Felix Wessels, M.Sc.

Felix Wessels
© Marius Kühnemund, Uni MS
Felix Wessels
PhD Student
Room 405, OC/BC I
Corrensstraße 36
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 8335311
F: +49 251 8339772
felix.wessels@uni-muenster.de
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  • 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. DOI

    A. 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.