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Regioselective modification of carbohydrates for their application as building blocks in
synthesis
Zhang, Ji
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Time flies like arrow! My PhD life in the Netherlands will be ended up, it is the time to say goodbye to everyone here and express my gratitude to people help me a lot during my research and my life. The experience of study in the Netherlands will be unforgettable in the rest of my life, I am also sure this experience will contribute a lot in my future research.
First and foremost, I offer my earnest gratitude to Adri for accepting me to continue the research in your group in 2016, three years ago it is the most difficult time in my life, I appreciate you succeed in saving my PhD career, then finally I can finish my PhD. Your have abundant knowledge in different chemistry research direction, your kindness and patience are impressive to me, the advice you gave to me in my research helps me solve the difficulties I encountered in the carbohydrate chemistry. It is a pleasant experience to work with you. Thank you for everything you have done for me!
I am deeply grateful to my co-supervisor Martin. Thank you for helping me analyze the NMR and revise my paper and thesis. I also learned a lot from your instructions on sugars. Thanks for your patience to explain me the details about the coupling constant of sugars, and every time to check my experiment part to find the small mistakes that are not easily to see. Thanks to help me analyze the reason from my failed experiments.
My deep thanks to Marthe and Liubov for great help with my chapter of “streptozotocin”, spend a lot of time on bacterial test with my compounds, also contacted other groups to do test on cells, reduced a lot of work and time for me, finally I can finish this chapter smoothly, I appreciate these help.
I would like to acknowledge the members of the assessment committee, Prof. K. Barta, Prof. P.H. Elsinga, and Prof. R.J. Pieters for their time and efforts to evaluate and approve this thesis.
I would like to thank Niek Eisink, thanks so much for guiding me in the lab with great patience, and also offering me a lot of help to revise my paper and thesis.
Thanks to Simona and Saskia to bring a lot of happiness to me, when we are together, we always have a lot of fun. You two also help me to check my thesis. I would like to thank Niek and Steven as my paranymph. Steven you will also be soon to finish your PhD, come on, and also hope you can find your true love here!
167 I express my acknowledgement to our secretary and technicians, Hilda, Marzia and Paulien. Thanks for ordering chemicals and flash columns for me.
Special thanks to my previous colleagues Yuanze Wang and his wife Jingjing Deng, thanks for your encouragement and support when I was in the most difficult time in my life. Dinos and Bhupendra, both of you taught me a lot in Multicomponent Reactions, thanks for your patience and instructions. I would like to thank my friend Xiaoming Miao and Qian Wang, thanks for comforting me when I was depressed. Yafei Guo, thanks for borrowing the regents to me. Hope you guys finish your PhD smoothly.
Thanks to my roommates Nittert, Ramon and Steven for an awesome time. Thanks for the nice working environment you guys bring to me and also help to correct my thesis.
I would like to thank my colleagues Vivek, Sarina, Ruben 1 to check my thesis. Thanks to Stella for teaching me how to do size-exclusion column, it saves me a lot of time with my purification work. Thanks to all the guys in chemical biology group, Guillaume, Niek 2, Ruben 2 always ask me to drink in the Borrel, both of you are funny guys. Mira, Nabil, Isabel, Michela, Michiel and Hung-Chien, I am happy to know all of you and work together, also make my life colorful.
At last, I sincerely thank all the Chinese friends I met in Groningen, Haojie Cao, Huatang Cao, Su, Zhencheng Tang, Hao Guo, Haigen Fu, Qian Li, Jing Sun, Jiaying Han, Di Zhu, Gongbao Wang, Wei He, Zhen Guan and Yinxing Jin, all of you are meaningful to me in my life in Netherlands.
