The Dong Lab

Our latest achievement is now online in Tetrahedron Letters, published as part of a special issue honoring Prof. Song Lin (@SongLinLab) for receiving the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Congratulations to Xin (@XinLiu14010834) and all co-authors!

Last weekend, we had a wonderful farewell party for Congjun (@CongjunY) and Miao (@MiaoChen1997) at Guangbin’s home. Congjun will join CU Boulder as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, and Miao will be starting at Merck as a Senior Scientist. Wishing them both the best of luck!

Congratulations to Shinyoung @symarcellac

🚀Our recent contribution to the community: N‐methylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept‐2‐ene‐2‐carboxamide - Choi - Major Reference Works - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/04…

🚀New advance toward asymmetric α‑Alkylation of Aldehydes. ✨Lead by Kezhi @KryptonChen, we report a branched-selective α-alkylation of aldehydes with unactivated olefins — enabled by a pyrazole mediator and a chiral Ir catalyst. Congrats! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

🔥 Scalable achievement in enantioselective homologation. 🔥 Our work on "Enantioconvergent carbenoid insertion into carbon−boron bonds" is now online on Nature Synthesis rdcu.be/etopg 🎉Congratulations to Qiqiang! 🙏Thanks to our collaborator Liu group @pengliu_group

Many thanks to our collaborators Dr. Fu, Prof. Liu @pengliu_group , and everyone involved! Great teamwork!

🚨Just out in Nature! We have offered a general method for 1,2-difunctionalization of arenes via differential 1,2-diborylation! rdcu.be/esXq8 nature.com/articles/s4158… Congratulations to Jingfeng!

🚨 A single-atom swap could change the game in drug discovery! 🧪💥 We have just unveiled a CO-to-S atom swap method that turns ketones into sulfur-containing frameworks in complex, bioactive molecules in just two steps. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Congratulations to Zining.

Please check out our latest achievement in C–C activation: Downsizing lactams via Rh-catalyzed C–C activation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Congratulations to Rui @zhangrchem and Kangmin @KangminWen04

Please check out our new publication on C-C bond activation fluorination, which is just online @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Congratulations to Zining and Kezhi @KryptonChen

Please check out our recent outlook written by Miao @MiaoChen1997 Atom-by-Atom Iterative Synthetic Logic: Laying the Foundation for Programmable Automated Construction of Small Organic Molecules | ACS Central Science pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to Congjun!!!

We had a wonderful celebration for Miao @MiaoChen97 on successfully defending his PhD and best of luck on his new journey as a scientist at Merck @Merck! We also warmly welcomed our two new postdocs, Zhongming and Zhiqi.

The application of NBE chemistry in total synthesis! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

We report a new Pd/NBE-enabled modular difunctionalization of pyrroles, achieving concise total syntheses of five leuconoxine-type alkaloids. Congrats to Xin @XinLiu14010834 and all co-authors! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

A great moment of achievement for @GuangbinDong (center) at the Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Awards ceremony in Tokyo this past October, where Prof Dong received the 2024 Catalysis Award.

Please check out another review authored by Rui @zhangrchem : Skeletal Rearrangements of Amides via Breaking Inert Bonds …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…