Felix Wessels, M.Sc.

Curriculum Vitae
since 12/2024 PhD Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, University of Münster 04/2024 - 09/2024 Master Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, University of Münster 08/2023 - 02/2024 Research internship in the group of Prof. Dr. Tehshik P. Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA 02/2023 - 03/2023 Research internship in the group of Prof. Dr. A. T. Biju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India since 10/2022 Master studies in Chemistry, University of Münster 06/2022 - 08/2022 Bachelor Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, University of Münster, Germany; Title: "Synthesis of NHC-modified metal surfaces and their application in selective heterogeneous catalysis" 10/2019 - 09/2022 Bachelor studies in Chemistry, University of Münster, Germany 08/2011 - 07/2019 Fürstenberg Gymnasium, Recke, Germany with Final Examination (Abitur) Awards and Scholarships
02/2023 Scholarship by Santander Mobility Fund (Santander Mobilitätsfonds), University of Münster 01/2023 Fellowship by Cusanuswerk Publications
C. A. MacAllister, C. R. Lacker, M. F. Maciejewski, F. Wessels, D. M. Bates, S. W. Bagley, T. P. Yoon,*
Oxygen migration into carbon–carbon single bonds by photochemical oxidation,
Nat. Synth 2025, asap. DOIA. Petti,§ M. J. Karrasch,§ P. Chahar,§ F. H. Wessels, N. Hölter, F. Boser, C. G. Daniliuc, F. Glorius,
Cyclic Bifunctional Reagents Enabling a Strain-Release-Driven Formal [3 + 2] Cycloaddition of 2H-Azirines by Cascade Energy Transfer,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 13276-13285.
§ These authors contributed equally.M. S. Gadhave, S. Barik, F. Wessels, A. T. Biju,
Nucleophilic Acylation–Annulation Cascade of 2-Chlorobenzonitriles Using Aldehydes Triggered by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes,
Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 8314-8319.