January 2014
Martins is a visiting researcher in Prof. Petri Pihko group at University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
Ilga has joined Prof. Carsten Bolm group at RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
October 2013
Kaspars is spending Autumn semester studies at University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Toms has started working in prof. E. Vedejs laboratories at University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor (USA)
May 2013
Edgars receives Paul Walden medal from Riga Technical University.
Artis delivers a lecture at 8th Paul Walden Symposium.
Martins, Toms and Kaspars present posters at 8th Paul Walden Symposium: “Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral 1,3-Diamines“, “Design of novel asymmetric organocatalysts” and “Reductive elimination reactions of Pd(IV) complexes containing Pd-O and Pd-C bonds”
Artis presents poster “Design of chiral pyridines as organocatalysts for asymmetric cyclopropanation reaction” at XVth International Conference “Heterocycles in Bio-organic Chemistry”
August 2012
Toms has started Autumn semester studies at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
July 2012
Artis attended Gaussian workshop “Theory and Practice” in Columbus, OH, USA and presented a poster: “Computational studies of transition states for diastereoselective reduction of iminoanilines and iminophenoles“.
June 2012
Igors and Dmitrijs won the Best Poster award at the Balticum Organicum Syntheticum 2012 in Tallinn with poster: “Non-Symmetric iodonium salts as key intermediates in functionalisation of heterocyclic C-H bonds”
July 2011
Artis won the Best Poster award at the 17th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry 2011 in Hersonissos, in Crete, Greece with poster: “Diastereoselective synthesis of optically active aminoanilines and aminophenols”