Organic chemistry research group at Indiana University-Bloomington focusing on alkene functionalization. Run by Kevin's students.
Bloomington, IN
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It's official: congratulations to our fearless leader for promotion to Full Professor!!! Nearly 90 people attended the promotion seminar and we couldn't be happier about the results. We can't think of anyone who deserves it more--fantastic work!!! 🥳🥳🥳
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First publication of 2022! In this perspective, we discuss achieving divergent arylboration reactivity via Pd/Cu cooperative catalysis--online now in @ACSCatalysis. Congrats @stanna_dorn! 🥳 @IUBChemistry #TeamCuPd
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👀Out now in @NatureComms👀
Is it a Propellane? Is it a Cubane? Oh no it’s a Ladderane!
Congrats to @RachelEpplin and @shashwati_paul for their great work on [2]-Ladderanes.🎉#TeamSquare
Check it out and find out what Ladderanes can do for you!
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🔥Out now in @J_A_C_S 🔥
A little bit of Boron a little bit of Energy Transfer! A lot of Cool Chemistry! Check it out 👀
Great work from current graduate student Yanyao Liu @Liu_Yanyao and former Post-Doc Dongshun Ni @angew2010 #TeamSquare #TeamEnT
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c08777
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🚨 Hot off the Press in @J_A_C_S 🚨
🫵🏻 Do you need access to diverse borylated building blocks?! The Brown lab & @SpiroChemAG have you covered!
Synthesis of Borylated Carbocycles by [2 + 2]-Cycloadditions and Photo-Ene Reactions
#TeamEnT #TeamBoron
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New work from #TeamCuPd online today! Congrats to @stanna_dorn and former undergrad @organnika_chem for their work on using Cu/Pd catalysis to access versatile double-allylation reagents. Great work! 🥳 #WomenInSTEM
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Congratulations to our superstar 4th year, @stanna_dorn, on winning an ACS WCC/Merck Research Award! We could not be more proud of you!!! 🥳 #TeamCuPd
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Hot off the press 🔥👀
Photosensitized [2 + 2]Cycloadditions
of Dioxaborole: Reactivity Enabled
by Boron Ring Constraint Strategy
Appearing in JACS! 🎉 Nice work @Liu_Yanyao 👏🏻
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c08105
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As our fearless leader likes to say “No Strain No Gain!” Azetidines never stood a chance!
Fantastic work from current graduate students Grace and Prashansa. 🎉
Check out their work on accessing Borylated N-Heterocycles! 👀
Out now in @angew_chem
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[2+2]-cycloaddition via energy transfer to an alkenylboronate? ✅
Check out work from grad student Yanyao (@liu_yanyao) + former postdoc Dongshun (@angew2010)!! We’re especially thankful for collaborators @IUBChemistry + @swierklab
Congrats everyone!🎉
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🚨Appearing today in @J_A_C_S 🚨
Diverse Synthesis of C-Glycosides by Ni-Catalyzed Carboboration of Glycals
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If you think this method might access interesting C-glycosides for your research, please email Kevin.
We are interested in collaborations!🤝🏻
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Out now in @angew_chem 👀
Synthesis of 2-Azanorbornanes via Strain-Release Formal Cycloadditions Initiated by Energy Transfer 🏠
✅ New Strain Release Reagent
✅ Diverse Products
✅ Lots of fun
Congratulations to all! @JeffChangChem @SpiroChemAG
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Out now in JACS 👀
Ni-Catalyzed 1,1- and 1,3-Aminoboration of Unactivated Alkenes 🔥
#TeamNi
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🎉 Congratulations to current graduate student Partha for passing his candidacy exam! 🍾
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The Brown lab proudly presents PhD #13 Dr. Stanna Dorn (@stanna_dorn)
Yesterday, the IU community had the pleasure of listening to the amazing work done by Dr. Dorn during her time here at IU!
