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We are a synthetic research group in the Department of Chemistry at York University focused on the

design of new organic and organometallic reactions for applications in drug discovery and development

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October 2023

Dusty's first author paper on the "Fluoride-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Carbamoyl Fluorides and Alkynylsilanes" was published in Organic Letters! Congrats to all.

September 2023

We bid farewell to Darnella and Angela, and welcome new students Addia, Xavier and Sepehr to the group!

June 2023

Our paper Synthesis of Carbamoyl Fluorides Using a Difluorophosgene Surrogate Derived from Difluorocarbene and Pyridine N-Oxides was awarded the 2023 JOC Outstanding Publication of the Year! Read the ACS Interview with Christine and the YFile news article.
Christine co-organized OC in 2023: Showcasing the Diversity of People and Pursuits at the 2023 CSC Meeting in Vancouver with Prof. Marc Adler.
Congratulations to Alex for winning the 1st Place Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award at the CSC meeting!

May 2023

Ali's first author paper on the "Boron Trifluoride-Catalyzed Intramolecular Fluorocarbamoylation of Alkynes via Halide Recycling" was published in JACS! Congrats to all.
We bid farewell to Alex and Yuriko who successfully defended their CHEM 4000 thesis projects and will be pursuing their PhDs at the University of Chicago and University of Michigan.
New undergraduate students Angela (NSERC USRA recipient) and Darnella (CHEM 4000 student) join the lab. Welcome!
After a 9-month internship with our group (supported by MITACS), Dima is off to the University of Toronto to pursue his PhD studies.

April 2023

Our review article on the "Carbofluorination of π-Bonds and Related Reactions Involving Tandem C−C/C−F Bond Formation" was published in EurJOC as a part of the #NextGenOrgChem Special Collection. Congrats Ali and Dusty!
Our MITACS Accelerate Grant in collaboration with Prof. Chris Caputo was successfully funded.
Christine is part of an NSERC CREATE grant led by Prof. Sergey Krylov on Technology-Enhanced Pharmaceutical Discovery that was successfully funded.
Alex is the recipient of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award.

November 2022

Congratulations to Dmytro for winning a MITACS Globalink Research Award to continue his research project in our lab.