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Throwback Thursday: The first preparative non-heme iron oxidation catalyst achieved in the Jacobsen group at Harvard in 2001. MCW with her undergraduate student Abigail Doyle of
@uclachem
pictured in front of their hood where the discovery was made.
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Congrats to David Sarlah (
@SarlahLab
) on his tenure. We are so proud to have you as a colleague. Keep the amazing science coming.
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Happy 80th birthday to one of my scientific role models and heroes, K. Barry Sharpless. Your work and path continue to inspire scientists who aspire to discover rare and disruptive reactivity.
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Devon and Brenna are excited to talk with you about their powerful new way to make tertiary amines... coming tomorrow!
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The total synthesis and structural elucidation of palytoxin by Kishi stands as one of the greatest achievements of science demonstrating that even the most complex structures in nature (71 stereochemical elements) can be made through chemical synthesis. RIP Prof. Kishi
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Fantastic to have Abby Doyle from
@uclachem
give two powerful talks as our R.C. Fuson lecturer!
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Sarah’s infamous sweet tooth on full display at dinner. Another treat was discussing some perspectives on the history of chemistry with Scott Denmark.
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My Ph D advisor, Gary H. Posner (1943-2018), had this C. Coolidge quote hanging in his office. With time, experience, and walking a little in his shoes, I have come to appreciate the wisdom of these words. MCW
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What are Siraj Ali
@Sargetasm
, Brenna Budaitis, and Devon Fontaine patiently waiting to share with you? Check it out at
@sciencemagazine
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Check out OM nitrene C—H amination notes from Charlie Dixon
@charliefdixonIV
. If you would like the powerpoint slides for teaching please email MCW
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What do Takafumi Ide and the team have in the bag? A simple, powerful reaction dropping soon…
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Throwback Thursday:
@MCWhiteGroup
are so proud of Ken Fraunhoffer, first graduate in group, who is now a scientific director
@bmsnews
! He discovered the first preparative allylic C—H amination .
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Check out Aliphatic C—H Oxidation notes updated by Hannah Way and Jake Weaver. If you would like the powerpoint slides for teaching, please email thewhitegroup
@illinois
.edu
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Awesome to host Sarah Reisman as our 2023 Fuson lecturer. She gave two powerful talks that showcased the power of total synthesis to inspire transformative new methodology.
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Interested in P450s vs Mn(CF3PDP) oxidations in carbocyclic N-heterocyclic drugs & describing substrate scope quantitatively? Check out PNAS paper from Rachel, Jake & Jinho of
@MCWhiteGroup
with
@Merck
Shane Krska
@swkrska
& Jason Hoar:
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Dave Evans solved the polyketide problem. Today, students cannot imagine how polyketides were made before the Evans aldol. It simplified the problem of constructing stereochemically defined polyols so that scientists could them to answer other important questions. RIP
@daddydog22
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Awesome Graduate Research Symposium in New Mexico with these young rock star chemists who gave inspiring talks: Osvaldo Gutierrez
@gutierrez_lab
, Alison Narayan
@AlisonNarayanUM
, Christina Cooley
@CCooleyChem
, Brett Fors
@brett_fors
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Great visit at Harvard Chemistry
@HarvardCCB
with outstanding students and postdocs at lunch and some
@MCWhiteGroup
alums (Kaibo Feng
@BuchwildGroup
and Siraj Ali
@Sargetasm
) in the audience. Three generations of
@jacobsenLab
!
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Congrats to Amination Nation led by Siraj Ali with Brenna Budaitis, Devon Fontaine, Andria Pace and Jacob Garwin whose paper was selected by C&ENews as one of the breakthroughs in Chemistry for 2022! "Recipe for tertiary amines relied on a little salt":
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Congrats to Jinpeng, Takeshi, and Emilio on a breakthrough paper in Nature Chemistry:
Check out the "Behind the Paper" story in Nature Research Chemistry Community:
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Meet the awesome MCWhite team
@OCB_UIUC
@ChemistryUIUC
led by graduate student Sven Kaster (
@KasterSven
) w/ Lei Zhu, William Lyon, Rulin Ma, Stephen Ammann. They discovered a catalyst to position olefins & alcohols to form ethers
@ScienceMagazine
:
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When I started as an Assistant Prof. At Harvard , Prof. Evans gave me this advice: “You should be aiming far beyond tenure “. The same can be said for a PhD.
