[06/12] Congratulations to Sal for successfully defending his dissertation on "Expanding the Synthetic Toolbox Through the Development of Aryne Precursors"! Well done putting together all the work on aryne precursors over the past few years!

[06/04] Congrats to all of our rising 4th years for amazing presentations at the GSRS! Special congrats to Felicia and Ali for winning awards for their outstanding talks! 

[04/13] Our recent work on the synthesis and mechanistic studies of unsymmetrical carbazoles was published in ACS Catalysis! Congrats to Douglas and Brylon! Read about it here!

[04/12] Congratulations to first years Ethan and Tony for receiving the NSF GRFP award!

[04/01] Welcome Elena Álvarez-Ruiz to the group as our new post-doc!

[02/23] Congratulations to George for passing his Oral Preliminary Exam!

[11/13] The group welcomes our four new First Years! Welcome to Coco, Ethan, Tony, and Zarine!

[11/05] Our first Nature paper on novel aryne precursors derived from carboxylic acids is live. Congrats to Chris, Sal and Felicia! Read here

[11/01] Our recent studies on the crystallographic and electronic structures of PHOX-Ni Aryne complexes was detailed In JACS Gold! Congrats to Alex and Nick! Read about It here!

[10/04] Congrats to George, Douglas, and Sofie for winning Outstanding Poster Awards for their poster presentations at the Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium 2025! Way to represent the Roberts Group's chemistry!

[09/25] Our recent work on expanding access to 5-Membered N-Heteroarynes was detailed In JACS Gold! Congrats to everyone on the team that worked toward this effort! Read about It here!

[09/04] Congrats to Douglas "The GOAT" Kavaguti for winning the Outstanding TA award! This demonstrates Douglas' commitment to his students and training the next generation - well done!