Registration is now open for TexSyn VI in College Station (May 31–Jun 1, 2024) at Texas A&M University! We have a great line-up of speakers, a recruiting event for students/postdocs, and a 3-min thesis competition. Registration is free! Chemistry Department TAMU Science 🤠🧪 tinyurl.com/544d4njy

Missed the Total Solar Eclipse on Baylor University's campus today? Check out this quick time-lapse of the sky changing from 🌞 to 🌑!

Congrats to Alexandra and all of the award recipients!

The group had a blast at TexSyn VI this past weekend! Congrats to Alexandra Lubaev on winning 1st prize in the poster session! Baylor Chemistry Thanks Powers Lab & Quentin Michaudel for organizing a stellar event Chemistry Department this year! Looking fwd to TexSynVII UT Dallas Chemistry

#SicEm, Dr. Chan! The Baylor chemistry prof (and 1993 BU grad) was named a 2024 American Chemical Society Fellow -- an honor achieved by less than 2% of ACS members: news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/202…

Spread the word! We're hiring a TT Asst. Prof. with expertise in developing new theoretical methods and computational tools (broadly related to chemical reactivity/catalysis, biophysical chemistry, or drug development). Great resources & support for junior faculty at Baylor!

Enjoying #ACSFall2024 in Denver and looking forward to presenting in tomorrow’s DOC Academic Young Investigator Symposium! Be sure to drop by if you’re here- great line up of early career faculty

Congrats to Dr. Rebecca Kehner, resident Zr wizard and Romero group PhD #1! Excited to see all that you will accomplish at Merck! Rebecca Baylor Chemistry

Latest work is out today as a 'HOT Article' in Chemical Science! Rebecca & @CO2PERATE_ESR13 Baylor Chemistry use Zr-catalysis to convert esters to imines & aldehydes, enabling new strategies for polyester depolymerization. Our group's #myfirstrchemsci: doi.org/10.1039/D4SC05…

First day of the CIC Annual Meeting is in the books! A great start for the Catalysis Innovation Institute. The Catalysis Innovation Consortium Liela (Bayeh) Romero Mingji Dai Kyle F. Biegasiewicz Diao Lab nagib lab Montgomery Group Simon Blakey Melissa Ramirez

🚨So excited to announce that our group’s first paper, led by our amazing postdoc, is now published in EJIC! Go check it out now! Synthesis and Characterization of Well‐Defined s‐Block Bis(Carbene) Complexes …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej…

We’re thrilled to have you and your group join us this fall

After somewhat of a hiatus, I’m back to post some recent developments for the group: First up this week, our study on the catalytic dihalogenation of allenes is now online– kudos to the team for all their hard work! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Next up this week: What a pleasant surprise to see our Zr-catalyzed conversion of esters to imines selected for the 2024 #ChemSciMostPopular catalysis articles! I spy a second Zr-catalysis paper in the collection– love to see it! pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/ar…

Check out our recent paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc. on the diastereoselective synthesis of morpholines! Congratulations Tiffany Brisco! UT Southwestern Medical Center UTSW Science UTSW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Continuing the string of recent good news for the group: my NSF CAREER award was funded! Super excited (and grateful to U.S. National Science Foundation) to continue our explorations and take this research to the next level. Big thanks to everyone who’s supported us along the way Baylor Chemistry and beyond!

Direct reductive amination of amides with sulfonamides at RT? ✅ Zr-catalysis makes it possible—mild, efficient, and selective for late-stage monoalkylation. Check out the latest paper from our group Baylor Chemistry now available online ACS Catalysis! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

PhD #2 for the Romero group marks the end of an era for the first cohort of students– congrats to Dr. Alexandra Lubaev on completing the PhD! #ProudPI

Today marks 5 years for the group! Very grateful to 1) the creative, hardworking researchers I’ve worked with and 2) colleagues near are far who supported our efforts and my early bid for tenure. Excited to start the next chapter this August: Associate Professor with tenure