■   August 2009:  Flavio Cardoso, Barry Butler, John Wynn, and  join the group!

 

■   December 2008:  Our synthesis of Monounsaturated Spiroketals is published in Organic  Letters.

■   September 2008:  Our PSP is published in Synthesis.    

■   January 2008 - Group receives PRF grant

■   December 2007 - Website goes online

■   November 2007 - Construction for new Web Page begins.

■   Carl and John join the group!

■   August 2008:  Lucas joins the group!  We say goodbye and many thanks to our REU students

■   June 2008:  Three new REU students join the group. Welcome Marissa, Flavio and Emerson!

■   Our paper to be highlighted in Synfacts:  Synfacts 2008, 4, 387

 

■   Mark Arcario was recently named a University Scholar.  This prestigious program is designed to introduce UF undergraduates to academic research.  Mark will spend the summer in our labs. Congratulations to Mark!

 

■   Michael Jong joins the group!


■   Jeremy Malinge joins the group!

 

■   January 2008 - Our first paper is published in Organic Letters.


■   Our paper to be highlighted in Synfacts:  Synfacts 2010, 1, 9

 

■  September 2009:  Our paper on gold-catalyzed dehydrative cyclizations of readily available, heteroatom-substituted propargylic alcohols is published in Organic Letters.

■   February 2011:  Our paper on gold-catalyzed chirality transfer in the cyclization of monoallylic diols is published in Organic Letters.


   January 2011:  Welcome Thomas Ghebreghiorgis to our group!

 

   August 2010:  Welcome Justin Goodwin to our group!

 

■   August 2010:  Our paper on gold-catalyzed synthesis of  substituted chromenes is published in Chemical Communications

■   June 2011:  Congratulations to Kinga, her Org. Biomol. Chem. paper has appeared


■   August 2011:  Our Paper is one of the Top Ten Most Accessed in June

 

■   June 2011:  Our Beilstein J. Org. Chem. paper has appeared

Archive

   August 2012: Congratulations to Jean Palmes for receiving her Doctoral Degree and  
accepting a PostDoc position in the Pfaltz group. 

 

   December 2011: Congratulations to Berenger Biannic for receiving his Doctoral Degree! You will be missed.

 

   September 2011:  Welcome Romain Miotto, Paulo Paioti, and Barry Butler to our group!

 

■   September 2011:  Our Review Article has appeared in Eur. J. Org. Chem.

   September 2012:  Our Mechanistic Study has appeared in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

   September 2012:  Our Total Synthesis of Acortatarin A has appeared in J. Org. Chem. as a Featured Article

   September 2012:  Congratulations to Jean, whose review "Strategies for Spiroketal  Synthesis Based on Transition-Metal Catalysis" has been accepted for publication in Synthesis

   May 2013:  We welcome Romain a new REU student to the group

 

  May 2013: Congratulations to Carl Ballesteros for receiving his Doctoral Degree! You will be missed.

 

   April 2013: Congratulations to Nick Borrero for receiving his Doctoral Degree and accepting a PostDoc position in the Huigens group at the University of Florida

 

   January 2013:  Lindsey joins the group!

 

   November 2012:  Our Tandem Intermolecular Hydroalkoxylation/Claisen Rearrangement has appeared in Chemical Communications.

   December 2014: Paulo’s Paper "Progress in Au-Catalyzed Dehydrative Transformations of Unsaturated Alcohols" Get’s Page Numbers. DOI

 

   October 2014: Our Controlling Regiochemistry in the Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Unsaturated Spiroketals paper has appeared in Org. Lett.

   January 2014: Jagadeesh and Katie join the group!

 

   August 2014: Congratulations to Flavio Cardoso for receiving his Doctoral Degree! You will be missed.

 

   May 2014: Our paper on the anti cancer effect of flavonoids has been accepted in Carcinogenesis.

 

   January 2014: Our New Ligand is highlighted in Synfacts and featured as a Synfact of the month.

 

   January 2014: Ji, Mukesh, Owen and Sourabh join the group!

 

   October 2013: Our New Ligand is Highlighted in Nature Chemistry

 

   September 2013: We welcome Will a new visiting student to the group.

 

   September 2013: Our Imidazole-Based Chiral Biaryl P,N-Ligand for Asymmetric Catalysis  paper has appeared in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

   August 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Aponick for being awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor.

 

   August 2013: Our Nitrogen Nucleophiles in Au-Catalyzed Dehydrative Cyclization Reactions paper has appeared in Isr. J. Chem.

  July 2013: Our Spiroketalization of Ketoallylic Diols paper has appeared in Chem. Eur. J.

■   July 2013: Congratulations to John Ketcham for receiving his Doctoral Degree and accepting a PostDoc position in the Krische group at UT Austin!

 

   July 2013: Our Mechanistic Study in Pd(II)-Catalyzed SN2' Reactions of Allylic Alcohols has appeared in J. Org. Chem.