TA Award for Katie

Congratulations to our teammate Katie, who received one of three Organic Outstanding TA Award from the Department!  Undergraduate teaching in Chemistry is a huge communal effort: every semester, we hire ~180 talented chemists to lead …

Truxinate Org Syn Prep

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 …