Synthesis and Separations• State-of-the-art synthetic laboratory• Several microwave reactors: mono -

mode, multimode, peptide synthesizer• Flow chemistry: Thalesnano X-

Cube flow reactor, Chemtrixmicroflow reactor

• Chromatography: MPLC, HPLC,Chromatotron

• UV-reactor, Parr apparatus, steelpressure reactors

• Heidolph Synthesis - parallelsynthesis equipment

Spectroscopy• NMR spectroscopy: Bruker 600,

400, 300 MHz + automatization• Mass spectrometry: LC-MS and

GC-MS• FTIR, UV Vis spectrofotometers

Research Themes

Research Infrastructure

Opportunities to collaborate

Molecular Design and Synthesis - Organic Synthesis

Leuven Chem&Tech • Leuven NanoCentre

• Implementation of new synthetic methodology in material and medicinal chemistry• Availability of libraries of medicinally relevant compounds• Advanced NMR spectroscopy, NMR screening, characterization of natural products• Synthesis and application of novel fluorescent dyes, ligands, sensors,

supramolecular hosts• Process enhancement e.g. microwave-assisted chemistry, flow chemistry

ContactDepartment of ChemistryMolecular Design and SynthesisCelestijnenlaan 200F

3001 LEUVEN, Belgium

http://chem.kuleuven.be/en/research

/mds/index.html

To all Leuven Chem&Tech

and Leuven NanoCentre

scientific posters

More info on these research themes

Heterocyclic and Medicinal Chemistry• Multicomponent reactions• Design of peptides and

peptidomimetics• Natural product derivatives• Diversity-oriented synthesis

Supramolecular Chemistry• Macrocyclic chemistry: porphyrins,

calixarenes, cyclophanes• Dendrimers and hyperbranched

polymers

• (Hetera)helicenes, atropoisomericcompounds

• Fluorescent dyes and sensors

Synthetic Methodology• Transition metal catalysis• Selectivity of organic reactions• Microwave assisted organic synthesis• Flow chemistry• Solid phase organic and peptide

synthesis