In honor of the #WomenInScience day, we wanted to highlight the scientific contributions of the women in the group with a short thread... Every one of our papers to date has had a woman as either first or co-first author!

I am so extraordinarily proud of the women in our group. I am honored and, frankly, lucky as hell that they let me join them on their scientific journey. Check out this thread highlighting what they've discovered over the past few years!

It’s an absolute honor to be selected for a 2022 Sloan Fellowship! Congrats to the whole Wickens Group for getting us here. You all have been wonderful to work with and this fellowship is a recognition of your incredible efforts and insights!

Our second paper of 2022, published on Twosday 2/22/2022, is about double stereodifferentiation in dual catalytic [2+2] photocycloadditions, with two great collaborators (Toste Group and Christine Le) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Not only is it Friday, but it's also a great day to apply for the Corteva Chemistry Scholars Symposium! Feel free to reach out with any questions and check out the application here: corteva.recsolu.com/app/collect/ev… #ChemTwitter #AcademicChatter #CortevaScholars2022

Week of many accomplishments for the Wickens group! Congrats Joe for passing his second year exam, Minji Kim for passing her third year research proposal, and @alyahchmiel for giving a great departmental supergroup presentation!

So excited to have been selected!! Thanks Zach Wickens and the rest of the Wickens Group for help with the app. Can’t wait to attend the BMS symposium next spring!

Congratulations to Wickens Group's superstar grad student Aliyah!

Honored to have been selected and so excited to meet the other graduate students, #Merck scientists, and ACS WCC members at ACS Fall 2023!

We’ve spent a lot of time trying to develop stronger reductants in my group but none of those systems were effective on their own. The trick to enabling this new deoxygenation reaction was working out that acids can protonate radical anion intermediates and promote C–O scission.

SO excited for this one to be online! Check it out!! 🤩👇

#ProcterPOW: Zach Wickens reports the deoxygenation of alcohols by benzoylation and 💡catalyst initiated reduction by formate radical anions. Acid-promoted C-O fragmentation🔓then leads to alkyl radicals that undergo HAT from formate to propagate the chain!🔗👇

Practical and General Alcohol Deoxygenation Protocol (Wickens) Wickens Group Oliver Alyah Chmiel Myriam Mikhael Charles Yeung Zach Wickens #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

The most popular articles among readers in April include contributions by Pedro Merino Matson Lab The Schulz Group Wickens Group CarlssonLab @DelemotteLab BertWeckhuysen Leonori Lab Koji Kubota See more ow.ly/hEZ250Ok6il

Thank you to UW-Madison Chemistry students for joining our second annual UW–Madison + GSK Symposium! Prof. Levin from The University of Chicago discussed single atom skeletal editing. Scientists, Nikki Goodwin and Heather Hintz discussed #drugdiscovery, #collaborations, and #chemistry careers.

Interested in learning more about potent photoreductants 👀? Don’t miss our exceptional fifth-year Alyah Chmiel talk this Sunday at ACS!!

Congratulations to this year’s 8th cohort and thank you to the mentors for the WCC Merck Research Award! ACS WCC #MerckChemistry #WomenInChemistry

Check out our latest work J. Am. Chem. Soc. leveraging electrophotocatalysis to access ketyl radicals! We found polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are a uniquely competent class of catalysts, which enabled our group's first non-fragmentation based reduction strategy bit.ly/48j9E8v