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Recent tweets from  @MCWhiteGroup

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.

September 2024

Great visit to UNICAMP in Brazil for symposium organized by former MCWhite postdoc Prof. Emilio Carlos de Lucca Junior. Wonderful to see great talks by colleagues and get to know the next generation of awesome Brazilian chemists. Obrigado!

September 2024

Our recently reported etherification in @ScienceMagazine is so easy, a middle schooler can do it, check it out (video Tracy Crane @ChemistryUIUC) : https://youtu.be/4twNJ_LHblo

September 2024

Meet Team: Lei Zhu a visiting Professor from Hubei Engineering Univ. in China & Will Lyons a MCWhite group undergrad @ChemistryUIUC now a PhD student in @MacMillan_lab worked with @KasterSven to explore the olefins and alcohols that could be used to furnish >130 ethers in @ScienceMagazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8027

September 2024

Meet the awesome MCWhite team @OCBUIUC @ChemistryUIUC led by graduate student Sven Kaster (@KasterSven) w/ Lei Zhu, William Lyon, Rulin Ma, Stephen Ammann. They discovered a catalyst to position olefins & alcohols to form ethers @ScienceMagazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8027

October 2024

Great to represent @MCWhiteGroup at the 19th BMOS (Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis) in beautiful Bento Goncalves (the wine region of Brazil). Thank you Paulo Schneider and Diogo Ludtke for organizing great science with great wine, food & company!

September 2024

Check out @NewsAtIllinois article on “Enzyme-inspired catalyst puts chemicals in right position to make ethers” by Liz Touchstone: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/942355293?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=tchsphyseng&utm_source=nb

September 2024

Meet the Team: @ChemistryUIUC grads & WhiteSOX old guard Stephen Ammann @Gilead Sciences & Rulin Ma (“Ma-SOX”) now @Relay_Tx discovered etherification reactivity using Pd/SOX catalysis and started us on the path to “SvenSOX” -catalyzed etherification reported in @ScienceMagazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8027

September 2024

Meet Team: Sven Kaster, a MCWhite group & @ChemistryUIUC alum (PhD ’24) now a postdoc in @MacMillan_lab.  Checkout Sven at graduation & hooding and his thesis research recently published in  @ScienceMagazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8027

June 2020

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