B. Sc. and M. Sc. (2010-2011) synthesized new inhibitors for the p38-kinase based on the stilbene scaffold. Jia-Fei is currently working as a Ph. D. student in Prof. Lars Engman's group at Uppsala university.

Publications: Azastilbenes: A cut off to p38 MAPK inhibitors

J. Poon, J.-P. Alao, P. Sunnerhagen, P. Dinér*, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2013, 11 (27), 4526-4536.

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