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. 

 

November 2022

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

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September 2022

• Christine was awarded the 2022 Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award. Read more about it in YFile News.

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August 2022

• Our group's first paper is published in J. Org. Chem. and was selected as an ACS Editors' Choice Article. Congratulations to Dusty, Tristan, and George!

• Dmytro joins our lab as a MITACS Globalink Research Intern from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukraine. Welcome! 

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July 2022

• Tristan successfully defends his MSc thesis, marking a milestone in the Le Group as the first student to graduate.

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May 2022

• Dusty receives an NSERC PGS-D Scholarship - well done!

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April 2022

• Ali interviews Prof. Nicholas Ball as a part of C&EN's special issue featuring LBGT Trailblazers. Check it out here. 

• Congratulations to Yuriko for winning a NSERC USRA and to Alex for winning a Dean's Undergraduate Research Award from the Faculty of Science!

• Christine highlights some history of FDG and its applications in PET imaging in Nature Chemistry's In Your Element column.

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November 2021

• Congratulations to Dusty and Ali for winning oral presentation prizes at the 2th Annual CBGRC conference!

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October 2021

• Our ACS Petroleum Research Fund New Directions Grant has been approved for funding!

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September 2021

• We welcome three new undergraduate students to the group, Sara, Zichuan and Yuriko.

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August 2021

• Our CFI funding for critical research infrastructure has been approved! Check out the YFile announcement and the Toronto Star news article.

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July 2021

• Christine highlights recent work by the Leonari group in Nature News & Views.

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June 2021

• We thank NSERC for funding our Discovery Grant on "New Building Blocks for the Catalytic Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds" (2021 Discovery Grants Competition results)

• We welcome Temi Ajayi, a summer undergraduate research assistant, from McMaster University to our group.

• Congratulations to Dusty for winning an Ontario Graduate Scholarship! 

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May 2021

• We welcome Tristan Tiburcio (MSc student, co-supervised with Prof. Caputo) and George Cieszynski (York Science Scholars Award recipient) to our group.

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April 2021

• Congratulations to Cora for winning the Dean's Undergraduate Research Award from the Faculty of Science!

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September 2020

• We welcome Dusty (PhD student), Ali (MSc student), and Cora (undergraduate student) to the group. ​

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May 2020

• The Le Lab is moving to York University July 2020. We are actively recruiting students interested in engaging in research at all levels (undergraduate, MSc, PhD). If you are interested in joining, find out more information here.