Maulide, Nuno

With "C-HANCE", Nuno Maulide and his team explore the reactivity of positively charged carbon atoms (carbocations). Under special conditions, they reveal surprising chemical behaviour through distant communication between carbon atoms. The project, particularly focused on so-called C-H functionalization, aims to revolutionize this active research area by developing methods to selectively break and replace normally unreactive C-H bonds, leading to new chemical reactivities and structures under precisely controlled conditions.