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Dr Wade F. Petersen @PetersenChemLab

Organic synthesis lab based at Curtin University, Perth, interested in photocatalysis and drug discovery research.

Joined February 2021
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📣❗️Funded PhD Opportunity in Organic Chemistry within the Petersen Group❗️📣 Using photochemical synthesis, the project aims to design new B-lactam therapeutics to combat antimicrobial resistance (research.curtin.edu.au/highe…). To apply, submit an EOI before 18 November 2025😎

Higher degree by research project opportunities | Research

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A new adventure begins!😊 I am pleased to share that I have started a new position within the School of Molecular and Life Sciences at Curtin University @CurtinEandA @CurtinUni and am thrilled to be part of the team🎉 The photochemistry continues!!😎🔦 linkedin.com/feed/update/act…

#curtinmls #chemistry #educationexcellence #research | Curtin Molecular and Life Sciences (MLS)

MLS would like to welcome and introduce their newest member to the Chemistry academic team, Dr. Wade Petersen (MRSC)! Wade was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa and obtained his PhD from the...

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Next up: Jonathan’s work on the photocatalytic synthesis of indolyl-isoxazolines just accepted in @EurJOC (chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…). 🎉Congrats to him and the team!🎉 @farhiii @UnsworthChem @PayneResearch Stay tuned for more from Jono by checking out the @JamesLabChem !
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Keep an eye out for the last couple from the group!😎🦾 Latest instalment: Phathu’s PhD work on enantioselective a-amination just out in @JOC_OL (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…). Congrats to Phathu and the entire team!🎉🎉 For more from this guy, keep an eye out on the @spicerlab!

Cinchona Organocatalyzed Enantioselective Amination for Quaternized Serines as Tertiary Amides

Herein, we describe a Cinchona-aminocatalyzed enantioselective α-hydrazination of an α-formyl amide for the production of protected quaternized serines as tertiary amides with ee’s of generally >98%...

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Super excited to be part of the @epichem team!!😎🎉 From TLC scale to ‘bucket’ synthesis🪣 Oilfield services to polymer production… Drug discovery to blue skies projects🩵 If you got a challenge for us, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!!
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1 Thing I Wish I knew Before Starting an Academic Research Group linkedin.com/pulse/1-thing-i…

1 Thing I Wish I knew Before Starting an Academic Research Group

Don’t underestimate that you are in fact starting an organization/business, from scratch, in which you are the CEO, COO and CFO. COO: You would have worked in production (chemical in my case); needed...

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After 7 amazing years in academia, friends made, collaborations created, and exhilarating scientific exploits, it is with a heavy heart, time has come to say goodbye😢. As I look forward to new directions in Australia, I thank you all for the wonderful memories over the years!!😀
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The Royal Society
@royalsociety
17 Jan 2024
Join Dr Wade Petersen on 6 February for the Rising Star Africa Prize Lecture and explore how we can produce criticial medicines during a time of rapidly declining energy and resources, and hear of his experiences working through blackouts in South Africa: royalsociety.org/science-eve…
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Really honoured to receive this award from @royalsociety. Big thanks to the entire team through the years that contributed to our research vision!😊☀️
UCT
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1 Sep 2023
Dr Wade Petersen, from the Department of Chemistry at UCT, has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society’s Rising Star Africa Prize winner for 2023. Read more: bit.ly/3sw44yR
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Big congratulations to all the @royalsociety award winners for 2023. Checkout the full list here: royalsociety.org/news/2023/0…

The Royal Society announces this year's medal and award winners | Royal Society

Distinguished astrophysicist and cosmologist, and UK Astronomer Royal, tops this year’s list of Royal Society Medal and Award winners.

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What a great day of celebrations!!🎉 First PhD students out of the Petersen Group!🎉 Congratulations to Dr Crispen Munashe Mazodze (left) @Dr_Munashe and Dr Phathu Masithi (right). It’s been an absolutely amazing journey! All the very best for your respective adventures!🎉🎉🦾
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Been such a great meeting! Lovely to meet you and share many many (fun) stories! 🙈😊 #MeetingOfMinds @royalsociety
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9 Feb 2023
Look who I caught up with ⁦@royalsociety⁩ #meetingofminds Great to meet ⁦⁦@DrClintVeale⁩ ⁦@PetersenLab_UCT⁩ !!!
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Dr Will Unsworth@UnsworthChem
26 Jan 2023
🚨Synthetic Chemists🚨still time to apply for this postdoc working with me and Gideon Grogan using enzymes to do selective oxygenation reactions. Biocat experience NOT essenetial - we will train you in these parts. Informal enquiries welcome. Please RT! jobs.ac.uk/job/CWL995/resear…
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Congratulations to Tara on her lovely work investigating trinuclear iridium complexes as photoredox catalysts🎉👏🏽. My 1st collaborative work with the @GSResearch_UCT group. Thanks for letting me be a part of this. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Kelley Moult@KelleyMoult
20 Jan 2023
Proud to be preparing to go on strike with other @UCT_news academics for the first time in UCT’s history. UCT are offering 3% pay increase for 2023 . Other institutions are able to offer 6%. #UCTAcademicsStrike
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Chemistry at Thieme
@thiemechemistry
19 Jan 2023
Be part of David Leboeuf´s talk on “Expanding the Scope of C-C and C−N Bond-Forming Transformations in Hexafluoroisopropanol” & Daniele Leonori´s insights into “Novel synthetic methods using photoexcited nitroarenes” next week. 👉fal.cn/3vdVQ @djpleboeuf @LeonoriLab
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Chris Spicer@spicerlab
17 Jan 2023
Two weeks left to apply for our 3 yr postdoc position @ChemistryatYork funded by @wellcometrust, ideal for people with interests at the interface of synthesis and chemical biology. Flexible start date between March-July, get in touch if you're interested jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/pdra…
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Our PhD student, Meghan Oddy, in the middle of her fantastic talk on using Energy Transfer Catalysis for small molecule synthesis at the #saci44. 😎👏🏽
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Really cool that our article (@angew_chem 2022, 61, e202213086) has been highlighted as the Synfact of the Month for December 2022! 😎 @UnsworthChem @LynamChemistry Thanks @thiemechemistry for the recognition!😊 (thieme-connect.com/products/…).
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As I said… a beautiful location! #saci44 With Joseph and Meghan!
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