Synthetic organic chemistry group focused on organocatalysis, frustrated Lewis pairs, strained heterocycles and natural product total synthesis. (Student-run)
Joined May 2020
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🏆 Proud moment for our group at this year's Organic Chemistry Problem-Solving Competition (SZKPV) at ELTE TTK! Congratulations to our students 🥇 Szilárd Bercel Varga, 🥇 István Babcsányi, 🥈 Mikes Burkódi, and 🥉 Attila Perényi for their outstanding results. 🧪✨
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The fiddler-crab-type boranes take on another notoriously difficult transformation: the direct reduction of esters to ethers!🦀
We are thrilled to share that our latest research has just been published as a VIP paper in @angew_chem!🎉
Check it out:
doi.org/10.1002/anie.8105704
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Decagram-scale synthesis of dibenzopentalenes ✔ Late-stage modification ✔ Short and efficient synthetic routes for functional organic materials ✔ @RSCAdvances @marcellbogner doi.org/10.1039/D6RA03886G
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It was a pleasure hosting Prof. Jon Njardarson this week! His anionic cascade journey, from strained rings to atropisomers, was both technically rich and genuinely inspiring. A strong reminder that great days in the lab start with thoughtful #ChemistrybyDesign.
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Celebrating 20 years of Frustrated Lewis Pairs! 🧪🎂
Excited to see our research featured in @ChemistryWorld’s look at two decades of FLPs. It is an honor to contribute to the evolution of metal-free catalysis and the push for sustainable chemistry! 🚀
Decades on, the impact of this main group chemistry discovery continues to ripple on.
With applications reaching catalysis, polymer synthesis, radiolabelling, environmental remediation, frustrated Lewis pairs support chemistry advances across the world:
chemistryworld.com/features/…
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Today marks 100 years since the birth of Zoltán Hajós! 🇭🇺🧪
A true pioneer of asymmetric organocatalysis, his Hajós-Parrish reaction using L-proline as an enzyme-mimic was decades ahead of its time, laying the foundation for a field later honored with the 2021 Nobel Prize.✨
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17 Dec 2025
Excited to share that our latest preprint on direct ester-to-ether
reduction using fiddler crab-type borane catalysts is featured in this
month's OPR&D literature review by @ACSPublications. 🦀⚗️
Great to see early interest from the process R&D community!
doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c0…
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We are happy to announce that our very own Szilárd Varga has been selected as this year’s winner for the prestigious Zemplén Géza award by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations Szilárd, well deserved! 🥳🥂
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Our latest paper is out now in @JOC_OL, featuring interesting heterocyclic systems: 5-azaazulenes! Donor-acceptor substituted analogues have been evaluated for organic photonics applications:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Our paper on fatigue-resistant dithienylethene photoswitches is now published in @ChemEurJ. Notably, we used a solid, bench-stable Ti(IV)-collidine complex for intramolecular McMurry coupling on gram scales.
doi.org/10.1002/chem.2025027…
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Greetings from Porto! 🇵🇹 We’re at #EFMCASMC2025 - check out our latest research on frustrated covalent warheads (Dániel, P023), strained heterocycles (Krisztián, P006), innovative thianthrene chemistry (András, OC8; Bence, P364) and FLP-catalyzed ester reductions (Ádám, OC3)!
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14 Jul 2025
The fiddler crabs are back - this time transforming esters directly into ethers (and enol ethers!)🦀
Check out our latest preprint showcasing the selective deoxygenation of esters via proximity-effect-driven FLP catalysis🧪
Now out on @ChemRxiv:
doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20…
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Missed part 1? You can find our previous study on the selective ester-to-aldehyde transformation in @J_A_C_S:
doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20…
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6 May 2025
Registration is now open for the 30th European Conference on Heterocycles in Chemistry! 🧪
Join us this summer in Budapest to explore emerging trends in heterocyclic chemistry with top experts from around the 🌍.
🗓 Early bird deadline: May 31
🔗 echc2025.com/
#ECHC2025
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18 Apr 2025
We’re excited to share our work that introduces singly N-protected O-vinylhydroxylamines as ring-annulation reagents for the synthesis of azaindolines and azaindoles. Congrats to Zach & Charlotte (@charlie_bird13) and the Enamine (@EnamineLtd) team!
🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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16 Apr 2025
Still making waves: our @angew_chem paper “Total Synthesis and Structural Plasticity of Kratom Pseudoindoxyl Metabolites” was one of the most-viewed articles in the past year!🔥 Cheers to the team for the spotlight! 🌟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page…
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11 Apr 2025
Indirect Anti-Markovnikov Hydrofunctionalization of Terminal Alkenes via an Alkenyl Thianthrenium Intermediate (Tibor Soós and co-workers) @SoosGroup @BenceSovari #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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3 Apr 2025
Taking our chemistry to new heights—literally!!🚀 Two compounds from our lab are heading to the @Space_Station aboard the @SpaceX CRS-32 mission to study HOF crystallization in microgravity as part of #HUNOR.🔬 Stay tuned for updates!
@hun_ren01 @JAMSS_official @ISS_Research
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Congratulations to Tibor Soós for winning the prestigious Ányos Jedlik Award for his achievements in catalyst development!🥇 This prize honors inventors whose scientific excellence drives innovation, turning knowledge into real-world impact.🚀 @hun_ren01
youtube.com/watch?v=vsM7GpEd…
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