Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry

Joost Reek received his PhD in 1996 under Prof. R.J.M. Nolte in the field of supramolecular chemistry. Following this, he joined Prof. M.J. Crossley's group in Sydney as a postdoctoral fellow, where he gained experience in porphyrin chemistry and Dendrimers. In 1998 he became a lecturer in the group headed by Prof. P.W.N.M. Van Leeuwen with research activities focusing on transition metal catalysis, and during this period began his own line of research into Supramolecular transition metal chemistry. He has received numerous grants, including the prestigious VICI grant, and in 2005 became a member of the young Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). One year later he was appointed full professor at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Reek currently heads a research group of about 30 people, comprising 18 PhD students and 8 postdocs, working on various topics related to supramolecular chemistry and transition metal catalysis. Sijbren Otto received his Ph.D. degree in physical organic chemistry from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in the group of Prof. Jan B.F.N. Engberts. After one year in the United States as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Steven L. Regen (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the University of Cambridge, where he worked for two years with Prof. Jeremy K.M. Sanders on dynamic combinatorial libraries. He started his independent research career in 2001 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge. In 2009 he moved to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands where he is associated with the newly created Centre for Systems Chemistry.