You can’t tell because of my mask and glasses but I’m super happy about being back in the lab to start my PhD research!!

I present to you: the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for non-scientists! I wanted to make something to help teach my family and friends how mRNA vaccines work and hopefully encourage them to get the vaccine now that it's available! #COVID19 #scicomm BioRender

Check out our new group website! sites.google.com/umn.edu/the-ro…

I'm never more than one "mild inconvenience in the lab" away from treating myself to takeout dinner

Second-year of the PhD update:

An exciting new study being conducted in the lab! 🍪 Manuscript in preparation, stayed tuned for the results! Thanks for organizing it Annabel Ansel

wrapping myself in a blanket with 2D nmrs printed on it, call that staying COSY

Congrats to our four second year grad students for passing their OPE! 🎉 Chris Seong Brylon Denman Alex Umanzor Tori Tafuri

Had a great time on the annual UMN Department of Chemistry inorganic canoe trip! Thanks for organizing it this year Chris Seong

Had a great time at our group’s 3rd Canadian Thanksgiving party! 🍁🦃

Roberts Group awarded $1.9M National Institute of Health grant for aryne difunctionalization research – Congrats Roberts Group at UMN & @CortnieRoberts! #UMNProud College of Sci & Eng cse.umn.edu/chem/news/robe…

Merry Christmas Eve to all who celebrate #ChristmasChromatography

We’ve entered our aryne era! 🚨Excited to share our group’s first paper on aryne chemistry where we explore regioselective functionalization! Congrats Brylon Denman Erin Plasek and @CortnieRoberts! 🎉 UMN Department of Chemistry Organometallics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The Roberts group Roberts Group at UMN is back in the Organometallics house: Ligand-Induced Regioselectivity in Metal-Catalyzed Aryne Reactions Using Borylaryl Triflates as Aryne Precursors. Read all about it: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @CortnieRoberts

The graduate students of the Sustainable and Green Chemistry Committee were recently awarded the 2023 UMN Systemwide Sustainability Collaborative Team Impact Award. Congrats, team! Thanks for helping our department aim for a greener future 🌱 cse.umn.edu/chem/news/sgc-…

The 2023 cohort of the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy is an amazing, talented, diverse, and enthusiastic group. It's been a fun and educational week and we can't wait to see what they will do next! Learn more about the program: fal.cn/3zXxd

Congrats to rising 4th year graduate students Brylon Denman and Chris Seong for receiving UMN 4th Year Excellence Fellowships! Check out Brylon and Chris’s most recent papers to see what they have been up to!! doi.org/10.1021/acs.or… and doi.org/10.1021/acs.jo…

🚨 Our first Science paper 🚨 We report the isolation and reactivity of the first “inaccessible” 5-membered heteroaryne! 120+ year challenge! Congrats jenna humke Roman Belli Erin Plasek Sal Annabel Ansel @CortnieRoberts UMN Department of Chemistry Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congrats to rising 5th year grad students Brylon Denman (Brylon Denman) and Chris Seong (Chris Seong) for receiving UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships!! cse.umn.edu/chem/news/seve…

Team Phen had a ton of fun on our newest paper out now in ACS Catalysis, using a combo of kinetics & data science to study the mechanism & origins of selectivity in a Pd-cat. aryne annulation! Congrats team!! 🎉 Erin Plasek Brylon Denman Courtney Roberts pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…