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Alex Grenning

@ochemgrenning.bsky.social

Associate Professor @UMN. Urgently spreading and learning the OChem Gospel. As a researcher/mentor, I want to (i.) address synthetic challenges associated with CNS disorders and (ii.) invent new reactions of general use to drug discovery.

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Lots of reasons! Celebrate the team's effort. Have an accessible version for all to read. Potentially get community feedback. I hope this helps! ✌️

18.12.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#GrenningLab members have developed a strategy for preparing 3° and 4° carbons at the 3-position of quinolones! I'm real proud of 'em for advancing this to the submission stage, congrats team! We've posted it to the @chemrxiv.org ! Read about the findings here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

18.12.2025 00:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Aaron and I have decided to do it: #FloHet2026 is a go and we can't wait for the amazing organic chemistry to be shared! More announcements coming soon. Here is our new website. Please share it with the ochem lovers in your life. flohet.org

10.09.2025 04:50 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

...could serve as bioisosteres to their parent scaffold. Congrats to Dr. Morgane Mando for intellectual leadership! She is an absolute treasure of a chemist, team leader, and person! And thank you to our collaborators, Dylan Smith and Prof. Nik Boyn for invaluable contributions! 2/2

18.03.2025 04:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am now on #bluesky! #FirstPost to report (tinyurl.com/4n4tyau7) that physicochemically altered variants of (hetero)cyclohexanecarboxylate are accessible by a 2-step 1,3-bis-trifluoromethylation then oxidative malononitrile FGI to carboxylates. We envisage that such building blocks... 1/2

18.03.2025 04:18 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3

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