Author Archives: Sebastian Beil

The chemical industry is in big need for new processes which can replace energy-intensive thermal ones. Electrosynthesis is the enabling technique facilitating such transformation. We emphasize this technology in Chemical Engineering, check it out now.

Our freshly started PhD student Annemijn was awarded the Unilever Research Prize for her outstanding master’s thesis. Congratulations Annemijn! Read more about her research here.

Several new people have joined us lately. In September, Rani from Taros Chemicals in Dortmund, Tim from the University of Kiel, and Berjan from the University of Groningen have joined us as PhD students. They are all curious about photocatalysis within our non-natural amino acids scheme. In October, Zeyu from Göttingen University joined us asContinue reading “The Lab is growing”

In August, the current and future group members went to Münster attending the Dream Reactions with and without Light Conference organized by Prof. Frank Glorius. It was an amazing day with thrilling science and excellent weather! from left: Rani, Alexandra, Sebastian, Berjan, Tim

In 2023, a group of enthusiastic chemists met in Leiden, NL, to discuss the future and what it needs for photochemistry and photocatalysis to thrive as a relevant technology. We gathered our thoughts and hope they are valuable for you as well! Shoot out to Ning, who contributed to the high-level discussions. Read the articleContinue reading “Photochemistry needs interdisciplinary teams”

After three years at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry at the University of Groningen, our group will now slowly transition to the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. We will continue our efforts to develop new and sustainable electro- and photocatalytic transformations. We thank the support in the previous years and very much looking forward toContinue reading “Beil Lab moves to MPI CEC”

We wish you all a happy new year and are likewise more than happy to share our new preprint. Three generations of undergraduate students have worked on this project and developed a copper-catalyzed methylation reaction. Diving deep into the mechanism we can show that triplet-triplet energy transfer is the main interaction between of the photosensitizerContinue reading “New Year, New Preprint”

Sebastian will speak at the JCF Spring Symposium in Ulm in March 2024. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Elisa who published her Concept article about site-selective oxidation of carbohydrates in ChemElectroChem on the day of starting her PhD in the Walvoort group. All the best for your future sciences.

Hooray, our comment in Nature Catalysis was finally published. If you are interested in the photocatalytic formation of hydrogenperoxide from water as a clean process for a promising future energy carrier please have a read. In addition, our grant application for a competitive NWO VENI grant was accepted and will start soon. We will investigateContinue reading “Successful summer: Article published and grant funded”