Profile

Research interest

Organic synthesis, Organo-Fluorine Chemistry, Asymmetric Synthesis, Reaction Mechanisms, Biocatalysis.

Awards
2013
Alfred Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry
2017
Royal Chemical Society Fluorine Prize
Education
1996-2001
M.Sc. (Dipl. Ing.) in organic chemistry, at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
2001-2004
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, under Prof. David O’Hagan at the University of St. Andrews, UK.
Appointments
2005-2006
Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. G. K. Surya Prakash, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
2007-2011
Head of the Junior Research Team, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic.
Since 2012
Head of the Senior Research Group, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic.

Latest publications

Synthesis of Azidodifluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone and Its Use as a Synthetic Equivalent of the Azidodifluoromethyl Anion
Journal of Organic Chemistry 88 (11): 6939–6946 (2023)
Aza-Wolff rearrangement of N-fluoroalkyl triazoles to ketenimines
Organic Chemistry Frontiers 2023: Early View
Synthesis of N-vinyl isothiocyanates and carbamates by the cleavage of NH-1,2,3-triazoles with one-carbon electrophiles
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 21 (6): 1143-1147 (2023)
Lewis-Acid-Mediated Intramolecular Cyclization of 4-Aryl-5-allyl-1,2,3-triazoles to Substituted Cyclopentene Derivatives
Journal of Organic Chemistry 88 (2): 1155–1167 (2023)