Research group of Prof. Dr. A. J. Minnaard
The mission of our research programme is the further development of the field of organic chemistry, in particular organic synthesis and catalysis, and its application in the study of biological phenomena.
Latest publications
267. Exterkate, M., de Kok, N. A. W., Andringa, R. L. H., Wolbert, N. H. J., Minnaard, A. J., & Driessen, A. J. M. 2021 ‘A promiscuous archaeal cardiolipin synthase enables construction of diverse natural and unnatural phospholipids.’ The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 100691. Web
266. Minnaard, A. J., Andringa, R., de Kok, N., & Driessen, A. 2021. ‘A Unified Approach for the Total Synthesis of cyclo-Archaeol, iso-Caldarchaeol, Caldarchaeol, and Mycoketide. ‘Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). Web
News from our lab
Mira will defend her thesis titled: “On the Total Synthesis of Archaeal and Mycobacterial Natural Products” on the 5th of February…
Every year we have SinterKerst, with lots of games, gifts and pepernoten. This year we could not end the year…
Steven will defend his thesis titled: "Novel methods towards rare sugars based on site-selective chemistry" on the 5th of January at 11:00.…
Our group member Ruben Andringa presented his poster "Total synthesis of macrocyclic archaeal lipids and mycoketide" this year online at…
Prof. Minnaard and Dr. Buter (UG, Stratingh Institute ), together with Dr. van Rhijn (University of Utrecht) and Prof. Moody (Harvard),…
Mira Holzheimer together with Frederiek Reijneveld and collaborators from Boston and Groningen have published their results on the synthesis and…