Our undergrad birdie Elaine Chao is flying from the nest to join Columbia Chemistry ! Keep an eye out for this one, she’s gonna soar !! 🐣💛

Happy to see the final version of this work out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Check it out now! Waters Lab @ UNC pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Ultrafast Au(III)-Mediated Arylation of Cysteine | Journal of the American Chemical Society Heather D Maynard UCLA Chem & Biochem Alex Spokoyny #Ultrafast #Au #Arylation #Cysteine Drug Discovery and Synthesis Highlights pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Here's something that Elaine Chao and I (and some others) worked on the past few years! We detail how the electronic properties of P,N ligands affect the rates of elementary organometallic steps in Au(I)/Au(III) reactions. Heather D Maynard Alex Spokoyny chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…