Wennemers Group
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The Wennemers Group @ethzurich.bsky.social uses organic synthesis to tackle challenges in asymmetric catalysis, chemical biology, new synthetic materials and metal nanoparticles. Student-run account. Posts by Helma signed HW. www.wennemers.ethz.ch
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New from our group: proline-rich peptides that target mitochondria & stay there!
Tuning hydrophobicity and rigidity provided design rules for CPPs that enter cells and redistribute for long-term mitochondrial residency.
Now out in ACS Chemical Biology: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Our senior scientist and Branco Weiss fellow, @tomfialab.bsky.social, is starting his own lab at Masaryk University. 👏 Check him out. So proud of you, Tom!
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We have multiple PhD and Postdoc positions open in my new group at Masaryk University. Are you an excellent and motivated candidate interested in organic and peptide synthesis and chemical biology? Get in touch! Start in January 2026. www.fialalab.com
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Congratulations to @tomfialab.bsky.social, who was awarded the @experientiacz.bsky.social start-up grant to start his independent research group at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia with the project "Traceless Affinity Probes for Targeted Alteration of Proteoforms". Have a great start, Tom!
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🚨New paper from our group! A clever use of salt bridges to crack a tough problem in collagen heterotrimer design! Hyperstable, minimal-length, and blunt-ended heterotrimers - out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Congrats to @tomfialab.bsky.social and everyone involved. Check it out: 🔗tin.al/IQej5
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Selectively assembling collagen heterotrimers is a challenge. But not for us! Aminopropline-aspartate salt bridges drive the assembly of a hyperstable, a minimal-length, and a special blunt-ended collagen heterotrimer. Now out in
@angewandtechemie.bsky.social!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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This work used our open-source, modular photoreactor ETHos! 🛠️ It’s inexpensive, easy to build, adjustable, and ensures reproducibility. CAD files are freely available on GitHub. Check it out: 🔗 tin.al/t6fS
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🚨 New preprint from our group! We report a photocatalytic, regiodivergent method to functionalize saturated N-heterocycles at the α- or β-position. The metal-free reaction runs in water with a flavin catalyst and gives rapid access to sought-after piperidines. Check it out here: 🔗 tin.al/DqxU
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🚨 Happy to share a new preprint – our group’s first!
🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

We report a novel synthetic method to access cyclic ethers from diketones, powered by simple borane catalysts.

Thanks to the whole team for their excellent work!
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Fluorescently labeled collagen model peptides are emerging as diagnostics for fibrosis and tissue repair. Our latest study highlights that careful selection of the fluorophore is essential when designing CMPs for such applications.

Now out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4sbhdv95