Kilian Colas
Project Assistant Professor
- City/country of origin
- Rouen, France
- Hobbies
- Board-games, tennis, reading, music, travelling and just walking around
- Places You Like
- Any lake in Sweden during summer
- What are your strong points?
- I’m very optimistic, easy-going and a good listener
- Music: what is some intense music for intense lab work?
- Either a Nightwish playlist, or an endless loop of “Megalovania”
- What was surprising about the suga lab
- The amount and diversity of projects going on!
- Original motivation towards science?
- a mixture of curiosity and luck, probably
- A few words for future lab mates
- Welcome!
- Science is…….
- a way to look at the world, realize there’s a lot we don’t know, and try to figure things out
Education & professional career
- 2019-2021
- Postdoc, Organic Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
- 2014-2019
- PhD, Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 2012-2013
- Master’s thesis at Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Drug Discovery Chemistry Department, Basel, Switzerland
- 2008-2013
- MSc & Engineer’s degree, Chemical Engineering & Process, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Rouen, France
Publications
- "Direct Addition of Grignard Reagents to Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids Enabled by Bulky turbo-Organomagnesium Anilides."
- K. Colas; A.C. V. D. dos Santos; S.V. Kohlhepp; A. Mendoza
- Chemistry – A European Journal, 28, e202104053 (2022)
- "Indolylbenzothiadiazoles as highly tunable fluorophores for imaging lipid droplet accumulation in astrocytes and glioblastoma cells."
- K. Colas; K.O. Holmberg; L. Chiang; S. Doloczki; F.J. Swartling; C. Dyrager
- RSC Advances, 11, 23960-23967 (2021)
- "Prevalent Bioimaging Scaffolds: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Applications."
- K. Colas; S. Doloczki; M. Posada Urrutia; C. Dyrager
- European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021, 2133-2144 (2021)
- "Photophysical Characteristics of Polarity-Sensitive and Lipid Droplet-Specific Phenylbenzothiadiazoles."
- K. Colas; S. Doloczki; A. Kesidou; L. Sainero-Alcolado; A. Rodriguez-Garcia; M. Arsenian-Henriksson; C. Dyrager
- ChemPhotoChem, 5, 632-643 (2021)
- "i-Pr2NMgCl·LiCl Enables the Synthesis of Ketones by Direct Addition of Grignard Reagents to Carboxylate Anions."
- K. Colas; A.C.V.D. dos Santos; A. Mendoza
- Organic Letters, 21, 7908-7913 (2019)
- "Iterative Synthesis of Pluripotent Thioethers through Controlled Redox Fluctuation of Sulfur."
- K. Colas; A. Mendoza
- Synlett, 29, 1329-1333 (2018)
- "Intermolecular Pummerer Coupling with Carbon Nucleophiles in Non-Electrophilic Media."
- K. Colas; R. Martín-Montero; A. Mendoza
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56, 16042-16046 (2017)
- "Structure–Activity Relationship, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Properties Optimization, and in Vivo Studies of New Brain Penetrant Triple T-Type Calcium Channel Blockers."
- R. Siegrist; D. Pozzi; G. Jacob; C. Torrisi; K. Colas; B. Braibant; J. Mawet; T. Pfeifer; R. de Kanter; C. Roch; M. Kessler; O. Corminboeuf; O. Bezençon
- Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 59, 10661-10675 (2016)
- "Chemical Innovation through Ligand Total Synthesis."
- A. Mendoza; K. Colas; S. Suárez-Pantiga; D.C.G. Götz; M.J. Johansson
- Synlett, 27, 1753-1759 (2016)
- "Scalable Synthesis of Piperazines Enabled by Visible-Light Irradiation and Aluminum Organometallics."
- S. Suárez-Pantiga; K. Colas; M.J. Johansson; A. Mendoza
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54, 14094-14098 (2015)
Contact info
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- E-mail… colas"at"g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (change "at" to @)
