Prof. Dr. Ala Bunescu
University Address
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Funktionen
- 2021 – 2022: Deputy Coordinator for Erasmus Programme, Department of Chemistry, UBO
About me
Since 2021: Junior Professor (W1), University of Bonn, Germany
2018 - 2020: Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK (Prof. Matthew Gaunt)
2015 - 2018: SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley, US (Prof. John F. Hartwig)
2010 - 2014: PhD in Organic Chemistry, ISIC, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Prof. Jieping Zhu)
2004 - 2010: Master in Organic Chemistry, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Rouen, France
The most important goal is to develop novel strategies to efficiently access organic compounds with lower ecological and economic impacts.
Link to research: https://www.bunescu.de/about
Our group’s expertise extents in organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry and catalysis. Our research goal is to develop novel strategies access chemical entities in sustainable fashion. To achieve this aim, we will employ earth-abundant transition metal-catalysis to enable chemical transformations via C-H activation, dearomative functionalization and photocatalytic radical cross-coupling processes.
Master course on Organotransition metal catalysis.
Prizes and Accolades
ERC starting grant Awardee
Year:
2022-2027
Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, Thieme Chemistry, Germany
Year:
2022
Fellowships
Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship
Year:
2018 – 2020
Advanced Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship SNSF
Year:
2017 – 2018
Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, SNSF
Year:
2015 – 2016
Publications
Multicomponent alkene azido-arylation via anion-mediated dual catalysis
A. Bunescu, Y. Abdelhamid, and M.J. Gaunt
Nature 598 (2021) 597-603. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-021-03980-8
Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidation of β-C(sp3)–H Bonds of Primary Alkylamines through a Rare Four-Membered Palladacycle Intermediate
B. Su, A. Bunescu, Y. Qiu, S. J. Zund, M. Ernst, J. F. Hartwig
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142 (2020) 7912-7919. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.0c01629
Traceless Silylation of β C(sp3)−H Bonds of Alcohols via Perfluorinated Acetals
A. Bunescu, T. W. Butcher and J. F. Hartwig
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140 (2018) 1502-1507.DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12150