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Congratulations to our newly minted PhD Siraj Ali. We are excited to see all the amazing work you will do in the Radosevich Group at MIT!
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A terrific visit to Caltech for the BMS symposium with Rebecca Green
@rebeccois
from
#BMSChemistry
. It was great to catch up with old friends
@FuLabCaltech
,
@sarah_reisman
,
@brianstoltsz70
and meet an amazing group of students.
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Great visit to Northwestern Chemistry
@NUChemistry
hosted by Megan Kaster. Thanks to Megan and all the fantastic students for a great day!
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Practicing gratitude means recognizing the good that is already yours. This Thanksgiving, I feel grateful for an amazing group of students who in addition to being brilliant, creative, and hard-working, face difficult times with optimism, resilience and adaptability.
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Excited to welcome Marc Hartmann to MCWhite group! Marc is from New Jersey and attended Rutgers University where he worked with Dr. Zoltan Szekely on synthesis of antibody-drug conjugates. After, he worked 2 years in sunny San Diego at Avidity Biosciences on RNA bioconjugations.
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Great day for small molecule catalysis that does more with less! Congratulations to
@dmac68
(
@MacMillan_Lab
) and
@ben_list
(
@ListLaboratory
) on the
@NobelPrize
!
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”
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I think Melanie (
@Sanford_Lab
) and MCW look awesome on the cover!
Our recent work on the use of C-H bond oxidations in the synthesis of complex diterpenes is featured in the cover of
@JOC_OL
!
@ACS4Authors
#myacscover
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Happy 80th birthday DAE. You taught a generation of chemists the power and beauty of physical organic chemistry through your iconic Chem 206 and impacting research. I use what I learned from you every day in how I think about chemical reactivity and selectivity.
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Positioning for reactivity (image Jose Vazquez) : A small molecule catalyst takes a nucleophile & electrophile, pulls them together and lines them up to form C—O bonds, check it out in
@ScienceMagazine
:
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Excited to share a grad/advanced undergrad level lecture on aliphatic C—H oxidation. Feel free to download and use when teaching!
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Wonderful Japanese dinner with great Nagoya scientists and friends Profs. Ooi, Shinokubo, and Ishihara.
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Excited to welcome Emma Mize the MCWhite group! Emma attended SLU for her undergrad where she worked in the Demchenko lab doing research in carbohydrates. As a St. Louis native, she is a big fan of the STL City soccer team. Emma is also an avid baker!
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Throwback Thursday: Teaching organometallics and reminded of two seminal (and often overlooked papers): in 1955 and 1956 Shunsuke Murahashi of Osaka University reported the first examples of directed, catalytic aryl C—H functionalizations
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An honor to be the Seymour Rothchild Distinguished Student Invited Lecturer at Rochester Chemistry. Awesome to meet Cay McNichol my host and the other remarkable students in group of our own Shauna Paradine
@paradinelab
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Check out our Perspective in JACS on Aliphatic C—H Oxidations!
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Great to welcome Joseph Clark (of the Clark-White catalyst) back to UIUC to give a great talk about the pioneering work he is doing on precision deuteration at Marquette University!
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Check out a fun video explaining the White group’s new allylic C—H amination reaction to form tertiary amines:
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Congrats to Hannah Way for passing her qualifying exams like a rock-star! Excited to see all the amazing new discoveries you will continue to make.
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Check out MCW's letter to the editor regarding the recent C&E News article on selective C—H functionalization ()
Letter as an image below that you you can expand.
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Happy New Year 2024 from the MCWhite group! Wishing you a year filled with success and joy in breaking the frontiers with new discoveries.
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Excited to share a photo from recent visit of our phenomenal former MCWhite group undergrads Will Lyon and Andria Pace who are rock star grad students in
@MacMillan_Lab
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Congrats to Tommy Osberger (PhD 2016) on his new position as an Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona starting in Fall 2019!