You will be missed! @Caltech and @sarah_reisman sure are getting a good one!! 👏🏻
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🚨 Be sure to check out our new article appearing now in Accounts of Chemical Research! 👀
Congratulations to all! 👏🏻
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🚨Back-to-back energy transfer papers!🚨
Check out our latest work on strain-release cycloadditions of BCBs by group members Renyu + Yu-Che and collaborators @IUBChemistry + SpiroChem AG, online now in JACS--congrats everyone! 🎉🎉🎉
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2021 is off to a great start with a new paper on an amide-directed Ni arylboration out in Org. Lett.! Congrats @AliLambright, Yanyao, and former undergrad @IsaacJoyner5! 🥳 #TeamNi pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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Congratulations to current graduate student Neetu Sharma for passing her candidacy exam! 🥂
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It's that time of the year! Introducing the updated Brown laboratory group photo! 📷
#TeamEnT #TeamSquare #TeamNi #TeamCu&Pd #TeamBoron #IUChemistry
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She may be Ph.D. #9, but she's the first to defend virtually (to almost 80 people from around the world)! Congrats Dr. Erin Hancock! She'll be starting at @corteva later this year.
#TeamSquare #WomenInSTEM
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🚨An end of an era!🚨
The Brown lab treated the Brown Laboratory well!
Presenting the new and improved Brown laboratory logo!
Curtesy of @stanna_dorn 👀🔥
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Congrats to graduate students Grace and Phillip, and collaborators in the @pengliu_group, for their work on a Ni-catalyzed dearomative arylboration of indoles-- online now at JACS! Excellent work everyone 🥳 #TeamNi
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New work from the Brown Lab
Congrats to Shashwati Paul
Strategy for deaminative coupling with nitroso carbamates. Method was applied in the modification of lysine for non-canonical amino acid synthesis.
More to come in this area!
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🚨 The Brown Lab proudly introduces PhD #14 Dr. Grace Trammel! 🎉
The IU community had the pleasure to listen to Dr. Trammel discuss her PhD work on Arylboration for the synthesis of Borylated N-Heterocycles!
@corteva you have a good one coming your way! 👀
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Congrats to Renyu and Brittany, whose work on cajanusine is now out in @J_A_C_S ASAPs! Check out their synthetic strategy with the link below: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
#TeamSquare
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Group lunch to celebrate the end of the Summer! 🎉
Here is to a great Fall semester staring up soon!
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New Year New Paper outnow in @JOC_OL 🎉
Photochemical dearomative reduction of quinolines 👀
Be sure to give it a look! Great way to start the new year off on a positive note 👏🏻
#TeamEnt @SouvikA26351772
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Congrats to form postdoc @ASimlandy and current postdoc Mao-Yun for their work on the arylboration of spirocyclic cyclobutene scaffolds, online now in ACS Catalysis! 🥳 #TeamCuPd #TeamNi
@IUBChemistry @ACSCatalysis
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We at the Brown Lab are feeling extra thankful this morning! 😁
One of our recent papers on Photosensitized [2 + 2]-Cycloadditions of Dioxaborole: Reactivity Enabled by Boron Ring Constraint Strategy was highlighted in @ChemistryViews 🎉
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We had the opportunity today to hear Prof. Ken Houk talk about the history of pericyclic reactions, computational investigations, and pericyclases as part of the Ernest E. Campaigne Distinguished Lecture series @IUBChemistry! Amazing seminar🎉
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Congratulations to Shashwati for successfully defending her thesis! 🎉
@EliLillyandCo are getting a good one! 🥂
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👏🏻 Out now in #JACS 👀
Photochemical Dearomative Cycloadditions of Quinolines and Alkenes: Scope and Mechanism Studies Check it out here 👇🏻
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Thank you to our wonderful collaborators: Houk Group @UCLA @GloriusGroup, and Chen Group @oberlincollege
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🚨Out now in @ChemicalScience🚨
Do you need a way to access complex bicyclic scaffolds?! 👀
Well be sure to check out this work by current post doc Wang, current grad studnet @YanyaoCai, and former grad student Renyu.
#TeamEnT
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Making bonds outside the lab 😊
We tested our trivia knowledge and got 5th place! Turns out we know just a few things besides chemistry... 🎉
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🚨Big News!🚨
The Brown lab officially got their new glove box balance today! 🎉
Happy retirement to our 13 year old balance. It will be spending the rest of its time enjoying the views from the outside world! 🌁
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Super excited to use our new @bruker 500 MHz NMR w/ autosampler+cryoprobe, made possible via the NSF MRI program! Thanks to Kevin for leading the efforts + to Cook/Flood/Pohl/Smith/Gerdt/Caulton/Lewis labs for support. Shout out to NMR coordinator Frank Gao for his work on this!
