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Assistant Professor @chemistryatuvic 👨🏻🔬🇳🇿🏳️🌈 Fellow @trinityhallcamb @chemcambridge. Lindemann Fellow @scrippsresearch
I'm joining the faculty at the University of Victoria as an Assistant Professor starting summer 2024! Very excited to embark on fun projects with students and colleagues at @uvic, and be based in beautiful BC for my independent research career 🍁🇨🇦 #chemtwitter #newPI
Meet Dr. Nelson Lam, UVic's new Assistant Professor as of Summer 2024! His mission: Establish a leading research group developing translatable catalytic methods targeting outstanding selectivity challenges that characterize contemporary organic synthesis. @nelsonyslam
The lab coats are on as the Lam Lab welcomes its first group members! Superstar @uvic undergrads Clara, Grace, and Seth have been helping me set up the lab 🧪🥼 @chemistryatuvic #newPI
Intermolecular Asymmetric Arylative Dearomatization of 1-Naphthols | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Cambridge_Uni @ChemCambridge @TotalSyntheses #Arylative #Dearomatization #Naphthols pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
Catalytic Enantioselective H Atom Abstraction Enables the Asymmetric Oxidation of Meso Diols | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Cambridge_Uni @ChemCambridge @TotalSyntheses #Enantioselective #Catalytic #HAtom #Abstraction #Oxidation #MesoAlcohols pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
Saturday was the annual Explore UVic event, and each year we like to put on several demos for the visiting students! Here are a couple select photos from the day!
This total synthesis really captures the collaborative spirit + creativity of the @NSFCCH. Awesome to see this out @thestoltzgroup @Huw78347000
Amazing collaboration with Stoltz group @Caltech and Davies group @EmoryUniversity! Our part was to achieve tetra-CH hydroxylation via weak coordination at very late stage of complex total synthesis: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
If you like total synthesis and Wordle, check out Synthordle, a retrosynthetic analysis game created by Shenvi Lab associates Kevin Zong (GS 2) and Jonah Luo (HS sophomore!). rshenvi.github.io/synthordle/ Coming to @scrippsresearch Chemical Synthesis class in Winter ’25.
Ever had a radical reaction not work when it ‘should’? Mismatched *radical polarity* may be the issue. We often only look at BDE & redox (thermodynamics), but forget polarity (kinetics). Jake, Andrew, & I are excited to share this new resource to help! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…
Three NZers on the faculty! Well, kind of - David Harrington has just retired. But great to get him and @nelsonyslam (welcome to UVic, Nelson!) together for a photo.
The Britton Group is looking for new Postdoctoral Researchers! Come join our team at @SFU to get involved in the excited chemistry we do. Interested applicants please contact Dr. Britton (details here brittonsfu.com/contact/). Hope to hear from you soon! #chemtwitter #chemjobs
From Asking a curious question in 2001 to now numerous applications in drug discovery and total synthesis, the key is the bifunctional ligand !
Palladium (II)-Catalyzed C-H Activation with Bifunctional Ligands: From Curiosity to Industrialization (Jin-Quan Yu and co-workers) @yulabjin @scrippsresearch #AngewandteReview onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…