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Grad student-run Twitter of the Roberts group at University of Minnesota // 2019 // Organic, Organometallics, Inorganic, & Catalysis ⚗️👩🔬 PI: @cortnieroberts
Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2019
🚨 Our first Science paper 🚨.We report the isolation and reactivity of the first “inaccessible” 5-membered heteroaryne! 120+ year challenge! Congrats @jennahumke @belli_roman @ErinPlasek @Sal_K_3 @annabelly24 @CortnieRoberts @UMNChemistry @ScienceMagazine
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N-Heteroaromatics are key elements of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials. N-Heteroarynes provide a scaffold to build these essential molecules but are underused because five-membered...
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RT @steingart: NSF GRFP #'s cut in half year-on-year . 2022: 2193 awards, 1,377 Honorable Mentions .2023: 2555 awards, 801 Honorable Me….
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RT @GargLab: For those attending ACS in SD, we would love to see you on Monday afternoon at the Evans Symposium. Congrats to Neil and all….
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RT @UMNChemistry: Assistant Professors Rene Boiteau and Courtney Roberts (@CortnieRoberts) have been named two of only 126 early-career res….
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Winners receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship to advance researchMINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/18/2025) — University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering Assistant Professors...
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Congrats to our fearless leader @CortnieRoberts on being named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow!! Incredibly well deserved; we’re excited to see where this support takes our science next ✨.
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers.
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Congrats to the team @Seongboi @Sal_K_3 @FeliciaYu000 and our collaborators from the Boyn group @UMNChemistry on this awesome contribution to free aryne chemistry ✨.
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Congrats to our newest PhD candidate, Felicia!!!
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RT @GargLab: Thrilled to share our new study of anti-Bredt olefins in @ScienceMagazine. Congrats to the authors for this nicely timed study….
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These are definitely NOT your Bredt & butter olefins 🤩 congrats to @GargLab & @houk1000 groups on their landmark study tackling yet another strained intermediate, out now in @ScienceMagazine !!
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The π-bonds in unsaturated organic molecules are typically associated with having well-defined geometries that are conserved across diverse structural contexts. Nonetheless, these geometries can be...
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Team Phen had a ton of fun on our newest paper out now in @ACSCatalysis, using a combo of kinetics & data science to study the mechanism & origins of selectivity in a Pd-cat. aryne annulation! Congrats team!! 🎉 @ErinPlasek @DenmanBrylon @CortnieRoberts .
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The synthetic potential of unsymmetrically substituted arynes is not yet fully realized due to regioselectivity issues. Although many models exist to predict the regioselectivity of arynes, these...
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Another successful Canadian thanksgiving in the books! 🍗.
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RT @PinacolWhipped: Aww thanks Beza!! 🫶🏼 Been too busy to tweet about it but it’s been an amazing experience so far getting to teach my own….
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Entering our free aryne era! Check out our newest paper on the aminohalogenation of arynes! Congrats to recent PhD @JoshGavin17 and our star undergrad Lars!
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Methods for aryne difunctionalization have been the focus of recent research, but one limitation is the use of nucleophiles with proton sources. Herein, we demonstrate the use of halogen transfer...
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RT @UMNChemistry: UMN faculty and graduate students will be presenting at #ACSFall2024 all week long! We hope your week in the Mile High Ci….
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RT @PinacolWhipped: Can’t wait to embark on this journey & meet everybody in less than a week!! #CASFutureLeaders.
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Check out our further explorations of the effects of f-block metal identity on electronic structure & catalysis, out now in @InorgChem ! Congrats to the team @inorga_nick @TafuriTori & Rana!!
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The use of redox-active ligands with the f-block elements has been employed to promote unique chemical transformations and explore their unique emergent electronic properties for a myriad of applic...
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RT @UMNChemistry: Seven graduate students advised by Chemistry faculty members were recently awarded UMN's Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship….
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MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (7/18/2024) – Seven graduate students advised by Department of Chemistry faculty members were recently awarded the University of Minnesota’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship....
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RT @julyphamd: UMN @UMNChemistry represented at the @ACSorganic Graduate Research Symposium!! . Here's me, @SerenaDiLiberti and @Seongboi o….
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Congrats to rising 5th year grad students Brylon Denman (@DenmanBrylon) and Chris Seong (@Seongboi) for receiving UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships!!
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MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (7/18/2024) – Seven graduate students advised by Department of Chemistry faculty members were recently awarded the University of Minnesota’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship....
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