November 2008 Samantha's 2nd-year departmental seminar, on aza-Diels-Alder reactions, is now also done.

October 2008 Congratulations to Matt, who fulfilled his 2nd-year departmental seminar requirement with a well-received talk on NHC ligands in Suzuki couplings.
Our paper on Pt-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of the new AcePhos ring system, by Brian and Tess, has appeared in Organic Letters here. 

September 2008 Featured on the Dartmouth home page again -- Matt draws molecules on the glass, while Ashley and Adam are fuzzy in the background. Photo credit: Joseph Mehling '69,  Dartmouth College Photographer

See more new pictures on the current photos page

Two more papers have appeared on the web:
1. A Dalton Trans. review on nucleophilic M-X groups in catalysis
2. Brian's Organometallics paper on synthesis of chiral diphosphines via Pt-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation

June 2008 More pictures from the group barbecue to honor the proud graduates Dr. Brian and future Dr. Liz.  Main row: Tess Guino-o, David and Sarah Glueck, Brian Anderson, Samantha Reynolds, Tim Chapp, Lucy Glueck.  Front row: Liz Lane and Matt Cain.  In the tree: Adam Glueck. 

With the arrival of new REU student Brian Mosby (Grambling State U., Louisiana), group size has swelled to a record 9!  This will relax to more normal numbers after the summer when Liz and the 2 Brians are gone.

June 2008 Brian's hand and his photogenic molecule have been on the Dartmouth home page (see the far right at the top) for a while now.  Photo credit: Joseph Mehling '69,  Dartmouth College Photographer

Congratulations to Liz, who received the department's Steven Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award at yesterday's Senior Honors Lunch.

summer 2008 Upcoming events: Dave will present a talk at NERM in Burlington Vermont, while Liz and Adam will give posters at the Beckman Scholars symposium in Irvine CA.

May 29, 2008 Congratulations to Brian on the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis (#8; now 3 men and 5 women).  Next stop: a postdoc with Matt Sigman at the University of Utah.

late May 2008 Several new publications are on the web:

1. A concepts article in Chem. Eur. J. on Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Phosphanes
2. A review in Coord. Chem. Rev. on ³¹P NMR Spectroscopy in our catalytic asymmetric synthesis of P-stereogenic phosphines
3. Another Diana paper on gold nanoparticles

2-08 New group pictures are now here. So is new Presidential Scholar Ashley Zuzek '09.

11-07 Our review article on metal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of P-stereogenic phosphines appeared in Synlett.  After a brief hiatus (see the 7-06 entry below) a new European student has arrived, British-born Samantha Reynolds, via Winthrop U, South Carolina.  Also, a new postdoc, Marites Guino-o, from Karin Ruhlandt-Senge's group at Syracuse U.

summer 2007 was busy.  Liz and Alex went to Irvine CA for the Beckman Scholars conference.  Dave and Brian went to the Organometallics Gordon Conference in Newport, RI to deliver talks and posters.  Matt Cain, a new grad student from SUNY Geneseo, arrived.  So did Angela DiCiccio, a materials REU student from Mt. Holyoke.  On July 1, Dave began his new job as department chair.

6-07 Congratulations to graduating seniors Mitch Pet '07 and Alex Rupert '07, who received chemistry department prizes. For Alex, the George Haseltine 1854 Chemistry Physics prize, for students "showing the most promise in these two subjects" and for Mitch, the Chandler T. White 1916 Research Prize, for "outstanding performance in an independent research project."

5-07 Congratulations to Liz Lane '08 and Adam Schoenfeld '09, who received Beckman Scholarships for undergraduate research.

5-07 Natalia's full paper on Pd-catalyzed asymmetric phosphination (with 10 more authors!) is now in JACS here.

2-07 Two more papers, including our first-ever in Organic Letters (intramolecular Pd-catalyzed asymmetric phosphination to make P-stereogenic benzophospholanes [link]) and Corina's paper on the mechanism of Pt-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation of a secondary phosphine in Organometallics [link] are now on the web.

11-06 Two more Corina papers on Pt-phosphido complexes (as ligands and in catalytic hydrophosphination) have been published in Organometallics here and here.

