Q&As

Song Lin, Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, talks to Nature Synthesis about the development and commercialization of SPECS (Small Photoelectronic ElectroChemical Synthesizers) for wireless electrochemistry.

Marta Costa Figueiredo, an Assistant Professor of electrochemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology, talks to Nature Synthesis about electrocatalysis and the electrochemical formation of C–N bonds.

Francesca Paradisi, Professor of Sustainable Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Bern, talks to Nature Synthesis about the reactivity of biocatalysts in flow.

Anna Slater, Professor of Chemistry and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, talks to Nature Synthesis about developing supramolecular and materials synthesis in flow chemistry.

David Ford, Senior Director of Chemistry at Snapdragon Chemistry, talks to Nature Synthesis about using flow chemistry in process development and reaction scale-up.

Gabriela Oksdath-Mansilla, an INFIQC-CONICET researcher and Professor of Chemistry in the Facultad de Ciencias Químicas at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, talks to Nature Synthesis about performing photochemistry in flow.

Birgit Esser, Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Ulm University, talks to Nature Synthesis about the challenges of synthesizing conjugated nanohoops and other aromatic systems.

Renana Gershoni-Poranne, Branco Weiss fellow and assistant professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, talks to Nature Synthesis about probing aromatic molecules with computational tools.

Andrew Cooper, a professor at the University of Liverpool and Academic Director of the Materials Innovation Factory, talks to Nature Synthesis about the use of robotics and artificial intelligence for the synthesis and discovery of materials and chemicals.

King Kuok (Mimi) Hii, a professor at Imperial College London and director of the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre of Doctoral Training in Next Generation Synthesis & Reaction Technology (rEaCt), talks to Nature Synthesis about reaction monitoring in automated workflows as well as the challenges to be overcome in automated synthesis.

Paul Chirik, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, talks to Nature Synthesis about how organometallic catalysis can be used to form weak chemical bonds.

Suzanne Zamany Andersen, future founding CEO of Nitrofix Solutions, talks to Nature Synthesis about lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis and a career path through academia and beyond.

Alison Wendlandt, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks to Nature Synthesis about how hydrogen atom transfer can be used to selectively edit C(sp³)–H bonds in sugars and polyols.

Timothy Noël, a professor at the University of Amsterdam and Chair of Flow Chemistry, talks to Nature Synthesis about how flow technologies and photocatalytic methods enable C(sp³)–H functionalization reactions.