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Our first publication on Ni-catalyzed arylboration of alkenylarenes is in @angew_chem! #teamnickel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Congratulations to our very own @shashwati_paul 👏🏻
She was awarded 1st place in the 2022 Watanabe Symposium poster competition! #TeamSquare #TeamEnT
Well done!🥇
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Congratulations to Dr. Yanyao Liu for a successful Ph.D. defence! 🍾🎉
PH.D. #16 from the Brown Lab 😁
@Merck you are getting a good one! 👏🏻👌🏻
#TeamEnT #TeamSquare #PhDone
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Drum Roll Please 🥁🥁
Introducing the newest members of the Brown Lab! 👀🔥
Featuring:
-Jasmine Tranin
-Suman Das
-Partha Hazra (@Prtha981)
-Neetu Sharma(@Neetusharma05iu)
The Brown group is excited to see what the future holds for these four!
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🚨Out now in @ChemicalScience 🚨
Cu/Pd-catalyzed arylboration of 1-silyl-1,3-cyclohexadiene for stereocontrolled and diverse cyclohexane/ene synthesis
Congratulation to Phillip, Alan, and @sumandas_12345 👏🏻🎉
#TeamCuPd #TeamMetal
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We've reached double digits!!! Congrats to Dr. Allison Bergmann (@ABergmann10), PhD #10, for an excellent defense yesterday. Great work! #TeamCu #TeamCuPd
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Happy international day of women in science! 🎉
Shoutout to all the women in the Brown Lab!
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Congratulations to one of our 3rd year grad students @SouvikA26351772! 🎉
He was selected to participate in @abbvie’s inaugural Process Chemistry Workshop in North Chicago!
Way to go! 👏🏻
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2,5-disubstituted bicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes as rigidified cyclopentane variants 👀
🔥 @ChemicalScience HOT article collection 🔥
Congratulations to current graduate student Shashwati, undergraduate Daniel and @SpiroChemAG for the wonderful collaboration! 🎉
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We couldn't have our normal holiday party this year, but we were still able to do a socially distanced/virtual celebration. Ft. @RachelEpplin + @stanna_dorn w/ festive sweaters + a mug we got Kevin to celebrate reaching Full Professorship! (Scheme inspired by @BaranLabReads)
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Congratulation to Prashansa Kannangara for passing her qualifying exam! 🎉
Cheers to being a PhD candidate! 🍾😁
#TeamMetal #TeamSquare #BrownLab #IUChemistry
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🫵🏻 attending ACS in Indianapolis?🚨
Be sure to catch all the talks featuring chemists from the Brown Laboratory!
You will not be disappointed 😁
#TeamSquare #TeamEnT #TeamCuPd #TeamNi
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🚨 CAS Future Leader Alert 🚨
All of us in the @KBrownLab would like to give a resounding congratulations to @stanna_dorn!
The Brown lab looks forward to watching all your successes through the years! 🎉
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📣 🥁 Introducing the newest Brown Lab group photo! 😎
You can spot some old faces as as well as some new faces! 🎉
Here is to another successful and fun year together!
#TeamSquare #TeamCuPd #TeamEnT #TeamNi #TeamBrown
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Do you love ladderanes? Cycloadditions? Watching talented students give their thesis defense? Regardless of your reasoning, you’re invited to Erin Hancock’s defense talk Mon., 4/20, at 4pm EST! 😊
If you’re interested, DM the group account or email erihanco@iu.edu for the link.
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Check out our work on expanding the scope of dearomative [4+2]-cycloadditions that led to an unexpected [2+2]-cycloaddition to make azetidines! 👀👏🏻
Congrats Wang! 🎉
#TeamEnT #Photochem
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Check out our latest work in @angew_chem! (Erin)^2 synthesized (+)-[5]-ladderanoic acid and discovered some unusual strain release driven reactivity #teamsquare
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Congrats to our undergrads Annika, Isaac, and Trevor for graduating from IU! You all have accomplished so much and although we'll miss you 😭, we can't wait to see how you change the world ❤️🤍
@IUBChemistry @IUBloomington @IndianaUniv
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Congrats to Grace, our newest Ph.D. Candidate! Fantastic work and excellent presentation!!! #TeamNi #WomenInSTEM
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Going to #NOS2022?
Catch @SouvikA26351772's poster tonight on photochemical hydrogenation! He'll be at poster #70. We hope to see you there!
