Alex Grenning
@ochemgrenning.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @UMN. Urgently spreading and learning the OChem Gospel. As a researcher/mentor, I want to (i.) address synthetic challenges associated with CNS disorders and (ii.) invent new reactions of general use to drug discovery.
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Aaron and I have decided to do it: #FloHet2026 is a go and we can't wait for the amazing organic chemistry to be shared! More announcements coming soon. Here is our new website. Please share it with the ochem lovers in your life. flohet.org
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...could serve as bioisosteres to their parent scaffold. Congrats to Dr. Morgane Mando for intellectual leadership! She is an absolute treasure of a chemist, team leader, and person! And thank you to our collaborators, Dylan Smith and Prof. Nik Boyn for invaluable contributions! 2/2
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I am now on #bluesky! #FirstPost to report (tinyurl.com/4n4tyau7) that physicochemically altered variants of (hetero)cyclohexanecarboxylate are accessible by a 2-step 1,3-bis-trifluoromethylation then oxidative malononitrile FGI to carboxylates. We envisage that such building blocks... 1/2