Associate Professor Nikola Cindro, PhD, delivered an invited oral lecture titled “Diastereoselective Construction of Tertiary Alcohols by the Addition of Different Grignard Reagents to the Sugar Derived Lactones” at the Drava Chemistry Conference – Connecting Chemistry Along the River, held from July 2 to 3, 2026, in Osijek, Croatia (authors: N. Cindro, M. Alešković, M. Oraić, M. Husinec, G. Talajić, M. Duvnjak, K. Pičuljan).

The Use of TMS for Determining the Absolute Configuration of Natural Products Bearing Hydroxyl Groups
Gregor Talajić,† Edi Topić,† Emanuel Pištan and Nikola Cindro Compounds isolated from natural sources continue to make invaluable contributions across many fields of chemistry. Structures elucidated and reported in the literature often serve as starting points for the total synthesis

