.Virginia Tech Chemistry professor Webster Santos and an international team of scientists have found a new breakthrough in halting kidney fibrosis! This disease affects nearly 40 million Americans. vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/…

Future grad students: Interested in Synthetic methodology? #boron Drug discovery? Diabetes, Obesity, MultipleSclerosis, Kidney Disease. Check out santosgroup.chem.vt.edu. chem.vt.edu/graduate/info-… Virginia Tech Chemistry Virginia Tech Science

Congrats to Webster Santos grad student Nicklas Buchbinder for passing his prelim exam. Thanks to committee members Tanko, Gentry Lab @ VT, and Thornton. Nick will be a Boron rockstar! Virginia Tech Chemistry

Ligand Control in Co-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Hydroboration: Homoallyl Secondary Boronates via Uncommon 4,3-Hydroboration of 1,3-Dienes (J. Am. Chem. Soc.): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… (RajanBabuLab).

Congratulations to Webster Santos REU student Kaamia Harris from Hampton University. She won second top STEER speech Virginia Tech Chemistry 👏🙌👩‍🔬🧪

Mechanistic Investigations of Phenoxyimine–Cobalt(II)-Catalyzed C(sp2)–C(sp3) Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling (Paul Chirik): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… (J. Am. Chem. Soc.).

Ring Expansion of Cyclic Boronates via Oxyboration of Arynes (Hajime Ito, 伊藤 肇 (Hajime Ito), Koji Kubota): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… (J. Am. Chem. Soc.).

Check out Nicklas Buchbinder & Rose Campbell's paper in ACS Med Chem Lett ACS Publications Bio & Med Chem Content. New class of 3-Substituted-2(5H)-Oxaboroles as antifungal agents. Collaboration work with Mevers Lab. Congrats to all 🙌 Virginia Tech Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The Rise of Boron-Containing Compounds: Advancements in Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry, and Emerging Pharmacology (Justin Grams, Webster Santos): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… (Chemical Reviews).

Check out our collaborative work with Todd Marder (Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg) and colleagues. Organocatalytic diboration of enynes. Nice work Nicklas Buchbinder. Check it out at ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal. Virginia Tech Chemistry Virginia Tech Science

Congrats to Webster Santos dept award winners! Mary A. Foutz Nicklas Buchbinder Long H Nguyen Ethan Duerre and Owen Beck. Our lab is well represented. Many thanks for the hard work! Virginia Tech Chemistry

Check out our latest publication: cis-Hydroboration of 1,3-Enynes. Congrats to Nick Nicklas Buchbinder for a fantastic job. 🙌J Org Chem/Org Lett Virginia Tech Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereoselective cis-Hydroboration of 1,3-Enynes: Copper-Catalyzed Access to (Z,Z)- and (Z,E)-2-Boryl-1,3-dienes (Webster Santos, Nicklas Buchbinder): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… (J Org Chem/Org Lett).

Congratulations to the Division of Organic Chemistry Fall 2024 ACS Travel Awardees (pictured with the Chair of the Awards Committee, Prof. Michael Pirrung).

All finished giving our talks at ACS Denver! It’s been a lovely time Nicklas Buchbinder Webster Santos

Weak Base-Promoted Direct Cross-Coupling of Naphthalene-1,8-diaminato-substituted Arylboron Compounds (JACS Au): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja….

Grateful and humbled to receive Boron-Chem-Research Senior investigator award #BORAM18 #UCLA. Many thanks to Alex Spokoyny and organizing committee. Virginia Tech Chemistry