Kasia's paper on a sulfate-binding macrocycle that amplifies NH acidity is out in Angewandte.
![TOC graphic showing a naphthalimide-fused cyclo[8]pyrrole whose acidity is attenuated by sulfate binding.](/images/publications/angew2026ksz.png)
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Milestones in the history of StępieńLab
2026
Marcin's invited talk at XXIV International Conference on Organic Synthesis.
Cynthia receives an MSc.
Marcin's invited talk at Kwantowy Wiek.
Agata and Liliia's latest work explores the redox and acid–base switching of indene-annulated perylenes, now in Chemical Science.
Kamil receives an MSc.
Marcin's invited talk at CARS-IBS and University of Wrocław Joint Seminar.
Marcin's invited talk at XII Polish–Korean Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
Monika joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Marcin's invited talk at IRTG 2678 Münster-Nagoya Seminar Series.
Bibek receives a PhD.
Our NCN OPUS 29 project on spin frustration in molecular nanocarbons gets under way.
Lona joins Arseni's NCN SONATA project as a postdoc.
2025
Jędrek joins the group as a PhD student.
Julia receives a BSc.
Marcin's invited talk at 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity.
Marcin becomes an associate editor of Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
Our joint paper with Harapriya Rath's group on a sulfur-rich expanded porphyrin and its rhodium complex appears in ChemistryEurope.
Ksenia receives a BSc.
Mykyta receives a BSc.
Our review of multistage organic redox systems is out in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
Arseni returns to the lab with an NCN SONATA 20 project on aryne cyclotrimerization, open-shell materials, and molecular recognition.
Our lab at 23rd European Symposium on Organic Chemistry: 4 posters.
Marcin's invited talk at SFB1249 Seminar Series.
Cezary receives an MSc.
Marcin's keynote at ChemDay @ WUST.
Marcin's plenary lecture at 1st Polish Symposium on Functional π-Systems.
Cynthia joins Marcin Majewski's NCN SONATA project as a student.
Julia joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Marcin becomes president-elect of ESOC's International Scientific Committee.
Marcin becomes a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
2024
Marcin's invited talk at 3rd Advances in Precision Carbon Nanostructures.
Rafał and Senthil's latest work explores luminescent viologen–cycloparaphenylene hybrids, now in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
New in Angewandte: Agata's work on heptannulated perylene diimides.
Marcin's invited talk at Oddział Wrocławski Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
Kamil joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Rakesh's paper on cross-shaped pentacosacyclenes is out in Chemical Science.
Kundan joins Marcin Majewski's NCN SONATA project as a postdoc.
Marcin's plenary lecture at 23rd Molecular Crystals Conference.
Marcin's invited talk at 3rd International Conference on Excited State Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity.
Szymon receives an MSc.
Ksenia joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Mykyta joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Marcin's invited talk at International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.
Arseni's latest work explores triindenotriphenylenes, now in Angewandte.
Michał receives a BSc.
New in Chemical Science: Bibek and Tendai's work on difluorenoheteroles with tunable electronic structures.
Our lab at XII Polish–Korean Symposium on Organic Chemistry: 2 talks.
Marcin's invited talk at Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sunit's paper on the hierarchical self-assembly of curved aromatics is out in Angewandte.
2023
Ankit joins the group as a postdoc.
Ishfaq joins the group as a postdoc.
Our lab at Beilstein Symposium on π-Conjugated Molecules and Materials: 1 talk and 1 poster.
Ankit joins the group as a postdoc.
Szymon joins the group as an MSc student.
Cezary joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Michał joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Daniel receives a PhD.
Marcin's invited talk at Chirality@The Nanoscale 2023.
Bibek and Madan's latest work explores a sterically frustrated open-shell alkene, now in Nature Chemistry.
Marcin's invited talk at European Symposium on Organic Reactivity.
Tendai receives an MSc.
New in Chemistry—A European Journal: Daniel's work on π-extended hexapyrrolylbenzenes.
Arseni's paper on dinor[7]helicenes is out in Angewandte.
![TOC image for Dinor[7]helicene and Beyond: Divergent Synthesis of Chiral Diradicaloids with Variable Open-Shell Character](/images/publications/angew2023ab.png)
Marcin Majewski's NCN SONATA 18 project on covalent templates for large aromatic macrocycles gets under way.
Collins receives an MSc.
Collins joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Tendai joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Our NCN OPUS 24 project on electron-deficient cyclophanes and annulenes gets under way.
Gabriela receives a BSc.
Karol receives a BSc.
