September 2024

• We bid farewell to Xavier who successfully defended his CHEM 4000 thesis project and welcome Samantha (CHEM 4000 student) and Sepehr (CHEM 4000 student) to join our group!

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July 2024​

• Maryam's first author paper on "Pd-catalyzed Suzuki-type cross-coupling of 2-pyridyl carbamoyl fluorides" was published in Chem. Commun! This article was featured in the 2024 Emerging Investigators Collection. Congrats to all!

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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!

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September 2023

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

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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!

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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.

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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. 

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November 2022

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

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