MINH HUYEN Y DANG
5/20/2024 – Congratulations to Alyah for successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Chmiel!
Reductive single electron transfer (SET) to small molecules is a fundamental elementary step that underpins diverse and powerful synthetic transformations. The exquisite chemoselectivity of photoredox catalysis has rendered it an attractive strategy for promoting reductive …
5/13/2024 – Congratulations to Karina and Minji as well as our collaborators from the Gutierrez group (Achyut and Ángel) on the disclosure of the mechanism for Z-selective allylic functionalization from Thianthrenium salts!
A detailed mechanistic study of the Z-selective allylic functionalization via thianthrenium salts is presented. Kinetic analyses, deuterium labeling experiments, and computational methods are used to rationalize the observed reactivity and selectivity. We find that the reaction …
5/10/2024 – Congratulations to Y, Jimin, and Uriel on passing their 3rd year Research Proposal Exam!
4/22/2024 – Congratulations to Pete, Adrian, and Jennifer on passing their 2nd year Thesis Background Exam!
2/8/2024 – Congratulations to Minji, Karina, Dylan, and Diana on their mini-review article demonstrating the use of alkene thianthrenation to access diverse cation synthons!
Oxidative alkene functionalization reactions are a fundamental class of complexity-building organic transformations. However, the majority of established approaches rely on electrophilic reagents that limit the diversity of groups that can be installed. Recent advances have …
12/13/2023 – Congratulations to Karina for successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Targos!
12/1/2023 – Welcome Liza to our team as a graduate student! We’re so excited to have you!
7/9/2023 – Congratulations to Joe, Sara, Nick, and Jennifer on developing an electrophotocatalytic approach to enable intermolecular ketyl radical coupling!
Herein, we report a new class of electrophotocatalysts, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, that promote the reduction of unactivated carbonyl compounds to generate versatile ketyl radical intermediates. This catalytic platform enables previously challenging intermolecular ketyl radical coupling …
5/15/2023 – Congratulations to Sara, Jimin, Y, and Camille on developing a new catalytic system that unlocks hydrocarboxylation for unactivated alkenes!
Herein we disclose a strategy to promote the hydrocarboxylation of unactivated alkenes using photochemical activation of formate salts. We illustrate that an alternative initiation mechanism circumvents the limitations of prior approaches and enables hydrocarboxylation of …