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Group News 2017

 

December 22, 2017: Kangnan, Xinxin, and Luke’s paper on enantioselective Cu-catalyzed reductive coupling of azadienes and ketones was accepted to JACS.  Congratulations!

November 20, 2017: Steve received a 2018 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award. Congrats!

November 8-11, 2017: Steve was invited to present a talk at the ‘Advances in Organic Chemistry’ Symposium and Paige also contributed a talk at SERMACS in Charlotte.

October 18-20, 2017: Steve was invited to present a talk at the ‘Organic Synthesis and Catalysis’ Symposium of the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting in Lawrence, KS.

August 20-24, 2017: Steve presented a talk at the 254th National ACS Meeting in Washington, D.C

August 8, 2017: The Malcolmson lab received an NIH R01 grant to support our umpolung synthesis of chiral amines methodology studies!

July 23-28, 2017: Steve presented a poster at the Organic Reactions & Processes GRC at Stonehill College

July 25, 2017: Kangnan, Allie, and Luke’s paper on preparing 1,3-diamines stereoselectively by azaallyl anion/aziridine coupling was accepted to Org. Lett.  Congratulations!

June 18-23, 2017: Steve presented a poster at the Heterocyclic Compounds GRC at Salve Regina University.

June 20, 2017: Paige and Allie’s paper on stereoselective coupling of azaallyl anions and epoxides to make 1,3-amino alcohols was accepted to Org. Lett.  Congratulations, Paige and Allie!

June 9, 2017: Ethan Hull defends his master’s degree dissertation. Congrats on your hard work, Ethan.

June 6, 2017: Gus’s paper on studying the structural requirements for effective diazirine hyperpolarization by SABRE-SHEATH and the potential for diazirines to serve as general molecular tags was accepted to Angew. Chem. as a Very Important Paper.  The paper will be featured on the journal cover. Congratulations Gus!

May 2017- Katie Wilbur is awarded a fellowship from the Duke chemistry department to conduct summer research. Congratulations Katie!

April 28, 2017- Nathan and Ethan’s paper on Pd-catalyzed enantioselective hydroamination of dienes was accepted to JACS.  Congrats to Nathan and Ethan!

April 26, 2017 –Gus’s paper on direct hyperpolarization by SABRE-SHEATH in water was accepted to JACS.  Congrats to Gus!

April 2017- Nathan passes his prelim exam! He is now a Ph.D. candidate. Nice work, Nathan!

March 2017- Allie successfully defended her master’s degree dissertation! Nice work!

March 2017- Allie is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congrats!

March 2017- Postdocs XinXin Shao and Sangjune Park join Malcolmson lab!

February 2017- Hope and Luke are awarded URS study grants!

February 2017- Gus’s paper is published in J. Phys. Chem. Congrats!

January 2017- Undergraduate Katie Wilbur joined the group! Welcome!

 

Group News 2016

September 16, 2016 – Hope is awarded a URS independent study grant. Congrats, Hope!

August 21-25, 2016: Kangnan presented a talk and Paige presented a poster at the 252nd National ACS Meeting in Philadelphia.

 

July 24–29, 2016 – Steve presented a poster at the Stereochemistry GRC at Salve Regina University.

July 22, 2016- Kangnan was awarded the Burroughs Wellcome fellowship. Nice work, Kangnan!

July 17–22, 2016 – Steve presented a poster at the Organic Reactions & Processes GRC at Stonehill College.

June 20, 2016- Nathan was awarded the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program Fellowship! Great job, Nathan!

June 6, 2016- The Malcolmson Lab was awarded an ACS Petroleum Research Fund Grant!

May 24, 2016- Gus’s paper is now published online!

May 23, 2016- Paige was awarded the GAANN Fellowship. Congrats!

May 20, 2016- Gus’s paper on Schiff base 15N hyperpolarization accepted to Chemistry-A European Journal. Nice work, Gus!

May 14, 2016- Our seniors have graduated! Congrats to Jason, who was the first student to join the group and congrats to Jon, who graduated with distinction!

March 29, 2016- Allie received an Honorable Mention for the 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Congrats!

February 15, 2016- Hope and Jason are both awarded URS independent study grants!

February 1, 2016- Gus’s paper on the Ir-catalyzed hyperpolarization of diazirines has been accepted to Science Advances.  Congratulations, Gus!

Group News 2015 Before

 

December 16, 2015- Three new graduate students joined the lab: Alexandria Weber, Nathan Adamson, and Ethan Hull. Welcome to the group!!

October 29, 2015- Jonathan Litvak’s work from his summer internship has been published in The FASEB Journal. Nice work Jon! Be sure to read his paper “Towards New Insights in Epithelial Ion Channels Regulation by the ER Luminal Chaperone ERp29”

September 15, 2015- Jon and Luke were also awarded URS independent study grants! Congrats to all our wonderful undergrads!

September 11, 2015- Hope and Jason were awarded URS independent study grants. Congratulations guys!

August 4-6, 2015 – Steve was invited to participate in the NIH New Faculty in Organic and Biological Chemistry Mentoring Workshop in Dallas, TX.

July 19-24, 2015 – Steve presented a poster at the GRC Organic Reactions & Processes meeting at Bates College.

July 12-17, 2015 – Steve presented a poster at the GRC Organometallic Chemistry meeting at Salve Regina University.

May 2015- Kangnan Li is awarded the Kathleen Zielek Fellowship for the spring of 2016. Congratulations Kangnan!

April 21, 2015- Paige Daniel passes her preliminary examination! Congratulations Paige!

April 10, 2015- Kangnan Li passes his preliminary examination! Congratulations Kangnan!

March 2015- Jason Luo is awarded a Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations Jason!

March 2015- Jason Luo is awarded an Undergraduate Research Support Grant. Congratulations Jason!

March 2015- Hope Knochenhauer is awarded a fellowship from the Duke chemistry department to conduct summer research. Congratulations Hope!

February 2015- Luke Tseng joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Luke!

January 2015- Hope Knochenhauer joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Hope!

September 2014-Jason Luo and Jonathan Litvak were awarded the Undergraduate Research Support Grant. Congratulations, Jason and Jon!

August 27, 2014- Jonathan Litvak joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Jon!

August 1, 2014- Gus Logan, our first postdoctoral scientist, joins the group. Welcome, Gus!

December 16, 2013- The first two graduate students have officially joined the Malcolmson group! Welcome, Paige Daniel and Kangnan Li!

September 2013- Jason Luo, our first undergraduate, joined the Malcolmson group!