NEW in Chemical Science 📢 Photoisomerization of Dicyanorhodanine-Functionalized Thiophenes by Ronald K. Castellano Castellano Research Group et al. 🔗 ow.ly/wRyF50BnQwM

Really happy to have this paper just accepted in ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal! …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Grateful to @ajeetku40041273, Ronald K. Castellano and the rest of the coworkers at Castellano Research Group and UF Chemistry for helping see this work through!

An amazing evening with an amazing group to conclude an amazing year. Cory Kornman and Elham Yaaghubi for the Zoom jeopardy wins. Have a safe holiday season! UF Chemistry

Congratulations to @ajeetku40041273 for passing his Ph.D. oral qualifying examination! Like the rest of us, he is looking forward to a great 2021! UF Chemistry

Congratulations to Elham Yaaghubi for a stellar Ph.D. defense today! From synthesis, to stereoelectronic effects, to anticancer activity, we learned so much! Thank you committee! @McElweeWhite, Aponick Group, Prof. Brian Law, and Prof. Nicole Horenstein!

Our first group outing since December 2019 in celebration of the imminent departures of the incomparable Dr. Elham Yaaghubi and Dr. Will Henderson. We will miss you both! UF Chemistry

Our group’s poster presenters at #FloHet2022! Great job Cheng-Yen Pan, Zaafir Dulloo, and Ajeet Kumar! Thank you Aponick Group, Alex Grenning, and the Seidel Group for hosting UF Chemistry!

Graduate student recruiting is well underway UF Chemistry! What an invigorating weekend!

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Ghilardi for masterfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation yesterday! We are proud of your achievements and will miss you! UF Chemistry

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Peer review after you win the Nobel

Random thread- Bear with me. Jos butler got just 26 yesterday. But something stood out for me. He was beaten 4 or 5 times in a particular Naseem shah over. In the same over he stepped in and scooped one for SIX. I was stunned. So were the Pakistanis. It got me thinking what if..

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Fresh off the presses is a new perspective on Poly(Vinyl Ketones), coauthored by Dr. Digvijayee Pal and Debabrata Konar in Macromolecular Rapid Comm! We're all very excited to have this available for you to cite as much as you want, don't hold back #polymers #PVKs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ma…

Jaahnavi Kandula, 23 from Andhra Pradesh, India studying masters in Seattle, USA. In January, she was killed by a police cruiser going 50 MPH through an intersection. Hours later, the VP of the police union was laughing about her death on a phone call. U.S. Ambassador to India

Congratulations to Dr. Ajeet Kumar on a successful Ph.D. defense! His dissertation showcases some heroic syntheses and beautiful crystal structures of self-assembling cyclophanes. UF Chemistry

I am deeply honored to have received two prestigious awards this semester: the Ruegamer Award for Excellence in Biochemistry Research from UF Chemistry and the Certificate of Outstanding Merit from UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Latest article published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. “Mixed Amide Paracyclophane Assemblies Emulating Supramolecular Copolymers” by Stearns et al. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Ronald K. Castellano Castellano Research Group

Mixed Amide Paracyclophane Assemblies Emulating Supramolecular Copolymers | Journal of the American Chemical Society FLORIDA pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…