7-06 Corina's departure breaks a record -- the group has, until now, always included a European student. Brian bravely volunteered to take on this role by visiting Germany for the World Cup. You can see the result here.

6-06 Corina's paper on µ-phosphido Pt complexes is now out in Organometallics. Several new undergrads have joined the group for the summer (Andrew Lee '08, Jeff Zhao '08, and Matt Herdiech (Materials REU student from Florida Tech)).

4-06 Natalia's paper on "breeding chirality" is now out in Organometallics.

3-29-06 Now-Dr. Corina successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis (#7 for the group). Next stop, a post-doc with Dick Schrock @MIT.

3-06 Alex Rupert '07 won a Goldwater Scholarship.

2-06 Back in JACS! Corina's paper on Pt-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation of secondary phosphines is now on the web, here. Our paper is back-to-back with a related one from Bob Bergman and coworkers @Berkeley, here. We are collaborating to develop this chemistry further with Celtic Catalysts in Ireland.

1-06 New year, new Ph.D. student (Tim Chapp from St. Lawrence University). Our paper on Pt-catalyzed hydrophosphination of a diene is out in Organometallics, here.

11-05 Former post-doc Liliana Miinea has moved on to a real job at Mallinckrodt Baker in NJ.

10-10-05 We have two papers (the first and the last!) in the October 10, 2005 issue of Organometallics. Click here, or here, to see them. Subjects: Pt-catalyzed hydrophosphination, and a new chiral ferrocene-diamine, respectively.

5-20-05 Another proud Ph.D. graduate (#6), Natalia Blank. Next assignment: teaching organic chemistry at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.

4-26-05 Our giant (17 pages!) paper on Pd-stilbene complexes is on the web in Organometallics.

2-2-05 Another Macromolecules paper. Thanks, Barney.

11-1-04 Nano-paper #2 is on the web in Macromolecules, thanks to a collaborative project devised by Barney Grubbs. This one's about Phenylethynylstyrene-Cobalt Carbonyl Block Copolymer Composites.

10-21-04 Our first-ever nano-paper is on the web in Langmuir. Gold-phosphido nanoclusters, to complement the small molecules we made earlier.

9-04 Professor Natalia is teaching freshman chemistry at Middlebury College!

7-04 Brian and Corina presented a talk and a poster, respectively, at the XXIst International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Vancouver, BC.

3-04 Our communication on P-C cleavage in Pd phosphetane complexes is out in Organometallics. Click here.

3-04 New Dr.! Diana Stefanescu completed her Ph.D. and will move on to NC State for a postdoc with Chris Gorman. She's Ph.D. #5 from the Glueck group, tipping the balance to women (3:2).

11-03 New paper (Diana's full report on gold phosphido complexes) is on the web in Inorganic Chemistry here.

New student. Brian Anderson from Skidmore College has joined the group. Click here to see his undergraduate research project in Langmuir.

7-21-03 Conference time this week. Tim Brunker is off to the Gordon Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Newport, RI) and Omar Amir will attend the Beckman Scholars symposium in Irvine, CA. Both will present posters on Pd chemistry.

7-18-03 Our paper on Pd-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of PAMP-BH₃ is out in Organometallics. Click here.

2-28-03 Click here (HTML) or here (PDF) to see our first-ever paper in Angewandte Chemie, on gold-phosphido complexes.

1-31-03 Our communication on Stereochemistry of Palladium-Mediated Synthesis of PAMP-BH₃ is now out in JACS. Click here for details.

10-25 to 10-27-02 Tim Brunker and Diana Stefanescu gave talks at the 35th annual Inorganic Discussion Weekend, [Sorry, their page works only for Explorer, not Netscape!] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Diana won one of two prizes for the best talk!

10-18-02 Our communication on Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Phosphination is on the JACS web page (and now in print -- 11-6-02 ). Click here for details.

7-7- to 7-12-02 Natalia Laritcheva and Corina Scriban presented posters at the XXth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, in Corfu, Greece.

Natalia received an honorable mention for her poster on asymmetric phosphination. This is one of only 4 prizes awarded to more than 400 posters!

7-02 Omar Amir '04 won a prestigious Beckman Scholarship for undergraduate research.

last update 11.25.08