Author: kkawamu2

The paper Efrain picked for this week is from the Liu group and looks at a macrocyclic tetraradicaloid! Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/sc/d0sc06185a See you at Roma’s on Thursday at 8:30!

This week we will be reading about energy funneling with multichromophore architechtures from Guillaume Schull at the Université de Strasbourg. Here is the link for the paper. Hope to see you at 8:30 am on Thursday at Roma’s!

This week we will be reading about nickel-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross coupling of a-chloroesters with aryl iodides from Sarah Reisman (CalTech) and Matt Sigman (University of Utah)! Find the paper here. If interested, here is a related paper from Patrick… Continue Reading →

Hey y’all! We are restarting lit club for the summer! We will be meeting at Roma’s on 13th on Thursday mornings at 8:30 am to chat about literature over coffee and pastries 🙂 If you want to be on our… Continue Reading →

This week we will be reading a paper from Abigail Doyle’s group at Princeton that looks at nucleophilic (radio)fluorination of esters via photoredox catalysis: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.0c03125 See you on Thursday at 2pm!

This week we will be talking about “Biomimetic combs as antiadhesive tools to manipulate nanofibers” with Tawney. Link for paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.0c00130. Zoom link and handout will be shared later this week. See you at 2pm on Thursday!

Hi all! This week we will talk about “Urea-Catalyzed Functionalization of Unactivated C-H Bonds” from Nelson Hosea’s group at UCLA! The paper is on ChemRxiv: https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Urea-Catalyzed_Functionalization_of_Unactivated_C_H_Bonds/11886789 The Zoom link will be sent out on Thursday. Hope to see you Thursday… Continue Reading →

Hello! This week we will be talking about the molecular electrochemical Co-catalyzed conversion of CO2 to CO with Tawney. The Organometallics paper is from the Roberts group at the Université de Paris. Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00555. The Zoom link will be sent… Continue Reading →

Hi everyone! Due to social distancing restrictions, we will holding lit club via Zoom. We will be meeting on Thursdays at 2 pm. The paper will be sent out through email and posted on the website as usual each week.… Continue Reading →

This week we will be talking about the hydrodefluorination of CF3-substituted alkenes with a Ni—H catalyst: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13757 See you at Roma’s at 8:30am on Wednesday!