Group members
Peter Dinér Professor 
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Peter Dinér is Professor in Organic Chemistry at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Head of the Department of Chemistry. He earned his M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Gothenburg in 1999 and completed his Ph.D. there in 2005 under Professor Per Ahlberg, focusing on mechanistic studies in organic chemistry. He carried out postdoctoral research at Aarhus University with Prof. Jørgensen, working on asymmetric organocatalysis, and later at the Gothenburg University with Assoc. Prof. Grøtli, focusing on kinase inhibitor design and synthesis. In 2010, he received a Swedish Research Council Junior Researcher grant and became Asst. Prof. He was appointed Assoc. Prof. and Docent in Organic Chemistry in 2013, Head of the Division of Organic Chemistry in 2015, promoted to Professor in 2021, and appointed Head of the Department of Chemistry in 2025. |
Lucas Kusch Ph. D. Student 
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Deryl Hendson Limawan Ph. D. Student 
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Former members |
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Ph. D. |
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Giampiero Proietti Ph. D |
Publications: Photoactivatable Fluorogens by Intramolecular C−H Insertion of Perfluoroaryl Azide Sheng Xie, Giampiero Proietti, Olof Ramström and Mingdi Yan, J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 14520-14528.
Design and synthesis of theranostic antibiotic nanodrugs that display enhanced antibacterial activity and luminescence
Synthesis of Perfluoroaryl Sulfonimidamides and Sulfoximines via Photo-generated Perfluoroaryl Nitrenes
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Björn Blomkvist Ph. D |
Publications: Stereoselective synthesis of unnatural α-amino acid derivatives through photoredox catalysis Andrey Shatskiy, Anton Axelsson, Elena V Stepanova, Jian-Quan Liu, Azamat Z Temerdashev, Bhushan P Kore, Björn Blomkvist, James M Gardner, Peter Diner, Markus D Kärkäs, 2020, Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 5430-5437. Mild and Rapid Aniline/HBF4•DEE-Catalysed Formation of Sulfinyl Imines B. Blomkvist and P. Dinér, " ChemistrySelect, 2019, vol. 4, no. 25, pp. 7431-7436. Student-Driven Development of Greener Chemistry in Undergraduate Teaching: Synthesis of Lidocaine Revisited P. Josephson, V. Nykvist, W. Qasim, B. Blomkvist,* P. Dinér*, J. Chem. Educ., 2019, 96, 7, 1389-1394. HBF4 • DEE-catalyzed formation of sulfinyl imines : Synthesis and mechanistic studies , B. Blomkvist and P. Dinér, Tetrahedron Letters, 2018 vol. 59, no. 13, pp. 1249-1253. Chiral sulfinamides as highly enantioselective organocatalysts ; P. Dinér*, A. Sadhukhan, B. Blomkvist, ChemCatChem, 2014, 6, 3063 |
Laura Mesas Sanchez PhD 
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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" . A Mechanistic Investigation of the Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Aromatic Alcohols Using a Ferrocene‐Based Planar Chiral 4‐(Dimethylamino) pyridine Catalyst, L Mesas‐Sánchez, P Dinér, Chemistry–A European Journal, 2015, 21 (14), 5623-5631. Access to Optically Pure β-Hydroxy Esters via Non-Enzymatic Kinetic Resolution by a Planar-Chiral DMAP Catalyst, AE Díaz-Álvarez, L Mesas-Sánchez, P Dinér, 2014, Molecules 19 (9), 14273-14291. Kinetic resolution of 2-hydroxy-2-aryl-ethylphosphonates by a non-enzymatic acylation catalyst Non-enzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of secondary aryl alcohols: planar chiral ferrocene and ruthenium catalysts in cooperation, AE Díaz‐Álvarez, L Mesas‐Sánchez, P Dinér, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52 (2). Non-enzymatic kinetic resolution of 1, 2-azidoalcohols using a planar chiral DMAP derivative catalyst L Mesas-Sánchez, AE Díaz-Álvarez, P Dinér, Tetrahedron, 2012 14, 753–757. Laura is currently working at Bioworks in Uppsala, Sweden. |
Post-doctoral fellows |
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Chao Zhou Post-doctoral fellow |
