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09/02/2008 |
Dr. Li Cui joins the group. Dr. Cui received her Ph. D. degree from SUNY- Stony Brook in 2006. |
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08/31/2008 |
Congratulations to Xiaogen. His work of 'Unusual Au(III)-Catalyzed Dimerization of Benzoxazol-2-yloxy Enynes: Formation of Substituted 1,5-Cyclooctadienes' is accepted as a communication to J. Organometallic Chemistry. |
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08/12/2008 |
Congratulations to Guozhu. His work of 'Au-Containing All-Carbon 1,3-Dipoles: Generation and [3+2] Annulation Reactions' is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
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08/08/2008 |
Congratulations to Meng Yu. She passed her M. S. defense. |
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07/03/2008 |
Dr. Yu Peng joins the group. Dr. Peng received his Ph. D. degree from Lanzhou University, P. R. China. |
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05/01/2008 |
Congratulations to Guotao and Xiaogen. Their work of ' Au(I)-Catalyzed Efficient Synthesis of Functionalized Bicyclo[3.2.0]heptanes' is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
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04/14/2008 |
Dr. Zhang is the recipient of "2007 Mousel-Feltner Award for Excellence in Research and/or Creative Activity" from UNR |
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03/20/2008 |
Dr. Zhang is awarded the NSF CAREER Award. |
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03/17/2008 |
Dr. Zhang is the recipient of 2008 Amgen Young Investigator's Award |
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02/13/2008 |
Congratulations to Guotao and Guozhu. Their work of 'Au-Catalyzed Synthesis of (1Z, 3E)-2-Pivaloxy-1,3-Dienes from Propargylic Pivalates' is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
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12/17/2007 |
Congratulations to Guozhu, Xiaogen and Guotao. Their work of 'Au-Containing All-Carbon 1,4-Dipoles' is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
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12/05/2007 |
Dr. Zhang is given an unrestricted grant by Merck & Co. , Inc. Thanks Merck process for the kind support. |
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12/04/2007 |
Dr. Zhang is awarded the Thieme Journal Award |
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09/25/2007 |
Congratulations to Guotao and Xiaogen, their work "Pt-Catalyzed Reaction of N-(2-Alkynylphenyl)lactams: Formation of Cyclic Ketone-Fused Substituted Indoles" is accepted as a communication to Angew. Chem. |
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09/21/2007 |
Congratulations to Xiaogen, his work "AuCl-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzyl-Protected Substituted Phenols: A Formal [3+3] Approach" is accepted for publication at Organic Letters. |
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08/15/2007 |
Congratulations to Guozhu. His work "PtCl2-Catalyzed Rapid Access to Tetracyclic 2,3-Indoline-fused Cyclopentenes: Reactivity Divergent from Cationic Au(I) Catalysis and Synthetic Potential" is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
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05/17/2007 |
Dr. Zhang is awarded Junior Faculty Research Grant at University of Nevada, Reno. |
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04/24/2007 |
Congratulations to Guotao. His work, 'Gold-Catalyzed Intramolecular Redox Reaction of Sulfinyl Alkynes: Efficient Generation of α-Oxo Gold Carbenoids and Application in Insertion into R-CO Bonds' is accepted as a communication to Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. |
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04/23/2007 |
Congratulations to Meng and Guozhu. Their work, 'Gold-Catalyzed Efficient Preparation of Linear α-Iodoenones from Propargylic Acetates', is accepted to Organic Letters. |
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04/13/2007 |
Congratulations to Xiaogen. His recent work, ' Two-Step Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of Enones/Enals and Allenyl MOM Ether: Gold-Catalyzed Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis of Cyclopentanone Enol Ether Containing an All-Carbon Quaternary Center', is accepted as a communication to JACS |
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04/12/2007 |
Dr. Zhang is a recepient of Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2007. |
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02/26/2007 |
Our article, “Efficient Synthesis of Cyclopentenones from Enynyl Acetates via Tandem Au(I)-Catalyzed 3,3-Rearrangement and the Nazarov Reaction” was the #5 most-cited article in 2006 published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society as reported by Thomson ISI’s Web of Science (http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jacsat/promo/most/most_cited/2006.html). |
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02/16/2007 |
Congratulations to Meng, Guotao and Shaozhong. Their work, 'Gold-Catalyzed Efficient Formation of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones from Propargylic Acetates', is accepted as a communication to Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. |
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09/27/2006 |
Congratulations to Shaozhong. His work,
"A Gold-Catalyzed Unique Cycloisomerization of 1,5-Enynes: Efficient Formation of 1-Carboxycyclohexa-1,4-dienes and Carboxyarenes", is accepted as a communication to JACS |
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09/25/2006 |
Dr. Xiaogen Huang joins the group. He received his Ph. D. from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004. |
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09/14/2006 |
Dr. Zhang presents a talk titled "
Exploring Au Catalysis: Development of Efficient Synthetic Methods" at ACS national meeting at San Francisco.
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09/12/2006 |
Second-year graduate students Myoung-Geun Song and Meng Yu present posters at ACS national meeting at San Francisco |
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09/02/2006 |
Dr. Shaozhong leaves the group to reassume the position of Associate Professor at the Dept. of Chemistry, Nanjing University, P. R. China. |
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09/01/2006 |
Congratulations to Shaozhong. His work on Au-catalyzed alkenyl enol esters/carbonate formation appears at Org. Lett. ASAP |
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08/01/2006 |
Dr. Guotao Li joins the group. He received his Ph. D. from Peking University in 2004 |
