Thanks to The National Centre for Research and Development projects (POWR.03.02.00-00-I023/17 and POWR.03.02.00-00-I026/16) two of our PhD students – Katarzyna Mituła and Julia Duszczak had an opportunity to participate in a scientific internship (1.11.2019-31.01.2020) under the supervision of Prof. Carmela Aprile and PhD Andrea Santiago Portillo at the University of Namur (Faculty of Chemistry and Department of Laboratory of Applied Materials Chemistry (CMA)). During these three months, Katarzyna and Julia explored the application of Heck coupling and the Sonogashira process that are ubiquitous with organosilicon frameworks. These reactions were tested in the modification of difunctionalized double-decker silsesquioxanes synthesized in our group with terpyridine derivatives.

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