Wang Research Group: Organic Synthesis and Catalysis
Fifth Floor, Chevron Science Center
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences • University of Pittsburgh
Department of Chemistry
2022-3-3: Graduate student Jin Zhu received an Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship from the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Undergraduates Parker Straub and Molly Nagle were awarded departmental Mary Louise Theodore Scholarships. Undergraduate Nick Wade was awarded a 2022 ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award. Congrats to Jin, Parker, Molly, and Nick!
2022-1-15: Yiming’s recent Young Career Focus interview with Synform has been published: Interview with Yiming Wang
2021-11-24: The group’s work on cross dehydrogenative coupling of allenes and tetrahydroisoquinolines has been published in ChemComm (Invited manuscript for a Themed Collection on the Functionalization of Unreactive C–H bonds): Contrasteric Coupling of Allenes and Tetrahydroisoquinolines by Iron-Catalysed Allenic C(sp2)–H Functionalisation
Congrats to Yue, Nick, Phil, and Yidong!
2021-9-7: The group’s work on iron-catalyzed functionalization of allenes has been published in JACS: Iron-Catalyzed Contrasteric Functionalization of Allenic C(sp2)–H Bonds: Synthesis of α-Aminoalkyl 1,1-Disubstituted Allenes
Congrats to Yidong, Sarah, Xiaodong, Ruihan, Phil, Ethan, and Austin!
2021-4-23: The group’s study on iron-mediated cycloaddition reactions has been published in Organometallics (Invited manuscript for a Special Issue on Organometallic Solutions to Challenges in Cross-Coupling): Regiocontrolled Coupling of Alkynes and Dipolar Reagents: Iron-Mediated [3 + 2] Cycloadditions Revisited
Congrats to Jin, Austin, Yidong, James, and Xiaodong!
Contact: (email) ym.wang@pitt.edu, (tel.) 412-624-0028, (office) 505 Chevron Science Center
Graduate student liaison: Austin Durham (acd63@pitt.edu)
Mailing address: 326 Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260