Spicing things up with Cyanogen Bromide…

Li, Zhou; Gevorgyan, Vladimir Double Duty for Cyanogen Bromide in a Cascade Synthesis of Cyanoepoxides Angew. Chem. Int. Edn. Early View Feb 21 2011 So I’m back (again). Sorry this one took me a while (way to long in my opinion). With all the excitement I’ve been having over the past couple of weeks, I [...]

New UConn Publication

Congratulation to the Fenteany group! They recently published in Synlett regarding a methodology for the preparation of oxazolidinone and tosyl amines using simple tertiary amines to catalyze the reaction! Check it out: https://www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals/abstract/synlett/doi/10.1055/s-0030-1259561

When life is good…

So those who must not be named are actually cooperating for once. Professor Tilley and I just sent the revisions to our manuscript back to Organic Letters and they were immediately accepted. As for the timetable for publication, next week we will get the proofs back for our manuscript and I will have to literally [...]

Benzyne Makes Life More Fun!

Łączkowski, K.; Penã, D.; Escudero, S.; Pérez, D.; Guitián, E.; García, D.; Agustín Cobas Highly Selective Insertion of Arynes into a C(sp)-O(sp3) σ Bond Org. Lett. ASAP February 3, 2011 So I’m back. Sorry I’ve hadn’t posted in over a week. Shame on me. But if you want you can blame the chemistry gods for [...]

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