Welcome to ListLab. We focus on the development of organocatalysis for various enantioselective transformations.

Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
We are overwhelmed and over the moon! Many Congratulations to Ben🎉🍾 on receiving the #nobelprize #chemnobel @NobelPrize
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An unusual start of our #Fridaygroupseminar with a small surprise for Ben. We just can’t stop celebrating 🥳🍾👏 @maxplanckpress @NobelPrize
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Our first “wooooo” with the Nobel Laureate!!!!#NobelPrize #ChemNobel
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Finally meeting co-laureate Dave @MacMillan_Lab and some wonderful previous graduate students @liuluping9933 @GouverneurGroup at #ACSspring2022 ! @AmerChemSociety @ACSorganic
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Awesome moment for #organicchemists Congratulations to @MacMillan_Lab for the new recognition #ChemNobel #NobelPrize
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Celebrating the cultural diversity of List Lab🎉 #Internationaldinner @maxplanckpress
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A big shout out to our wonderful boss on his latest recognition. He is the recipient of the 2022 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods. Congratulations!! @AmerChemSociety @ACSorganic @cenmag @LifeAtPurdue
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List Lab International Dinner: Celebration of our Diversity
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An awesome week @ListLaboratory 3 awesome work in 2 days Intermolecular Prins Reaction @J_A_C_S Synthesis of Remdesivir nucleoside @angew_chem Harnessing the ambiphilicity of silyl nitronates @NatureCatalysis Celebration of #organocatalysis before the #nobelweek #chemnobel2021
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Congratulations to Vikash, our new Doctor. Best wishes for the future!
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Sorry for being so late here, it took us literally years to get used to all these weird looking radical ions. First Release in @ScienceMagazine today Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Photoredox Catalysis #ACPC @maxplanckpress science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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You are welcome to the jungle, when you know Hindi!
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We are celebrating our 40th doctoral student…Congratulations Marian🍾🎊
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It is our pleasure and pride to be able to work with you Ben. Happy birthday to the most cordial boss!
Happy birthday to our 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List who turns 54 today! Here you can see List with his #NobelPrize medal that he received "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."
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Food brought us together, List lab International Dinner. It’s inventive and creative!
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Our latest paper out in @Nature Catalytic asymmetric cationic shifts of aliphatic hydrocarbons. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Today we had the youngest reporter. Child reporter Antonia (11 years old) took interview of Ben. The conversation will be broadcasted on 9th December at 7:50 pm at the logo! Children’s news from ZDF @NobelPrize @ZDF
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Celebration of Early Stage Organocatalysis 🎉 @ERC_Research
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Ben receives the #NobelPrize tomorrow at Harnack- Haus in Berlin. Join us for 2 livestreams on Dec. 7th Talk show with famous Science Journalist @RangaYogeshwar at 14:00 CET piped.video/watch?v=vMWFk4f7… The ceremonial Presentation at 17:30 CET nobelprize.org/nobel-week-li… @NobelPrize
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The President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Ben today the “Federal Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany” Congratulations Ben! @maxplanckpress Photo credit Steffen Kugler/Bundesregierung
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Our annual Christmas Market visit 🎄
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With or without the Sun, we feel as one..
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Our Institute organized a symposium on Organic synthesis & #catalysis to honor Ben's @NobelPrize We had exciting talks by Prof. Bill Morandi @morandilab Prof. Stephen Buchwald and Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto. A great day of Chemistry! @maxplanckpress Photo credit ©Frank Vinken
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Entering our dragon era…Happy Chinese New Year 🧧
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There’s something special when creative people get together: this time it’s International Dinner with delicious and innovative food.
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Academia meets Industry: A breakthrough catalytic asymmetric synthesis of cannabinoids and menthol from neral in the shortest and most atom-economic route so far @Nature Read the story here: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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The sweetest felicitation by the little ones @KofoZwerge @maxplanckpress @NobelPrize
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Merry everything and happy always🎄❄️
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Congratulations to our 30th and 31st Doctor in our lab!🍾🎉🥳 We wish you all much success in your future endeavors!!
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Celebration of three amazing scientific feats published in @Nature and @ScienceMagazine by our three dazzling colleagues. @huizhou91983288 @JoyceAAGrimm Read the stories here👇 nature.com/articles/s41586-0… science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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The only thing sweeter than union is the reunion: it’s bustling in our seminar room @ICReDDconnect @maxplanckpress @NobuyaTsuji
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Yesterday Ben signed the Nobel Laureates book. The page he is showing is the one with our Kohlenforschung Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler. @maxplanckpress @NobelPrize
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On our way to an exciting seminar trip on a ship.
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We’re looking for a motivated #chempostdoc specialized in #processdevelopment and #flowchemistry with chemical engineering background. @Chemjobber Full job offer in the link👇 kofo.mpg.de/979218/Postdoc-C…
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Are you an expert in #biocatalysis? If so, join our motivated group as our new project leader. @Chemjobber Full job offer in the link👇 mpg.de/23504913/project-lead…
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Congratulations to our new doctorate Benni Mitschke!
