Jean-Pierre Sauvage wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

Congratulations to friend and senior colleague Jean-Pierre Sauvage for being a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! He received the award jointly with Prof. Fraser Stoddart  and Prof. Ben Feringa for the development of molecular machines.  Jean-Pierre becomes the third Nobel Laureate in Chemistry at our institute! See story.

Celebrating with our newest Nobel laureate, Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, October 2016

New Publication

Our first paper from our collaboration with the Ebbesen group describing how strong coupling to the vacuum field can be exploited to change the rate of chemical reactions has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Congrats to all who participated from the Ebbesen group and to Marian and Sreejith from our group!

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New Publication

Congrats to Ed and Ismat, whose article on regiodivergent functionalization of allylic amines using dual nickel/phosphoric acid catalysis has been accepted in Chemistry – A European Journal.

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Dr. Marian Dryzhakov

Congrats to Marian Dryzhakov on successfully defending his thesis! He is the second PhD student to graduate from the group. After a few weeks more in the lab to submit papers, Marian will join Prof. Makoto Fujita’s lab at the University of Tokyo as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow.

Marian’s thesis defense with juror Prof. Clément Mazet, March 2016