October 2018: Yue Zhang joins the group!

 

   October 2018: Congratulations to Shengkang Yin for receiving the 2018 Townes R. Leigh               Prize!

 

   August 2018: Congratulations to Eddie Laguna for winning the W.M. Jones Award and M. A.           Battiste Award!

 

   May 2018: Ji and Romain’s paper on the Catalytic Dehydrative Lactonization of Allylic                    Alchohols has been published in Org. Lett!

 

   November 2020: Congratulations to Gaurav Dahiya for receiving an International Student

     Achievement Award (ISA)!

 

   October 2020: Xingchen Wan and Daniel Quiroz join the group!

 

   July 2020: Congratulations to Jagadeesh and Katie for successfully defending their                        dissertations!

 

   July 2020: Congratulation to Kendall Weeks for winning the 2020 W.M. Jones Award!

 

   July 2020: Jagadeesh's paper titled "Phospholipid Cyclosporine Prodrugs Targeted at

     Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Treatment: Design, Synthesis, and in Vitro Validation" has

     been accepted in ChemMedChem!

 

   June 2020: Congratulations to Prof. Aponick for his promotion to full professor!

 

   November 2019: Upasana Gayen, Devin Ketelboeter, Chieh-Yu Chang and Gregory Gazda join      the group!

 

   August 2019: Congratulations to Gaurav Dahiya for winning the 2019 M. A. Battiste Award!

 

   May 2019: Sourabh's paper titled "Lactone Synthesis by Enantioselective Orthogonal Tandem      Catalysis" has been accepted in Angew. Chem.!

 

   November 2018: Ji ans Sourabh's paper "Enol Acetates: Versatile Substrates for the                       Enantioselective  Intermolecular Tsuji Allyation" has been accepted in JACS!

 

   May 2018: Congratulations to Ji Liu for winning a 2018 Eastman Summer Fellowship!

 

   April 2018: Congratulations to Sourabh Mishra for winning a Poster Award at GSRD 2018!

 

   March 2018: Congratulations to Sourabh Mishra for winning a Poster Award at FloHet 2018!

 

   October 2017: Congratulations to Gaurav Dahiya for receiving the 2018 Townes R. Leigh Prize!

 

   October 2017: Kendall Weeks, Ashely Erb and Shengkang Yin join the group!

 

   August 2017: Congratulations to Jagadeesh Manda for winning the 2017 M. A. Battiste Award!

 

   August 2017: Congratulations to Lindsey DeRatt for receiving her Doctoral Degree and                  accepting a Post Doc. position in the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies Of Johnson &               Johnson!

 

   July 2017: The Aponick Lab moves to new research lab in Joseph Hernandez Hall!

 

   June 2017: Congartulations to Dr. Aponick on being named a University Term Professor (2016-      2019).

 

   June 2017: Our StackPhim paper is highlighted in SYNFACTS the work features the                         Incorporation of Axial Chirality into Phosphino-Imidazoline Ligands for Enantioselective               Catalysis.

 

   April 2017: Our Enantioselective Alkyne Conjugate Addition Enabled by Readily Tuned Atropisomeric P,N-Ligands work is highlighted in SYNFACTS!

   March 2017: Our Enantioselective Alkyne Conjugate Addition Enabled by Readily Tuned Atropisomeric P,N-Ligands work is highlighted in JACS Spotlight!

Group Photo:  Fall 2019

   March 2017: President Fuchs makes a cameo appearance in the new chemistry building, Joseph Hernandez Hall. Pictured here with Eddie, Ashley, and Prof. Aponick.

   February 2017: Sourabh’s paper on the Enantioselective Alkyne Conjugate Addition Enabled by Readily Tuned Atropisomeric P,N-Ligands has been accepted in JACS!

   February 2017: Paulo’s paper on the Incorporation of Axial Chirality into Phosphino-Imidazoline Ligands for Enantioselective Catalysis has been accepted in ACS Catalysis!

   September 2015: Edward Laguna joins the group!

 

   August 2015: Congratulations to Lindsey DeRatt for winning W.M. Jones Award and M. A. Battiste Award!

 

   August 2015: Congratulations to Thomas Ghebreghiorgis for receiving his Doctoral Degree!

 

   August 2015: Barry’s Paper "Spiroketalization Methods and Synthesis. In Strategies and Tactics In Organic Synthesis" Get’s Page Numbers. DOI

 

   April 2015: Our Regioselectivity in the Au-catalyzed hydration and hydroalkoxylation of alkynes paper has appeared in Chem. Commun.

   January 2017: Ashley Erb joins the group!

 

   January 2017: Congratulations to Paulo Paioti for receiving his Doctoral Degree and accepting a Post Doc. position in Prof. X. Peter Zhang group at Boston College!

 

   December 2016: Congratulations to Romain Miotto for receiving his Doctoral Degree and accepting a position at Intel!

 

   December 2016: Congratulations to Thomas Ghebreghiorgis for finishing his Post Doc. and accepting a position at Adesis!

 

   November 2016: Arun Raj and Gaurav Dahiya join the group!

 

   September 2016: Our paper "Phospholipid-based prodrugs for drug targeting in inflammatory bowel disease: Computational optimization and in-vitro correlation" Get’s Page Numbers. DOI

 

   August 2016: Congratulations to Barry Butler for receiving his Doctoral Degree and accepting a position at Intel!

 

  August 2016: Emilie Wheatley joins the group!

 

   August 2016: Congratulations to Ji Liu for winning M. A. Battiste Award!

 

   April 2016: Congratulations to Mukesh Pappoppula for winning Tarrant Summer Graduate Research Scholarship!

 

   March 2016: Jim McManis joins the group!

 

   February 2016: Paulo’s paper on the Enantioselective Synthesis of Amino Skipped Diynes has been accepted in JACS!

   April 2015: Our Synthesis of the Spirastrellolide A, B/C Spiroketal: Enabling Solutions for Problematic Au(I)-Catalyzed Spiroketalizations paper has appeared in Org. Lett.

   March 2015: Our Tandem Gold-Catalyzed Dehydrative Cyclization/Diels–Alder Reactions: Facile Access to Indolocarbazole Alkaloids paper has appeared in Org. Lett.

   October 2015: Our Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (-)-Martinellic Acid paper has appeared in Angew. Chem.

   February 2016: Our collaborative paper with Prof. Correia at UNICAMP in Brazil has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry!

   December 2015: Congratulations to Justin Goodwin for receiving his Doctoral Degree and accepting a PostDoc position in Prof. Juan R. Del Valle group at USF!

 

   November 2015: Our Diastereoselective Synthesis of Protected 1,3-Diols by Catalytic Diol Relocation paper has appeared in Org. Lett.

   September 2015: Our Enantioselective Cu-Catalyzed Quinoline Alkynylation paper has appeared in Angew. Chem.

   January 2016: Our enantioselective quinoline alkynylation work is highlighted in SYNFACTS!