PhotoGreen Lab

✨ What a special Christmas!!! ✨
The PhotoGreen Lab is really proud to announce that two big achievements are taken by two of its members:

🔬 Proud to share that our UP-PLA project has been awarded a FIS2 grant, worth €1.5 million, for the next three years.
Under the premises of UP-PLA, my research team will explore hybrid photo/bio-catalytic strategies for plastic upcycling under sustainable conditions, unlocking innovative solutions toward virtuous management of spent (bio)plastic streams. ♻️

🌈 Moreover, another successful achievement regards:
Dyedauxiliary groups meet catalysis: a colourful approach to organic synthesis (DyedCAT). Deeply Thanking fondazione Cariplo for the 200k to finance the research plans over three years.
The project will merge (new) dyedauxiliary groups with metal catalysis to develop new green synthetical strategies in organic chemistry.
👏 Huge congratulations to Davide and for winning their projects — hard work always pays off!

In this work we developed a platform strategy for the synthesis of five-membered carbo- and heterocycles in continuous flow. The merging of HAT photocatalysis with flow techniques provides a versatile and sustainable approach to afford substituted cyclopentenones, pyrroles and thiophenes, which are also key scaffolds in pharmaceutical chemistry.

Check it out: http://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202501012

Congratulations to .quadri for your first publication and Davide 🎉🎉🎉🎉