Blum Research Laboratory

05/22/2024

Welcome to our newest group member, Pegah Honarmand!

05/17/2024

Congratulations to Yiqing Zhang for publication of her studies on surfactant-dependent partitioning of organic reagents in JOC! This article was an Editor's Choice article.

05/11/2024

Another successful Lee dinner in the books!

Congratulations to Pat McShea as the new Gebel Awardee for sustainable chemistry research!

Congratulations to Alexis Ravenscroft for being awarded the Outstanding 1st-year Teaching Assistant!

04/17/2024

Congratulations to Hannah Peacock for characterization of aqueous–organic Suzuki coupling, now in ChemRxiv!

03/30/2024

Yiqing Zhang receives the ACS Green Chemistry Pharmaceutical Round Table Travel Award! The award comes with the prestigious opportunity to be one of only a few student presenters at the Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference. She will present her research on “Surfactant–Dependent Partitioning of Reagents in Sustainable Reaction Systems Characterized by Imaging.”Congratulations, Yiqing!

03/06/2024

Congratulations to Yiqing Zhang for elucidating surfactant-dependent partitioning of organic reagents, now in Chemrxiv!

12/18/2023

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada, Sylvia Lou, and Patrick McShea for differentiating microenvironments of oxidative addition intermediates in zinc, now in Chem. Eur. J.!

Thanks to PicoQuant for a microscope that makes these findings possible!

Commercial zinc metal powder requires activation for consistent and reliable use as a reductant in the formation of organozinc reagents from organohalides, and for the avoidance of supplier and batch...

10/25/2023

Congratulations to Martin Stang and R. J. Mycka for harnessing Lewis acid selectivity and reversible haloboration for boron-based cyclization reactions, now published in JOC!

Different reaction selectivity occurs with the Lewis acids B-chlorocatecholborane (ClBcat), B-bromocatecholborane (BrBcat), and BBr3, favoring either alkyne haloboration, electrophilic cyclization of a tethered nucleophilic sulfur onto the alkyne, or group transfer of the nucleophile. This reaction....

09/21/2023

Congratulations to Joe Kaplan for receiving the departmental Dissertation Fellowship and to Hannah Peacock and Pía López for receiving the Allergan Graduate Research Fellowship!

09/07/2023

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada and Patrick McShea for the publication of their work on the activating role of TMSCl in Angewandte!

Trimethylsilyl chloride (TMSCl) is commonly used to “activate” metal(0) powders toward oxidative addition of organohalides, but knowledge of its mechanism remains limited by the inability to characte...

09/01/2023

Congratulations to Joe Kaplan for publication of his research on group transfer of substituted alkenes in JOC!

08/12/2023

Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada for defending her thesis!