Synthetic Chemistry

The Synthetic Chemistry team has been established at Tampere University of Technology in 2004. The group focuses on development of new useful molecules and functional materials, and on development of modern tools of organic chemistry and structural analysis. The group was led by Alexander Efimov and Nuno Candeias (2015-2019).

Completed PhD: 

Kalle Lintinen https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/115189 

Somnath Dey https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/114974

Rajeev Dubey https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/115051

Jenni Ranta https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/114070 

Essi Sariola-Leikas https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/115125 

Lijo George https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/114129 

Suvi Holmstedt (supevisor N. R. Candeias) https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/133960

Benedicta Assoah (supervisor N.R. Candeias) https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/117557

The group has a broad collaboration with researchers from France, Japan, Portugal, Chile, RF, Germany, US, UK, Finland.

Current group members: Aleksandr Penni, PhD student; Olga Lem, PhD student; Viacheslav Golovanov, Professor, senior research fellow; Nuno Rafael Candeias, Adjunct Professor

The main goal of the group is to create an intellectual environment for ambitious research in synthetic chemistry, and provide solution for specific problems of recognized societal impact. The main lines of research are:

• Light-activated bioactive compounds and drug release systems
• Antimicrobial and antiviral photodynamic therapy
• Metalorganic catalysts and photocatalytic systems
• Advanced chemical and structural analysis using NMR, HRMS, HPLC and GC

Our research activities encompass on internationally recognized synthetic expertise; high-resolution spectroscopy methods; computational studies; collaborative network with chemists, physicists and biologists from other research groups.

Our projects:

• Metal phthalocyanines and related metal complexes for catalysis applications (2025-2028)
• Light-controlled bioactive dyes and labels (2020-2027)
• Functional dyes and supramolecular assemblies for light energy utilization (2022-2027)
• Light-activated antimicrobial and antiviral materials: photodynamic inactivation of pathogens via oxidative action (2017-2023)

In Aamulehti: https://www.aamulehti.fi/tiedejateknologia/art-2000008520518.html

In Ilta-Sanomat: https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000008506960.html

On YLE: https://yle.fi/a/3-12235522