The Department of Organic Chemistry kindly invites to the following talk:

Prof. Thomas Magauer, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

„Radical-Polar Cyclizations in Natural Product Synthesis”

Abstract:

We present our latest results employing polar and radical cyclization reactions to construct complex natural products. These methodologies enable the efficient formation of diverse ring systems and stereocenters, offering streamlined access to architecturally intricate molecules. Our findings highlight the power of combining polar and radical strategies in natural product synthesis and open new avenues for rapid molecular complexity generation.

Bio

Tommy was born in Linz, Upper Austria in 1983. In 2002, he moved to Vienna to study chemistry at the University of Vienna. In 2007, he joined the laboratories of Prof. Johann Mulzer for his PhD studies developing chemical syntheses of natural products (kendomycin, echinopine A and B). In 2009, he moved to Harvard University (USA) to work as an FWF Erwin Schrödinger fellow with Prof. Andrew G. Myers. In 2012, he began his independent research as a FCI Liebig and a DFG Emmy Noether Group Leader at the LMU Munich. In 2017, Tommy was awarded the Goering Visiting Professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In the same year he was appointed as Full Professor of Synthesis and Synthetic Methods at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), currently serving as the Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry. His research program has been supported by several industrial collaborations, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2017–2022, ERC Consolidator Grant 2022–2027).