Marcin's invited talk at From Carbon-Rich Molecules to Carbon-Based Materials III.
Daria receives a BSc.
Our collaboration with Leszek Marynowski's group on plant-polysaccharide remnants preserved in ancient xylites appears in Chemical Geology.
Marcin Majewski's IDUB UWr project on dendrimer-templated aromatic macrocycles gets under way.
Marcin receives the Foundation for Polish Science Prize.
Marcin joins the editorial advisory board of Chemistry—A European Journal.
Marcin represents Central Europe on ESOC's International Scientific Committee.
2022
Marcin's invited talk at Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH.
Marcin's invited talk at National Taiwan University.
Piotr joins the group as a PhD student.
Marcin's invited talk at XVIII Warszawskie Seminarium Doktorantów Chemików.
Ewelina receives a PhD.
Tomasz receives an MSc.
New in Angewandte: Rakesh's work on tridecacyclene tetraimide.
Our lab at International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds: 1 talk and 6 posters.
Our collaboration with Ludovic Favereau and Juan Casado on the chiroptics of a molecular lemniscate appears in Angewandte.
Liliia receives a PhD.
Sunit and Yogesh's latest work explores a donor–acceptor heterodimer assembled by self-sorting, now in Nature Communications.
Our review of emerging uses of curved aromatic compounds is out in Trends in Chemistry.
Asia's paper on acenaphthylene-fused ullazines is out in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
Marcin's invited talk at Hessian Main Group Seminar Series.
Yogesh's latest work explores naphthalimide-fused dipyrrins, now in Advanced Science.
Marcin's invited talk at Institut de Chimie, Université de Strasbourg.
New in Angewandte: Shiva and Yogesh's work on switchable helicity in NIR-absorbing porphyrin–ryleneimides.
Marcin joins the international advisory board of Angewandte.
2021
Our review of heterocyclic nanographenes and related polycyclic heteroaromatics is out in Chemical Reviews.
Fresh from lab: acenaphthotriazoles and their Kuratowski complexes, in Chemistry—A European Journal.
![TOC image for Acenaphtho[1,2-d][1,2,3]triazole and Its Kuratowski Complex: A π-Extended Tecton for Supramolecular and Coordinative Self-Assembly](/images/publications/chemeurj2022kk.png)
Marcin's invited talk at Frameworks for Functional π Systems (II).
Marcin's invited talk at Modern Organic Synthesis Symposium.
Agata joins the group as a PhD student.
Kasia joins the group as a PhD student.
Marcin's invited talk at Lechosław Latos-Grażyński 70th Birthday Symposium.
New in Angewandte: Bibek's work on a coronoid with hybrid Chichibabin–Schlenk conjugation.
Our collaboration with Leszek Marynowski's group on hemicellulose remnants in sedimentary organic matter appears in Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta.
Marcin's invited talk at 11th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.
Madan joins the group as a postdoc.
Marcin's award lecture at Wydział III Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
Marcin becomes head of the Department of Organic Chemistry at UWr.
Marcin joins the editorial advisory board of Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
2020
Rakesh joins the group as a postdoc.
Dominika joins the group as a PhD student.
Wai-Shing joins the group as a postdoc.
Oleksandr receives a BSc.
Sunit and Yogesh's latest work explores porphyrin–ryleneimide hybrids, now in Organic Letters.
New in JACS: Rafał's work on a curved receptor nicknamed the molecular squid.
Arseni joins the group as a postdoc.
Ewelina's paper on porphyrin–ryleneimide energy-transfer cassettes is out in Chem. Asian J.
Our NCN OPUS 18 project on open-shell molecular nanocarbons gets under way.
Fresh from lab: electropolymerized pyrrole–perimidine hybrids, in J. Phys. Chem. C.
New in Beilstein J. Org. Chem.: Liliia and Marika's work on bipyrrole boomerangs made by tandem cyclization–oxygenation.
Marcin's invited talk at Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.
Our NCN BEETHOVEN 3 collaboration with Dirk Volkmer on electric-field-responsive aromatic framework materials gets under way.
Liliia and Marika's paper on an aromatic nanosandwich built around a π-radical is out in JACS.
Fresh from lab: π-extended porphyrins for antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation, in Chemistry—A European Journal.
A new set of lab photos.
Marcin receives the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Prize from the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Marcin chairs the Chemical Sciences Discipline Council at UWr.
2019
Marcin's invited talk at Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University.
Marcin's invited talk at 19th Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry.
Marcin's award lecture at Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo.