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👀 Our recent publication on Ni-Catalyzed 1,1- and 1,3-Aminoboration of Unactivated Alkenes has been highlighted in ChemistryViews! 🔥
#TeamNi
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New research from #TeamCycloaddition is out now in @angew_chem! Check out Dongshun and Brittany's work on using chiral alkenylboron derivatives to do stereoselective [4+2] cycloaddition rxns (oh and did we mention it was selected as a hot paper 🔥🔥🔥): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Check our newest work with [2+2]-cycloadditions!!! Renyu did so much amazing work with this synthesis: Enantioselective Synthesis of (+)-Hippolide J and Reevaluation of Antifungal Activity pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
#TeamSquare
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PhD #12!!! Yesterday Renyu defended + is now a Dr. 🎉🎉🎉
Renyu made several notable contributions to the group over the years + completed phenomenal chemistry in the process--we're so proud of you Renyu! 🥳 #TeamSquare
(and yes, the defense party was Pokémon-themed...)
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🎉 Congratulation to the newest PhD from the Brown lab! 🎉
Dr Rachel Epplin 👏🏻
@RachelEpplin
We hope you nothing but success during your post doc in Germany!
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Huge congrats to @AliLambright, who was selected as one of six student speakers to give a talk at the Sigma Aldrich Chemistry Symposium for the Midwest region! Excellent talk today Ali! 🥳 #TeamNi
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Last week was @ASimlandy's final one in the group--we're so sad to see him go but excited to follow his progress as he does a postdoc in @EngleLab! We miss you Amit! #TeamCuPd #TeamNi
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🚨 Going to @ACSorganic GRS?
🫵🏻 Be sure to stop by poster #13 tonight and catch Grace! She will be discuss her work on metal-catalyzed alkene carboboration! #TeamMetal
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Congrats to group members Shashwati and Grace for being honored with departmental awards/fellowships! 🎉🎉🎉
@shashwati_paul received an Associate Instructor Award and Grace received the Kratz Fellowship.
Keep up the awesome work! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Congratulations to current graduate student Souvik! 😁
Souvik was awarded a poster prize at this year's NOS! 🎉
We are so proud of you! 👏🏻
#TeamEnt
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Congrats to our amazing undergrads, Annika (@organnika_chem) and Isaac (@IsaacJoyner5), for making their grad school decisions! Annika will be attending @MichiganChem and Isaac will be attending @UCB_Chemistry. Can't wait to watch you succeed! (remember us when you're famous 😉)
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🎉It’s that time of year again! 🎉
Welcome to the group 1st years! 🍻
We have 4 new faces joining the Brown lab
- Karah Putnam
-Danielle Malka
-Makaya Robinson
-Supriyo Das
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The Brown Lab is looking for a postdoc candidate with experience in synthetic organic chemistry! Please retweet! @chemjobber #chemjobs
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Congrats to group members who won departmental fellowships/awards! 🥳
@stanna_dorn: Jack C. Crandall Award, Chester Davis Organic Fellowship
Renyu Guo: Burton L. Appleton Award, Chester Davis Organic Fellowship
Grace Trammel: Burton L. Appleton Award, Marvin Carmack Fellowship
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#NOS2019 was a big success for the Brown lab. In addition to Kevin giving a great welcome to everyone, we...
- had 17 lab members in attendance
- presented 12 posters
- received 1 poster award
- were Sink the Biz champions
- drank countless cups of coffee
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Wow, talk about talent! Thanks to former undergrad @organnika_chem for making this awesome rendition of our current group picture for us!
