I am beyond thrilled to share our group's first independent contribution as a preprint. We discovered an iron-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling and used it for disulfide bioconjugation, drug synthesis, and other applications! Find the preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

!! Our group's first publication is now available in the J. Am. Chem. Soc.! We developed a scalable, iron-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling and used it in a number of applications! We sincerely thank reviewers for strengthening our report. Please join me in congratulating

Awesome! Our iron-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling in J. Am. Chem. Soc. is a Most Read Article. It is now also Open Access. Check it out here, pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Honored because USC Chemistry featured our recently published work! 😊 USC article: dornsife.usc.edu/chemistry/2024… JACS article: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

The Piancatelli and related rearrangements have been limited to furans since 1850. We developed the first pyrrole equivalent and used it to make new light-responsive matter!! Read about the first amino DASAs in our ChemRxiv preprint here chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

I like this pic better! It shows how nitrogen's additional bonding orbital enabled a rearrangement that had been limited to furans since 1850! It also highlights how amino DASAs unlock the final static compartment in DASA photoswitches! Read more here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

This year's #USC Stauffer Lecture, featuring Prof Ben List, was awesome! The symposium had great talks by Profs Dong (UCI), Kwon (UCLA), Nelson (Caltech), Thompson (USC), Vanderwal (UCI), Wang (URI), and Williams (USC). It was an honor to present with such a lineup! 🤩 #FightOn

Also, congrats to Julius for being recognized for "Excellence in Graduate Student Research"!

🥳 Our group was recently honored with the President’s Sustainability Initiative Award!! We are excited to further our understanding of iron catalyzed reactions! Congratulations to the group!!

‼️ I am thrilled to share our newest preprint describing the use of iron for a metal catalyzed C(sp3)–halide coupling with soft thiol nucleophiles! We are inspired by advances in iron catalysis happening across the world! Read our preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

!! Our most recent publication is now at Nature Communications! We developed a pyrrole rearrangement and used it to create and study a new subclass of light-responsive small molecules named amino DASAs! Congratulations to the team!! Learn more here, nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our future is bright

We’ve been enjoying great success at USC in the past couple of years and would love for you to pursue your PhD in chemistry with us!! Our application is now available! Please share with interested students and learn more here, dornsife.usc.edu/chemistry/grad…

USC Chemistry graciously highlighted our newly discovered heterocyclic rearrangement and its application to create new chemical matter that responds to light! You can read more here, dornsife.usc.edu/chemistry/2024…

Hi! We are excited to share that the newest Synform issue features our group's rearrangement and photoswitch chemistry! Learn more here, thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…

Fungibility isn't only for fiat vs #crypto (think #NFTs – how relevant with #BTC hitting ATHs)! "We recognized that the homodimer of a disulfide is the fungible disulfide itself and is, therefore, inconsequential to the transformation." We are grateful to Synlett / Synpacts for

Donor-acceptor Stenhouse adduct (DASA) photoswitches are synthetically modular, leading to tunable photophysical and switching properties! To facilitate designer DASA construction, we describe compartmentalized DASA structure-property relationships! Read the Open Access J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Compartmentalizing Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts for Structure–Property Relationship Analysis | Journal of the American Chemical Society Elias Picazo USC Chemistry USC Chemistry #JACSPerspective Photoswitches Electronics Sterics Photophysical Properties pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

We are thrilled to share our latest discovery nature.com/articles/s4200… ! Give this iron-catalyzed reaction a go if you need a benzylic or tertiary carbon–heteroatom bond! I can't wait to further apply it ourselves! Congrats to the team on filling some nice gaps in metal catalysis!

I am looking forward to this year's ACS SD national meeting after populating my itinerary with many incredible talks! If you are around, then please consider attending some talks from the Picazo Lab! #ACSSpring2025 #ACS #ACSSD