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

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

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

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 its 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 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!