Once evey month the Organic Chemistry Group at NTNU meets for a seminar. This is a meeting point for students, staff and visitors and is a place where we can exchange ideas, educate, challenge and inform. 

The main purpose of the seminar is to bring the organic chemists together over a coffee and some useful lectures. If you have a good topic or something you’d like to discuss in the seminar, reach out and we’ll make it happen 😊

The Outlook invites will be updated with a meeting agenda a week before each seminar. If you dont have the invite, reach out to one of the seminar organizers.

Schedule for autumn semester 2025:

Thursday 28 August 11.00-12.00
Thursday 25 September 11.00-12.15
Thursday 30 October 11.00-12.00
Thursday 27 November 11.00-12.00

Place: Onsager meeting room, D3-114 in the Natural Science Building.

Upcoming seminars:

27th November 2025

• Session of presentations from the students in the course TKJ4520 Specialization project in organic chemistry.

Previous seminars:

2025

October

• Round of short updates from the different research groups

September

• "Synthia" - A Retrosynthesis tool by Merck. Lecture and retrosynthesis workshop by Mikael Friberg. (60 min)

August

• Welcome to the Organic Chemistry Section and a little information on writing and planning experiments by Bård and Audun
• "How and why we make radioactive drugs at St. Olavs" by Dr. Jin Han, St. Olavs Hospital (20-30 min)

Slides from this seminar including a handy guide to how to write a good experimental section in your thesis can be found here.

May

• Research: Synthesis of compact amphiphilic triazole peptide mimics for antimicrobial evaluation by Kristoffer Tennfjord Engås (20 min)

April

• New project: Chemoenzymatic synthesis of enantiopure pharmaceuticals by Elisabeth (20 min)
• "Trends and Techniques in Modern Chemical Synthesis" by Dr. Thomas Ihle Aarhus, Resman (20 min)

March 

• Infrastructure: Mass Spec tutorial and possibilities by Susana (20 min)
• A short review of Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions by Jacob S. Rolfsen

February

• Infrastructure: NorHTE - What type of flow chemistry can we do with the new equipment? by John de Mello

January

• What is planned for the seminar this semester?
• Research: First report of chenodeoxycholic acid–substituted dyes improving the dye monolayer quality in dye‐sensitized solar cells

2024

December

• Christmas lunch with the Section for Organic Chemistry
• Research: Incorporation of deuterium in organic compounds by Dr. Reddy
• Tutorial: Drying of solvents - Principles and good advice by Odd

November

• Session of presentations from the students in the course TKJ4520 Specialization project in organic chemistry.

October

• Tutorial: How to work efficiently with NMR spectra and Mnova by students from OEM group. A tutorial document can be found here.
• Tutorial: Reference collection and management using EndNote by PhD student Guillermo and Dr. Reddy

September

• Introduction to the seminar series by Audun
• Recent chemistry from each research group - a round of short introductions
• Tutorial: Planning experiments using Electronic Lab Notebook by Audun
• Tutorial: How to draw nice chemical structures and use SMILES efficiently in ChemDraw by Bård
• Closing summary, idea session for new topics and a look at what is planned for the next seminar.
• Slides from the seminar including a short tutorial on accessing the Electronic Lab Notebook software can be found here.