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Happy Halloween from the MCWhite group!

Fantastic to connect the MCWhite PdSOX crew at Princeton (Andrea Pace, Will Lyon, Sven Kaster) with OG Ken Fraunhoffer (BMS) one of the founders of Pd sulfoxide catalysis!

Great visit Princeton Chemistry for Novartis lecture w/ Michael Shultz Novartis. Thanks Jose Roque, Paul Chirik Group, Todd @Hysterlab, Rob Knowles, Dave David MacMillan, their students & postdocs for great science & hospitality. Shout out to Andria Pace, Will Lyon & Sven Kaster Ted

Thanks to Connor Holt for hosting an awesome visit Pfizer Inc. Groton site. Great to meet with amazing Pfizer chemists that work every day to make our lives better! Shout out to Chemistry at Illinois Burke group alum Kaitlyn Grey and MCWhite group long-time collaborator Jeff Kohrt!

Phenomenal Marvel lectures by F. Dean Toste on topics of supramolecular chemistry and bioconjugation with the common theme of the power of chemistry to broadly impact science.

The MCWhite group reflecting on many things to grateful for! Fantastic new graduate student Lynda Steen Calvin College joins our amazing Pd subgroup team!

MCWhite group is thankful for awesome grad student Shawn Schowe who aced his prelim and for the fantastic mentorship of senior student Jake Weaver!

MCWhite group holiday & paper party celebrating SvenSOX @ Athina in Greektown and Blackhawks game. Excited to have Sven Kaster & Will Lyon back for the celebration!

Happy Holidays from the MCWhite group!

Awesome to host Prof. Shauna Paradine, the OG of nitrene & White-Paradine catalyst, at UIUC. Her group is finding powerful ways to forge carbon scaffolds that we hope to aminate!

Axe Bar group outing in celebration of Shauna’s visit! Epic subgroup faceoff: Pd/nitrene/oxo. Can you guess who won?

Phenomenal Novartis Lectures Novartis by Donna Blackmond and our own Raundi Quevedo!

Dr. Raundi Quevedo (PhD 2022) gave a fantastic talk on molecular glues as the Novartis speaker Novartis Cancer. MCWhite group was excited to welcome her back!

Packed house for Harvard Chemistry Eric Jacobsen’s wonderful student-invited lecture on “Privileged Chiral Catalysts.” Thanks for spending your day with Princeton Chemistry, Eric!

So proud of MCWhite group PhD Siraj Ali who will be starting as an Assistant Prof. at Wayne State University this fall!

Alexander Gomez, PhD student WhiteGroup, won an Outstanding Mentor Award from the C² - Chemical Sciences through Community program. Gomez mentored ChBE Illinois undergrad Omar Chavez, who nominated Gomez for the award. 🏆 bit.ly/4iP8G7X

Great visit to Vertex and Pfizer in San Diego. Thanks to Andrew Dinh Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Paul Richardson Pfizer Inc. for hosting . Tremendous respect and appreciation for the amazing work of chemists that discover and make medicines to make our lives better!

It was an honor to be the 1st student selected seminar speaker at Baylor. Was great to see old friends, meet talented students and see great science!

A great lunch with Baylor students at Milo’s restaurant in Waco, TX!

Thanks to rising star Yang Yang for hosting an awesome visit to UC Santa Barbara UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for Novartis Lectureship. Incredible students & faculty and an inspiring lecture from Dr. Christopher Sarko Novartis!