Chao Zhou received his Ph.D. at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) working in the Lab of Supramolecular Photochemistry with Photocatalytic Organic Synthesis. His research interest is: ▸ Visible Light Catalysis Chao Zhou is currently working as a Marie Curie in Prof. Bach group in Münich, Germany. Highly congested spiro-compounds via photoredox-mediated dearomative annulation cascade , C Zhou, A Shatskiy, AZ Temerdashev, MD Kärkäs, P Dinér, Communications Chemistry, 2022, 5 (1), 92 Visible light-mediated dearomative spirocyclization/imination of nonactivated arenes through energy transfer catalysis , C Zhou, EV Stepanova, A Shatskiy, MD Kärkäs, P Dinér, Nature Communications, 2025, 16 (1), 3610. |
Anton Axelsson Post-doctoral fellow 
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Anton joined the group in spring 2020 and is working with chiral foto-redox chemistry. Anton received his Ph.D. from Chalmers Universiity of Technology under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Henrik Sundén. In 2021, Anton started a new position at Sprint Bioscience. Publications at KTH: Stereoselective Synthesis of Unnatural α-Amino Acids through Photoredox Catalysis A. Shatskiy, A. Axelsson, B. Blomkvist, J.-Q. Liu P. Dinér, M. Kärkäs, 2020, ChemRxiv, Preprint. |
Prathap Jeya Kaniraj Post-doctoral fellow 
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Tamal Roy Post-doctoral fellow
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Arghya Sadhukhan Post-doctoral fellow 
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Alba Estrella Diaz-Alvarez Post-doctoral fellow 
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Students |
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Julius Kuzmin M. Sc.
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Synthesis of Perfluoroaryl Sulfonimidamides and Sulfoximines via Photo-generated Perfluoroaryl Nitrenes
Ultralight aerogels via supramolecular polymerization of a new chiral perfluoropyridine-based sulfonimidamide organogelator
Giampiero Proietti, Anton Axelsson, Antonio J Capezza, Yogesh Todarwal, Julius Kuzmin, Mathieu Linares, Patrick Norman, Zoltán Szabó, Christofer Lendel, Richard T Olsson, Peter Dinér |
Phil Josephson B. Sc.
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Phill performed his B. Sc. project regarding green synthesis of Lidocaine. Student-Driven Development of Greener Chemistry in Undergraduate Teaching: Synthesis of Lidocaine Revisited P. Josephson, V. Nykvist, W. Qasim, B. Blomkvist,* P. Dinér*, J. Chem. Educ., 2019, 96, 7, 1389-1394. |
Viktor Nykvist B. Sc.
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Viktor performed his B. Sc. project regarding green synthesis of Lidocaine. Student-Driven Development of Greener Chemistry in Undergraduate Teaching: Synthesis of Lidocaine Revisited P. Josephson, V. Nykvist, W. Qasim, B. Blomkvist,* P. Dinér*, J. Chem. Educ., 2019, 96, 7, 1389-1394. |
Wafa Qasim B. Sc.
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Wafa performed her B. Sc. project regarding green synthesis of Lidocaine. Student-Driven Development of Greener Chemistry in Undergraduate Teaching: Synthesis of Lidocaine Revisited P. Josephson, V. Nykvist, W. Qasim, B. Blomkvist,* P. Dinér*, J. Chem. Educ., 2019, 96, 7, 1389-1394. |
Ágnes Lakó B. Sc. |
Ágnes Lakó is a Erasmus 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 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 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 
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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 
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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
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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 
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Mattias Göransson performed his B. Sc. (2012) and synthesized a library of β-hydroxy-β-arylpropionates. |
Jia-Fei Poon Master student 
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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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