Methyl ketones as alkyl halide surrogates: a deacylative halogenation approach for strategic functional group conversions developed by our group was highlighted on "Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemist and Engineers". For details, see: link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Pe6siHWSM

Congratulation to Shusuke for his successfully defense! He will soon start his next journey in McKinsey!

Congratulations to Guangbin on being named the Weldon G. Brown Professor!

Congratulations to our second year graduate students, Miao. Daniel and Cole, on passing their Ph.D. candidacy exam!

Congratulations to our graduate student Rui on winning the 2021 Alfred R. Bader Award for Student Innovation from MilliporeSigma!

Congratulations to Renhe and Cole! Renhe won Elizabeth R. Norton Prize for Excellence in Research in Chemistry! Cole has been awarded for Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry!

Congratulation to Alex for his successfully defense! He will soon start his next journey in AbbVie! We had a celebration party in person for the first time in two years!

Congratulations to our former incredible postdoc Dr. Ming Chen on recently starting his independent career at Changzhou University in China as a professor! Stay tuned for his awesome chemistry coming from Chen Lab

Our former phenomenal postdoc Dr. Jun Zhu recently started his independent work at Wuhan University in China as a professor! We can’t wait to see the awesome science that comes out of the Zhu Group!