Frank Glorius

@gloriusfrank.bsky.social

Prof. of Organic Chemistry⚗️ CATALYSIS & more (membranes, on-surface-chemistry, batteries, data & machine learning). Passionate 👨‍🔬😀🇪🇺

ACOC 6: A FEST of ORGANIC CHEMISTRY! Feb 2026, Türkiye, great program, enjoyable setting - learn & make friends! Kevin Brown (Chair), Ramazan Altundaş (Executive Officer). Speakers incl Beller, Emmert, Grzybowski, Knowles, König, Kürti, McNally, Morken, Özçubukçu, Watson 😀🚀👍 anatolianorgchem.org

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Kudos, Ankita! Best poster award at fantastic (legendary: 142nd !) @BASF Summer Course - well deserved for her pioneering work on NHCs on surfaces. Proud to say: each of our 6️⃣ research directions/subgroups won at least one poster award this year.🏆👏🚀

Glorius Group@gloriusgroup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ankita spent an inspiring week at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen during the 142nd International Summer School — gaining insights into cutting-edge innovations at BASF. 🌱🔬 Congratulations on winning the Best Poster Award! 🎉 #WinningWays #Networking #Collaboration

Good chemistry! Dream Reactions - Towards a Sustainable Future Next week: 8 speakers, 45 posters, 300 participants - very much looking forward to welcome all of you in Muenster! ⚗️🍃😀 Below, please, find the updated/final poster.

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3️⃣-Layer Screening Strategy for Accelerated Discovery of Energy Transfer-Catalyzed Dearomative Cycloadditions 🔆⚗️ Just published @J_A_C_S. Highlight: ML-enabled substrate mapping as step 1️⃣ #AI pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Accelerated Discovery of Energy Transfer-Catalyzed Dearomative Cycloadditions through a Data-Driven Three-Layer Screening Strategy

Visible-light-mediated energy transfer (EnT) photocatalysis has emerged as a highly appealing strategy for converting planar (hetero)arenes into complex, medicinally relevant, three-dimensional (3D) architectures. Current methodologies for intermolecular dearomative photocycloadditions, however, are restricted to bicyclic (hetero)aromatic systems, while the more abundant monocyclic (hetero)arenes remain vastly underexplored. Accessing the triplet state of the ubiquitous monocyclic (hetero)arenes poses a formidable challenge due to their high triplet energy barriers. Herein, we report several EnT-catalyzed intermolecular dearomative cycloadditions of monocyclic heteroarenes with alkenes and bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes. To overcome the intrinsic limitations in triplet-state reactivity and accelerate reaction discovery, we introduced a data-driven three-layer screening strategy that integrates predictive data science tools for mapping excited-state properties with luminescence quenching and reaction-based screening. This synergistic three-layer screening strategy uncovers structure-reactivity relationships between substituted monocyclic heteroarenes and biradical acceptors, facilitating the accelerated discovery of new reactivity. Utilizing this data-driven approach, we developed the EnT-catalyzed intermolecular dearomative cycloaddition of thiophenes, oxazoles, and thiazoles with alkenes/bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes, providing access to unprecedented C(sp3)-rich 3D molecular scaffolds.

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Just returned from the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry 2025 after almost a week of engaging talks, diverse poster sessions and exploring Copenhagen🇩🇰. We had an inspiring time and thank everyone involved. Congratulations to Rebecca for winning a poster prize!🥳 #ESOC2025

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Meeting the German President 🤩 Great honor & pleasure to be part of the Philipp Franz von Siebold Award ceremony in the Schloss Bellevue last week - Congratulations to Prof. Keiichi Hirano (former PhD student of @GloriusGroup 😀)! 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 @AvHStiftung 🙏

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