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

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

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

Positioning for reactivity (image Jose Vazquez) : A small molecule catalyst takes a nucleophile & electrophile, pulls them together and lines them up to form C—O bonds, check it out in @ScienceMagazine: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8027

Congrats to our MCWhite group alum Kaibo Feng on starting his new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Florida! Check out his website: feng.chem.ufl.edu

Congrats to the MCW group for an awesome UIUC lab Olympics performance today!

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

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

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

What are MCW and Sven Kaster working on? Dropping later this week!

Congrats to our own Jake Weaver for receiving the @chemistry UIUC Voorhees award for best original research proposal!

A message from MCW on diversity 

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