March: Jack passed his prelim exam. Congrats Jack!
March: Brady passed his prelim exam. Congrats Brady!
March: Kate passed her prelim exam. Congrats Kate!
January: Brady’s paper on Cationic Bis(gold) indenyl complexes was published in ChemPlusChem.
January: Daniel and Jack’s concept paper on modulating transition metal reactivity with force was published in ChemCatChem.
2023
August: Yichen’s research on allosteric control of olefin isomerization kinetics via remote metal binding and its mechanochemical analysis was published in Nature Communications.
July: Daniel and Xujun’s paper on Force modulated C-C reductive elimination from nickel complexes was published in Organometallics.
Daniel passed his prelim. Congrats Daniel!
2022
December: Widenhoefer lab has accepted three new first-years. Welcome Kate, Brady, Jack!
November: Caroline successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Stow!
July: Yichen successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Yu!
April: Mitch passed his prelim. Congrats Mitch!
April: Mitch and Bob’s Paper on the Mechanism of Gold(I)-Catalyzed Benzylidene Transfer was published in Organometallics.
April: Liqi successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
2021
December: Widenhoefer lab has accepted a new first-year. Welcome Daniel!
June: Yichen and Liqi published a paper about their research with Dr. Craig’s lab in Chem. Sci.
May: Ross’s Paper on Robert, Kohki, Alethea, Bob, and Jacob’s research of Gold-Catalyzed Hydroamination of 1,1-Dimethylallene was accepted to Chem. Eur. J.
May: The Widenhoefer Lab secured funding from the NSF to continue their studies on Gold(I) complexes.
April: Ross’s paper on Chris’s previous research about the stereomutation of azaplatinacyclobutane was accepted to Organometallics.
January: Widenhoefer lab has accepted a new first-year. Welcome Mitch!
2020
September: Liqi and Yichen published a paper about their research with Dr. Craig’s lab in JACS.
June: Caroline received C. R. Hauser Memorial Fellowship. Congrats Caroline!
March: Caroline’s paper on the synthesis of gold(I) alpha-oxo carbenoids was accepted to Organometallics.
2019
November: Nana successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Kim!
October: Nana’s paper on the mechanism of gold(I) catalyzed oxygen transfer reaction accepted to Chem. Commun.
June: Bob’s paper on gold sulfonium benzylide complexes is published on Chem. Eur. J.
June: Bob successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Carden!
May: Undergraduate Scott Liu graduated and will be attending Indiana University School of Medicine in the Fall. Congrats, Scott!
May: Nana’s paper on gold(I) vinyl carbeneis accepted to Chem. Sci.
April/May: Caroline, Yichen and Liqi pass their preliminary examinations. Congrats!
January: David has joined the group. Welcome David!
2018
August: Robert, Bob, and Alethea’s paper on mechanistic study of gold-catalyzed intermolecular hydroalkoxylation of allenes with alcohols is pulished. ACS catal.
May: Bob recieves Burroughs Wellcome fellowship and Nana recieves Paul M. Gross fellowship.
March: Nana’s paper on the synthesis, characterization and reactivity of cationic gold allenylidene complexes is accepted to Angew. Chem.
January: Widenhoefer lab has three new group members, Caroline, Yichen, and Liqi! Welcome!
2017
October: Bob and Nathan’s paper on experimental evaluation of (L)Au electron donor ability in cationic gold carbene complexes is accepted to Chem. Eur. J.
May: Bob recieves the GAANN fellowship and Nana recieves Kathleen Zielik fellowship.
April: Paramita and Jacob’s paper on the intramolecular dehydrative alkoxylation for the synthesis of (+)-Laurencin is accepted to Chem. Eur. J.
March: Jacob Timmerman successfully defends his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Timmerman!
March: Jacob’s paper on the gold-catalyzed intramolecular hydroamination of alkenyl-2-pyridones appears in Org. Lett.
January: Nana’s paper on the mechanism of skeletal rearragements in enyne cyclisomerizations appears in Organometallics.
2016
September: Jacob and William’s paper on the gold-catalyzed hydroarylation of MCPs is published in Org. Lett.
August: Hillary recieves the PSTP fellowship. Congrats, Hillary!
July: Jacob presents at the Divison of Organic Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium in Bryn Mawr, PA.
June: Bob recieves the GAANN fellowship and Nana recieves Burroughs Wellcome fellowship. Congrats!
June: Hao and Robert’s paper on allene racemization appears in Organometallics
May: Rachael’s paper on intermediates in the gold-catalyzed hydroalkoxylation of allenes appears in Organometallics.
April: Bob and Nana pass their preliminary examinations. Congrats!