New in J. Org. Chem.: Maksim and Halina's work on electrophilic coupling of hexapyrrolylbenzenes.
Marcin's invited talk at 5th Erlangen Symposium on Synthetic Carbon Allotropes.
Marcin's invited talk at Matinée scientifique UTO-π.
Marcin's invited talk at 17th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity.
Marcin's invited talk at 62. Zjazd Naukowy Polskiego Towarzystwa Chemicznego.
Our collaboration with Sigurd Höger and Stefan-S. Jester on arylene–alkynylene nanopatterns on graphite appears in Beilstein J. Org. Chem.
Our lab at 18th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds: 1 talk and 3 posters.
Marcin's invited talk at ITbM-GTR Pre-ISNA.
Elena receives an MSc.
Giuseppe receives an MSc.
Marcin's invited talk at European Symposium of Organic Chemistry.
Marcin's invited talk at International Workshop on Chemistry and Applications of Organic Chromophores.
Marcin's talk at Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers.
Yogendra joins the group as a postdoc.
Marcin's invited talk at Workshop on Progress in Nanotechnology and Optoelectronics.
Senthil and Mateusz's latest work explores a lemniscular cycloparaphenylene, now in JACS.
![TOC image for Lemniscular [16]Cycloparaphenylene: A Radially Conjugated Figure-Eight Aromatic Molecule](/images/publications/jacs2019ks.png)
Marcin's poster at 3rd Interdisciplinary FNP Conference.
Our NCN OPUS 15 project on fold-in synthesis of curved aromatics gets under way.
New in Chemical Science: Marcin Majewski's work on a curved open-shell hydrocarbon.
![TOC image for 5,10-Dimesityldiindeno[1,2-a:2′,1′-i]phenanthrene: a stable biradicaloid derived from Chichibabin's hydrocarbon](/images/publications/chemsci2019mam.png)
Maksim and Halina's paper on chiral heteroaromatic propellers with narrow optical gaps is out in Angewandte.
Bibek begins his PhD studies in the group.
Matthias joins the group as a visiting student.
Marcin receives the University of Tokyo's Zasshikai Lectureship.
Marcin becomes a full professor at the University of Wrocław.
Marcin joins the Scientific Council of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, PAN.
2018
Marcin's invited talk at Singapore International Chemistry Conference.
Shiva joins the group as a postdoc.
Sunit joins the group as a postdoc.
Bibek receives an MSc.
Marcin's award lecture at Universität Würzburg.
Our FNP TEAM project on donor–acceptor oligopyrroles gets under way.
Marcin's award lecture at Universität Freiburg.
Marcin's award lecture at Universität Kiel.
Marcin Majewski receives a PhD.
Marcin's award lecture at Universität Ulm.
Marcin's award lecture at Universität Bonn.
Marcin's award lecture at Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, MPIP.
Yogesh joins the group as a postdoc.
Marcin's invited talk at 11th Korea–Poland Joint Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
Marcin's invited talk at Universität Zürich.
Hania and Marcin Majewski's latest work explores a fully conjugated chrysaorene, now in JACS.
![TOC image for Fully Conjugated [4]Chrysaorene. Redox-Coupled Anion Binding in a Tetraradicaloid Macrocycle](/images/publications/jacs2018hg.jpg)
Daniel joins the group as a PhD student.
Marcin's invited talk at Third International Symposium on the Synthesis and Application of Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials.
Marcin's invited talk at University of Bath.
Liliia's NCN PRELUDIUM 14 project on double C–H activation in oligopyrrole synthesis gets under way.
Michela receives an MSc.
A new review from the lab: molecular bowls, hoops, and saddles, in Angewandte.
Klaudia receives a BSc.
Marika receives a PhD.
Liliia receives an MSc.
Halina's paper on carbocyclization routes to electron-deficient nanographenes is out in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
Marcin's invited talk at German-Polish-Baltic Conference on Organic Chemistry.
Our lab at XI Ogólnopolskie Sympozjum Chemii Organicznej: 2 talks.
Marika and Liliia's latest work explores double C–H activation in bipyrrole-boomerang synthesis, now in J. Org. Chem.
New in Chemistry—A European Journal: Marika and Liliia's work on electron-deficient bipyrrole boomerangs.
A few keepsake photos of the 2018 team.
Marcin receives the Liebig Lectureship from the German Chemical Society.
Marcin receives a research excellence award from the Ministry of Science.
2017
Hania receives an MSc.
Rafał joins the group as a PhD student.
Marcin's invited talk at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
Marcin's invited talk at CNC Young Investigator Seminar Series.
