[Seminar] Nuno Maulide

Title: “Can rearrangements lead to ideal reactions?”

Speaker: Nuno Maulide

Abstract: The turn of the century brought about a pressing need for new, efficient, and clean strategies for the chemical synthesis of biorelevant compounds. Our group has studied the use of various molecular rearrangements and atom-economical transformations as particularly appealing means towards the streamlined synthesis of complex building blocks. In this lecture, we will present an overview of our research in these areas and how they provide efficient solutions for methods development and total synthesis, as well as platforms for the discovery of unusual reactivity.

About Nuno Maulide:

Nuno Maulide (*1979) is Professor of Organic Synthesis and Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna, as well as an Adjunct Principal Investigator at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on exploring unprecedented transformations based on transiently-generated highly energetic intermediates and developing entirely novel synthetic approaches to complex and added-value chemical structures. Additionally, target driven synthesis of bioactive structures (as well as tailoring of their derivatives) as tool compounds for biological applications are a key interest. Before assuming his position in Vienna in 2013, he was group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (2009–2013), postdoc at Stanford University (2007–2008) and PhD student at the Université catholique de Louvain (2004–2007). Nuno Maulide is also head of a Christian-Doppler Laboratory (Entropy-Oriented Drug Design; in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim), expert reporter for Organic Chemistry at the executive board of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and Associate Editor for JACS Au. Additionally, he is an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences, and has received a number of research awards, including the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award (2020), the Lieben-Preis (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2019), the Springer Heterocyclic Chemistry Award (2018) and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Preis (German Research Foundation, 2013). Amongst other funding, Nuno Maulide’s research has been supported by an ERC Starting Grant (2011-2016), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2016-2022) and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2018).