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
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!
Our group has been awarded the ACS PRF grant. Congratulations!
Feb 2023
Welcome to the Deng group. Cristina Ascenzi Pettenuzzo joined our group in Aug 2022 as first-year graduate student.
Welcome to the Deng group. Dr. Daijun Feng joined our group in Aug 2022 as postdoc fellow.
Congratulations to Ban, Cristina, Jujhar, Gavin, and Logan!
Our high school scholar, Jasmine Zhang, successfully presented her summer research
Ban and Gavin presented their research at ACS 2022 Spring National Meeting at San Diego, CA.
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.
Jason Zhang joins the ranks of 13 Nobel prize winners, 21 MacArthur Foundation Fellows and many other distinguished alumni of the Science Talent Search. This honor identifies Jason Zhang as one of the nation’s most promising young scientists or mathematicians. We hope you will choose to share this good news in your community—you can find the official press release, a social media toolkit, and other information here.
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
The Deng group received ACS PRF UNI award to support our projects of Exploration of new reactivities of alkynes by harnessing visible light energy (2019-2021). Many thanks to ACS PRF.
Congratulations to Ban, Isaac, and Jackson. Our work about Bis(imino)pyridine Iron Complexes for Catalytic Carbene Transfer Reactions has been published by Chemical Science.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/sc/c9sc02189b#!divAbstract
Ban and Isaac presented their research about bis(imino)pyridine iron-catalyzed carbene transfer reactions at ACS 2019 Spring National Meeting at Orlando, FL.
Jonathan presented his research of “Ortho-Alkylation of pyridine N-oxides with alkynes by photocatalysis: pyridine N-oxide as a redox auxiliary” at ACS 2019 Spring National Meeting at Orlando, FL.
Congratulations to Jonathan and Ban. Our first paper "ortho‐Alkylation of Pyridine N‐oxides with Alkynes by Photocatalysis: Pyridine N‐oxide as Redox Auxiliary" has been accepted by Chemistry – A European Journal. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201901065