Our paper, “Harnessing Alkyl Amines as Electrophiles for Nickel-Catalyzed Cross Couplings via C–N Bond Activation” is one of the Top 20 most downloaded JACS articles for the previous 12 months! Check it out: https://pubs.acs.org/action/showMostReadArticles?topArticlesType=recent&journalCode=jacsat
Congratulations, Newly Tenured Grad Students!
Congratulations, Dr. Basch!!
Congratulations, Dr. Corey Basch! Dr. Basch defended his thesis, “Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings via Activation of Alkyl Carbon–Nitrogen Bonds” with spectacular success! Corey established alkyl pyridinium salts as effective electrophiles for cross-couplings. We will miss you, and wish you the best in your postdoc with Prof. Tom Rovis!
Watson Group at SERMACS
Our Work Featured in JACS Young Investigator Issue
Our article on nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings via C–N bond activation is featured in the JACS Young Investigators Virtual Issue! Congratulations to the team, Corey Basch, Jennie Liao, Jianyu Xu, and Jake Piane! Read more on UDaily.
Undergraduate Research and Service Celebratory Symposium
New Method for Quat Center Formation
Congratulations to Kelsey Cobb, Javon Rabb-Lynch, Megan Hoerrner, Alex Manders, and Qi Zhou on their recent development of a stereospecific Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling of allylic pivalates to set all-carbon quaternary stereocenters (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02063)! This reaction is enabled by a simple nickel/BISBI catalyst system, and enables efficient formation of allylic products with internal alkenes.
Congratulations, Graduates!
Our Work Highlighted on Design for Science
Corey, Jennie, Jianyu, and Jake’s cross coupling of alkyl amines is featured on Design for Science. Read it here: http://d4sci.com/activating-carbon-nitrogen-bonds-alkyl-amines-as-alkylating-agents/
Our C–N Bond Activation Featured on Science Blog
Derek Lowe highlights our recent work in his blog, “In the Pipeline.” Read it here: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/04/07/couple-your-primary-amines.
The Latest from our Lab: Cross Couplings via C–N Bond Cleavage
Congratulations to Corey Basch, Jennie Liao, Jianyu Xu, and Jake Piane for their recent discovery of a new nickel-catalyzed cross coupling of alkyl pyridinium salts (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b02389)! When coupled with efficient formation of pyridinium salts from primary amines, this reaction enables the use of alkyl amines to alkyl arenes. It is the first cross coupling of an alkyl amine derivative with unactivated alkyl groups.
Congratulations, Dr. Cobb!
Congratulations to Dr. Kelsey Cobb on the successful defense of your thesis! Kelsey’s research focused on new nickel-catalyzed cross couplings of amine and alcohol derivatives to prepare highly enantioenriched products. We wish you all the best in your next position at Solenis!
New website goes live!
Welcome to our new website! Stay tuned for frequent updates on our research and group.
Congratulations, Dr. Liu!
Congratulations to Dr. Jixin Liu on the successful defense of your thesis! In our group, Jixin pioneered the development of diastereoselective and enantioselective alkynylations of oxocarbenium and iminium ion intermediates. We wish you all the best in your next position at Adesis!