Links to recent topics covered in our group meetings are collected here.

Total Synthesis of (−)-Himalensine A by Heyao Shi, Iacovos N. Michaelides, Benjamin Darses, Pavol Jakubec, Quynh Nhu N. Nguyen, Robert S. Paton, and Darren J. Dixon, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 17755–17758 (21 Feb 2018)

Palladium Catalyzed Asymmetric Three-Component Coupling of Boronic Esters, Indoles, and Allylic Acetates by Santanu Panda and Joseph M. Ready, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 6038–6041 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 16 May 2017)

Arylation of hydrocarbons enabled by organosilicon reagents and weakly coordinating anions by Brian Shao, Alex L. Bagdasarian, Stasik Popov, and Hosea M. Nelson, Science 2017, 355, 1403–1407 (presented by Jenny Martinez, 18 Apr 2017)

A Double Allylation Strategy for Gram-Scale Guaianolide Production: Total Synthesis of (+)-Mikanokryptin by Xirui Hu, Silong Xu, and Thomas J. Maimone, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1624–1628 (presented by Saswata Gupta, 04 Apr 2017)

Photocatalytic Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling of Alkenes with Alcohols or Azoles without External Oxidant by Hong Yi, Linbin Niu, Chunlan Song, Yiying Li, Bowen Dou, Atul K. Singh, and Aiwen Lei, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1120–1124 (presented by Gena Grabovyi, 28 Feb 2017)

Total Synthesis of (±)-Berkeleyone A by Masha Elkin, Suzanne M. Szewczyk, Anthony C. Scruse, and Timothy R. Newhouse, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 1790–1793 (presented by Yuanlin Deng, 07 Feb 2017)

Nickel-Catalyzed Boron Insertion into the C2−O Bond of Benzofurans by Hayate Saito, Shinya Otsuka, Keisuke Nogi, and Hideki Yorimitsu, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 15315–15318 (presented by Meng Zhao, 31 Jan 2017)

Total Synthesis of (–)-Histrionicotoxin through a Stereoselective Radical Translocation–Cyclization Reaction by Manabu Sato, Hiroki Azuma, Akihiro Daigaku, Sota Sato, Kiyosei Takasu, Kentaro Okano, and Hidetoshi Tokuyama, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1087–1091 (presented by Nabeelah Kauser, 24 Jan 2017)

Pyridine-Catalyzed Radical Borylation of Aryl Halides by Li Zhang and Lei Jiao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 607–610 (presented by Corey Yarbrough, 17 Jan 2017)