
Webster Santos
@santoslabvt
Professor & COS Faculty Fellow, Mito Uncouplers, Sph Kinase & S1P transport inhibitors. B & Si Methods. Co-Fndr: ContinuumBio, S1P Therapeutics, UncouplerBio
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Latest news from Virginia Tech Chemistry: Webster Santos is advancing innovative drug discovery research for chronic kidney disease! Read more: news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

Congrats to Webster Santos grad student Mai K. Le Mai for winning the grand prize for the best poster presentation at the 2nd annual chemistry graduate student symposium. 🙌 Virginia Tech Chemistry


Scholarly review written by Dirk H. Trauner and Glorius Group: Reaction development: a student's checklist📜☑️😀 Published in Chem. Soc. Rev.: doi.org/10.1039/d4cs01…


Catalytic Reductive Aza-Boron-Wittig Reaction: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… (ACS Catalysis).


Congrats to our newest Webster Santos PhD candidate Mai K. Le Mai. She passed with flying colors! Virginia Tech Chemistry


Congrats to Webster Santos newest Ph.D. candidate Mario Hernandez mariooo. Breezed through prelim exam. Will now slay #Spns2 as a drug target 🎯. 🙌 Virginia Tech Chemistry


Regiodivergent Alkylation of Pyridines: Alkyllithium Clusters Direct Chemical Reactivity | Journal of the American Chemical Society KAISTPR KAIST Chemistry POSTECH IBS_media(기초과학연구원) Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Copper-Mediated Phosphoniumation of Aryl/Vinyl Boronic Acids (J Org Chem/Org Lett): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac….



Photoinduced transition metal-free borylation of aryl halides in an aqueous phase (Green Chemistry): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art….


Congrats to Webster Santos PhD #30: Dr. Mary Foutz Mary A. Foutz. She developed oral mitochondrial uncouplers for the treatment of #obesity. #drughunter 👏🙌 Virginia Tech Chemistry Virginia Tech Science VirginiaTechCDD Fralin Life Sciences Institute

Congratulations to our 2025 VT Center for Drug Discovery VirginiaTechCDD poster session winners: Darwin Gomez (Adrian Figg), Emily Krinos (Webster Santos) & Ahmed Abouelkhair (Mohamed Seleem). 🙌 Fralin Life Sciences Institute Virginia Tech Science




Congrats to Webster Santos PhD #31: Dr. Joseph Quinlan. He is our antivirulence/antiobesity guru targeting PilB and mitochondria. #medchem 🙌💪 Virginia Tech Chemistry Virginia Tech Science Fralin Life Sciences Institute


Synthesis of gem-di(boryl)cyclopropanes from non-activated olefins via Mn-photocatalyzed atom transfer radical addition (Chemical Science): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art….



Xanthopinacol Boronate: A Robust, Photochemically Assembled and Cleavable Boronic Ester for Orthogonal Chemistry (Hall Research Group at UAlberta): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… (Angewandte Chemie).


Persistent Boryl Radicals as Highly Reducing Photoredox Catalysts for Debrominative Borylations (J. Am. Chem. Soc.): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… (AggarwalLab).
