April 2012 Congratulations to Andy for winning a
Goldwater Fellowship. The Dartmouth Now press
release says this makes him among "the nation's most
promising scientists."
March 2012 Samantha presented a talk and a poster at the San Diego National ACS meeting. Back home, Matt's 2nd year seminar talk on the tricky problem of using racemic catalysts to determine the selectivity of a reaction completed that requirement.
January 2012 C3 symmetry! Matt's Organometallics paper on the new P-stereogenic triphosphine "MT-Siliphos" was published here. Check out the structures of the triphosphine(borane) below, plus several metal complexes.
Group grows again. In addition to
the new grad students below, welcome Presidential Scholar
Cory Chang '13 and sabbatical visitor Professor Natalia
Blank Ph.D. 2005, from Norwich
University in Vermont.
Thanksgiving 2011 A successful recruiting
year! Adding 3 new grad students means the group
doubles in size (at least temporarily). Welcome to
Chris Knarr (Humboldt State U, California), Balazs Varga
(ELTE, Hungary), and Ge Wang (Lanzhou U, China), shown left
to right below.
November 22, 2011 New
Ph.D. graduate! Dr. Matt Cain completed his thesis
defense today. Next stop: a postdoc at MIT with Dick
Schrock in January. The quiet glow of accomplishment
looks like this:
On the right: alum Brian Anderson PhD 2008 made the
drive up from Keene State U for the thesis defense.
Fall term 2011 Welcome to new undergraduate
Andy Zureick '13, who is spending part of his off term
making chiral platinum complexes in the lab.
October 2011 Dave's book review of
"Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in Catalysis and
Material Sciences" is now out in JACS here.
September 2011 New grad student Chris Knarr
(from Humboldt State University, California) arrived early
and worked in our lab this summer.
September 2011 Matt went to Bangkok for the
Reaxys Prize Symposium at the Asian Chemical Congress.
Photos:
August 2011 Brian Anderson Ph.D. '08 has started his
assistant professor job at nearby Keene State
University. Check out his home page, complete with
hiking photo, here.
July 2011 More alumni news from academia
¶ Denyce Wicht Ph.D. '99 was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Suffolk U, Boston. Way to go Denyce!
¶ John Jewett '03 is moving from his postdoc
at Berkeley to an assistant professor position at University of
Arizona, in Tucson. Here
is John's new home page.
¶ Yoji
Kobayashi
'01 narrowly beat out John as the first undergraduate
from our group to get an academic job, as assistant
professor at Kyoto
University, Japan.
July 2011 Upcoming conferences: Matt will attend the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (student conference) at Salve Regina U, Rhode Island, then, at the same location, the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Conference; Dave will also be at that one.
Next up for Matt, the ACS fall national meeting in
Denver.
May 2011 Matt is a finalist (one of
45 worldwide) for the Reaxys
Prize, to be awarded for "research and publication
excellence in organic, inorganic, and organometallic
chemistry." Next stop: Bangkok, for the Prize symposium at
the Asian Chemical Congress
in September.
Alumni news: Natalia Blank (Ph.D. 2005) was
promoted to associate professor with tenure at Norwich U, Vermont.
Congratulations,
Natalia!
April 2011 Another review, on substrate
and catalyst control in asymmetric catalysis on symmetrical,
bifunctional substrates, has been published in the new RSC
journal Catalysis Science
and Technology. Click here for
this "Perspective" article.
March 2011 Several new papers came out
this winter. Click for the links.
1. Pt and Au-menthyl
complexes in Organometallics (Ashley and Samantha)
2. Electrochemistry
of Matt's ferrocenylmethylphosphines in JOMC (thanks to Chip Nataro
from Lafayette College)
3. For the special Bergman
issue of Inorganica Chimica Acta, Matt's
Cu-diphenylphosphinoquinoxaline chemistry, with related work
by Samantha and Brian.
