Laurel Schafer
@LaurelSchafer
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Mother, Wife, Chemist, Professor, Head-Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia (she/her)
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Joined December 2014
RT @chemistryatuvic: Congrats to Dr. Leitch for receiving an NSERC Alliance Advantage Grant titled "Quantitative Structure-Reactivity-Selec…
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Congratulations to the team! The direct catalytic amination of polymers without solvent, with preliminary results showing how this approach can convert polyolefins to antimicrobial materials. Great collaboration with @Belinda_Heyne @NOVAChemicals and longtime partners @CHBEUBC!
Hydroaminoalkylation for Amine Functionalization of Vinyl-Terminated Polyethylene Enables Direct Access to Responsive Functional Materials (Laurel L. Schafer and co-workers) @LaurelSchafer
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We hope you enjoy the great science from medicinal applications and energy science through to materials and process chemistry and MORE! OM chemists fearlessly exploit metals from across the periodic table - creative approaches to high impact fields. #OMChemistry
New @Orgmet_ACS Special Issue alert: Applied Organometallic Chemistry published today! Guest Editors @laurelschafer, @marcuswdrover, @chitnislab, Chloé Thieuleux, @drriannelord, Changle Chen wrote the Editorial. Check it out:
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RT @KozyCanuck: Excited to be co-organizing a symposium on Sustainable Materials and Polymer Chemistry with colleagues from Canada, Austral…
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Hallelujah!
Big news : the councils will be transitioning away from the Common CV
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It's coming .... warm Hawaiian thoughts and HOT science!! #Pacifichem2025
What can you expect for #Pacifichem2025? Take a look at the Agenda at a Glance - lots of excellent technical sessions along with opportunities for networking and enjoying Hawaii! Link:
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RT @Orgmet_ACS: The future is shining bright for organometallics. This @Orgmet_ACS Special Issue explores photo-active organometallic comp…
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RT @Junsoo_twit: We will hold a symposium titled Polymer Fracture at the coming Pacifichem 2025. The plan is to have 16 invited talks and a…
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RT @Pacifichem: Want to know what to expect at #Pacifichem2025? The symposia list is now live!
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Global promotional opportunity! Check it out #Pacifichem2025
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Another great contribution led by @Cam1stry!! 🔥🔥 Great contributions from visiting scholars! #ProudSupervisor
Big thanks to Carla and Ole for working hard to put together this project! We demonstrate access to synthetically challenging N-heterocyclic frameworks uniquely enabled by tantalum-catalyzed C-H activation @LaurelSchafer @Orgmet_ACS #organometallics
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@Cam1stry @green_rsc @b__nadeau Congratulations to Cameron who really drove this collaborative effort with our forest bioproducts colleague Prof. Heather Trajano @UBC and Holmen of Sweden. Great insights into reactivity and selectivity inspired by nature! #ProudSupervisor
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@MarkLautens @chemuoft @UofT @UofTArtSci @AmerChemSociety @andrei_yudin Great news coming from Canadian Chemistry!! Congratulations to our colleagues @UofT!!
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RT @ErickNBahena: How to access homoallylic amines from conjugated dienes now online in @ChemicalScience ! Huge thanks to everyone involved…
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RT @Cam1stry: Delighted to be able to share a short review that @LaurelSchafer and I wrote regarding direct C-H bond functionalization of S…
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RT @retinolivia: using my quarterly resurrection on Twitter (X?) to share that I’m honoured to attend the 45th #ICCC2024, such a historic c…
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Looking forward to this new challenge! #WomenInSTEM
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce @LaurelSchafer as our new Head. Dr. Schafer has served as the Associate Head, Research since 2016 and is the first woman to be appointed as Head of the UBC Chemistry Department. 🔗
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Great idea! Would be fantastic!!
Maybe we can get these chemists to meet in Vancouver in the future 😉 @EWOC8
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