Kathleen accepts a position with Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a Vertex Research Fellow - congrats on this prestigious fellowship.
The group is pleased to welcome Brynn as a summer researcher!
March 2025
Two collaborative papers appear, arising from work with Bayer CropScience AG:听"Palladium-Catalyzed Allylation of (Hetero)Aryl Fluorosulfates" (in听ChemCatChem)听and听"Palladium-Catalyzed Sonogashira Cross-Couplings of (Hetero)Aryl Fluorosulfates"听(in听Organic Letters). Congrats to the entire team, especially Kathleen and Josh (Dalhousie)!
January 2025
Kathleen travels to Germany to carry out an internship in collaboration with our partners at Bayer AG CropScience (Germany).
Our paper entitled "Intercepting Ketone 伪鈥慉rylation Intermediates in the DalPhos/NiCatalyzed Synthesis of Decorated Benzofurans and NH-Indoles" appears in听ACS Catalysis听- congrats to Josh!
November 2024
Kathleen visits听Merck听(Cambridge MA) to work on a collaboration regarding the implementation of nickel catalysis in industrial cross-couplings.
Our paper entitled "Nickel-Catalyzed O-Arylation of N-Protected Amino Alcohols with (Hetero)aryl Chlorides" appears in听Chem. Eur. J.听Well done Kathleen, Emily, and Erika!
October 2024
Our collaborative paper with Prof. Erin Johnson (Dalhousie) entitled "Mapping Electrophile Chemoselectivity in DalPhos/Nickel N-Arylation Catalysis: The Unusual Influence of Remote Sterics" appears in听Chem. Eur. J.听Well done Peter and Jonathan!
September 2024
Mark is admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada.
Congrats to Mike and Peter for winning Department of Chemistry research awards - well done!
August 2024
The group welcomes Erika Elliott (from Western University) and Emily Jackson (from the University of Victoria) as MSc students!
Mark gives an interview with ChemistryWorld.com regarding palladium versus nickel in cross-coupling chemistry.
July 2024
Josh presents at the听Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes, at Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA.
May 2024
Nick takes up a position of Scientist-I, Chemical Sciences Division at Paraza Pharma Inc. (Montreal, Canada). Congrats!
April 2024
Our invited听Perspective听article summarizing our DalPhos/Ni chemistry to date entitled "The Development of Cage Phosphine 鈥楧alPhos鈥� Ligands to Enable Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of (Hetero)aryl Electrophiles" is accepted to听Chemical Science.
Nick successfully defends his PhD - well done and congrats!
