11/28/2025 New Publication in Angewandte Chemie (Hot Paper)! 🔥🎉
Thrilled to share our latest work, “Deoxygenative Difunctionalization of Aldehydes via Ketyl Radical and Light/Dark Pd Synergy,” now online in Angewandte Chemie.
Big congratulations to Tiancen, Guilhem, Yi, and the whole team for this exciting achievement!
11/21/2025 Undergraduate Omar Sarameh has been awarded the prestigious Douglas S. Yamamura Scholarship for Fall 2025, recognizing his proposal as the top-ranked STEM project.
Congratulations!
11/13/2025 New Publication in Green Carbon 🎉
Thrilled to announce our group’s latest paper: “Cross–Coupling of Alkenes with Photocatalytic Fluorination.”
Congratulations to everyone involved for their hard work and collaboration on this achievement!
11/01/2025 Welcome our new graduate student, Ethan, to the group!
09/17/2025 New Publication in Organic Letters 🎉
Thrilled to announce our group’s latest paper: “Multicomponent Synthesis of Isoquinuclidines via Pd-Catalyzed Selective Dechlorination.”
Big congratulations to the team for making this happen! 🚀👏
07/16/2025 Our group is excited to share our latest work just published in ACS Catalysis: “Allylic C–H Difluoroalkylation of Unactivated Alkenes with Trifluoromethylarenes.”
Congratulations to everyone involved for their hard work and collaboration on this achievement!
1/13/2025 Exciting news! Our latest work, "Alkylazolation of Alkenes via Photocatalytic Radical Polar Crossover," has been published in Organic Letters.
1/13/2025 Welcome our new graduate student, Zijian, to the group!
12/03/2024 Exciting news! Our paper, "Pd-Catalyzed Difluoroalkylation of Alkenes Using Chlorodifluoroalkanes " has been officially published. Congratulations to Jing, Qixin, and the entire team for their hard work and outstanding contributions!
10/15/2024 Exciting news! Our paper, "Pd-Catalyzed 1,4-Difluoromethylative Functionalization of 1,3-Dienes Using Freon-22," has been officially published in Organic Letters. Congratulations to Qixin, Jing, and the entire team for their tremendous effort and dedication!
10/07/2024 We are excited to welcome Guilhem Colomer to our group as an internship student. Guilhem will be contributing to our ongoing research efforts, and we look forward to his valuable contributions during his time with us!
09/01/2024 We are excited to welcome Dr. Sumit Garai, who has joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher!
09/01/2024 We are excited to welcome Jon Scattolon to our research group as a new graduate student!
07/01/2024 We are excited to welcome Dr. Liu to our group as a postdoctoral researcher! We look forward to the valuable contributions and expertise Dr. Liu will bring to our team.
05/29/2024 We are excited to announce that our paper, 'Hybrid Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Carboamination of Conjugated Dienes: Synthesis of Functionalized Pyrrolidines via Selective Trifluoromethylarene Defluorination,' has been published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations to Feijie, Guocong, and the entire team on this achievement!
05/15/2024 We're thrilled to announce the publication of our groundbreaking research titled "Selective 1,4-syn-Addition to Cyclic 1,3-Dienes via Hybrid Palladium Catalysis" in ACS Central Science. Congratulations to Yan, Tiancen, and Komal for their invaluable contributions to this significant achievement!
01/08/2024 We are delighted to announce that Tiancen has recently joined our research group as a graduate student. We warmly welcome him and look forward to his valuable contributions to our academic community.
09/28/2023 Our lab at University of Hawaii at Manoa is Now Open! Get Ready for a Thrilling Journey into New Chemistry Discoveries!