Aoibheann O' Connor
@AoibheannnnnnOC
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Postdoc, Strand Group, Lund University 🇸🇪 PhD, Guiry Group, University College Dublin 🇮🇪 Visiting Scholar, Sarpong Group, UC Berkeley 🇺🇸
Joined May 2013
PhD completed! Really fortunate to have had a really enjoyable viva on Friday. Thanks to @GuiryGroupUCD @ucdchemistry & @IrishResearch for the best 4 years I could have asked for 💙
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Check out our recent publication on the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of α-allyl-α-aryl 1-indanones via palladium-catalysed decarboxylative asymmetric allylic alkylation: https://t.co/9j85queJPS
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C–C Cleavage/Cross-Coupling Approach for the Modular Synthesis of Medium-to-Large Sized Rings: #TotalSynthesis of Resorcylic Acid Lactone Natural Products by Lucas T. Göttemann, Charis Amber (@charis_amber), Khalid Mahmood, Philipp Mader, Ismail Kokculer (@kokculer), Théo Andris,
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🎙️ Meet the #speakers of the 12th Asian-European Symposium on Metal-mediated Organic Synthesis #SMOS12 in #Bologna. We present Prof. P. Guiri @GuiryGroupUCD from University College Dublin 🌐 https://t.co/R4GRFNeWdZ
@ChemEurope @ACES_Journals @EuChemS @SCIorganica
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Huge Congratulations to the 13 Graduate Research Students who were awarded their degrees on Monday! See the list of students, thesis titles and supervisors at https://t.co/YTE5GQLjDk We wish you all well in your upcoming adventures in life and chemistry. Ad Astra
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Obligatory O’Brien Centre of Science UCD Logo post 📸
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Congratulations to @B_randonwright , @AlessioReg91105 , Taku, @NattawadeeCha11 , Sebastian, @SojungKim20 and our collaborators from the Paton group on the publication of our full account on calyciphylline A-type daphniphyllum alkaloids in @J_A_C_S
https://t.co/VwKvaCl7Hr
pubs.acs.org
In this report, we detail two distinct synthetic approaches to calyciphylline A-type Daphniphyllum alkaloids himalensine A and daphenylline, which are inspired by our analysis of the structural...
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💙💛 Professor Emerita Dervilla Donnelly: 1930 - 2024 The university community is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its most remarkable, respected and influential alumni, UCD Professor Emerita of Phytochemistry Dervilla Donnelly MRIA, who served as the first woman President
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We are very saddened to report the passing of our former colleague and friend Prof. Dervilla Donnelly yesterday. She inspired generations of chemists and was a trailblazer for women in academia. Her portrait has pride of place in the school
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Deeply saddened by the loss of Prof. Dervilla Donnelly @ucdchemistry. She was a brilliant scientist, a trailblazer for women in academia and in public life in Ireland, and a kind and supportive mentor to many, myself included.
irishtimes.com
‘Remarkable woman with an extraordinary career’ taught at UCD from 1956 and became an internationally respected chemist
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Enantioselective Organozinc Addition to Aldehydes Using Planar Chiral [2.2]Paracyclophane-Imidazoline N,O-Ligands (Sundaravel Vivek Kumar @CascadeVivek and Patrick J Guiry @GuiryGroupUCD) #OpenAccess
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
A convenient synthesis of planar chiral [2.2]paracyclophane imidazoline N,O-ligands has been developed. The application of these classes of ligands showed excellent performance in organozinc additi...
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Congrats to @GuiryGroupUCD members, @McGarrigleGroup members & world’s greatest mentor @Mi_Carr on this work in OPR&D @ucdchemistry
https://t.co/Tt6d2FXzBA
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Improved reaction conditions have been developed for a telescoped Miyaura borylation/Suzuki coupling process, which is utilized in the synthesis of an abemaciclib intermediate. Key improvements...
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Hot off the press, some of my PhD work with the @GuiryGroupUCD published in @JOC_OL - hats off to co-authors & our incredible crystallographer 💎
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The preparation of a focused library of chiral 2-amido and 2-amido-1-phenyl-1,3-dienes from a range of chiral oxazolidinones using palladium-catalysis is reported. This palladium-catalyzed carbon–n...
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Joined the Strand Research Group as a Postdoctoral Researcher in @lunduniversity for some more Synthetic Organic Chemistry fun. 🇸🇪
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Check out our latest graphical highlight from @SamiranDeb16, featuring the @SarpongGroup synthesis of baphicacanthcusine A! Read the full article here: @angew_chem
https://t.co/m7kAZMwn9O
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The sunshine was a paid actor. Hard bound copy submitted! 📚
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Congratulations to the many SSPC investigator who have been named among the top 2% of most-cited academics in their fields worldwide in the 2024 Elsevier/Stanford University World Rankings of Researchers. ▶ https://t.co/agyyaIGRCe
@Researchirel #SSPCExpertise
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Dinosaur collagen has survived, despite peptides being stable for only centuries. Ronald Raines & team @ChemistryMIT found that electron donation from an adjacent peptide bond stabilizes each peptide bond within a collagen helix NEW #ASAP Read here: https://t.co/RKksEh22Ph
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Congratulations to Dr Aoibheann O’ Connor for passing her viva last week!🎈 Thanks to Dr Will Unsworth for acting as external examiner, and also to Prof Gilheany (intern) and Dr Rubini (chair).
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