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Recent Publications
Scheidt, K. A.; Phillips, E. M.; Dugal-Tessier, J. “N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Aldol Desymmetrizations,” in Asymmetric Catalysis II, Eds. Christmann and Bräse. Wiley-VCH 2012.
Dugal-Tessier, J.; O’Bryan, E. A.; Schroeder, T. A.; Scheidt, K. A. “Cooperative N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Lithium Cation Catalysis for the Enantioselective Formal [3+2] Annulations of Isatins,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, in press.
Cardinal-David, B.; Scheidt, K.A. “Carbene Catalysis: Beyond the Benzoin and Stetter Reactions,” in Inventing Reactions: Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, Ed. Goosen. Springer, 2011.
Roberts, J. M.; Fini, B. M.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Farha, O. K.; Hupp, J. T.; Scheidt, K. A. “Urea Metal–Organic Frameworks as Effective and Size Selective Hydrogen–Bond Catalysts,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012,134, 3334-3337.
Brekan, J. A.; Chernyak, D.; White, L. K.; Scheidt, K. A. “Lewis Base-Promoted Carbon sp3–sp3 Coupling Reactions of a-Silyl Silylethers,” Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 1205-1210.
Nibbs, A. E.; Scheidt, K. A."Asymmetric Methods for the Synthesis of Flavanones, Chormanones and Azaflavanones", Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2012, 3, 449-462.
Cohen, D. T.; Scheidt, K. A."Cooperative Lewis Acid/NHC Catalysis", Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 53-57.
Sonntag, M.; Klingsporn, J.; Garibay, L.; Roberts, J. M.; Dieringer, J.; Seideman, T.; Scheidt, K. A.; Jensen, L.; Schatz, G.; Van Duyne, R. “Single Molecule Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy,” J. Phys. Chem. C., 2012, 116(1), 478-483.
Roberts, J. M.; Farha, O. K. Sarjeant, A. A.; Hupp, J. T.; Scheidt, K. A."Two Azoliums are Better than One: A Strategy for Catenation Control in Cu and Zn Metal-Organic Frameworks", Cryst. Growth Des., 2011, 11(11), 4747-4750.
All Group Publications »Group News
Charles Manzoni is awarded a Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grant (Summer URG) for his project "The Asymmetric Synthesis of Secologanin". Congratulations Charlie!
"New Drug Stops Spread of Prostrate Cancer"
Karl Scheidt helps develop a drug that stops the spread of prostrate cancer. Read the NewsCenter Story here.
Karl Scheidt to present "New Discoveries with Carbene Catalysis: Beyond the Benzoin and Stetter Reactions" to The Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club (POCC) on April 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM in Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Building, University of Pennsylvania.
Abstract here
Former undergraduate Kolby White (now at MIT) has been awarded a 2012 NSF Predoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations Kolby!
Former Post-Doc Dr. Julien Dugal-Tessier starts work at Agensys, Inc. Congratulations Julien!
Former Post-Doc Dr. Chris Thomas starts work at Sigma-Aldrich. Congratulations Chris!
Former Post-Doc Dr. Jon Brekan starts work at Elevance Renewable Technologies. Congratulations Jon!
Michael Wang, Eric Lee, Todd Hovey, and Bi-shun Zeng join the group as G1 students. Welcome first years!
Karl is named an AAAS Fellow. Congratulations Karl!
Dr. Ki Po Jang and Dr. Gerri Hutson start in the lab as post-doctoral fellows. Welcome Ki Po and Gerri!
Our review on NHC/Lewis Acid Cooperative Catalysis appears in Chem. Sci. DOI here
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