512. The number of letter grades I just submitted 😬

Wishing you a healthy, peaceful, and fun new year! Looking forward to reuniting with this team of chemists in 2024. Thanks Erin Kuker for the photo. 🥳🥳🥳

A warm welcome to our new first year graduate students Kara and Silas—the future looks bright 😎

We are looking for a really special person to fill this important position at UW-Madison Chemistry. If you are passionate about supporting undergraduate research at one of the nation's great public research universities, please give this listing a look. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/director-…

Congrats to the newly minted Dr ⁦Hannah Slocumb⁩! So proud of all you’ve achieved and excited for your future with ⁦Sigman Lab⁩! 🍾🎉🎈

Now on the ChemRxiv: My lab has tried to develop an enantioselective catalytic Paternò–Büchi reaction for 15 years. Jesse, @tahoefiala, and Wesley Swords took a mechanistically inspired approach to the problem and finally cracked it! doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Thanks Weix Group Tehshik Yoon for the visit to Madison—forgot to take photos but will not forget the awesome friends, colleagues, and students I got to see! So much exciting chemistry in Wisconsin 🙌

I am honored to work with GilmourLab and VyDong as a co-chair of 2024 LinkedIn Royal Society of Chemistry Poster conference. Looking forward to some great chemistry

Yay! Erin Kuker will be headed to Gilead process and Xintong Hou to Vertex med chem…feels like we were just celebrating your 1st experiments yesterday 🎉🎉🎉

Congrats Dr Hou Xintong Hou on the Hal Moore Award and thesis defense! Excited for your next adventure with Vertex! 🎉

A heartfelt thanks to Neil Garg Lab UCLA for coming home to UC Irvine for the annual Larry Overman Lectureship—your talk was awesome and inspiring 🤯

Verdict’s in: Erin Kuker did an amazing job defending her thesis—congrats to Dr Kuker and all the best at Gilead—we will miss you!

Before moving, a neighbor gave us a small plant and said we would get a surprise in seven years—⁦Rachel Martin⁩ what’s the name of this thing?!

Congrats to Marianna who is headed to UCLA to pursue her PhD! We’ll miss you and wish you all the best 🎓🎉

Celebrating Christine and Alex: It was great to have Prof Alex John here on sabbatical from CSU Pomona!

The future looks bright! 😎2024 Organic Syntheses workshop: thanks to all the faculty participants and my co-organizers Tehshik Yoon John Wood and mentors Nikki G and Sarah E. Wengryniuk

Funding available from Org Syn for projects at PUI’s—please encourage your favorite PI to apply! Applications are due by December 1 at lnkd.in/g2ergD7X. 💰💰💰

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Michelle is awesome—thanks for the many ways you’ve served and lead at ACS!

Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Hydroacylation: Racemization by Soft Enolization | Journal of the American Chemical Society Binghamton University VyDong UCI Chemistry UC Irvine Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…