🚨🚨🚨 Corteva Agriscience summer 2024 R&D internship applications are OPEN!!! This is such a great opportunity to learn science, build your network, and have a super fun summer in Indyland! As a former intern supervisor I can confirm this is amazing! link to apply: careers.corteva.com/job-en/1905611…

With fellow Corteva Agriscience colleagues Grace Lutovsky, @JanelleKKirsch and Tejas K. Shah on a perfect day and great seats to catch one of the last home games for Indy 11 this season! Although they couldn’t get the W, it was a good one… and my first live Indy11 soccer game!

Check out our latest preprint! Wesley Swords developed an enantioselective 6pi photoelectrocyclization enabled by hydrogen-bonding. Link here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Reminder: applications for the Corteva Agriscience 2024 summer internship program close 10/16 so you still have time to get your applications in! It's a fantastic opportunity, please consider applying!

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(1/2) Two new papers this week! First, Wesley Swords and Hanna from Baik Group lead a comprehensive synthetic, spectroscopic, and computational study of a new asymmetric catalytic 6π photoelectrocyclization in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

(2/2) Second, the final paper of Grace Lutovsky's PhD is a summary of why Cu(II) is an ideal terminal oxidant in photochemical oxidation reactions, without the problems associated with more conventional oxidants. The review is now up at OBC: doi.org/10.1039/D3OB01…

WOO HOO Grace Lutovsky!

Thanks, Scott!! Such a fun collaboration working with you and your colleagues 💡 #PfizerChemistry

Research Highlight now online: Hydrogen bonding for enantioselective photoelectrocyclization by Thomas West nature.com/articles/s4416… ($) Highlighting the J. Am. Chem. Soc. article by Tehshik Yoon Yoon Group, Mu-Hyun Baik Baik Group and co-workers

Happy to share our latest work on photexcited nitroarenes just published in Nature Chemistry. Check out how we turn them into complex azepanes in just two steps. nature.com/articles/s4155…

2024 Yoon Group trailer video, courtesy Cade MacAllister

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…

Head (to Tail) over to J. Am. Chem. Soc. to read Ellie Plachinski, Hyung Joo, and Matt Genzink 's general approach toward the truxillate natural products via solid-state photocycloadditions! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4…

New paper! Ellie Plachinski, Hyung Joo, and Matt Genzink have a solid-state photochemistry approach to the truxillate family of natural products in J. Am. Chem. Soc. today. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

New paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Jesse, @tahoefiala, and Wesley Swords report the development of the first highly enantioselective catalytic Paternò-Büchi reaction. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our work on Decarbonylative C(sp3)-C(sp3) Cross-Electrophile Coupling and Formation of Alkylnickel intermediates is now online Science Magazine ! Congratulations to Zhidao and Michelle! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Ellie (Ellie Plachinski), Zoe, and Rodrigo report the an enantioselective [2p+2s] photocycloaddition enabled by chromophore activation! This was a super fun collaboration with Darren at GSK and Tay at Corteva through the new UW–Madison SynCat Center! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…