Marcin's plenary lecture at Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers. New Horizons in Functional π-Systems.
Senthil joins the group as a postdoc.
Our lab at 17th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics: 1 talk and 4 posters.
Our collaboration with Harapriya Rath's group on an ethynylene-linked figure-eight octaphyrin appears in J. Org. Chem.
Marcin's invited talk at International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules.
Marcin's invited talk at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Elżbieta receives a PhD.
Jola joins the group as a postdoc.
A few keepsake photos of the 2017 team.
Liliia joins the group as an MSc student.
Marta joins the group as a researcher.
2016
Our collaboration with Harapriya Rath and Dongho Kim on protonation-controlled topology in a core-modified hexaphyrin appears in J. Org. Chem.
New in Angewandte: Marika and Halina's work on an electron-deficient azacoronene made by radial π-extension.
Marcin's invited talk at Polish-German Conference on Organic Chemistry.
Marcin Majewski's paper on octulene is out in Angewandte.
Asia begins her PhD studies in the group.
Maksim joins the group as a postdoc.
Marcin's invited talk at 2nd International Symposium on the Synthesis and Application of Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials.
Marcin Majewski's NCN PRELUDIUM 10 project on fold-in synthesis of coronoid nanographenes gets under way.
Halina's latest work explores band-gap engineering in π-extended pyrroles, now in JACS.
Marika's NCN PRELUDIUM 10 project on oligomeric azagraphenoids gets under way.
Asia receives an MSc.
Our NCN OPUS 10 project on heterocyclic nanotube end-caps gets under way.
Our review of heterocyclic nanographenes and related polycyclic heteroaromatics is out in Chemical Reviews.
Marcin's invited talk at 10th Poland–Korea Joint Organic Chemistry Conference.
Marcin's invited talk at Wrocław University of Science and Technology.
Marcin's invited talk at ETH Zürich.
Our collaboration with Małgorzata Czichy and Mieczysław Łapkowski on the electrooxidation of 3,4-diarylpyrroles appears in Electrochimica Acta.
Damian receives a PhD.
Marcin becomes vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Chemistry, UWr.
2015
Ewelina begins her PhD studies in the group.
Marika and Elżbieta's latest work explores a peripherally conjugated 5–6–7 nanographene, now in Chemical Science.
Elżbieta's NCN PRELUDIUM 8 project on expanded azacoronenes gets under way.
New in Chemical Communications: Marcin Majewski's work on chrysaorenes.
Hania receives a BSc.
Ewelina receives an MSc.
Our lab at 16th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds: 1 talk and 6 posters.
Damian's paper on stereoselective Wittig macrocyclization is out in J. Org. Chem.
Halina joins the group as a postdoc.
Our NCN OPUS 7 project on fused pyrrole-based aromatics gets under way.
Rafik joins the group as a postdoc.
Marcin is promoted to associate professor at the University of Wrocław.
StępieńLab is established as an independent research group at the Faculty of Chemistry, UWr.
2014
Damian and Mateusz's latest work explores highly strained nonclassical nanotube end-caps, now in JACS.
Marcin's invited talk at 9th Poland–Korea Joint Conference on Organic Chemistry.
New in JACS: Elżbieta's work on expanded hexapyrrolohexaazacoronenes.
Mateusz and Damian's paper on fold-in synthesis of heteroaromatic belts is out in Chemistry—A European Journal.
Marika begins her PhD studies in the group.
Marcin's invited talk at Molecular Complexity in Modern Chemistry.
Marika receives an MSc.
2013
Marcin's invited talk at π-Space, IMS.
Mateusz begins his PhD studies in the group.
Marcin Majewski begins his PhD studies in the group.
Damian's NCN PRELUDIUM 4 project on chrysaoroles gets under way.
Our NCN SONATA BIS 2 project on π-aromatics on hyperbolic planes gets under way.
Elżbieta and Damian's latest work explores tandem Scholl synthesis of bis(phenanthropyrroles), now in J. Org. Chem.
Marcin Majewski receives an MSc.
2012
New in Angewandte: Damian's work on the fold-in route to bowl-shaped aromatics.
Ela begins her PhD studies in the group.
Damian's paper on peripherally fused porphyrins is out in JACS.
Marcin joins the Young Academy of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
2011
Damian begins his PhD studies in the group.
Our MNiSW project on tubular π-aromatic compounds gets under way.
Damian receives an MSc.
Marcin receives a habilitation award from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
2010
Marcin's habilitation
Marcin receives his habilitation at the University of Wrocław, marking the starting point of this timeline.
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