Le Research Group | York University | Department of Chemistry

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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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- RECENT NEWS -

Spring 2025

January: Ali's first-author paper on "Intramolecular Fluoroacylation Enabled by TrBF4-Catalyzed Fluoride Recycling" is now published in Organic Letters. Christine is awarded the 2025 CNC-IUPAC Travel Grant.

February: Dusty is awarded a highly prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Samantha is awarded the National Canadian Society for Chemistry Silver Medal for the top graduating student from the undergraduate chemistry program at York. Congrats to both!

March: Christine gives an invited lecture at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego in the Chemistry Across the Border symposium. Samantha presents at the 53rd Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference at the University of Guelph and wins an oral presentation prize.

April: We bid farewell to Samantha and Sepehr who successfully defended their CHEM 4000 Honors Thesis projects. Christine gives an invited lecture at Brock University. Maryam's review titled "Carbamoyl Fluorides: A Platform to Interrogate Fluoride-Enabled Reactivity" is now published in Synthesis.

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