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Check out the Peng Liu group’s newest collaboration in ACS Catalysis, where they collaborated with researchers from UW Madison to study iron-catalyzed nitrene transfer. Read more: zurl.co/NLEdu

In this new Bioconjugate Chemistry paper, the Deiters and Lohmueller groups introduce six caged benzylguanines for precise, triggered activation of SNAP-tag, offering new opportunities for targeted therapeutic assembly at disease sites. Read more: zurl.co/ZU9UJ

Congrats to Darian Yang, a recent graduate of the Chong and Gronenborn groups, on his PNAS paper investigating the reproduction mechanism of the HIV virus. Read more about Yang and his research here: zurl.co/G6I9F or zurl.co/c6xZe

Peng Liu’s group collaborated with researchers from Singapore examining catalytic difluorocarbene insertion which enables access to fluorinated oxetane isosteres. Read more in Nature Chemistry: zurl.co/eXz1F

In the Koide group’s most recent paper, they investigated atmospheric effects on Birch and Birch-type reductions. Read more in the Journal of Organic Chemistry: zurl.co/HFHEV

The American Chemical Society has given Professor David Waldeck the 2025 award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. Read Pittwire’s highlight on David Waldeck here: zurl.co/odsns

Dr. Wipf collaborated with the Schools of Medicine and Public Health to study two drug targets which could reduce the levels of the nuclear lamina protein, Lamin B1, which is associated with neurological disorders. Read more in Scientific Reports: zurl.co/MyP4g

Siao-Han (Phoebe) Huang just finished her PhD in the Amemiya lab and is about to pursue postdoctoral work at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read about her experiences at Pitt: zurl.co/1z5eK

Yesterday was our undergraduate award ceremony. This annual ceremony celebrates undergraduate success and achievement. Congratulations to all of the recipients for your outstanding work.

Future scholars, future colleagues, future friends. Some pictures from our recent prospective graduate student weekends.

Recently, the Deiters Group developed specialized peptides to target one of HPV’s cancer-causing proteins. These peptides have enhanced stability and binding affinity which inhibit the function of the protein. Read more in ACS Chemical Biology: zurl.co/XrK9z

Peng Liu and collaborators investigate a mechanism for cross-coupling aryl halides using formate as a mediator. This method offers opportunities for efficient syntheses using green reductants under mild conditions. Read more in Nature Chemistry: zurl.co/0wVbz

A new paper in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation from the Chong group discusses a new method of weighted ensemble path sampling using unsupervised learning to determine an optimal progress coordinate. Read more: zurl.co/qCtqq

Seth Horne and collaborators from Oxford and Notre Dame investigated the stabilization of a miniprotein with an unsaturated analogue of proline featuring a planar dehydropyrazine ring. Read more in Communications Chemistry: zurl.co/OC7sp

Congratulations to the recipients of our department's inaugural best paper awards! This round of awards recognizes outstanding papers published in Summer 2024. Read about their work at the links below: zurl.co/0sufX

Congratulations Joglekar & Deiters Lab on NIH R21 Grant! Read more about their work on the chemistry website: zurl.co/qFZLb

This week, we’re highlighting Zoe Soilis, a 5th year student in Nat Rosi’s lab who is researching the photophysical properties of MOFs. Read more about Zoe’s research and her experience at Pitt at zurl.co/ajUAj

Congratulations to Peng Liu on getting another paper in Nature! In collaboration with Gregory Fu from the California Institute of Technology, they propose a catalytic method to convert racemic mixtures of alkyl halides into a single enantiomer. Read more: zurl.co/iEL6Q

This month in JACS, Peng Liu and collaborators at UCSB report that P450 variants produced by directed evolution enable catalytic enantioselective Smiles rearrangements. Read more: zurl.co/0XmYp

Meet Marcus Van Engen a fifth-year PhD student in the Floreancig lab who is working on the total synthesis of antibiotic Neomycin B. Read more about Marcus: zurl.co/WwusB