2022-7-8: The group says goodbye to Yidong Wang and congratulates him on starting his own research group at Yangzhou University.
2022-3-3: Graduate student Jin Zhu received an Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship from the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Undergraduates Parker Staub 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!
2020-10-16: The group’s synthetic and mechanistic work on iron-catalyzed coupling of alkenes and alkynes to tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives has been published in Chem. Sci. (Featured as a Hot Article by reviewers): Iron-Catalyzed α-C–H functionalization of π-Bonds: Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling and Mechanistic Insights
Congrats to Yidong, Jin, Rui, and Haley!
2020-8-15: The group’s work on iron catalysis has been abstracted by the Organic Chemistry Portal: α-C-H Functionalization of π-Bonds Using Iron Complexes: Catalytic Hydroxyalkylation of Alkynes and Alkenes
2020-6-2: The group’s work on hydrofluorination has been published in ACIE: Stereodivergent Alkyne Hydrofluorination Using Protic Tetrafluoroborates as Tunable Reagents
Congrats to Rui, Hengye, Paul, Ruihan, and our collaborator Xiaotian from the P. Liu group!
2020-3-18: The group’s work on iron catalysis has been highlighted by Synform: Synform Literature Coverage (2020/04 Issue)
2020-2-22: The group’s work on iron catalysis has been highlighted by Synfacts: Iron-Catalyzed Allylic and Propargylic C–H Functionalization for the Formation of C–C Bonds
2020-1-15: New group picture: first-year graduate students James, Ruihan, and Sarah joined the group.
2019-12-4: The group’s first independent project has been published in JACS: α-C–H Functionalization of π-Bonds Using Iron Complexes: Catalytic Hydroxyalkylation of Alkynes and Alkenes
Congrats to Yidong, Jin, Austin, and Haley!