Dr Pawel Dydio | Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

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

Watch Dr Dydio discuss his research

Publications

Regio- and Enantioselective Alkoxycarbonylation of Unactivated Terminal Alkenes under Palladium-Bromide-Monophosphine Catalysis.

M Sigrist, K Das, G Kurpik, W Tian, J Huang, A Covas, AD Bond, W Tang, P Dydio

J Am Chem Soc

(2026)

148

26960

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.6c10237)

Dehomologative C–C Borylation of Aldehydes and Alcohols via a Rh-Catalyzed Dehydroformylation–Borylation Relay

P Dydio

Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2025)

147

16735

(doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c02181)

Dual relay Rh-/Pd-catalysis enables β-C(sp 3 )–H arylation of α-substituted amines

S Li, S Yahaya, J Bojanowski, G Ragazzon, P Dydio

Chemical Science

(2025)

16

4167

(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 Edition

(2024)

63

e202410616

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202410616)

A Merger of Relay Catalysis with Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Enables Enantioselective β‐C(sp 3 )−H Arylation of Alcohols

B Lainer, S Li, F Mammadova, P Dydio

Angewandte Chemie

(2024)

136

(doi: 10.1002/ange.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

e202404684

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202404684)

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

e202408418

(doi: 10.1002/anie.202408418)

Variable structure diversification by multicatalysis: the case of alcohols.

B Lainer, K Das, P Dydio

Chemical Communications

(2023)

59

4716

(doi: 10.1039/d3cc00551h)

Multicatalysis enables turning plastic waste into chemical commodities

S Martínez, P Dydio

Trends in Chemistry

(2023)

5

249

(doi: 10.1016/j.trechm.2023.02.002)