Hello all, Annie will be hosting lit club this week and has selected a recent JACS paper from the Stupp group at Northwestern that describes the photoswitchable expansion of hydrogels using spiropyrans. See you all on Thursday at 2! Paper:… Continue Reading
Hello all, This week we will be reading research from the Ribas group at the Universitat de Girona. This paper details the use of a metal-organic cage as a “mask” to enable the regioselective functionalization of C60. See you all… Continue Reading
Hello all, This week we will be looking at molecular knots! This paper describes work by the Leigh group where they incorporate a molecular knot into a rotaxane. See you all at Roma! Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201803871
Hello all, This week we will be reading and discussing a paper from the Nicewicz and Li labs at UNC describing 18F labeling using organic photoredox catalysis. See you at Roma on Wednesday! Paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6446/1170
Hello all, this week we will be discussing redox reactions and mechanochemistry with a Science paper from the Ito group at Hokkaido University. See you all at Roma at 8:30! Paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6472/1500/tab-pdf
Hello all, This week we will be reading two papers from the Xia group at Stanford about their work on ladderene polymers. See you all Wednesday at Roma at 8:30! https://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6350/475.full?ijkey=dIFVLXwISq0WY&keytype=ref&siteid=sci https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b01736
Hello everyone, this week we will be looking at rotaxanes that show planar chirality from the Credi group at the University of Bologna. See you all at Roma on Tuesday! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b00941
Hey all, tomorrow we will be looking at work from the Nitschke group at the University of Cambridge describing their creation of a metal organic cage with antiaromatic linkers to create a strongly deshielding nano-space. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1661-x
Hello all, The first paper for fall term will be from the group of Hai-Chao Xu at Xiamen University. This paper details their development of an electrosynthetic method for intramolecular amination of tri- and tetra-substituted alkenes. See you all tomorrow!… Continue Reading
Hello all, For Fall term we will be switching the meeting time to Tuesday mornings at 8:30, still at Roma. The first meeting will be on 10/15 (unless someone wants to sign up last minute for 10/8) and they will… Continue Reading