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Fantastic Merck symposium
@OCB_UIUC
with powerful speakers Dr. Scott France from
@Merck
biocatalysis and Prof. Franziska
@Schoenebeck_Lab
from RWTH Aachen!
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Congrats to our MCWhite group alum Kaibo Feng on starting his new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Florida! Check out his website:
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Welcome to our newest White group members Seth Klaine (Western Kentucky University), Hannah Way (Univ. of Nebraska at Kearney), and Alfons Pineda-Knauseder (Univ. of Rochester)!
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Congrats to our amazing undergraduate Will Lyon for being awarded an
@NSFGRFP
. We are so proud of you and excited to see all the awesome chemistry you will do in your PhD and beyond!
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Check out an awesome story by Tracy Crane on Kaibo and Raundi's work:
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Excited to welcome former Synder Scholar Henry Cavanaugh back to the MCWhite group! Henry grew up in Natick, Massachusetts and received his bachelor's degree from College of the Holy Cross, where he studied atypical stereoelectronic interactions with Professor Brian R. Linton.
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ACS Western National Meeting celebrating great organometallic chemistry with
@BuchwildGroup
,
@swkrska
,
@Vy_Dong_Group
,
@Wolfe_Group
, Marty Burke, and Mary Watson, Donald Watson. Thanks to Jeff Bandar for organizing!
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Check out recent article in
@cenmag
on our practical allylic amination to make 3o amines
@ScienceMagazine
. Excited for discovery chem applications! Keep an eye out for commercial availability of Ma-WhiteSOX. Thanks
@LeighJKBoerner
for insightful write-up!
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Great visit at Nagoya Univ. and getting to know rising star Japanese Assistant Profs. Uyanik and Horibe.
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Latest paper from our group describing some remarkable science done by the team of Kaibo and Raundi.
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Congrats to Raundi Quevedo our newly minted PhD. Excited to see all the great science you will do at
@Novartis
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Check out awesome news story of the allylic C-H amination work by Tracy Crane!
A chemical reaction with a slow-release ⏳ mechanism discovered by MCW
@MCWhiteGroup
& Siraj Ali, Brenna Budaitis, & Devon Fontaine provides a simple, rapid way to make tertiary amines – swinging the door wide open to discovery of new medicinal compounds.
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Another throwback: The first catalytic C—H borylation reaction was reported in 1999 from Milton (Mitch) Smith of Michigan State University
@MSUChem
.
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Welcome to our newest White group members Hyeju Jeon (KAIST) and Minxing (Min) Zhang (Univ. Of Toronto)!
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The Alpine conference featured fantastic science and scientists! Thank you Cristina
@NevadoLab
for organizing a dinner that was a great chance to connect with old friends and make new ones.
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Thanks to the GRS organizers Gary Molander
@molandergroup
, Andy Evans
@pandrewevans
, and Angie Angeles
@angieangeles
for great leadership in organizing a fantastic in-person conference!
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Check out another awesome write-up of Kaibo and Raundi's work on oxidative methylation in Nature News & Views!
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[1/2] Congrats to Joe, Kaibo and Anasheh on a remarkable paper in Nature Chemistry describing THE way to do benzylic amination! Check out the paper, C&E News Article, and the June Cover (thanks to Kaibo, resident graphic artist, on amazing art work)!
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Congrats to MCW and the White Group for the endowed chair (Lycan Prof. of Chemistry)! Great day celebrating with good colleagues and friends!
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Great paper/holiday party in Chicago at Cirque du Soleil and
@QuartinoChicago
celebrating the awesome MCW group and Rachel Chambers (
@EliLillyandCo
) & Jake Weaver’s phenomenal PNAS (
@PNASNews
) paper from earlier this year.
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Congratulations to Sven Kaster for winning the Voorhees Best Original Research Proposal "Catalytic Generation and use of Ketyl Radicals in Enantioselective Reactions."!
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Fantastic conference in beautiful St. Anton Austria. Thanks to the organizers of the 4th Alpine Winter Conference Antonia Stepan, Klemens Hoegenauer, and Karl Krawinkler for a great symposium!
