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Congrats to Beatrice and Omar for their short synthesis of Homobenzotetramisole and congeners in J. Org. Chem.!
Simultaneous Structure–Activity Studies and Arming of Natural Products by C–H Amination
19 May, 2013Congrats to Jing, Cong-Ying and our collaborators in the Cravatt and Rodriguez laboratories for our joint paper in Nature Chemistry.
University Awards and Fellowships
20 March, 2013Congrats to Morgan Shirley for receiving the Montgomery Graduate Endowed Fellowship, Buck Weirus Aggie Spirit Award, and Guseman Award.
Dow Chemical Graduate Fellowship
17 February, 2013Congrats to JC Reyes for receiving the Dow Chemical Graduate Fellowship and Sharon Dabney Memorial Scholarship.
Dr. Fred Briones (Ph.D. w/ Huw Davies, Emory University)
14 October, 2012Welcome to our new post-doc Dr. Fred Briones (Ph.D. w/ Huw Davies, Emory University).
Medicinal Chemist Dr. Gang Liu (MD Anderson, Institute for Applied Cancer Sciences)
23 July, 2012Congrats to Dr. Gang Liu for successfully defending his dissertation and starting his positions as a Medicinal Chemist at MD Anderson, Institute for Applied Cancer Sciences.
Bioinspired Total Synthesis of Agelastatin A
11 June, 2012Congrats to JC for his bioinspired synthesis of Agelastatin A that appeared in Angewandte Chemie! Article was featured on back cover, graphic contributed by JC!
Senior Scientist Dr. Carolyn Leverett (Medicial Chemistry at Pfizer)
8 May, 2012Dr. Carolyn Leverett secured a Research Scientist position at Pfizer (Groton, CT)! Congrats Carolyn!
Assistant Professor Andy Mitchell (Illinois State University)
8 May, 2012Former graduate student, Asst. Prof. Andy Mitchell (Illinois State University) received his first independent grant from Research Corporation! Way to go Andy!
Congrats to Wang for his contribution to the synthesis of 15N-labelled oroidin published in JNP in collaborative biosynthetic studies with the Molinski group.
Pyrrole-Aminoimidazole Alkaloid Metabiosynthesis with Marine Sponges
14 February, 2012Congrats to Wang for his collaborative biosynthetic studies with the Molinski group (UC San Diego) to appear in Angewandte Chemie!
Cyclopropanations of Natural Products for Simultaneous Arming and Structure Activity Studies
13 February, 2012Omar’s contribution to our toolbox for natural product simultaneous arming via cyclopropanations will appear in Org. Lett. Congrats!
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
10 February, 2012Best wishes to Ta (Supakarn) as she starts a new chapter as an Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand having completed her Ph.D. in Fall 2011!
LKT Laboratories, Inc. - Specialty Biochemical Resource
2 February, 2012Congrats to Henry Nguyen who recently secured a Senior Scientist position at LKT Laboratories, Inc. in Minnesota!
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Research Symposium
30, January 2012Congrats to JC for being the Departmental nominee for the ACS Division of Org. Chem. Research Symposium!
A Diastereoselective, Nucleophile-Promoted Aldol-Lactonization of Ketoacids Leading to Bicyclic-β-Lactones
19 January, 2012Kudos to Gang and Morgan for their recently accepted JOC Note describing a new and improved NCAL procedure!
Mechanistic Investigations of the ZnCl2-Mediated Tandem Mukaiyama Aldol Lactonization
30 December, 2011A full paper describing the full, rich, and long saga of the TMAL mechanism appeared in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congrats to Zhao, Andy, and Ravi and thanks to Lisa (Lab for Molecular Simulation) for computational efforts!
Diazo Reagents for Simultaneous Arming/SAR Studies of Alcohol-Containing Natural Products via OH Insertion
26 August, 2011Congrats to Ta (Supakarn) for her paper in ACS Chem. Biol. describing a strategy for natural product tagging in collaboration with the Liu Group at Johns Hopkins! Article was featured on cover, graphic contributed by Mikail!
Switching Between Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms for Dyotropic Rearrangements
19 July, 2011Congrats to Carolyn for her mechanistic paper in JOC in collaboration with the Tantillo group at UC Davis!
Total Synthesis of (+)-Omphadiol
14 July, 2011Congrats to Gang for his elegant synthesis of Omphadiol that appeared in Angewandte Chemie! Article was featured on cover, graphic contributed by Mikail! Also highlighted on B.R.S.M. and TotallySynthetic blogs and in Synfacts!
Biosynthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis, and Pharmacology of Pyrrole-2-Aminoimidazole Marine Alkaloids
3 July, 2011Congrats to Manuel for his major contributions to the review in Natural Product Reports on the Pyrrole Aminoimidazole Alkaloids. Review was featured on cover, graphic contributed by Mikail!
Organocatalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Bicyclic ß-Lactones from Aldehyde Acids via NCAL
28 March, 2011Our first Organic Synthesis procedure was published! Congrats to Henry, Seongho, Huda, and Diana!
Romo earns 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award for Research
24 March, 2011The 2011 Distinguished Achievement Awards will be formally presented at 1:30 p.m. April 27 during a ceremony in Rudder Theater. In recognition of their achievements, each recipient will receive a $4,000 cash gift, an engraved watch and a commemorative plaque.
Bioinspired Total Synthesis of (-)-Salinosporamide A and Derivatives
7 January, 2011Congrats to Henry, Gil, and Genzyme collaborators on the Salinosporamide A full story in JOC as a featured article! Also featured as January JOC issue cover art! Contribution by Ranjith C. Perumalil (Visual Arts Dept., TAMU) and our own Mikail!
Asymmetric NCAL with Ketoacids
4 November, 2010Congrats to Carolyn and Vikram on their ACIE paper describing a practical, asymmetric NCAL with Ketoacids.
Bioinspired Total Synthesis of (-)-Salinosporamide A and Derivatives
3 November, 2010Congrats to Henry, Gil, and Genzyme collaborators on the Salinosporamide A - full story in JOC as a featured article.
A. E. Martell Travel Awards
1 November, 2010Congrats to Ta, Morgan, and Gang on receiving the A. E. Martell Travel Award for the Spring ACS National Meeting.
Congrats to Kay and Kevin on their OL paper describing Double Diastereoselective NCAL reactions and Oxygen Heterocycle-Fused Beta-Lactones.
Mild Arming and Derivatization of Natural Products
13 April, 2010Another mild natural product derivatization strategy was published in OL. Congrats to Cong-Ying, Jing, and Mahesh.
Synthesis of 15N-Oroidin and Biosynthetic Studies by Microscale 1H−15N HSQC and FTMS
22 January, 2010Congrats to Wang and JC for their synthesis of 15N-labelled oroidin published in JNP in collaborative biosynthetic studies with the Molinski group.
Inhibition of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay by Pateamine A
28 August, 2009A new twist in the Pateamine A story was described in JBC. Congrats to the Liu-Romo team.
