Our star undergraduate Rodrigo wondered if a commercial chiral Brønsted acid could be used in our asymmetric photochemistry instead of the optimal BINOL-derived triflimide we originally used. The answer is yes! Rodrigo reports the enantioselective …
Year: 2024
Understanding photocatalytic aziridination
Alana, Mihai, and Arindam formed an unstoppable collaboration team through the SuPRCat CCI with the Paton and Damrauer groups to understand a new, remarkably general method for photocatalytic alkene aziridination. A combination of preparative, computational, …
Predicting Ir emissions using AI
We had a great collaboration with the Schmidt group on an AI model for predicting the emission spectra of Ir complexes. Based on a big data set collected and published by the Bernhard group. Now …
Asymmetric Paternò–Büchi Reaction
Jesse, Tahoe, Wes, and Yerin have a terrific new paper in JACS today about the long road to an asymmetric catalytic Paternò–Büchi reaction. A great collaboration with Kent and the Wright lab at UW.
Solid-state synthesis of the truxillates
In JACS today, Ellie, Hyung Joo, and Matt report a general approach to the truillate family of natural products enabled by solid state photochemistry. Synthetically, this paper complements the route to the truxinates we published …