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Congratulations to Jessie, Lauren, and Gahou on each successfully defending their undergraduate theses. Great job all around!!!

The lab congratulates Will on passing his second year oral exam and becoming a Ph.D. candidate. Way to go!!!

The lab congratulates Hannah on her new publication, exploring the catalytic activity of borylated silsesquioxane catalysts in C-O bond reduction. Check it out here.  

The lab congratulates Youngran, Jared, and Neyen on their new publication performing X-glycosylation of per-TMS- and 1MeO-sugars with TMS-X reagents. Check out their novel syntheses here!

The lab is happy to welcome Dr. Kevin Baseman to the team! Kevin grew up in Atkins, Iowa. He obtained his Ph.D. at Iowa State University as a joint student under Dr. Aaron Sadow and Dr. Theresa Windus. When not … Continue reading →

We are happy to welcome three new first-year students to our team: Nathan DeSousa from Juniata College, Joseph Schneider from University of Central Arkansas, and William Hearne from King’s College and the University of Notre Dame. Welcome!

The lab is happy to welcome two new post-docs, Dr. Xuan Wang and Dr. Josh Clarke, to our team! Both joined the lab earlier this year and are already completing outstanding work! Xuan grew up in a small city in … Continue reading →

The lab congratulates Jared, Bekah, and Youngran on their new publication on using ion-pair interactions to achieve novel site-selective C-O bond reductions on sugars. Check it out here!

The lab congratulates Kat and Andreas on their new publications about spectroscopic and computational assessment of silicon’s electrophilicity in phosphinosilylium cations. Check out their clever use of 29Si NMR here!  

The lab congratulates Andreas, Jared, and Neyen on another publication on silylpalladium cations! Check out the great work here showing how therese cations enable the cleavage of Nitrile C–CN Bonds. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00034