Dr. Patrick Schanen

Organization, preparation, supervision and grading of final year examination of lab technician apprentices in both parts of the canton (German and French)

Process development (project leader and chemist): - multi-step syntheses from gram- to multi-ton scale - complex processes with multiple production plants involved Process optimization (project leader and chemist): Optimization of commercial processes using - chemical knowledge - statistics - design of experiments - multivariate data analysis Working with teams in Europe, the US and China Instructor - teaching the basics of chemistry to shift workers

Project: Chiral 1,3-diethynylallenes - new building blocks for enantiopure macrocycles and oligomers - Asymmetric synthesis of 1,3-diethylallenes - Racemic synthesis followed by separation of the enantiomers by simulated moving bed chromatography

Project: Synthesis of inhibitors of the bacterial cell wall transglycosidase - Synthesis of potential carbohydrate based antibiotics - carbohydrate chemistry - peptide chemistry - click chemistry Safety officer