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Jurberg Lab
We are an enthusiastic research group working in the frontiers of organic synthesis, with a strong emphasis on three main areas: i) chemistry of heterocycles, ii) photochemistry and iii) catalytic methods
MOST RECENT NEWS
18 September 2025
A publication of the group has been just accepted in J. Agric. Food Chem.. This work was led by the group of Prof. Taicia P. Fill (IQ-Unicamp), in collaboration also with the group of Prof. Roberto G. S. Berlinck (USP-São Carlos) involving the study of the chemical profile of blue mold in oranges. Amanda F. da Silva was our group member involved in this project. She defended her PhD in 2021, but the final fruit of her hard work had still to come out. Now, this is done. Congratulations to her and all teams involved!
01 August 2025
Prof. Igor Jurberg is awarded a CNPq Productivity Award level B for the period 2024-2029. Congratulations!
05 May 2025
A publication of the group has been just accepted in Chemistry - An Asian Journal! This work describes the C3-alkylation of imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines and imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines with aryldiazoacetates, being solely promoted by blue light irradiation. We have been able to prepare several analogs of a key intermediate employed in the synthesis of zolpidem. A formal synthesis of zolpidem was also achieved, but this required the change to a different alkylating agent, an hypervalent iodine compound. Congratulations to all members of the team, Ronei, Tales, Roberto and Felipe! This work was also performed in collaboration with Dr. Deborah Simoni (X-ray laboratory of IoChem of Unicamp) and Prof. Rodrigo Cormanich (Unicamp), who performed insightful DFT calculations.
01 May 2025
A new post-doctoral researcher, Dr. José A. C. Delgado, joins the group to work in our photocatalysis project, with applications in bioactive targets. Welcome José!
10 March 2025
Igor delivers an online talk on "Visible Light-Mediated Photolysis of Organic Molecules" for graduate students of KU Leuven, Belgium.
06 January 2025
A new research project funded by Fapesp-FWO was approved involving photocatalysis. This is a joint project with Prof. Francisco de Azambuja (KU Leuven, Belgium). Great!
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