New publication

May 4, 2020July 21, 2020moranlab

A collaboration with Marco Cecchini’s group, this is a mixed computational and experimental attempt to rationalize why specific nitro compounds change the kinetic orders of some Brønsted acid catalyzed reactions. The model successfully predicts that sulphate esters should behave similarly. It has been published in Chemistry – A European Journal as part of the EuChemS special issue. Congrats to Marian and Ed for what ended up being the last of their many papers in the group! Also thanks to the Cecchini group for their endurance.

New publication

December 6, 2016February 3, 2017moranlab

Marian, Ed and Guang’s article on catalytic substitution of alkyl fluorides has been published in Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. Special congrats to Guang, who did a large part of this work during his M1 stage.

New Publication

July 22, 2016August 21, 2016moranlab

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!

New Publication

May 4, 2016May 8, 2016moranlab

Congrats to Marian, whose article on catalytic Friedel-Crafts reactions of tertiary aliphatic fluorides has been accepted in ACS Catalysis.

Cover article

April 13, 2016May 24, 2016moranlab

Marian and Ed’s review article in Synthesis has been chosen as the cover article for the April 1st issue. Congrats!

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Dr. Marian Dryzhakov

March 20, 2016September 11, 2018moranlab

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

Marian wins a JSPS Fellowship

February 19, 2016November 4, 2016moranlab

Congratulations to PhD student Marian Dryzhakov, who has received a fellowship from JSPS to conduct postdoctoral research with Prof. Makoto Fujita at the University of Tokyo.

New publication

December 4, 2015February 3, 2016moranlab

Congrats to Marian and Ed, whose invited review on catalytic alcohol activation has been accepted in Synthesis.

New publication

July 22, 2015September 18, 2015moranlab

Our study on azidation of tertiary aliphatic alcohols co-catalyzed by nitro compounds and Bronsted acids has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congrats, Marian, Malik, Eléna and Florian!