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Uncovering kinetic and thermodynamic preferences for C(sp2)–H oxidative addition leads to electronically controlled site-selective borylation. Congrats to (then) Chirik Group's Jose Roque, Tyler Pabst and Alex Shimozono. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Tandem Manganese Catalysis for the Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereoselective Hydroboration of Terminal Alkynes (Rebeca Arevalo): chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi… (ChemRxiv).

Great evening at my place playing with Kitty! Thanks group for such an amazing time before holidays! (Too many sweets though!)🥳

Amazing 2023 year with my group, better celebration and even better 2024! Papers, conferences, grants... Hopefully we will make everything! Thanks group for the great lunch and Secret Santa and Happy Holidays! Harleen Kaur Brar, Himani Ahuja

A new day, a new paper is out! Congrats @Duran_Arr for the amazing work on Mn catalyzed hydroboration of alkynes! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…. Challenging compounds, but nothing Victor cannot handle 😉

Thanks Paul Chirik for visiting and anamazing seminar at UC Merced Chemistry! Thanks for your advice to the students and sharing the amazing chem in your lab. Had so much fun with our car conversations in our trip to SFO!😆

Amazing visit to UC Davis, thanks to Louise A Berben, Frank Osterloh and @brontejoan_ for a great dinner and the engaging conversation!

Had a great time visiting UC Merced for a seminar on our work with boron and meetings with faculty and students. Lots of great stuff going on there and a beautiful campus. Big thanks to Rebeca Arevalo for the invite and an amazing time!

Happy birthday to Himani Ahuja!! You still look as young as when you started the Ph D 🤣 Thanks Harleen Kaur Brar for a refreshing and interesting caramel cake! 🎂

Congrats to @Duran_Arr on his ARCS scholarship! Well-deserved and only the first one of many. Thanks to UC Merced Grad Div, UC Merced and UCMercedChem for recognizing his great talent.

Great lunch at 5 10 Bistro to say bye to Miguel A. Chacón-Terán! It has been a pleasure to have you around, we will all miss you a lot! ☹️We wish you all the best for your Paris adventure! 🛫🗼

Excited to start our Ni adventure with C-F activation! Have a look at our preprint at ChemRxiv - go.shr.lc/3A5cdOF. Keep up the great work @Duran_Arr and Roger!

Exciting farewell to Juan including a poster session and pizzas! Thanks a lot Juan for your great work during the summer and UC Merced UC Merced Chemistry for making it possible through the UC Merced-Mexico Climate exchange program. Best of luck, Juan!

Great ACS meeting at Denver! Congrats to Harleen Kaur Brar Himani Ahuja and Roger Nunez for amazing talks! Great to catch up with Erik A Romero and to meet Kyle Grice in person!

Congrats to our new Ph D candidate! Great job @Duran_Arr, keep up the great work! Thanks to Michael Findlater, Hrant P. Hratchian @hphratchian.bsky.social and Erik A Romero for being an amazing committee, sorry you missed the pizza!😂