Throwback Thursday: Proud of MCWhite group alum Jennifer Howell (postdoc, 2015) for promotion to Associate VP @Lillypharma! Her HBF4 strategy makes C—H oxidations & amination in [N] compounds possible: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5b10299

​Thanks to rising star Yang Yang for hosting an awesome visit to UC Santa Barbara @ucsbchemistry for Novartis Lectureship. Incredible students & faculty and an inspiring lecture from Dr. Christopher Sarko @Novartis!

Great visit to Vertex and Pfizer in San Diego. Thanks to Andrew Dinh @VertexPharma and Paul Richardson @pfizer for hosting . Tremendous respect and appreciation for the amazing work of chemists that discover and make medicines to make our lives better!

Dr. Raundi Quevedo (PhD 2022) gave a fantastic talk on molecular glues as the Novartis speaker @NovartisCancer. MCWhite group was excited to welcome her back!

Axe Bar group outing in celebration of Shauna’s visit! Epic subgroup faceoff: Pd/nitrene/oxo. Can you guess who won?  

Happy Holidays from the MCWhite group!

The MCWhite group reflecting on many things to grateful for! Fantastic new graduate student Lynda Steen @ecalvinoaf  joins our amazing Pd subgroup team!

Thanks to Connor Holt for hosting an awesome visit @Pfizer Groton site. Great to meet with amazing Pfizer chemists that work every day to make our lives better! Shout out to @ChemistryUIUC Burke group alum Kaitlyn Grey and MCWhite group long-time collaborator Jeff Kohrt!

Fantastic to connect the MCWhite PdSOX crew at Princeton (Andrea Pace, Will Lyon, Sven Kaster) with OG Ken Fraunhoffer (BMS) one of the founders of Pd sulfoxide catalysis! 

Inspiring 3M lecture today from Craig Hawker @HawkerNation! Excellent talk on the power of branching and building blocks in polymer design and after building them up how you break them down!

A message from MCW on diversity 

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Throwback Thursday: Mentor & Mentee Reunited! MCWhite Group alums Prof. Shauna Paradine (PhD 2015, ‪@paradinelab.bsky.social, Univ. Rochester) & Prof. Shannon Miller (BS 2016, @_ShannonMMiller, Scripps): https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2366

It was an honor to be the 1st student selected seminar speaker at Baylor. Was great to see old friends, meet talented students and see great science!

So proud of MCWhite group PhD Siraj Ali who will be starting as an Assistant Prof. at Wayne State University this fall!

Phenomenal Novartis Lectures @Novartis by @DonnaBlackmond and our own Raundi Quevedo!

Awesome to host Prof. Shauna Paradine @paradinelab.bsky.social, the OG of nitrene & White-Paradine catalyst, at UIUC. Her group is finding powerful ways to forge carbon scaffolds that we hope to aminate!

MCWhite group holiday & paper party celebrating SvenSOX @ Athina in Greektown and Blackhawks game. Excited to have Sven Kaster & Will Lyon back for the celebration!

Phenomenal Marvel lectures by F. Dean Toste on topics of supramolecular chemistry and bioconjugation with the common theme of the power of chemistry to broadly impact science. 

Great visit @PrincetonChem for the Novartis lecture w/ Michael Shultz @Novartis. Thanks Jose Roque, Paul @ChirikGroup, Todd @Hysterlab, Rob Knowles & Dave @dmac68 & their tremendous grad students & postdocs for inspiring science & warm hospitality. Big shout out to @MCWhitegroup Andria Pace, Will Lyon &  Sven Kaster killing it in @MacMillan group!

Throwback Thursday: Check out MCW’s investiture speech from 2020:  “C-H Oxidation: An Outsider’s Approach “. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZXukYFT3w

Tour de force Fuson lectures from Seth Herzon @HerzonLab spanning from a riveting total synthesis story of the Securiflustra securifrons alkaloids to advances in small molecule treatments for brain tumors.