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February 2012: The Kozlowski group welcomes Avital Steinberg as our new computational postdoc!

October 2011: Congratulations to Erin Podlesny on completing the first total synthesis of (S)-5,5'-bisoranjidiol!

August 2011: Prof. Kozlowski has written an overview of the utility of copper in organic synthesis in the book Copper-Oxygen Chemistry.

March 2011: Congratulations to Trung Cao and his wife on the birth of their son, Kien, who was born on March 3, 2011!

January 2011:Welcome to Young Eun Lee, our newest graduate student, who officially joined the group this semester.

December 2010: The University of Pennsylvania, Merck, and NSF's GOALI Program are proud to present: the UPenn Merck Catalysis Center, one of three academic HTE (High Throughput Experimentation) facilities in the nation.

July 2010: Professor Kozlowski has been awarded the 2010 Philadelphia Organic Chemists Club award. The award symposium will be on October 28, 2010 and will feature talks from Scott Miller (Yale), Mary Mader (Lilly), Stephen Waters (Univ. of Vermont), and Marisa Kozlowski (Penn). See http://www.pocclub.org/ for more details.

June 2010: Congratulations to Trung Cao on the event of his marriage.

January 2010:Welcome to Alison Metz, Carilyn Torruellas, and Phuong Huynh, first year chemistry PhD students who are joining the group.

January 2010: Welcome to new postdoctoral fellow Simon Berritt who will begin work at Merck, Rahway on the GOALI collaboration in rapid reaction optimization.

December 2009: Kudos to the entire perylenequinone team on publication of five back-to-back papers in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. The cover page of the first issue of the Journal of Organic Chemistry in 2010 will illustrate our chemistry with a nifty picture of the helical chiral natural products and a background showing of cercosporin being produced by the natural mold. DOI DOI DOI DOI DOI

August 2009: We are very excited about funding of the NSF GOALI proposal in collaboration with Merck, Gary Molander, and Patrick Walsh focusing on rapid parallel screening for reaction development and optimization. This effort will include development of a the CReDO (Center for Reaction Development and Optimization) center at Penn with instrumentation for multi-well plate reactions and screening.

July 2009: Congratulations to Joshua Dickstein on completing his Ph.D. at Penn! He now moves on to Bridgestone America in Ohio

July 2009: Much fun was had at the group picnic and reunion celebrating MCK's promotion to Full Professor including tasting of Joshua Dickstein's home-brewed beer. See pictures here.

July 2009: Congratualations to Barbara Morgan on completing her Ph.D. at Penn! She is looking forward to starting at the Broad Institute in Boston in August.

July 2009: Congratulations to Elizabeth Linton on completing her Ph.D. at Penn! She now moves on to teach at Mastery Charter School in Philadelphia.

March 2009: Synfacts has highlighted our Hypocrellin A synthesis. Congratulations to Erin O'Brien and Barbara Morgan: DOI

January 2009: Our bisamidinium catalysts double hydrogen bonding catalysts have been published in Org. Lett. and highlighted in Synfacts. Kudos to Liz Linton and Raja Annamalai. DOI DOI

January 2009: Welcome to John Curto and Rosaura Padilla-Salinas, first year chemistry PhD students who are joining the group.

December 2008: Congratulations to Liz Linton on publication of her catalytic asymmetric Meerwein-Eschenmoser Claisen rearrangement in J. Am. Chem. Soc. which has also been highlighted in Synfacts DOI DOI

November 2008: Congratulations to Joshua Dickstein and Michael Fennie on publication of the three component alpha-iminoester couplings via an umpolung process in J. Am. Chem. Soc. DOI

September 2008: After much work, "Fundamentals of Asymmetric Catalysis" has been published!! Thanks to all of those who helped this day arrive. Buy your copy while it's hot! See http://www.uscibooks.com/

September 2008: Congratulations to Brian Hewgley on publication of his copper kinetics work, including the discovery of a small molecule catalyst that works like a self-processing enzyme, in JACS. DOI

August 2008: Congratulations to Barbara Jane, Liz, Joshua, and Andrew on your presentations at the 236th ACS Meeting in Philadelphia.

July 2008: Our Hypocrellin A synthesis has been highlighted in the Chemistry World "Totally Synthetic" Blog! http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2008/July/ColumnTotallySynthetic.asp

May 2008: Congratulations to Barbara Jane Morgan on receipt of a SAS Dissertation Fellowship.

May 2008: Kudos to Erin O'Brien and Barbara Jane Morgan for the first total synthesis of Hypocrellin A which appears in Angewandte Chemie International Edition: DOI

January 2008: Welcome to the group to Dr. Sangeeta Dey from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Ph.D. with David Berkowitz.

January 2008: Welcome to Scott Allen, Erin Podlesney, Ryan Walvoord, and Trung Cao, first year Chemistry PhD students who are joining the group.

August 2007: Congratulations to Erin O'Brien on completing her Ph.D. at Penn! She now moves on the Roche Palo Alto.

July 2007: Our aromatic decarboxylation communication in Organic Letters (DOI) is one of the most accessed articles of the quarter. Congratulations Josh!