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Thinking back to the good ol' days when we were still in the lab having fun (featuring undergrads @organnika_chem and @IsaacJoyner5) 😊 [sound on]
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🚨 The Brown Lab officially has a new PhD candidate in the group! 🎉
Congratulation to @SouvikA26351772 👏🏻👏🏻
Be on the lookout for his work coming out soon! 👀
#TeamSquare #TeamEnT
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Congrats to former graduate student Erin Hancock (@squareturtle1) for her review on making ladderane natural products, out now! Check it out: 'Ladderane Natural Products: From the Ground Up' chemistry-europe.onlinelibra… #TeamSquare
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Huge congrats to Renyu and many thanks to @GloriusGroup and @houk1000 for a fruitful collaboration! 🥳
And thanks to Valerie Schmidt @v_a_schmidt @Schmidt_Group1 for the highlight! science.sciencemag.org/conte…
Light powers Diels-Alder reactions of quinoline! This week in @ScienceMagazine from @GloriusGroup @KBrownLab and Houk science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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Congratulation to a pair of Brown Lab 3rd years @JPosz and @JeffChangChem for passing their qualifying exams! 🎊 👏🏻
#TeamEnt #TeamBoron #BrownLab #IUChemistry
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Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience! Celebrating #WomenInScience and the work of group members @stanna_dorn, Grace, @RachelEpplin, @shashwati_paul, and @Prashansa_Kngra 👏👏👏
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Second paper for 2021 out now in @ACSCatalysis! Congrats to Dongshun for his work on a three-component Ni-catalyzed silylacylation method 🥳 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Congrats to our former undegrad @organnika_chem for her recent publication with @Merck: 'Enantioselective Enzymatic Reduction of Acrylic Acids'!!! Keep up the great work! 🥳
Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Congrats to members that won awards/fellowships for their research/teaching this past year! 🥳🥳🥳
Ali (@AliLambright): Chester Davis Fellowship+Crandall Award
Renyu: Chester Davis Fellowship+Crandall Award
Stanna (@stanna_dorn): Appleton Award
Grace: Associate Instructor Award
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PhD #11--congrats Dr. @AliLambright on an amazing defense! She's made many contributions to #TeamNi over the years+we'll miss her leadership a ton 😭 next, she's teaching science/math at Seven Oaks Classical School, at the middle/high school levels. We're so proud of you Ali! 🥳
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Kevin was selected as an 2019 Outstanding Reviewer for Chemical Science! Reviewers were picked based on quality, quantity, and timeliness of reviews over the past 12 months.
Check out the link below to see the full list!
We are delighted to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Science in 2019 🎉
A big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers who have supported @ChemicalScience 😃
See the list here ➡️ ow.ly/9b4C50yK1Wg
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Brown lab showed up for this years kickball tournament! Great efforts across the diamond.
Looking forward to next year!
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We are pleased to announce that one of our recent papers has been ranked in the top 25 most-read articles in Nature Communications. 📚
This work is the result of a fruitful collaboration between our group at IU, @SpiroChemAG and @NovartisScience 🤝🏻
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Be on the lookout for new work from #TeamSquare in an upcoming special issue of Tetrahedron for Prof. John Wood! 👀
Stereoselective [2+2]-Cycloadditions of chiral allenic ketones and alkenes brought to you by former grad students Renyu and Brittany. 🎉🎉
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Check out an application of our Arylboration reaction in the synthesis of Phyltetralin!
Happy to contribute to a special issue on "Modern Boron Chemistry: 60 years of the Matteson Reaction"
Congrats to Grace as well as undergrads Abby and Christian! 🎉
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For those attending the Stereochem GRC in Newport today,
Word on the street is that the poster session from 4-6pm will feature our fearless leader discussing Borylated N-Heterocycles, as well as the one and only
@stanna_dorn discussing her work on Cu/Pd Cooperative Catalysis!👀
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Had an impromptu Brown Lab reunion while celebrating the wedding of our very own @AliLambright--congrats Ali 🥳 It was great to see everyone!
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Congrats to our postdoc Dongshun on work from Dawei Ma's group that is now out! Total Synthesis of Kopsinitarine E onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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We recently said farewell to Renyu, who will be starting soon as a medicinal chemist at @bmsnews! 🎉🎉🎉
We can't wait to follow your future success, Renyu--we're so proud of you! #TeamSquare
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Looking to make sterically congested Csp3-Csp3 bonds through a cross-coupling approach? Consider our Ni-catalyzed alkenylboration/hydrogenation method, online now in @ChemicalScience. Congrats to postdoc @ASimlandy +former grad student @StephenSardini! 🥳 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Check out our latest work on Ni-catalyzed arylboration of unactivated alkenes which focuses on scope and mechanism studies! Thanks to the @pengliu_group for their contributions! #teamnickel pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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Wonderful job, Grace! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the poster to talk!
Enjoy the rest of the #2022GRS
🚨 Going to @ACSorganic GRS?
🫵🏻 Be sure to stop by poster #13 tonight and catch Grace! She will be discuss her work on metal-catalyzed alkene carboboration! #TeamMetal
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Ph.D candidate? ✅
Fantastic seminar today by @shashwati_paul; keep up the excellent work! We're so proud of you 🥳
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