NEWS
June 2024
Congratulations to Celena who passed her PhD defense and will be joining Tolmar Scientific - best wishes!
Congratulations to Hillary who passed her PhD defense and will be joining Johnson & Johnson - best wishes!
MAY 2024
Our A deconstruction-reconstruction strategy for pyrimidine diversification paper is out on Nature. Congrats Ben and Celena - thanks to Louis and the Paton lab for the computational studies!
Congratulations to Louis who passed his PhD defense and will be joining Sanofi - best wishes!
JANUARY 2024
Our Synthesis of 15N‑Pyridines and Higher Mass Isotopologs via Zincke Imine Intermediates paper is out on JACS. Congrats Hillary, David, Marie, Kaila, and Jeff!
DECEMBER 2023
Our A General Strategy for N–(Hetero)aryl Piperidine Synthesis Using Zincke Imine Intermediates paper is out on JACS. Congrats Jake S., Jake G., M.K., Chirag, and the Merck team!
MAY 2023
Our Late-Stage C–H Functionalization of Azines paper is out on Chemical Reviews. Congrats Celena and Hillary!
DECEMBER 2022
Welcome 1st year grad students James Klinkenberg, Kaila Steenback, and David Thomas to the lab!
NOVEMBER 2022
Our Halogenation of the 3-position of pyridines through Zincke imine intermediates paper is out on Science. Congrats Ben and Jeff! Thanks to Louis and the Paton lab for the computational studies.
Welcome our new post-doc Dr. Mary Katherine Andrews from the University of Wisconsin-Madison!
JUNE 2022
Congratulations to Jake and Jeff who passed their PhD defenses. Jake will start his new job at Merck and Jeff will start his at Amgen - best wishes!
NOVEMBER 2021
Welcome 1st year grad students Jake Selingo, Amanda Melanese, and Sam DalCais to the lab!
OCTOBER 2021
Welcome our new post-doc Dr. Benjamin Jones from the University of Oxford!
AUGUST 2021
Congratulations to Chirag who passed his PhD defense and good luck to him in his new job at Pfizer!
AUGUST 2021
Our 4-Selective Pyridine Alkylation via Wittig Olefination of Dearomatized Pyridylphosphonium Ylides paper is out on ACIE. Congrats Patrick and Ryan!
JULY 2021
Congratulations to Patrick who passed his PhD defense and good luck to him in his new job at AstraZeneca!
JULY 2021
Our Pyridylphosphonium Salts as Alternatives to Cyanopyridines in Radical-Radical Coupling Reactions paper is out on Chemical Science. Congrats to Jake and Ben!
JUNE 2021
Congratulations to Kyle who passed his PhD defense and will be joining the Rovis Lab at Columbia University - best wishes!
JUNE 2021
Congratulations to Ben B. who passed his PhD defense and will be joining the MacMillan lab at Princeton University - best wishes!
APRIL 2021
Our Phosphorus-Mediated sp2-sp3 Couplings for Selective C–H Fluoroalkylation of Complex Azines paper is out on Nature. Congrats Xuan, Kyle, Chirag, and Jeff! Thanks to the Paton lab for the computational studies.
MARCH 2021
Congratulations to Hillary who earned NSF GRFP Honorable Mention!
NOVEMBER 2020
Congratulations to Jake who will be a Future Talent Intern at Merck Boston starting summer 2021!
NOVEMBER 2020
Welcome 1st year grad students Marie Anderson, Dane Brunner, and Ben Uhlenbruck to the lab!
Our Facile Pyridine SNAr Reactions via N-Phosphonium-Pyridinium Intermediates paper is out on Synlett. Congrats Ben and Luke!
MAY 2020
Congrats to Jeff and Renrong for their Selective Halogenation of Pyridines Using Designed Phosphine Reagents paper published in JACS! Thanks to the Paton lab for the computational studies.
JANUARY 2020
Congratulations to Ryan who passed his PhD defense and good luck to him in his new job at Thermo Fisher!
DECEMBER 2019
Welcome 1st year grad students Hillary Nguyen, Celena Josephitis, Margaret Mohnike, and Louis de Lescure to the lab!
OCTOBER 2019
Congratulations to Luke who passed his PhD defense and is now working at Pfizer!
SEPTEMBER 2019
Our recent paper entitled “Non-Symmetrical Bis-Azine Biaryls from Chloroazines: A Strategy Using Phosphorus Ligand-Coupling” has been published in JACS! Congratulations to Ben and Michael!
AUGUST 2019
Congratulations to Michael who passed his PhD defense and is now working at Array Biopharma!
Congratulations to Jake and Luke whose paper entitled "A Pyridine‐Pyridine Cross‐Coupling Reaction via Dearomatized Radical Intermediates" has been published in Angewandte! Thanks to the Paton group for computational studies.