Smart Organic Materials research group
Smart Organic Materials group
Welcome to the website of the Smart Organic Materials group at the Department of Organic Chemistry, UCT Prague! For details on our research areas, please check the Research section.
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News
17/09/2026
New paper on determination of enantiomers of deschloroketamine and its metabolites is out!
A joint research team of our group and BAFA laboratory, led by Natalie Paškanová, has successfully characterized respective enantiomers of a dissociative psychoactive substance deschloroketamine and its metabolic products using SFC-MS/MS and capillary zone electrophoresis with UV detection in rat brain tissue.
Paškanová, N.; Hrubá, V.; Frühauf, P.; Jurásek, B.; Kuchař, M.; Řezanka, P.; Kohout, M. Determination of enantiomers of deschloroketamine and its metabolites in Wistar rat brains. J. Sep. Sci. 2026, 49, e70503.
Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1002/jssc.70503
26/06/2026
Magdaléna Labíková received the Special Prize of the Czech Chemical Society as part of the Jean-Marie Lehn Prize in Chemistry 2026!
We are very proud of our Ph.D. student Magdaléna for her magnificent, well-deserved achievement!
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22/06/2026
Our research was featured on the cover of JACS Au!
A joint research led by Lukáš Tomaník from the Department of Physical Chemistry, with participation of Jiří Tůma, that was recently published in the JACS Au journal was selected for the cover of the given journal issue.
Tomaník L., Tůma J., Öhrwall G., Nguyen N. L. L., Credidio B., Slavíček P., Winter B., Schewe H. C.: JACS Au 2026, 6, 3349-3355.
Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.6c00377
17/06/2026
Magdaléna Labíková received two poster prizes at the Chiranal 2026 conference!
Magdaléna’s excellent work was appreciated by both the official conference committee and the Watrex company. For her astonishing poster presentation, she received prizes for 3rd and 2nd place, respectively.
15/06/2026
The joint team of our group and Galochrom representatives is attending the Chiranal 2026 conference!
Prof. Michal Kohout, Magdaléna Labíková, and Adam Pospíšil were joined by Galochrom’s CEO Martin Král and COO Jiří Tůma at the Advances in Chromatography and Electrophoresis – Chiranal 2026 in Olomouc.
