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.

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!

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.