July 4-8, 2013:
Dr Wheeler gave an invited talk on non-covalent interactions at the
International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) in Kauai, HI
July 2, 2013:
Our NSF Grant "SusChEM: Rational Design of Chiral Bipyridine N-Oxides for the Catalytic Propargylation of Aromatic Aldehydes" has been recommended for funding through the Chemical Catalysis (CAT) program
June 25, 2013:
Rajesh and Jacob's paper on the
transferability of substituent effects in π-stacking interactions has been published in JCTC
June 23-28, 2013:
Dr Wheeler presented work on the rational design of organocatalysts for propargylation reactions at the
Physical Organic Gordon conference
June 2, 2013:
Hanh Nguyen (undergraduate at Whitworth University) has joined the group as a summer REU student
May 30, 2013:
Prafull Prakash (Masters student, IIT-Bombay) has joined the group for the summer
May 10, 2013:
Dr Wheeler talked about N-oxide catalyzed allylation and propargylation reactions at the
SETCA meeting at Auburn University
May 9, 2013:
Trevor and Jacob both received teaching awards from the First Year Program in Chemistry
May 1, 2013:
Jacob Bloom received the Bruno J. Zwolinski Award in Physical Chemistry from the TAMU Department of Chemistry
April 17, 2013:
Our cover design was selected for the April issue of
Accounts of Chemical Research on "Aromatic Interactions in Chemistry and Biology"
April 12, 2013:
Ulises Rangel received the Hypercube Scholar Award from the TAMU Department of Chemistry
April 9, 2013:
Dr Wheeler received the
OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the ACS COMP Division at the Spring 2013 ACS Meeting
April 6-11, 2013:
Ulises Rangel, Diana Sepulveda, and Jacqueline Maguire all presented posters at the National ACS Meeting in New Orleans
March 15, 2013:
Dr Wheeler gave the Chemistry Departmental Colloquium at the University of Missouri
February 5, 2013:
Dr Wheeler has received an
NSF CAREER Award
February 1, 2013:
Dr Wheeler gave a talk on non-covalent interactions and organocatalysis at Southern Methodist University
January 2, 2013:
Jacob's paper with
Anne McNeil on Ni-catalyzed aryl-aryl cross couplings has been published in
Dalton Transactions
November 27, 2012:
Elango's paper with Dmitri Voronine (
Scully group) has been published in
Scientific Reports
November 8, 2012:
Dr Wheeler gave a talk on non-covalent interactions at Oklahoma State University
October 27, 2012:
Mark Porterfield won the undergraduate poster award at
SWTCC!
October 27, 2012:
Trevor, Diana, Yi, Jacob, Elango, Diana, Ulises, and Mark all presented posters at SWTCC
October 26-28, 2012:
We hosted the 29th Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (SWTCC) here at Texas A&M
October 10, 2012:
Tong and Mark's paper on
N-oxide catalyzed allylations and propargylations has been published in
Org. Lett.
September 1, 2012:
Trevor Seguin has joined the group as a graduate student.
August 10, 2012:
Jacob and Rajesh's paper on
XH/π interactions has been published in JCTC.
July 1, 2012:
Trevor Seguin, an incoming graduate student, has joined the group for the summer.
June 25-30, 2012:
Dr. Wheeler attended the 14th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) in Boulder, CO.
June 21-23, 2012:
Dr. Wheeler gave an invited lecture on the stereoselectivity of N-oxide catalyzed alkylation reactions at the UCLA ICQC Satellite Symposium: QM and MD of Organic and Biological Reactivity
June 7, 2012:
Our paper with Mike Duncan on the
Protonated Benzene Dimer has been published in JPCA
May 29, 2012:
Jackie Maguire and Ulises Rangel have joined the group as REU students.
May 23, 2012:
Our paper on
Controlling the orientations of π-stacked polycyclic systems has been published in CrystEngComm.
May 17-19, 2012:
Dr. Wheeler gave a talk at the Southeast Theoretical Chemistry Conference (SETCA) at the University of Georgia.
