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From left: Sansan Cao, Dr. Li Cui, Guozhu Zhang, Dr. Yu Peng, and Dr. Zhang
 
Group News
  05/26/2009 Congratulations to Dr. Cui and Peng. Their work, 'A Two-Step, Formal [4+2] Approach toward Piperidin-4-ones via Au Catalysis' is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc.
  04/09/2009 New! Our work on gold-catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling reactions is highlighted by Nature Chemistry. [Link]
  04/01/2009 Congratulations to Dr. Cui and Guozhu. Their work, 'Homogeneous gold-catalyzed efficient oxidative dimerization of propargylic acetates', as an invited contribution to a Symposium-in-Print (SIP) in honor of Professor Carlos F. Barbas, the 2009 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, is published.
  03/07/2009 Congratulations to Dr. Peng, Dr. Cui, and Guozhu. Their work, 'Gold-Catalyzed Homogeneous Oxidative C-O Bond Formation: Efficient Synthesis of 1-Benzoxyvinyl Ketones', is accepted as a communication to J. Am. Chem. Soc..
  02/28/2008 The group celebrates Dr. Zhang's Sloan Fellowship at Szechuan Garden. [Newpictures]
  02/27/2009 Congratulations to Guozhu, Dr. Peng, and Dr. Cui. Their work, 'Gold-Catalyzed Homogeneous Oxidative Cross -Coupling Reactions', is accepted as a communication to Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
  02/16/2009 New! Congratulations to Dr. Zhang. He is awarded 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship. Many thanks to the Sloan Foundation. [press][complete list][UNR news release]
  02/05/2009 Congratulations to Dr. Li Cui, Guozhu Zhang, and Dr. Yu Peng. Their work, 'Gold or No Gold: One-Pot Synthesis of Tetrahydrobenz[b]azepin-4-ones from tertiary N-(but-3-ynyl)anilines', is accepted as a communication to Organic Letters
  01/14/2009 Congratulations to Meng Yu and Guozhu Zhang. A full article of their work, 'Gold-catalyzed efficient preparation of linear α-haloenones from propargylic acetates', is now published in Tetrahedron.
  12/23/2008 Congratulations to Dr. Zhang. He has been recognized with the Spring 2009 CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award. CAPA is Chinese American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professor Association.
  12/04/2008 2008 Thanksgiving Party photos.
  11/02/2008 Soma Maitra joins the group. Welcome! Soma.
  11/01/2008 Congratulations to Dr. Peng and Meng Yu. Their work of 'Au-Catalyzed Synthesis of 5,6-Dihydro-8H-indolizin-7-ones from N-(Pent-2-en-4-ynyl)-b-Lactams' is published in Organic Letters.
  09/02/2008 Dr. Li Cui joins the group. Dr. Cui received her Ph. D. degree from SUNY- Stony Brook in 2006.
  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.
  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.
  08/08/2008 Congratulations to Meng Yu. She passed her M. S. defense.
  07/03/2008 Dr. Yu Peng joins the group. Dr. Peng received his Ph. D. degree from Lanzhou University, P. R. China.
  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.
  04/14/2008 Dr. Zhang is the recipient of "2007 Mousel-Feltner Award for Excellence in Research and/or Creative Activity" from UNR
  03/20/2008 Dr. Zhang is awarded the NSF CAREER Award.
  03/17/2008 Dr. Zhang is the recipient of 2008 Amgen Young Investigator's Award
  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.
  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.
  12/05/2007 Dr. Zhang is given an unrestricted grant by Merck & Co. , Inc. Thanks Merck process for the kind support.
  12/04/2007 Dr. Zhang is awarded the Thieme Journal Award
  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.
  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.
 
  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.
  05/17/2007 Dr. Zhang is awarded Junior Faculty Research Grant at University of Nevada, Reno.
  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.
  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.
  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
  04/12/2007 Dr. Zhang is a recepient of Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2007.
  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).
  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.
 

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
  09/25/2006 Dr. Xiaogen Huang joins the group. He received his Ph. D. from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004.
  09/14/2006 Dr. Zhang presents a talk titled " Exploring Au Catalysis: Development of Efficient Synthetic Methods" at ACS national meeting at San Francisco.
  09/12/2006 Second-year graduate students Myoung-Geun Song and Meng Yu present posters at ACS national meeting at San Francisco
  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.
  09/01/2006 Congratulations to Shaozhong. His work on Au-catalyzed alkenyl enol esters/carbonate formation appears at Org. Lett. ASAP
  08/01/2006 Dr. Guotao Li joins the group. He received his Ph. D. from Peking University in 2004