Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the broadly defined area of organic chemistry. I have the honor of chairing the search committee. apply.interfolio.com/192648 12914
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Check out our preprint on “azostitching”, a one-pot synthesis of azobenzenes and azoheteroarenes from organoboron compounds and anilines. This modular method vastly expands the accessible chemical space of azo dyes and photoswitches. chemrxiv.org/doi/10.26434... 0123
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026What a week end at Penn! First we were honored to host Roald Hoffmann and then we ran the Chemistry 5K. La Vita e Bella. 0110
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Looking forward to hosting the Master of Symmetry. 150
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Excited to deliver the Overman Lecture next Wednesday at UC Irvine! 2292
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Greetings from the Trauner Group Holiday Party! 1130
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience. 0202
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Thrilled to return to UC Berkeley for the Clayton Heathcock Lecture on November 4! 1221
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Excited to speak at Pitt Chemistry this Thursday! 190
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Getting ready for the 2025 Trauner Group Retreat! 0130
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Greetings 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! 1275
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I love the Hoya carnosa in my office climbing on polytwistane. 1200
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I 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. 190
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/02/2025We have updated our "Chemical Neuroscience" course to include pentameric ligand-gated channels and the first GPCRs. www.traunergroup.org/teaching 1294
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Check out our approach toward disciformycin and gulmirecin, spearheaded by Peter Ruehmann @nyuchemistry. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 0272
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I am teaching my favorite course again this semester: "Chemical Neuroscience - a Synthetic Approach". We are posting some materials online, check them out. www.traunergroup.org/teaching 1574
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Dearomative 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 :) 1171
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 18/01/2025My 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. 2493
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Introducing a new class of potent opioid analgesics that remain in the periphery (hence no respiratory depression) and can be locally activated with light (hence no constipation). Great collab with Seva Katritch, Cornelius Gati, and Josh Levitz. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Image 1605
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The next development in photopharmacology (and "photogastronomy"). Controlling the Menthol Receptor TRPM8 with light! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 3272
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Extending the Organic Syntheses collection with Doug Taber‘s awesome series. I love browsing in these books when I have a free minute. orghighlights2015-2017.com 080
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Nothing is more important to a scientist than the ability to focus. 2170
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Trauner Group Molecule Tree. A gift from my students. 0350
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 30/11/2024She is going going for a world record in slouching. 030
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024It’s cold and it’s raining and she refuses to go out. Happy Thanksgiving! 3260
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Nothing beats a good collection of Synthetic Design books! 4631
Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024There are fews things that make me happier than a nice single crystal X-ray structure. Keep sliding them under my door! 0141