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MCWhite Group 2023: Feeling very grateful to work with incredible group of scientists and scholars!
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Congrats to Chiwon Hwang for passing his qualifying exams! Your nitrene cohorts are excited for all the great things you will do next. Thanks to Charlie Dixon for great senior student mentorship and Seth Klaine for being a great mentee!
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Come check out Brenna Budaitis's poster (Allylic C-H amination furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic catalysis) Monday and Tuesday (4-6PM) at the Heterocycles GRC!
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Congrats to the CYP450 mimic team led by Rachel Chambers with Jake Weaver, Jinho Kim, Jason Hoar & Shane Krska
@swkrska
whose paper in
@PNASNews
was highlighted in
@OPRD_ACS
!
Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers, don't miss the latest edition out today, brought to you by a superb team of experts .
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Hyeju Jeon is all smiles after rocking her qualifying exams! Thanks to Devon Fontaine and Sven Kaster for great senior student mentorship. Congrats Hyeju!! Excited for what comes next!
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Congrats to Seth Klaine for a very strong performance in his prelim exams. Thanks to Charlie Dixon and Chiwon Hwang for their outstanding mentorship!
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In the bag is something as simple as possible… Allylic amination for natural products catalyzed by a commercial small molecule catalyst that discriminates between C—H bonds of close BDEs based on their chemical environment.
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Great Paper/Holiday Party in Chicago at Athina restaurant in Greek town followed by Bulls game
@chicagobulls
! Happy Holidays!
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Throwback to a great visit at Cork University
@uccchemistry
with great host Ger McGlacken
@mcglackengroup
group!
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Check out a great undergraduate Organic chemistry textbook from Michael Smith that teaches advanced concepts using the fundamentals. This includes some frontier new chemistry from the
@sarpongGroup
,
@gouverneurGroup
and the
@MCWhiteGroup
(see below):
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Congrats to Jake Weaver for passing his qualifying exams. The first of many great things to come. Thanks to Sven Kaster for great senior student mentorship!
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Congratulations to Rachel Chambers our newly minted PhD. Excited to see all the great things you will do at Lilly
@LillyPad
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Congratulations to
@Daniel_J_Blair
& Burke Group Team on continuing to pave the road for automated carbon-carbon bond formation in organic synthesis.
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White Group 2019, welcome to all of our first years: Shelby, Charlie, Devon and Alex!
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Great Naito Conference on C—H Activation. With Profs. Muria, Isobe, Miura, Chang, and Kakiuchi.
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Great to represent
@MCWhiteGroup
at the 19th BMOS (Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis) in beautiful Bento Goncalves (the wine region of Brazil). Thank you Paulo Schneider and Diogo Ludtke for organizing great science with great wine, food & company!
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Check out an interesting application of Mn(CF3PDP) (now commercial at Strem White-Gormisky-Zhao catalyst) from the Magauer group
@MagauerGroup
!
#TotalSynthesis
and Late-Stage C–H Oxidations of ent-Trachylobane Natural Products by Lukas Anton Wein, Klaus Wurst, and Thomas Magauer
@MagauerGroup
@uniinnsbruck
in
@angew_chem
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Congrats to
@Caltech
for selecting such an extraordinary scientist and person to lead
@sarah_reisman
Sarah Reisman, the Bren Professor of Chemistry and a leader in the area of natural product synthesis has been selected as the new chair of Caltech's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE).
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Great to catch up with old friends and make news ones! Thanks to all the amazing UCLA students and faculty for a great day filled with frontier science and to BMS (with Bill Gallagher) for sponsoring the symposium.
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Meet Team: Sven Kaster (
@KasterSven
) a MCWhite group &
@ChemistryUIUC
alum (PhD ’24) now a postdoc in
@MacMillan_Lab
. Checkout Sven at graduation & hooding and his thesis research recently published in
@ScienceMagazine
:
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Happy 60th birthday Amir! Great to be part of your symposium honoring your remarkable and impacting career.
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Great to be part of Johnson Symposium at Stanford. A thrill to talk about our work in front of some chemistry legends.
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