Gevorgyan A, Hopmann HK, Bayer A. ChemSusChem,  Exploration of New Biomass-Derived Solvents: Application to Carboxylation Reactions. Open access! doi:10.1002/cssc.201903224.

The first paper of the year out on january 2nd! What a nice start for the new year. Let´s hope its a good sign! Congrats to Marc and Ashot!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00710

This month two new PhD students will start. Alexandra will work with carbapenemase inhibitors and Martin will work with CO2. Welcome to both!

Thanks for the good collaboration to the whole Breitfussin team.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01006

Great work and congratulations! So fun to be part of the CHOCO group.

Doi: 10.1039/C9SC02467K.

Congratulations Prof. Vaitla and good luck! Sometimes dreams come true!

Look for:

Paulsen MH, Ausbacher D, Bayer A, Engqvist M, Hansen T, Haug T, Anderssen T, Anderssen JH, Sollid JUE, Strøm MB. Antimicrobial activity of amphipathic α,α-disubstituted β-amino amide derivatives against ESBL – CARBA producing multi-resistant bacteria; effect of halogenation, lipophilicity and cationic character.

It will be Open Access soon in Eur. J. Med. Chem.!

Nice days in Uppsala with scientific discussions, meeting old and new friends, and swedish dissertation party memories revival!

You should apply to the position through the following link. Dateline 20.mai.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/169592/phd-candidate-organic-synthesis-synthetic-medical-chemistry

Hanna-Kirsti, Annette and Susann were invited to contribute to a conference and workshop on AMR at IIT Roorkee last week. It was a fascinating visit and we were very well taken care of by our collaborators in the iCarba project, Ranjana Pathania and Naveen Navani.