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Anastasios Polyzos @PolyzosAP

Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist. Synthetic organic chemistry, with adventures in C-H activation, photoredox catalysis and flow chemistry.

Joined March 2017
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If you an Early Career Researcher in synthetic organic chemistry and are interested in joining our laboratory, then consider applying for a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme - link below! Colleagues, please RT. sites.research.unimelb.edu.a…

McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme

Find information and resources for applicants and recipients of the McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme scheme.

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Check out our latest preprint @ChemRxiv highlighting the development of transient excited-state α-keto esters auxiliaries for selective and late-stage alcohol oxidation. Link: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.264…
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Excited to share that Nobel Prize Laureate Professor David MacMillan will deliver a public lecture at the University of Melbourne on 5th February 2026. Please see the link below to register. ⁦@ChemistryUoM⁩ eventbrite.com.au/e/public-l…

Public lecture with Nobel Prize Laureate Professor David MacMillan

Professor David MacMillan will be visiting the University of Melbourne in February for a public lecture.

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Honoured to deliver the Organic Plenary Lecture @Pacifichem this year. Thank you to the organisers! An outstanding opportunity to hear and connect with colleagues from all over the world. pacifichem.org/scientific-pr…
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Chemistry News
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10 Dec 2025
A career with a natural interest in total synthesis nature.com/articles/s41570-0…
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KatayevLab@KatayevL
17 Nov 2025
Another great application of our Co-Mediated Radical Ligand Transfer (RLT) Photoredox Catalysis Platform for alkene difunctionalization is now @JACS_Au Congrats @SubrataChem, @AJF_Chem, #BesaKadriu @DCBPunibern, @SwissChemistry, #OpenAccess, #chemistry 👉pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Chloroalkylation of Unactivated Alkenes via a Cobalt-Mediated Radical Ligand Transfer (RLT)...

The development of modular difunctionalization strategies for unsaturated hydrocarbons is of particular interest, as it enables access to complex building blocks in a single step. Although great...

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Thrilled to be part of the 2nd Australia–Japan Flow Chemistry, Automation & Microreactor Synthesis Joint Symposium in Melbourne on 4 Dec! 🇦🇺🇯🇵 Register: events.humanitix.com/2nd-aus… Dive into advanced flow-chemistry methods, automation & ML, continuous manufacturing, and scale-up breakthroughs. See you at the University of Melbourne (Parkville) — let’s create new connections and drive innovation together! #FlowChemistry #Microreactors #Automation #JapanAustraliaScience

2nd Australia–Japan Flow Chemistry, Automation and Microreactor Synthesis Joint Symposium

The University of Melbourne will host a symposium with the Group for Research on Automated Flow and Microreactor Synthesis (GRAMS), Chemical Society, Japan

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🚀 The Victorian Annual Synthesis Symposium is back. Join Victoria’s vibrant organic chemistry community to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this Symposium. Date: 5th December 2025 Location: Bio21 Institute, Melbourne. 🔬 Don’t miss it — register now and be part of the conversation shaping the future of organic synthesis! events.humanitix.com/raci-50…

RACI 50th Annual Synthesis Symposium

The School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, will hold its Annual Synthesis Symposium on Friday 5th December, 2025.

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This is what matters. #tuesdayproblemsets
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A huge thanks to the ⁦@SciMelb⁩ at the ⁦@UniMelb⁩ for sharing a glimpse into my career journey. Everyone’s career path is different - lean into your unique experience and celebrate what it can bring to your science. 💥 pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…

‘The real ‘magic’ of biology happens at invisible, chemical scales’

University of Melbourne chemist Anastasios (Tash) Polyzos grew up in regional restaurants and rock bands, but it was his fascination with chemical reactions that birthed an entrepreneur

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Professor Frances Separovic@FrancesBiophys
24 Oct 2025
Read this marvellous story about my #chemistry colleague, Anastasios Polyzos @PolyzosAP : ‘The real ‘magic’ of biology happens at invisible, chemical scales’ pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…

‘The real ‘magic’ of biology happens at invisible, chemical scales’

University of Melbourne chemist Anastasios (Tash) Polyzos grew up in regional restaurants and rock bands, but it was his fascination with chemical reactions that birthed an entrepreneur

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The Nobel Prize
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8 Oct 2025
The chemistry laureate who built a whole new field of chemistry – Richard Robson. Read more about Robson's prize-awarded research: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/artic…

The Nobel Prize winner who built a whole new field of chemistry

In the 90s, University of Melbourne Professor Richard Robson created a new class of coordination polymers - now he and two other scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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The Nobel Prize
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8 Oct 2025
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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School of Chemistry | University of Melbourne@ChemistryUoM
3 Oct 2025
** PhD Completion Seminar ** Tom Andrews @ChemistryUoM "Intelligent Automation and Optimisation Methods for Heterogeneous and Non-Ideal Continuous Flow Synthesis Platforms" October 10, 2025 | 12-1 pm | Bio21 Auditorium ALL WELCOME!
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A massive ‘thank you’ to these amazing individuals who, on a wintry Melbourne night, participated in showcasing our lab at @UniMelb Science week. Proud to watch our team engage with the public and communicate the impact, and relevance of organic chemistry. Thank you. @SciMelb @ChemistryUoM
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11 Aug 2025
🚀 Featured in JACS! @PolyzosAP powers the breakthrough in Electroinduced Reductive & Dearomative Alkene-Aldehyde Coupling. Rapid alternating polarity (rAP) electrolysis made it possible! ⚡️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Electroinduced Reductive and Dearomative Alkene-Aldehyde Coupling

The direct coupling of alkene feedstocks with aldehydes represents an expedient approach to the generation of new and structurally diverse C(sp3)-hybridized alcohols that are primed for elaboration...

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Nature Reviews Methods Primers@MethodsPrimers
17 Jul 2025
This week's #Primer is on #flowchemistry, a method for conducting chemical reactions through tubing to increase efficiency and yields. The team, led by @DuncanLBrowne, features the expertise of @BaumannGroupUCD, @PolyzosAP, and @AnnaGSlater. 📖👇 nature.com/articles/s43586-0…

Continuous flow chemistry for molecular synthesis

Nature Reviews Methods Primers - Flow chemistry is a synthesis technique that uses pumps, tubing and connectors to control reactions spatially rather than temporally. This spatial control enables...

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Excited to share this new primer on Flow Chemistry! Learn the foundations of flow synthesis in collaboration with ⁦@DuncanLBrowne⁩ ⁦@AnnaGSlater⁩ and ⁦@BaumannGroupUCD⁩ ⁦⁦@MethodsPrimers⁩ nature.com/articles/s43586-0…

Continuous flow chemistry for molecular synthesis

Nature Reviews Methods Primers - Flow chemistry is a synthesis technique that uses pumps, tubing and connectors to control reactions spatially rather than temporally. This spatial control enables...

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