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News and Achievements

Dec 2024

Our paper on "Fe-Catalyzed Structurally Divergent γ-Polyhaloalkylation of Siloxydienes" was published in Organic Letters. Congrats to Corey, Brian, Cole, Kayla, and Sebastian!!!

May 2024

Daria successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Galaktionova!

Mar 2024

"Remote Fluorination of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyls via Silyl Dienol Ethers" was published in Chemistry: A European Journal as a very important paper. Congrats to Daria and Sara!!!

Oct 2023

"Iron-Catalyzed Gamma–Gamma Dimerization of Siloxydienes" was published in Chemistry: A European Journal. Congrats to Daria, Xiaohong, and Xiaoguang!!!

Sept 2023

Sebastian successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Márquez!

Aug 2023

Sruthi successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Mohan!

Our team “Two spring rolls and potatoes on the side” won the inaugural Summer Synthetic Challenge! Nicely done Daria, Xuan, and Van!

Jun 2023

Sara left for graduate studies at Caltech! Best of luck in the Stoltz lab!

Apr 2023

Benzyl bromide spill in the lab! There were many tears, but it brought us all closer together.

Jun 2022

Dr. Corey Yarbrough defended his Ph.D. thesis – Congratulations!

May 2022

Dr. Mohr received a UIC Silver Circle Award!

Apr 2022

Daria won a poster award at the Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry at Purdue University – Way to go, Daria!!

Sara Siddiqui was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations!

Nov 2019

Gena has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Grabovyi!

Oct 2019

Brian and Xuan joined the lab! Welcome as well!

Oct 2018

Mihir, Daria, and Sara joined the the lab! Welcome!

Jul 2018

Jenny defended her thesis and is off to Yale! Good luck, Dr. Martinez!!

A long while in the making, have a look at the formal enantioselective synthesis of (–)-platencin to be included in a special issue of Synthesis in honor of Prof. Scott Denmark!

May 2018

Nabeelah successfully defended her thesis! Good luck at Merck, Dr. Kauser!!

Rida was selected for a LASURI Award from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Congrats, Rida!!

Congratulations to all the spring 2018 graduates from the Mohr group: Nate, Kayla, and Meng!

Apr 2018

Kayla was awarded an Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation!! Way to go, Kayla!!

Mar 2018

Congratulations to Nabeelah for earning a poster award at the 2018 FloHet Conference!

Our latest paper describing our effort toward the total synthesis of aeroplysinin has been accepted! Have a look at the special issue of ARKIVOC in honor of Prof. Gordon Gribble. Congrats, Gena!

Jan 2018

Meng successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Zhao!!

JT will speak at the 2018 FloHet Conference at the University of Florida, and Jenny and Nabeelah will present posters. If you are going to be there, come by and say hello!

Nov 2017

We welcome new graduate students Sruthi Mohan and Sebastian Márquez to the group!

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