UW-Madison Department of Chemistry
This has been a great year for awards to Yoon lab members! Nic Reed – PPG Mentoring Award Nic Reed – Goering Organic Chemistry Fellowship Jesse Kidd – Sam Slifkin Award BJ Lee – Goering Organic Chemistry Fellowship Grace Lutovsky – 3M Science & Technology Fellowship Sam Gockel – GSFLC Mentor Award Wes Swords – …
Congratulations to Yoon lab second-years Grace and Matt for their honorable mension and fellowship, respectively, from the NSF GFRP! Two of 21 (!?!?!?!) to UW–Madison Chemistry this year!
Evan and Hoimin’s discovery of Bronsted acid catalyzed triplet sensitization is online at Chem Sci. This third chapter in our triplet activation story is again in collaboration with the Baik group at KAIST.
The Yoon lab is pleased to welcome its newest graduate student, Matthew Rossler!
BJ and Kimberly have developed a method for alkoxylation of benzylic C–H bonds with a range of alcohol nucleophiles, featuring very high site-selectivity and functional group compatibility. The method, first reported on ChemRxiv, has now been published in ACIE.
Jian, Wes, Hoimin, Kaz, and Jesse have identified an unusual mechanism of enantioselective photoactivation in a JACS full paper. This study required synthetic and kinetic studies from our group, transient absorption spectroscopy in Jerry Meyer‘s group, and computations in Mookie Baik‘s group. What a team!
Mary Beth and BJ’s study of asymmetric cinnamate ester photocycloadditions appears in JACS. Part of a great collaboration with the Baik group at KAIST!
We are pleased to contribute Adrian and Evan’s article on a Photocatalytic Strategy for Pyrrolidine Synthesis to the Asian JOC Special Issue on Heterocyclic Chemistry.
Elliot, Steven, and Wes have published a full paper in JACS analyzing the origins of a surprising counteranion effect in photocatalytic radical anion Diels–Alder cycloadditions. A paper six years in the making!
Tehshik is honored to be a recipient of a 2019 Cope Scholar Award — along with colleague Bob McMahon!