The White Group News

A message from MCW on diversity 

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Congrats to Amination Nation led by Siraj Ali with Brenna Budaitis, Devon Fontaine, Andria Pace and Jacob Garwin whose paper was selected by C&ENews as one of the breakthroughs in Chemistry for 2022!

"Recipe for tertiary amines relied on a little salt": https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-10044-cover4

Awesome to have Dr. Siraj Ali @Sargetasm

back for the traditional MCWhite group glass breaking with co-authors Brenna Budaitis and Devon Fontaine.

Congrats to Chiwon Hwang for passing his qualifying exams! Your nitrene cohorts are excited for all the great things you will do next. Thanks to Charlie Dixon for great senior student mentorship and Seth Klaine for being a great mentee!

Great visit to Northwestern Chemistry

@NUChemistry hosted by Megan Kaster. Thanks to Megan and all the fantastic students for a great day!

Welcome to new first year graduate student Shawn Schowe (Univ. Colorado Denver) and visiting student Akiko Fujii (Gifu Pharmaceutical University Japan).

Congrats to Jake Weaver for passing his qualifying exams. The first of many great things to come. Thanks to Sven Kaster for great senior student mentorship!

Throwback to a great visit at Cork University 

@uccchemistry with great host Ger McGlacken 

@mcglackengroup group!

Congratulations to our newly minted PhD Siraj Ali. We are excited to see all the amazing work you will do in the Radosevich Group at MIT!

Check out MCW's investiture speech. Nice overview of the group's work and mission.

Congrats to MCW and the White Group for the endowed chair (Lycan Prof. of Chemistry)! Great day celebrating with good colleagues and friends! View the presentation here!

Congrats to newly minted Dr. Jinpeng ("aka JZ") Zhao on a powerful doctoral defense! Corteva is gaining an amazing new scientist!

Thanks to MilliporeSigma (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany) for sponsoring the ACS Award for Creative work! Thanks to Klaus Griesar for presenting MCW with the Award!

Thanks to Emily Balskus, Gary Molander, Greg Fu and Eric Jacobsen for speaking at MCW's symposium and to Shauna Paradine for serving as MC!

Check out Dr. Wei Liu at the 2019 CaRLa Winter school. A future star meeting a living legend Prof. Gunter Helmchen.

Check out the UIUC new bureau article on Mn(CF3)PDP

Congrats to Jinpeng, Takeshi, and Emilio on a breakthrough paper in Nature Chemistry! Check out the "Behind the Paper" story in Nature Research Chemistry Community.

Check out the JACS spotlight for our Perspective in JACS on Aliphatic C—H Oxidations!

Congrats to the White Group on a great news article about our recent award and research! 

CVS ACS Symposium (Connecticut Valley Symposium Sponsored by Pfizer). A great day of C—H activation lectures and catching up with former Posner group lab mate Bryan Li, former undergraduate student Alex Brucks and collaborator Jeff Kohrt (Scientists at Pfizer). Thanks to Hattie and Martins for their fantastic organization of the event.

Congrats to Prof. Jared Delcamp (White Group alum, PhD 2010) on a fantastic talk at UIUC! 

Congrats to Wei, Siraj, and Stephen on a breakthrough paper in the area of asymmetric allylic C—H alkylation.

Check out our group paper party pics in Chicago to see the Cubs vs. the Phillies. Inspirational game where the Cubs come back to win in the 9th inning with a walk off grand slam (Thanks to JZ for capturing the pic of the winning hit)!

Congrats to Joe, Kaibo and Anasheh on a remarkable paper in Nature Chemistry describing THE way to do benzylic amination! Check out the paper, Chemical and Engineering News Article, and the June Cover (thanks to Kaibo, resident graphic artist, on amazing art work)!

Congrats to Dr. Joseph Clark for winning a poster prize at CaRLa (see pic with former group members Pilar and Vanessa) and for the UIUC Marvel Award!

Congrats to Rulin on the first C—H to C—N cross-coupling reaction!!!

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Interview with Professor White.

Congratulations Dr. Ammann (aka Dr. Steve) ! We are excited to see all the great things you will accomplish at Gilead!.

Congrats to team iron carbene (Jenny, Chloe, Jacob) for the first paper to report a catalytic iron-catalyzed C—H alkylation proceeding via an iron carbene.

Congrats to Stephen Amman who will be starting his new job as a PhD level scientist at Gilead after graduating this Fall!!

Fantastic Bristol Synthesis Meeting in UK!

Check out pics from our group paper party in Chicago to see "The Columnist" at American House of Blues Theater. Philip Earl Johnson as Joe Alsop was incredible! 

Congrats to Kaibo for winning the Fuson Travel Award this cycle. He will be attending an Gordon Conference this summer

Glass breaking party and lunch in celebration of Tommy, Stephen, and Wei's great papers from 2016!

Congrats to Tommy and Don on Nature Chem News & Views story!

Thanks to Dan Yang and all at Hong Kong University for a great visit! 

Congrats to Kaibo for receiving the poster award at Allerton 2016! 

Stadiums with Paul and Shauna!

Check out MCW's Mukaiyama Award Speech: "A Note to Young Scientists".

MCW visits the University of Tokyo hosted by the Kanai Lab.

Congrats to Tommy and Don on their recent paper in Nature on small molecule iron catalyzed amino acid and peptide oxidation! 

Congrats to Stephen and Wei on their recent paper in Angewandte Chemie on asymmetric allylic oxidations!

5th Organic Chemistry Day at University Autonoma Madrid. Thanks to Javier Adrio and Tomas Torres for organizing and hosting such a great day of chemistry and wonderful late Spanish dinner!

