WELCOME TO DENG RESEARCH GROUP@Indiana University Indianapolis
WELCOME TO DENG RESEARCH GROUP@Indiana University Indianapolis
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Organic synthesis, Asymmetric catalysis, Carbene/carbenoid chemistry, Nitrene/nitrenoid chemistry, Base metal catalysis, Photochemistry, Organic electrosynthesis
Positions Available in the Deng Group at IUPUI Chemistry
Positions Available in the Deng Group at IUPUI Chemistry
Graduate students
Graduate students
Our group has multi-graduate student positions available now.
Motivated prospective graduate students interested in joining our group are encouraged to contact Dr.Yongming Deng directly. To learn more about the Ph.D. program in chemistry at IUPUI, please click here.
Undergraduate students
Undergraduate students
Motivated undergraduates who are interested in organic synthesis, green chemistry, catalysis, are welcome to join our group. Please contact Dr. Yongming Deng for available research opportunities.
GROUP HIGHLIGHTS
GROUP HIGHLIGHTS
March 2025
March 2025
Excited to see our recent work 'Photoredox/Pyridine N-Oxide Catalyzed Carbohydroxylation and Aminohydroxylation of α-Olefins’ is finally out on JACS. A lot of hard work went into this one! Thanks to our amazing collaborator Mathew Vetticatt and his group.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.4c17657
Aug 2024
Aug 2024
Satheesh, V.; Deng, Y. Recent Advances in Synthetic Methods by Photocatalytic Single-Electron Transfer Chemistry of Pyridine N-Oxides. J. Org. Chem. 2024.
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Our paper "Photoredox-Catalyzed Divergent Radical Cascade Annulations of 1,6-Enynes via Pyridine N-Oxide-Promoted Vinyl Radical Generation" has been published in Organic Letters. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.3c03930
Congratulations to Ban and Jujhar!
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Our paper "Photoinduced Pyridine N-oxides Catalyzed Carbon Radical Generation from Alkylboronic Acids" has been published in ChemCatChem. It has been selected as a front cover for ChemCatchem (2023, Volume15, Issue22 ) : https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cctc.202301368. Congratulations to Cristina!
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Welcoming our new group member, Dr. Satheesh Vanaparthi ! Satheesh comes to us from University of Toledo.
Welcoming our new group member, Dr. Satheesh Vanaparthi ! Satheesh comes to us from University of Toledo.
July. 2023
July. 2023
Our group received a National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35 ESI MIRA award! Congratulations!
Our group received a National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35 ESI MIRA award! Congratulations!
June 2023
Dr. Deng was invited to give a talk at The Michael P. Doyle Honorary Symposium. Great to meet Professor Doyle, old and new friends at UTSA!
May 2023
Cristina Ascenzi traveled from Indiana to give a talk at her alma mater - Universidad Metropolitana
May 2023
May 2023
Jujhar received the 2023 Beckman Scholar! Congratulations!
Jujhar received the 2023 Beckman Scholar! Congratulations!
March. 2023
March. 2023
We have ACS Spring 2023 in Indy! Cristina and Jujhar presented their research findings at ACS Spring 2023.
We have ACS Spring 2023 in Indy! Cristina and Jujhar presented their research findings at ACS Spring 2023.
Welcome to the Deng group! Dr. Daijun Feng and Cristina joined our group in Aug 2022!
Our paper "Organic Photoredox Catalyzed Direct Hydroamination of Ynamides with Azoles" has been published in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. DOI 10.1002/adsc.202101410
Congratulations to Ban, Gavin, Mitch, and Jujhar!
Our paper about the first photoinduced synthesis of polyfunctionalized 3-aza[n.1.0] bicycles from readily available ene-ynamides and 2,6-lutidine N-oxide using an organic acridinium photocatalyst has been published in Chem. Commun. It has been selected as an inside front cover for Chem. Commun. (2021, issue 43) : http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=D1CC02016A.
Congratulations! Jason Zhang has been named a top 40 finalist in the 80th Regeneron Science Talent Search—the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors.
In July 2020, Deng group relocated to IUPUI. Let's go, Jags!
This has been a great time for awards to Deng group members! Isaac Howard- ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award; Jason Zhang-WKU Freshman Chemistry Award
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