Group News

May 2023​

We are delighted to share that our paper "Breaking the tert-Butyllithium Contact Ion Pair: A Gateway to Alternate Selectivity in Lithiation Reactions" has been accepted at JACS!

We are excited that our NSF CAREER got accepted, more method developments are to come!

Congratulations to one of our graduate students, Jeanette Piña, for being selected for the 2023 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color!

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April 2023

Congratulations to one of our graduate students, Danniel Arriaga, for being selected for the 2023 GRC Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship Program! Stop by his poster if you are going to the Heterocycles GRC this year!

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March 2023

We are excited to welcome our new post-doctoral researcher Dr. Raja Sk joining us soon this semester!

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February 2023

Congratulations to one of our undergraduate researchers, Alex Sung, for his accepted summer internship at Bristol Meyers Squibb (BMS)!

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January 2023

We are excited to welcome two undergraduate researchers: Raquel Gonzalez and Ryan Grove!

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October 2022

Check out our paper "Constructive Ozonolysis: Capturing Primary Ozonides" available on preprint in ChemRxiv.

We officially welcome two first-year graduate students: Cheng-Chun Chen and Dillion Chen!

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September 2022

Excited to share our work, "Breaking the tert-Butyllithium Contact Ion Pair: A Gateway to Alternate Selectivity in Lithiation Reactions" available on preprint in ChemRxiv.

We are delighted to welcome undergraduate researcher Jasmine Torres!

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August 2022

Make sure to read our first publication "Preparation of Highly Reactive Lithium Metal Dendrites for the Synthesis of Organolithium Reagents" online on J. Am. Chem. Soc.! 

Check out the C&EN article "New form of lithium reacts 20 times as fast as powdered metal" which highlights our first publication!

Our first publication was also covered by ChemistryViews "Lithium Metal Dendrites as a Highly Reactive Lithium Source" check it out!

We are excited to welcome undergraduate researcher Alexis Lugo!

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July 2022

Check out our recent News & Views "Antibiotics the easy way" in Nature Synthesis!

Take a look at our recent publication "Preparation of Highly Reactive Lithium Metal Dendrites for the Synthesis of Organolithium Reagents" on ChemRxiv!

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March 2022

We are very excited to announce that Andrew Nguyen, senior undergraduate researcher, has accepted a job offer at Amgen! Congratulations Andrew!

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January 2022

We are delighted to welcome undergraduate researchers Hai Ly and Alex Sung!

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October 2021

We are proud to welcome three first-year graduate students: Leonel Jimenez, Han-Hsiang Hsu, Jeffrey Cragin!

We are excited to welcome undergraduate researcher Donghyun (Michael) Lee!

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August 2021 

We are excited to welcome summer graduate student Victoria Shearer!

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June 2021

We welcome summer undergraduate researcher Desirée Young!

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January 2021

We welcome undergraduate researcher Andrew Nguyen!

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November 2020

We officially welcome four first-year graduate students: Jeanette Pina, Danniel Arriaga, Lupita Aguirre, and Levi Litwiller!

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September 2020

Dr. Michael Crockett (Ph.D. from Boston College) joins the team as a post-doctoral researcher!

We also welcome undergraduate researchers Jonathan Cobb and Miguel Garcia!

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July 2020

The lab is officially open!

We welcome summer student Danniel Arriaga!

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