MCW honored to be the Boehinger Ingelheim Lecturer at MIT. With BI's Dr. Carl Busacca and great student host Laurel Heckman! 

Congrats Mark (White Group PhD 2009) on winning the New Investigator Award from the Kaufman Foundation! It's given across all basic sciences and Mark was one of seven recipients.

Check out photos of MCW with the Shines at the Shine Lecture at Texas Tech.

Check out photos of MCW at ACS in Denver at the HC Brown Award and Fresenius Award (Congrats Abby and Gary).

Congratulations to Rachel Chambers our newly minted PhD. Excited to see all the great things you will  do at Lilly @LillyPad

Great Paper/Holiday Party in Chicago at Athina restaurant in Greek town followed by Bulls game @chicagobulls! Happy Holidays!

Congrats to Zach Firestein for passing his qualifying exams! We are all excited to see what comes next. Thanks to Sven Kaster and Brenna Budaitis​ for great senior student mentorship!

A terrific visit to Caltech for the BMS symposium with Rebecca Green @rebeccois from

 #BMSChemistry. It was great to catch up with old friends @FuLabCaltech, @sarah_reisman, @brianstoltsz70 and meet an amazing group of students.

Phenomenal job by all the Allerton student speakers and poster presenters and special shout out to MCW group's Devon Fontaine and Charlie Dixon @charliedixonIV

ACS Western National Meeting celebrating great organometallic chemistry with @BuchwildGroup, @swkrska, @Vy_Dong_Group, @Wolfe_Group

, Marty Burke, and Mary Watson, Donald Watson. Thanks to Jeff Bandar for organizing!

Congrats to pioneer @CarolynBertozzi who persisted and illuminated the power of organic reactions to explore biological systems when many did not think it possible. Congrats to Sharpless and Meldal for contributing impacting bioorthogonal click reactions to do this.

Congrats to Raundi Quevedo our newly minted PhD. Excited to see all the great science you will do at @Novartis

Congrats to Andria for receiving the NSF grad Fellowship. She will be attending Princeton for grad school this Fall.

Check out an awesome story by Tracy Crane on Kaibo and Raundi's work

Congrats to Rulin and his team for the write-up of their recent work in Synfacts!

Check out video of MCW in honor of ACS Award for Creative work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry made by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany

Great dinner at banquet with great friends and colleagues

Thanks to all that participated in MCW’s ACS Creativity Award. Thanks to Merck and Becky Ruck for sponsoring the speaker’s dinner.

Congrats to Tommy Osberger (PhD 2016) on his new position as an Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona starting in Fall 2019!

Check out the Chemistry World article on our new chemoselective manganese catalyst for aliphatic methylene oxidations:

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Great visit to University of Oklahoma for Karcher Lecture. Thanks to all the students and my host Inder and Ken Nicholas for such a great visit!

Congrats to MCW and the White group past and present on receiving the 2019 ACS Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis!

22-ICOS (22nd IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis in Florence, Italy). Great science and beautiful location.

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Congrats to Wei Liu on a spectacular defense. We know you will do great things in the MacMillan group!

Congrats to MCW and the White group on being recognized with the Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Award

Check out a recent interview with White Group Alum Prof. Takeshi Nanjo on life in the group

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Congratulating Takeshi Nanjo on his new Assistant Professorship in Kyoto University in the Takemoto group. We are excited to see your first independent publication! 

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Congrats to Dr. Joseph Clark who will be starting his career as an Assistant Professor at Marquette in Fall of 2018! Excited to see your first paper!.

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Congrats to Shauna Paradine (PhD 2015), newly minted Assistant Prof. at Rochester in the Fall of 2018! We are excited to post your first independent paper!

Congrats to Takeshi and Emilio on solving the amide challenge for remote C—H oxidations!

Congratulations Dr. Griffin! We are excited to see all the great things you will accomplish at Celgene!

Congrats to Jenny Griffin who who will be starting her new job as a PhD level scientist at Celgene after graduating this Fall!! 

Congrats to Emilio Junior who will be starting as his academic position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Campinas in Brazil in 2018!! 

Takeshi Nanjo's going away party. We miss you Takeshi!

Congrats to Friederike Dannheim for her acceptance to University of Cambridge where she will be joining Tommy in David Spring's group!

Congrats as well to Tommy for winning First Poster Prize at the 2017 CaRLa conference in Heidelberg Germany!

Happy Holidays and Wishing you all a Healthy and Happy 2017!

Fantastic conference at Oxford "Late Stage Functionalization"

Thanks to Jainwei Sun and all at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for a great visit!

Congrats Stephen on receiving the Fuson Travel Award!

ENJ visits during the Frontier Symposium.

Congrats to Wei Liu on receiving the Eastman Travel Award! Wei will be presenting his work on asymmetric allylic C—H oxidations at the ACS meeting in Spring 2017.

Congrats to our newly minted NIH postdoctoral fellow Dr. Joe Clark! 

Check out MCW's perspective on base metal catalysis in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis.

Congrats to Jenn, Kaibo, Joe, and Lou on their recent paper in JACS on remote C-H hydroxylations of nitrogen containing compounds.

Congrats Team Mn (Shauna, Jenny, Jinpeng, Aaron, Shannon) on the recent paper in Nature Chemistry, News of the Week C&E News, UIUC News Press

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Great dinner at Oleana in Cambridge MA with great company Dr. Paul Gormisky and Dr. Shauna Paradine!

Congrats to Shauna on her NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship! [Picture]

Congrats to Will Wertjes on receiving the Fulbright!

Congrats Stephen on being selected to attend the BASF Winter Conference in Heidelberg!