Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Radek Cibulka, Ph.D.
(ID: H-1298-2016, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8584-7715)
Career summary:
1996 M.Sc. University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague), Czech Republic
2002 Ph.D. with F. Liška, Department of Organic Chemistry, UCT Prague, Czech Republic
2003 post-doc with B. König, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany
2004 Assistant professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, UCT Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Associate Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, UCT Prague, Czech Republic
since 2017 Full professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, UCT Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests; Photoredox catalysis; Catalysis in redox reactions; Flavin-based redox and photoactive systems; Biomimetic reactions; Heterocyclic chemistry; Electrocatalysis; Flavoenzymes
Selected projects since 2020:
2019 – 2021 Organic photoredox catalysis in reductive transformations: new area for flavin derivatives
2021 – 2023 Novel umpolung strategy using flavin covalent organocatalysis
2021 – 2023 Tailoring flavins for organic photocatalysis
2023 – 2025 Merging photochemistry and electrochemistry in flavin-based redox catalysis
2024 – 2026 Photoredox catalysis with organic anions – perspective area for flavin derivatives
Education:
Lectures in Retrosynthesis (2011-now); Organic chemistry (2011-now); courses in Laboratory of organic chemistry (2011 – 2015); co-author of internet portal for education of organic chemistry (2011 – 2012); Supervisor of 13 Ph.D. thesis (8 finished, 5 ongoing), 26 diploma thesis and 25 bachelor thesis (finished).
Selected papers in catalysis and photoredox catalysis since 2020:
- Cibulka R.*: Strong chemical reducing agents produced by light Nature 2020, 580, 31-32.
- Graml A., Neveselý T., Kutta R.-J.*, Cibulka R.*, König B.*: Deazaflavin reductive photocatalysis involves excited semiquinone radicals Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 3174.
- Tolba A. H., Krupička M., Chudoba J., Cibulka R.*: Amide bond formation via aerobic photooxidative coupling of alde-hydes with amines catalyzed by a riboflavin derivative Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 6825.
- Pavlovska T., Král Lesný D., Svobodová E., Hoskovcová I., Archipowa N., Kutta R. J.*, Cibulka R.*: Tuning Deazaflavins Towards Highly Potent Reducing Photocatalysts Guided by Mechanistic Understanding - Enhancement of the Key Step by the Internal Heavy Atom Effect. Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e20220076. Hot Paper.
- Obertík R., Chudoba J., Šturala J., Tarábek J., Ludvíková L., Slanina T., König B., Cibulka R.*: Highly Chemoselective Catalytic Photooxidations by Using Solvent as a Sacrificial Electron Acceptor Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202202487. VIP.
- Pavlovska T., Weisheitelová I., Pramthaisong C., Sikorski M., Jahn U., Cibulka R.*: Primary and Secondary Amines by Flavin‐Photocatalyzed Consecutive Desulfonylation and Dealkylation of Sulfonamides. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2023, 365, 4662.
- Venkatraman R. K., Hassan Tolba A., Solling T., Cibulka R., El-Zohry A.*: Ultrafast Events of Photoexcited Iron(III)chloride for Activation of Benzylic C–H Bonds. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 6202.
- Weisheitelová I., Varma N., Chudoba J., Burdziński G., Sikorski M., Cibulka R.*: Catalyst-free aerobic photooxidation of sensitive benzylic alcohols with chemoselectivity controlled by DMSO solvent. Green Chem. 2024, 26, 4880.
- Pavlovska T., Havlík M., Labíková M., Cibulka R.*: Biomimetic Orthogonal Removal of Arylacyl Protecting Groupsfrom the C-Terminus of Substituted Amino Acids andOligopeptides via Flavin N(5)-iminium Covalent Adducts. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2025, accepted. DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202401556
Book Editor:
- Cibulka R., Fraaije M. W., Eds.: Flavin-Based Catalysis, Principles and Application, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2021; Print ISBN:9783527348343; Online ISBN:9783527830138; DOI:10.1002/9783527830138 + 3 chapters in this book.
Awards:
1996 Prize of Josef Hlavka from Hlavka’s Foundation
2002 Unipetrol Prize from Unipetrol and University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
2004 Young Chemistry Award in Organic Chemistry from Sigma-Aldrich in the Czech Republic
2005 Alfred Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry from the Czech Chemical Society
2010 Karel Preis Prize for the best article in Chemické listy from the Czech Chemical Society
2022 Chemistry Europe Fellow
2022 Miloš Hudlický Prize for the best work published by Czech authors in European journals
2022 Rudolf Lukeš Prize awarded from the Czech Chemical Society and Experientia for excellent results in the field of organic chemistry
2023 Honorary recognition of the chairman of the GA CR for the project „Organic photoredox catalysis in reductive transformations: new area for flavin derivatives“
2023 Award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports for excellent educational activities at university
In Prague, April 2025