Congratulations to Grace Lutovsky and Dr. Sam Gockel on an amazing collaboration with Pfizer Scott Bagley! Click below to read about the development of a modular, Fe-promoted decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling reaction! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Tehshik Yoon

Cheers to our post-doc Francesca, who will be starting a tenure-track position at Hamline University this fall! 🥂 We will miss you, but we’re so excited to see what cool reactions the Ippoliti Lab develops! Garg Lab UCLA

Congratulations to Riley Kelch, Dr. Andrew Whyte, & Eunji Lee on the publication of their study of the effects of Lewis acid co-catalysts in the visible light De Mayo Reaction! Read it here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.or…

Congrats, Dr. Genzink! Matt Genzink

Congratulations to Grace Lutovsky, Ellie Plachinski, and Nicholas Reed on the publication of their development of an allylic amination reaction of highly substituted alkenes enabled by Cu(II)-mediated radical–polar crossover! Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to Yoon Lab Phd #25, Dr. Grace Lutovsky Grace Lutovsky! 🥂 🎉

Congratulations to Matt Genzink, Matthew Rossler, and Herman on their publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc. today on the synthesis of truxinate natural products enabled by enantioselective [2+2] photocycloadditions! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

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

Last week we held our second Process Chemistry Workshop here AbbVie North Chicago! It was an absolute pleasure giving 17 graduate student guests a glimpse into the world of process chemistry. Thank you to all the students and organizers! Until next year… #PCW #abbvie

(1/2) Two new papers this week! First, Wesley Swords and Hanna from Baik Group lead a comprehensive synthetic, spectroscopic, and computational study of a new asymmetric catalytic 6π photoelectrocyclization in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

2024 Yoon Group trailer video, courtesy Cade MacAllister

Now on the ChemRxiv: My lab has tried to develop an enantioselective catalytic Paternò–Büchi reaction for 15 years. Jesse, @tahoefiala, and Wesley Swords took a mechanistically inspired approach to the problem and finally cracked it! doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Our paper of the year is the Zuo lab's multiplicative enhancement of stereoenrichment by a single catalyst for deracemization of alcohols! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

New paper! Ellie Plachinski, Hyung Joo, and Matt Genzink have a solid-state photochemistry approach to the truxillate family of natural products in J. Am. Chem. Soc. today. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

New paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Jesse, @tahoefiala, and Wesley Swords report the development of the first highly enantioselective catalytic Paternò-Büchi reaction. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Alana, Arindam, and Mihai dropped a comprehensive preparative, spectroscopic, and computational study to understand why this photocatalytic aziridination is so darn good. Big collab among us, Niels Damrauer, and Robert Paton through the new SuPRCat CCI. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our undergrad Rodrigo wondered if we could replace the bespoke chiral acid used in our recent asymmetric photochemistry with commercial (S)-TRIP. His protocol for enantioselective truxinate synthesis on 2-gram scale just dropped on Organic Syntheses: orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep…

We are happy to present 🔥ℝ𝕖𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕪𝕤𝕚𝕤💥 to the community... Try your most crazy reactions within this manifold 🫴chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Enantioselective [2π + 2σ] Photocycloaddition Enabled by Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Chromophore Activation | JACS UW–Madison UW-Madison Chemistry Tehshik Yoon Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights #Enantioselective #Photocycloaddition #BronstedAcid #Chromophore #Activation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Hard to see how the actions of the administration over the past few weeks are anything other than an all-out attack on science and universities. We are squandering a decades-long project that built a world-leading scientific ecosystem. The chaos alone is extremely damaging.