GROUP NEWS
July 2024
Welcoming our new group member, Dr. Jun Luo! Jun comes to us from Zhejiang University.
April 2024
Welcoming our new group member, Dr. Lichuan Liu! Lichuan comes to us from Boston College.
July. 2023
Our group received a National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35 ESI MIRA award! Congratulations!
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
Jujhar received the 2023 Beckman Scholar! Congratulations!
March. 2023
We have ACS Spring 2023 in Indy! Cristina and Jujhar presented their research findings at ACS Spring 2023.
Our lab received funding from ACS PRF.
Our group has been awarded the ACS PRF grant. Congratulations!
Feb 2023
Welcome Cristina!
Welcome to the Deng group. Cristina Ascenzi Pettenuzzo joined our group in Aug 2022 as first-year graduate student.
Welcome Dr. Daijun Feng!
Welcome to the Deng group. Dr. Daijun Feng joined our group in Aug 2022 as postdoc fellow.
Our work entitled "Photoinduced Site-Selective Functionalization of Aliphatic C–H Bonds by Pyridine N-oxide Based HAT Catalysts" has been published by ACS Catalysis.
Congratulations to Ban, Cristina, Jujhar, Gavin, and Logan!
Congratulations to Jasmine.
Our high school scholar, Jasmine Zhang, successfully presented her summer research
ACS 2022 Spring National Meeting at San Diego, CA
Ban and Gavin presented their research at ACS 2022 Spring National Meeting at San Diego, CA.
Congratulations to Ban, Gavin, Mitch, and Jujhar!
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!
Jason, Bradley, and Jonathan's paper has been selected as an inside front cover for Chem. Commun. (2021, issue 43) : http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=D1CC02016A
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.
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.
In July 2020, Deng group relocated to IUPUI. Let's go, Jags!
Congratulations to Isaac and Jason!
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
We received ACS PRF UNI 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.
Ban, Isaac, and Jackson's paper has been published by Chemical Science!
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
Congratulations to Isaac, the Annual WKU Student Research Conference session winner
ACS 2019 Spring National Meeting at Orlando, FL
Ban and Isaac presented their research about bis(imino)pyridine iron-catalyzed carbene transfer reactions at ACS 2019 Spring National Meeting at Orlando, FL.
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.
Our first paper in Chemistry-A European Journal.
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