March 8, 2012:
Libby's paper
Impact of Neighboring Chains on Torsional Defects in Oligothiophenes has been published in JPCA
February 3, 2012:
Our paper with
Ken Houk and
Eric Kool on
DNA Isosteres has been published in JACS
January, 2012:
Mark Porterfield and Sean Lau have joined the group as undergraduate researchers
January 15, 2012:
Rajesh has left the group to join
Ed Brothers' group at TAMUQ as a postdoc. We had a going-away dinner at Chuy's.
January 9, 2012:
Tong's paper
Origin of Enantioselectivity in the Propargylation of Aromatic Aldehydes Catalyzed by Helical N-Oxides has been published in JACS
December, 2011:
Diana Sepulveda has joined the group as a graduate student
November 28, 2011:
Dr Wheeler gave a talk on π-Stacking Interactions in Organic Chemistry at New College of Florida
November 22, 2011:
Dr Wheeler gave a talk on π-Stacking Interactions in Organic Chemistry at the University of North Florida
November 9-12, 2011:
Tong, Dr. Zhu, Elango, and, and Yi presented posters at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the ACS (SWRM)
October 21-24, 2011:
Tong and Dr Wheeler gave talks at
Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (SWTCC) at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. Jacob presented a poster
October, 2011:
Our paper on Greenhouse Gas Molecules has been published as a "Feature Article" in the
Notices of the American Mathematical Society. It was also featured on the cover of the November issue:
September 16, 2011:
Rajesh's MiniReview on
Non-Covalent Interactions has been published in
ChemPhysChem.
July 24-29, 2011:
Dr Wheeler gave a talk on Stacking Interactions at the
14th International Symposium on Novel Aromatics (ISNA-14) in Eugene, Oregon.
July 5, 2011:
Jacob's paper on
Taking the Aromaticity out of Aromatic Interactions has been published in Angew. Chem. Check out the coverage of the work in
Chemistry World!
June 29, 2011:
Our review on
Homodesmotic Reactions for Thermochemistry has been published in WIREs Computational Molecular Science.
June 9, 2011:
Our paper on the
Local Nature of Substituent Effects in Stacking Interactions has been published in JACS.
May 30, 2011:
Libby Vujanovich has joined the group as an REU student. Libby will start her senior year at St. John's University in New York this Fall.
May 23, 2011:
Tongxiang (Aaron) Lu has joined the group as a postdoc. Tong joins us from the
Schaefer group.
May 2, 2011:
Elango Munusamy has joined the group as a postdoc. Elango joins us from Pavel Hobza's group.
April 6, 2011:
Our
Welch Foundation Grant has been funded for three years. The grant will start June 1, 2011.
March 25, 2011:
Dr Wheeler gave invited lectures on substituent effects in stacking interactions at
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and the University of Zurich. His host at EPFL was
Clemence Corminboeuf. His host at the University of Zurich was Jay Siegel.
Feb 9, 2011:
Dr Rongxiu Zhu has joined the group as a visiting scientist. Dr Zhu is a Chemistry Professor at Shandong University.
Feb 5-9, 2011:
Dr Wheeler gave an invited lecture on the Local Nature of Substituent Effects in Stacking Interactions at the
2011 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop.
January 20, 2011:
Dr Wheeler gave an invited lecture on Stacking Interactions at the 2011 QAFCO-TAMUQ Chemistry Conference in Doha, Qatar.
December, 2011:
Rajesh Raju has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Rajesh completed his Ph.D. in the groups of
Ian Hillier and
Neil A. Burton at The University of Manchester, UK.
December, 2011:
Jacob Bloom has joined the group as a graduate student. Jacob completed his M.S. degree at the
Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry
December 14-17, 2010:
Dr Wheeler gave an invited talk on High-Accuracy Computational Thermochemistry at
Mathematics Analysis and Control in Chemical Physics and Related Systems at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
October 25, 2010:
Yi An has joined the group as our first graduate student.
October 22-24, 2010:
Dr Wheeler gave an invited talk on non-covalent interactions at the 2010 Southwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (SWTCC).
October, 2010:
Our
ACS-PRF Grant has been funded. The grant will start January 1, 2011.
July 2010:
Dr Wheeler gave an invited talk on High-Accuracy Computational Thermochemistry at the TAMU/Princeton Summer School on Quantum Science and Engineering in Casper, WY
