Dirk H. Trauner
@DirkTrauner
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Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, Natural Product Aficionado, Photopharmacologist, Fox Terrierist, and Unfulfilled Architect. #firstgen
Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2017
Greetings from the GRC on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors! It’s exciting to see how the field has grown and is moving toward everyday applications—think photoswitchable tattoos!
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RT @francesarnold: My opening comments at #LINO25. Let's make sure others enjoy and understand the benefits of science. .
timeshighereducation.com
Frances Arnold says US science is ‘paying the price’ for not explaining benefits of research funding for ‘far too long’
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RT @MatthewHorwitz1: Join us today as Michael Zott and Daniel Zuschlag share their work with @DirkTrauner on the synthesis of isosteroidal….
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I love the Hoya carnosa in my office climbing on polytwistane.
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I had a great time at the University of Rochester as the Victor Chambers Lecturer! And I really enjoyed the amazing George Eastman House and Museum, built by a millionaire (nowadays billionaire) who was civic minded and kept a low profile.
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We have updated our "Chemical Neuroscience" course to include pentameric ligand-gated channels and the first GPCRs.
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Check out our approach toward disciformycin and gulmirecin, spearheaded by @PeterRuehmann. @nyuchemistry @PennChemistry .
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Ready to take off as a synthetic chemist? Check out this tutorial review we wrote with Frank Glorius and Jasper Tyler!.@GloriusGroup @GloriusFrank.
Scholarly review written by @DirkTrauner and @GloriusGroup:.Reaction development: a student's checklist📜☑️😀.Published in Chem. Soc. Rev.:.
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I am teaching my favorite course again this semester:."Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach". We are posting some materials online, check them out.
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Yates also determined the structure of haplophytine.
acs.org
American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
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One of our all time favorite bulding blocks, thanks to @SchreiberStuart.
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Super excited to participate in the 2025 Miller Symposium. Nice to be amongst California's finest :).
chemistry.ucdavis.edu
2025 Miller Symposium ScheduleMarch 6-7, 2025 Thursday, March 6th 8:45am Opening RemarksShota Atsumi, Chair, Miller Committee
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Dearomative Diels-Alder reactions are currently hot in total synthesis. They go back to Peter Yates (who trained my mentor Sam Danishefsky). And the Wessely reaction was also discovered in Vienna :)
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And here is a challenge to you sialyl aficionados: Why do newborns excrete polysialic acids? Where does it come from? From polysialylated GPCRs? Can’t be on that scale. I never found that answer.
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Zbiral was also one of the first chemists to work on sialic acid. We had to obtain it through hydrolysis of meconium, the stuff newborns excrete in their first days. It contains large amounts of polysialic acid. Later, we switched to Chinese birds' nests. Fun times!.
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My first chemistry professor in Vienna, Erich Zbiral, shall not be forgotten. Everybody loves the Tanabe-Eschenmoser Fragmentation but the analogous Zbiral Fragmentation of epoxy vinyl azides is equally cool.
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