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Absolutely spot on! Congratulations Mathias on your well deserved doctorate 🎉
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We at #NobelPrize symposium to honor Ben. It was great to welcome our alumni back in Mülheim @maxplanckpress
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We are so happy you made it to the top. Congratulations to our newly minted PhD @JoyceAAGrimm
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#boattrip! A little time out from lab..
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Congratulations Dr. Joyce Grimm @JoyceAAGrimm on receiving the prestigious Otto-Hahn-Medal! We are very proud of you. @maxplanckpress
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A perfect end to a long year…Our way to spread Christmas cheer🎄🎅✨
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Another PhD Viva Voce is done. Congratulations to Yihang Li🎊🍾
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Behind the scenes of #nobellaureate documentary filmed by Swedish Television #chemnobel
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So it actually is possible to have a seminar trip NOT on a boat.
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Congratulations to you @ManuelJScharf on your successful defense! Best wishes for your future endeavors.
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Another awesome defense today. Congratulations Sebastian!
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Back from an awesome Boat Trip. We rather be safe than sorry. #FullyVaccinated group
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The celebration 🎉 Cheers to the boss and to the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes…
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We never used light before, we wonder why?!
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Congratulations David @MrMannich on your hard-earned Doctorate degree! May this be the stepping stone of your future endeavors .
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Exciting lecture by Jordi Bures @BuresGroup visiting our institute #MPIKOFO today
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It was a long journey to cyclize homofarnesol to ambrox…We can finally report this challenging polyene cyclization in @Nature Read the full story here rdcu.be/dPAyv
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It’s the most beautiful time of the year! Christmas Market visit of the List Lab🎄❄️
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If you missed Ben’s #NobelPrize lecture..
“The beauty of catalysis is that it’s a very important technology, some would say the most important technology that we have on the planet for humanity.” - chemistry laureate Benjamin List in his #NobelPrize lecture. Find his full lecture here: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemis…
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Warmest congratulations to our PostDoc Roberta on receiving the 2020 #ErnstHaagePreis für Doktoranden! Well done!🥳 @mpicec_press @maxplanckpress Photo credit ©Thomas Hobirk\MPI
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Celebrating 25 years of ListLab at schloss-ringberg.de with exciting seminars, quiz, hiking and good mood #listlab25 @maxplanckpress @ICReDDconnect @NobuyaTsuji
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Had an amazing boat trip with the gang-Sails up, worries down. Teamwork flowed as smoothly as the waves. 🌊⛵ #TeamBuilding #SailingVibes #WorkHardPlayHard
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Are you courageous enough to work on an equally challenging and rewarding project? Come join us to split CO2 into its elements! Join our enthusiastic team as a postdoc or PhD student. Learn more about the fascinating science funded by #WSS in the link 👇 wernersiemens-stiftung.ch/de…
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Tonight (22:35) Ben will be guest @sterntv Some behind the scene pictures of tonight’s feature @maxplanckpress
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A warm reunion @ China: Reunion symposium organized by Zhipeng Zhang at East China University of Science and Technology and a boat trip with our Chinese alumni on the Yangtze river in Shanghai. @liuluping9933 @Zhangpinglu
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We wondered is it possible to use an established nucleophile as an electrophile? To know more, check out our another awesome paper published today @NatureCatalysis towards the synthesis of aliphatic β3-amino acids. nature.com/articles/s41929-0…
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Ben comments on the discussions around our ALC315 work- Not a scandal but a step forward. #ScienceNews #Chemistry #Healthtech
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Nobel Lab 360°! Take a virtual tour of our lab. We enjoyed making it @lindaunobel @maxplanckpress mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org…
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We are happy to report our dream aldol reaction! @sciencemagazine This project took literally a decade to come to fruition and tonight we celebrate our star graduate student Lucas! science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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A little something to celebrate 🎉 this time it’s Ben’s 20th year at our truly outstanding institute-MPI KOFO @maxplanckpress
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We will all miss Bob Grubbs, a brilliant, humorous, and kind chemist and a great friend of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, where he has been a visiting scientist in 1975.@ben_list @CornellaLab @morandilab @NobuyaTsuji @FrancescaMandr1
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We are having a fantastic time at the 3rd LIST platform symposium in Mülheim, filled with inspiring talks, engaging discussions and lots of fun! Huge thanks to everyone who made it such a memorable event. #LISTPlatform #catalysis @ICReDDconnect @maxplanckpress
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The European Chemical Society (@EuChemS) honoured Karl Ziegler’s workplace in Mülheim, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung as a Historical Landmark. @GDCh_aktuell @maxplanckpress @SocChimIta
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We are happy to see that our article about #Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Si-Stereogenic Silyl Ethers is the most read article in @J_A_C_S in the last 30 days! @huizhou91983288
Now one of our most read publications in the last 30 days; check out "#Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Si-Stereogenic Silyl Ethers" @ListLaboratory @ben_list #OpenAccess 🔓 go.acs.org/1Ml
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Traditionally, the Nobel Ceremony takes place on 10th of December every year, the day of Alfred Nobel’s death. This year it will be a virtual ceremony. Stay tuned for the 2021 #NobelPrize award ceremony tomorrow! @NobelPrize nobelprize.org/nobel-week-li…
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Today we had a special guest at our Institute: Prof. Barry Trost, enjoyed an inspiring talk on total synthesis @maxplanckpress @ritter_lab
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