Group News

  • Jacob Presents at UD’s Winter Undergraduate Research Symposium

    Jacob Presents at UD’s Winter Undergraduate Research Symposium

    Jacob presented his recent work on the synthesis of Pd complexes at UD’s Winter Undergraduate Research Symposium….Continue Reading Jacob Presents at UD’s Winter Undergraduate Research Symposium

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  • Congratulations to Allyssa for a successful defense!

    Congratulations to Allyssa for a successful defense!

    Congrats to Dr. Allyssa Conner on her recent successful defense of her dissertation! Allyssa’s dissertation is titled “The Development of Transition-Metal Catalyzed Methods Utilizing Silicon-Containing Compounds and Nitroalkanes”. She will…

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  • Welcome Seth and Grayson!

    Welcome Seth and Grayson!

    The Don Watson lab recently welcome two new PhD students into the group: Seth Brown and Grayson Pipher. Seth comes to us from the University of Texas at San Antonio.…

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  • Brooke, Catherine, Ellie, and Mariah attend Women in Chemistry Day at Bristol Myers Squibb

    Brooke, Catherine, Ellie, and Mariah attend Women in Chemistry Day at Bristol Myers Squibb

    Brooke, Catherine, Ellie, and Mariah attended Bristol Myers Squibb’s (BMS) annual Women in Chemistry Event, held at the BMS site in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on October 25. They had…

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  • Undergraduate Research Conference

    Undergraduate Research Conference

    Jacob and Andrew presented their summer research at the University of Delaware’s Summer Scholars Symposium on August 8th….Continue Reading Undergraduate Research Conference

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  • Ellie and Mariah attend the GRS/GRC

    Ellie and Mariah attend the GRS/GRC

    Ellie and Mariah attended the 2024 Organic Reactions and Processes Gordon Research Seminar and Conference in Smithfield, Rhode Island from July 20 – 26, 2024. Throughout the week they were…

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  • A New Website

    After months of work across the group, we are excited to debut the brand new Don Watson group website and logo! A huge thank you to Catherine Mudd for spearheading…

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  • Outreach at UD’s Early Learning Center

    Outreach at UD’s Early Learning Center

    On July 1st and 3rd, the group, in collaboration with Mary Watson’s lab (UD), spent two mornings performing science outreach at UD’s Early Learning Center. The groups worked together to…

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  • Congrats to Raphael, Lebo, Jacob, Derek, and Catherine on their paper!

    Congrats to Raphael, Lebo, Jacob, Derek, and Catherine on their paper!

    Building on the group’s previous biaryl work, Raphael, Lebo, Jacob, Derek, and Catherine have recently published a highly cross- and atroposelective coupling between ortho-(chloro)arylphosphine oxides and ortho-(bromo)aryl ethers to generate MOP-type ligands…

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