
Mike West π³οΈβπ
@mikechemwest
Organic PhD Candidate in @Rousseauxgroup @chemuoft | Passionate about weird reactions, EDI in STEM, and teaching | he/him blacklivesmatters.carrd.co
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09-04-2019 17:27:06
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A new report in #OL from Alex Gabbey, Nick Michel, and @RousseauxGroup from Chemistry at UofT with Jon Hughes and L.-C. Campeau Ph.D. from Merck, a mild nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling strategy to synthesize alpha-aryl secondary amides from NHP esters. Check it out pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acβ¦







A simpler & safer way to access carbene intermediates for a variety of synthetic transformations β congrats to the authors! It was a lot of fun getting the opportunity to write a Science Magazine Perspective on this work @RousseauxGroup. Check it out here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scβ¦


So cool to see my work on the cover of Org Lett! We report the synthesis of cyclopropylamines from cyclopropanols or enones via metal homoenolates. If you want to learn more about the underexplored electrophilicity of these intermediates, check out the link below! ACS for Authors


Synthesis of 3-borylated cyclobutanols from epihalohydrins or epoxy alcohol derivatives Don't miss Tyler R. McDonald & Sophie A. L. Rousseaux's latest Chemical Science π ow.ly/WUhm50MnxGL π University of Toronto | Chemistry at UofT


The Keith Fagnou Award is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to organic chemistry while working in Canada. Congrats to Dr. Sophie Rousseaux @RousseauxGroup of University of Toronto on being the recipient of this award. buff.ly/3D9YzZf


Excited to share our latest paper on the Ni-catalyzed arylation of nitrile-containing NHP esters, out now in JOC! This one has methods, mechanism, and more. @RousseauxGroup Nick Michel pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acβ¦


Excited to share that The Mills Lab will start this fall at the University of Houston! This is possible due to my mentors and training @RousseauxGroup Paul Chirik Chirik Group Stay tuned and follow below for more news: x.com/millslabchem


Super excited to share our work on the photocatalytic O- to S-rearrangement of tertiary cyclopropanols to access cyclopropanethiol products! Huge amount of work went into this one from all involved and I am really happy with how it all turned out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10β¦

Read it here: Chemistry profiles student Alex Gabbey, who presented at the 2024 ACC conference after receiving the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Merck Research Award. chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/alex-gabb⦠Working towards Inclusivity in Chemistry Toronto #WomenInScience #ACC2024 #ResearchAward #StudentSuccess #WomeninSTEM

Nice to see this new iron work in Organometallics, which demonstrates some cross-coupling reactivity principles that will help my lab to develop new iron-catalyzed reactions in the coming years pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acβ¦


Developing Pharmaceutically Relevant Pd-Catalyzed CβN Coupling Reactivity Models Leveraging High-Throughput Experimentation | Journal of the American Chemical Society MIT Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jaβ¦