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Suman Pramanik leaves the laboratory after 2 years as a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow. He returns to India and will work for Syngene. Best wishes Suman !

On the 20th of December, Vincent Pirenne defended his PhD thesis entitled ” New radical additions of alkylsulfonyl cyanides onto unactivated olefins. Enantioselective approaches towards the total synthesis of leucophyllidine “ in front of a jury composed of Prof. P. Melchiorre (ICIQ, Tarragona), Dr. S. Lakhdar (U. Caen), Prof. J.-P. Goddard (U. Mulhouse) and Dr. D.M. Bassani (UB). Congratulations Vincent and good luck for your post-doc in EPFL in the group of Prof. J. Waser !

Our paper on “Palladium-mediated domino oxidative amination of cyclohexadienes as an entry to indole alkaloids” has been accepted in Tetrahedron. It is dedicated to Prof. Léon Ghosez in recognition of his long-time service as an editor of this journal.

On the 13th of December, Ahmed Chaambi defended his PhD entitled “Réaction d’alcénylation d’halogénures d’alkyles et de carbo-alcénylation d’oléfines”  in front of a jury composed of Dr. S. Perrio (U. Caen), Dr. B. Jamoussi (ISEFC Tunis), and Dr. J.M. Vincent (UB). Congratulations Ahmed !

Our article on “Dehydrogenative Silylation of Alcohols under Pd-nanoparticles Catalysis” accepted for publication in Chem. Eur. J. was selected as a Hot Paper by the Editors for its importance in this rapidly evolving field of high current interest.

Our paper on “Visible-light Mediated Carbamoyl radical Addition to Heteroarenes” has been accepted for publication in ChemComm. Congratulations to Ashique and Govind !

On the 4th of December, Anthony Fernandes defended his PhD entitled “Etude et réactivité des cations silylium”  in front of a jury composed of Dr. J. L. Parrain (U. Aix-Marseille), Dr. A. Baceiredo (U. Paul Sabatier Toulouse), Dr. F. Leroux (U. Strasbourg) and Dr. M. Pucheault (UB) . Congratulations Anthony !

Our work recently published in Heterocycles on the “Oxidation of Arylcyclohexadienes and their use in the synthesis of the Büchi Ketone and the skeleton of Aspidosperma alkaloids” has been selected to appear in the Organic Chemistry Portal.