Dydio Research Group

Dr Pawel Dydio

University Assistant Professor

PhD Opportunities
We welcome motivated and creative candidates interested in joining the Dydio Lab to pursue a PhD starting in October 2026. For further information about available projects and application procedures, please contact pd552@cam.ac.uk.

Research

The Dydio group is researching new ways to improve the efficiency and capacity of organic synthesis.

Areas of interest include:

  • Complex Networks of Reactions
  • Mechanism-based design of new transformations
  • Advancing key industrial processes driven by elucidating their mechanistic features

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Publications

Dehomologative C-C Borylation of Aldehydes and Alcohols via a Rh-Catalyzed Dehydroformylation-Borylation Relay
K Das, N Kuźnik, P Dydio
J Am Chem Soc
(2025)
147
(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c02181)
Dual relay Rh-/Pd-catalysis enables β-C(sp3)-H arylation of α-substituted amines.
S Li, S Yahaya, J Bojanowski, G Ragazzon, P Dydio
Chem Sci
(2025)
16
(doi: 10.1039/d4sc06806h)
Multi‐Stimuli‐Responsive Network of Multicatalytic Reactions using a Single Palladium/Platinum Catalyst
G Kurpik, A Walczak, P Dydio, AR Stefankiewicz
Angewandte Chemie
(2024)
136
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202404684)
Photoinduced Cu(II)-Mediated Decarboxylative Thianthrenation of Aryl and Heteroaryl Carboxylic Acids.
Z He, P Dydio
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2024)
63
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202410616)
A Merger of Relay Catalysis with Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Enables Enantioselective β‐C(sp3)−H Arylation of Alcohols
B Lainer, S Li, F Mammadova, P Dydio
Angewandte Chemie
(2024)
136
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202408418)
A Merger of Relay Catalysis with Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Enables Enantioselective β-C(sp3)-H Arylation of Alcohols.
B Lainer, S Li, F Mammadova, P Dydio
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2024)
63
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202408418)
Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Network of Multicatalytic Reactions using a Single Palladium/Platinum Catalyst
G Kurpik, A Walczak, P Dydio, AR Stefankiewicz
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2024)
63
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202404684)
Variable structure diversification by multicatalysis: the case of alcohols
B Lainer, K Das, P Dydio
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2023)
59
(doi: 10.1039/d3cc00551h)
Multicatalysis enables turning plastic waste into chemical commodities
S Martínez, P Dydio
Trends in Chemistry
(2023)
5
(doi: 10.1016/j.trechm.2023.02.002)
Iodide-Assisted Pd Catalysis as an Attractive Alternative to Rh Catalysis for the Industrially Relevant Isoselective Hydroformylation of Simple Aliphatic Alkenes
P Dydio, Y Zhang, M Sigrist, S Martínez, J Bojanowski, C Antheaume, JM Granda
Synlett
(2023)
34
(doi: 10.1055/a-2012-4754)

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01223 336403

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pd552@cam.ac.uk
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
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CB2 1EW
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