The Dong Lab
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Student-run twitter account for the Dong Lab at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Joined April 2020
Thrilled to see our recent Nature Chemistry work featured in @cenmag! Big thanks to Brianna Barbu for the great coverage! https://t.co/oC8gUjtzME
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1,2-oxaborines can shift into 11 different ring shapes to make modifying molecular cores easy
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Last Saturday, our PCE Center team joined the South Side Science Festival at UChicago — an inspiring day of outreach and community engagement! We shared ideas about sustainable chemistry and connected with the local community.
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Meanwhile, we warmly welcome 2 new members, Byungjun Kim @Bjkim_Orgchem (postdoc) and Masanori Hirao (visiting scholar from Mitsui Chemicals) to the group! 🎉
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Last week, we held a farewell party for our postdoc Yin Xu, who has made important contributions to C–H activation chemistry. He will soon start his independent career at Zhejiang University of Technology — we wish him all the best!
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Check out our latest work in @NatureChemistry ! We developed a platform using 1,2-oxaborines to construct a broad range of aromatic and non-aromatic cores from common enone/enal precursors. Congratulations to Yao and the team! Read here: https://t.co/uDh7RCuJTr
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Enabled by our NAHA reagent, we developed a new deacylative polyfluoroarylation of alkyl methyl ketones with broad functional-group tolerance. Now online in Org. Lett.! @JOC_OL Congratulations to Sohee and Ching-Nung! https://t.co/9sbVxEIRno
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Developed by @KaliusLY & @zhangrchem, we expand our cut-and-sew chemistry to β-lactams, enabling access to diverse bridged & fused N-heterocycles. Now online in @J_A_C_S! Congratulations to the team! https://t.co/TZcOGCbdEb
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Check out our recent @NatureCatalysis work on ruthenium-catalysed site-selective arene saturation—turning flat arenes into 3D sp³ frameworks! 👏Congrats to @CongjunY and the team! Read here: https://t.co/aOICGjDDOS
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Our latest achievement is now online in Tetrahedron Letters, published as part of a special issue honoring Prof. Song Lin (@SongLinLab) for receiving the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. https://t.co/fJp0s20sLU Congratulations to Xin (@XinLiu14010834) and all co-authors!
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Last weekend, we had a wonderful farewell party for Congjun (@CongjunY) and Miao (@MiaoChen1997) at Guangbin’s home. Congjun will join CU Boulder as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, and Miao will be starting at Merck as a Senior Scientist. Wishing them both the best of luck!
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Congratulations to Shinyoung @symarcellac
🚀Our recent contribution to the community: N‐methylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept‐2‐ene‐2‐carboxamide - Choi - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library
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🚀Our recent contribution to the community: N‐methylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept‐2‐ene‐2‐carboxamide - Choi - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
[2394994-09-1] C9H13NO (MW 151.21) InChI = 1S/C9H13NO/c1-10-9(11)8-5-6-2-3-7(8)4-6/h5-7H,2-4H2,1H3,(H,10,11) InChIKey = BYXAMVZFVXOYIF-UHFFFAOYSA-N (reagent used as a co-catalyst...
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🚀New advance toward asymmetric α‑Alkylation of Aldehydes. ✨Lead by Kezhi @KryptonChen, we report a branched-selective α-alkylation of aldehydes with unactivated olefins — enabled by a pyrazole mediator and a chiral Ir catalyst. Congrats! https://t.co/k0XRh17VuG
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🔥 Scalable achievement in enantioselective homologation. 🔥 Our work on "Enantioconvergent carbenoid insertion into carbon−boron bonds" is now online on Nature Synthesis https://t.co/76R6NM6wLx 🎉Congratulations to Qiqiang! 🙏Thanks to our collaborator Liu group @pengliu_group
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Many thanks to our collaborators Dr. Fu, Prof. Liu @pengliu_group , and everyone involved! Great teamwork!
🚨Just out in Nature! We have offered a general method for 1,2-difunctionalization of arenes via differential 1,2-diborylation! https://t.co/8sQ9VJ3sdd
https://t.co/ssnT2RnKQD Congratulations to Jingfeng!
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🚨Just out in Nature! We have offered a general method for 1,2-difunctionalization of arenes via differential 1,2-diborylation! https://t.co/8sQ9VJ3sdd
https://t.co/ssnT2RnKQD Congratulations to Jingfeng!
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🚨 A single-atom swap could change the game in drug discovery! 🧪💥 We have just unveiled a CO-to-S atom swap method that turns ketones into sulfur-containing frameworks in complex, bioactive molecules in just two steps. https://t.co/ecPx1UEdTW Congratulations to Zining.
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Please check out our latest achievement in C–C activation: Downsizing lactams via Rh-catalyzed C–C activation. https://t.co/sN5OeSeKcb Congratulations to Rui @zhangrchem and Kangmin @KangminWen04
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Please check out our new publication on C-C bond activation fluorination, which is just online @J_A_C_S
https://t.co/9ZfQX8lEXf Congratulations to Zining and Kezhi @KryptonChen
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Please check out our recent outlook written by Miao @MiaoChen1997 Atom-by-Atom Iterative Synthetic Logic: Laying the Foundation for Programmable Automated Construction of Small Organic Molecules | ACS Central Science https://t.co/RMb3BmLi5O
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