Breaking and making covalent bonds we have mastered for more than half a century. The last three decades we, as a scientific community, have also achieved a very high degree of control over transformational tactics where selectivity issues have impeded effective synthetic elaborations. Furthermore, complexity generating cascade type reaction sequences and activation of what previously been regarded as inert structural entities have furthermore pushed the frontiers of synthetic organic chemistry to a level where vastly complex compounds can be produced in a strait forward fashion. However, scalability, efficiency, environmental sustainability and expansion of transformational borders in terms of structural starting points still needs to be addressed to equip the synthetic tool box with next generation methods. To fruitfully meet today's and the future's increasingly complex interdisciplinary challenges, that often span multiple scientific disciplines, it is of fundamental importance to have access to general production methods that can create molecular complexity rapidly and efficiently from structurally trivial and easily accessible (cheap and preferably bio-based) compounds and doing so with a minimum ecological footprint. An important aspect in this pursuit is scalability. Research and development initiatives needs to be fully scalable from day one.
In the face of massive societal challenges we envision a universal and sustainable synthetic platform that enables cross-disciplinary engagements in future pursuits towards novel structures and functions within the life science manifold. All research activities in the Wallentin laboratory aims towards the development of a unified synthetic platform that abides to the challenges posted by todays and future societal demands together with the needs of the scientific community.
In the face of massive societal challenges we envision a universal and sustainable synthetic platform that enables cross-disciplinary engagements in future pursuits towards novel structures and functions within the life science manifold. All research activities in the Wallentin laboratory aims towards the development of a unified synthetic platform that abides to the challenges posted by todays and future societal demands together with the needs of the scientific community.