January 2011 Brian Anderson (Ph.D. 2008)
will return to New Hampshire in summer 2011 as an assistant
professor at Keene State
College! Brian is now teaching @St.
Lawrence University.
November 2010 Two new grad students! Matt
Sanderson (MS, University of Texas, Austin) and Tiffany
Simons (Ramapo College, New Jersey) have joined our group.
Here's the new picture (January 2011), with, from left to
right, Samantha, Matt S, Matt C (standing) and Tiffany.
August 30, 2010 Supermodel Matt poses with
his Inorganic
Chemistry cover picture, also available here.
Photo credit: Samantha.
July 13, 2010 Congratulations to Matt, who
received one of the departmental GAANN
fellowships, and had his lengthy paper
on copper-catalyzed alkylation of diphenylphosphine
published here
in Inorganic Chemistry.
July 2010 Our latest review article, "Recent Advances in
Metal-Catalyzed C–P Bond Formation," has now appeared in the
book series Topics in
Organometallic Chemistry in a volume edited by
Arkadi Vigalok on C-X
Bond Formation. Available
June 2010 Dr. Tim Chapp
completed his thesis defense. More congratulations to
him for a string of papers this year and for getting a job at
Hamilton College (see below). This is Ph.D. student
#9...the score is now 5 women to 4 men.
May 2010 Tim wins
Dartmouth's Filene
Teaching Award, to augment his Chemistry department Wolfenden
Teaching Award and Stockmayer Fellowship.
Plus, his 2nd Organometallics paper is now out here.
Matt and
Samantha have completed their research proposals. Both
will make presentations at the summer ACS Boston national
meeting. Matt will also be in Seattle this summer
for a few days at the CENTC
summer school.
April 2010 Congratulations to
Tim, who got a visiting professor position at Hamilton College!
Looking forward to the summer and next year, we will welcome
new undergraduate students Ethan Emerson (Bates College,
materials summer REU) and Chris Valleau (Dartmouth '12,
Presidential Scholar).
March 2010
Our Inorganic Chemistry paper
on a self-assembled Au8P8 cluster is now on
the web, thanks to Liz and Tim. Click here.
January 2010
Much
more
news from the fall term
¶ Former postdoc Tess Guino-o will move from teaching at Oberlin to a tenure-track position at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota
¶ Former postdoc Tim Brunker got a 3-year appointment as an endowed chair (Jess and Mildred Fisher Endowed Chair in Biological and Physical Sciences) at Towson University, Maryland. See the press release here.
¶ Ashley Zuzek '09 has joined Ged Parkin's group at Columbia
¶ Corina Scriban Ph.D. '06 will move from CARLA (Heidelberg) to Johnson Matthey Catalysis and Chiral Technologies (Cambridge, England)
¶ Tim's
first Dartmouth paper has appeared in Organometallics here.
Check out this nice example of negative cooperativity in
catalysis.
June 2009 Lots of news items
from this academic year:
• Just like Liz Lane '08 before them, graduating seniors Adam
Schoenfeld and Ashley Zuzek '09 received the department's
Steven Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award at the
department's Senior Honors Lunch.
• Congratulations to Adam and Ashley, who are graduating with
honors. Adam's off to UCSF medical school; Ashley to
Columbia's Ph.D. chemistry program. Here they are, June
2009. See the photos page
for more pictures from our barbecue.
• Tess Guino-o got a 1-year job teaching organic chemistry at
Oberlin, and will start there soon.
• Brian Anderson got a similar job at St. Lawrence, Tim's alma
mater.
• Tim and Matt gave talks and posters at the Salt Lake City
ACS national meeting.
• Tess and Samantha will go to the Washington DC national
meeting later this summer.
• REU student Sara Roderiques (Stonehill College) will soon
arrive for the summer.
• Our paper on ferrocenylmethylphosphines (thanks to Mitch Pet
and Matt Cain) has finally appeared in JOMC here.
•
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.
For OLD news (2007-2002),
click here.
last update 4.16.12