Group News


April 2021

Congrats to undergraduate Walker Smith for winning an ACS DOC SURF award for 2021!


April 2021

Rachel passed candidacy, congrats!


April 2021

Ali and Yanyao’s paper on Amide-Directed Ni-Catalyzed Arylboration of Cyclopentene Derivatives was highlighted in OPRD, congrats!


March 2021

Renyu’s paper with the Glorius/Houk groups on Photochemical Intermolecular Dearomative Cycloaddition of Bicyclic Azaarenes with Alkenes was accepted into Science and is our group’s first paper there, congrats!!!


March 2021

Amit’s paper on Allenylidene Induced 1,2‐Metalate Rearrangement of Indole‐Boronates was accepted into Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., congrats!


March 2021

Amit and Stephen’s paper on Ni-catalyzed alkenylboration/hydrogenation to access sterically congested motifs was accepted into Chem. Sci., congrats!


February 2021

Stanna wins an ACS WCC/Merck research award, congrats!


February 2021

First years Souvik, Phillip, Ryan, and David (joint student with the van Kessel group in biology) join the group, welcome!


January 2021

Dongshun’s paper on the Ni-catalyzed silylacylation of alkenes was accepted into ACS Catalysis, congrats!


January 2021

Alison and Yanyao’s paper on Amide-Directed Ni-Catalyzed Arylboration of Cyclopentene Derivatives was accepted into Org. Lett., congrats!