August 2014
Summer wrap-up:
• Summer student Derrick Marshall is back at College of Wooster in Ohio for his senior year. Here he is in action at the ASURE poster session.
November 2014
•
New grad
student! Sarah
Gibbons has
officially
joined our
group.
•
David
Clemens-Sewall
'14 is doing
research in
Antarctica for
the 2nd
time.
Check out his
blog here.
September 2014
Welcome to new
undergraduate
researcher Dan
Pham '16.
Welcome to the
department's
15 new
graduate
students,
including
Sarah Gibbons
(from U.
Maryland), who
has a
temporary desk
in our lab.
August 2014
Summer
wrap-up:
• Summer
student
Derrick
Marshall is
back at
College of
Wooster in
Ohio for his
senior
year.
Here he is in
action at the
ASURE poster
session.
• Above: another summer undergraduate researcher, Haider Ghiasuddin '15, working in the glovebox. Jesse Peltier '14 was also here for part of the summer before starting grad school at UCSD.
•
Congratulations
to Chris Knarr
for successful
defense of his
MS
thesis.
Chris, already
an
accomplished
baker, has
moved to
Austin, Texas
for culinary
school (applied
chemistry at its best).
Above, Dave
shows off one
of Chris's
napoleons on
the Green.
•
Congratulations
to Ge for
completing her
last
requirement,
the 3rd-year
research
proposal.
Now it's just
research to
finish her
Ph.D.
•
Broader
impact: Perry
is Dartmouth's
new North
Park
activities
coordinator.
She will "work
to foster a
sense of
community"
among students
in this
graduate dorm.
•
The top right
throwback
picture shows
John Alexander
'95 in the
hammock almost
20 years
ago.
John, now a patent lawyer
in Boston,
visited
Hanover
recently.
late June 2014
•
Another prize
for Meaghan:
Dartmouth's
Gazzaniga
Family Science
Award, "to the
graduating
senior who has
best
demonstrated
accomplishment
in scientific
research."
She is the
first winner
from
chemistry!
• Welcome to summer ASURE student Derrick Marshall (College of Wooster, Ohio)
•
Sad news:
former senior
honors thesis
student Jeff
Zimpleman '00
has
died.
After
Dartmouth,
Jeff got his
MS at Scripps
in California,
then an MBA at
Cornell, and
most recently
was working in
Virginia.
RIP.
June 2014
•
Congratulations
to graduating
seniors Jesse
Peltier '14
and Meaghan
Deegan '14,
who received
awards at
yesterday's
Chemistry
department
annual lunch.
Jesse: the American
Institute of
Chemists
Foundation
Student Award
"in recognition of potential
advancement of the chemical professions on the basis of the
student's record of leadership, ability, character, and
scholastic achievement."
Meaghan: the Elden
Bennett Hartshorn Medal "to the
senior major in the Department of Chemistry who is going on
to graduate work in Chemistry and who, in the opinion of the
Department of Chemistry, shows the most promise in that
field."
• Here's a new photo showing most of the group from our
annual graduation barbecue.
From the left, Zhiming Xu, Matt Sanderson, Jake Muldoon,
Sarah & David Glueck, Chris Knarr, Ge Wang, Perry
Scheetz, and Meaghan Deegan.
May 2014
•
Congratulations
to Jake, who
was recognized
as an
outstanding
graduate
student
teaching
assistant.
• The BRIC (Boston Regional Inorganic Colloquium)
mini-conference
here at
Dartmouth this
weekend had a
large
turnout.
Dave gave a
talk, Meaghan
presented a
poster, and
alumni Brian
Anderson
(Keene State)
and Matt Cain
(MIT)
attended.
• Matt is
headed to the
University of
Hawaii as an
assistant
professor!
Check out his
new web page here, where
this photo
came from.
April
2014
Graduate
school
admissions
success!
Class of 2014
senior thesis
researchers
Meaghan and
Jesse are
headed to
sunny Southern
California for
PhD programs
in the fall,
to CalTech
(Meaghan) and
UCSD
(Jesse).
March 2014
•
Welcome to new
undergraduate
researcher
Haider Ghiasuddin
'15.
An
English major
(!), Haider
has also been
an
organic
chemistry
teaching
assistant.
•
Congratulations
to Meaghan
Deegan '14 and
Jesse Peltier
'14 for their
admission to
multiple
chemistry
graduate
programs.
•
Congratulations
to Zhiming
Xu for
successfully
completing his
departmental
seminar, on
applications
of
microreactors
for organic
synthesis.
January 2014
Welcome
to new
Presidential
Scholar Rebecca
Xu '15.
Besides
chemistry
skills,
Rebecca has
impressive graphic design experience.
December 2013
Rotation
students Jake
Muldoon
and Perry
Scheetz have
officially
joined the
group!
Jake
did
undergraduate
research with
Dale
Drueckhammer at
Stony
Brook,
Perry with Craig
Anderson
at Bard
College,
plus REUs with
Tom
Baker (Ottawa)
and Andre
Formiga
(Campinas,
Brazil).
That
makes a total
of six
graduate
students, a group
record.
November 2013
•
Congratulations to Balazs
Varga for completing his MS
degree. Balazs is now
back in
Hungary to
finish Ph.D. studies.
• 1st-year
grad students
Perry Scheetz
(Bard College)
and Jake
Muldoon
(SUNY-Stony
Brook) are
doing rotations
in our lab
this fall.
September 2013
Back
to school time and summer wrap-up:
• Chris gave a poster
presentation at the 20th
International
Symposium on the
Photophysics and
Photochemistry of
Coordination
Compounds in
Traverse City,
Michigan.
•
Back
in Hanover, Meaghan
and Jesse
enjoyed
Zabriskie
Fellowship research
support.
• Visiting
undergraduate
Violet Farkas
(Oxford) spent
the summer
term working
with Matt on
synthesis of
new chiral
bis(phosphines).
June 2013 Congratulations to
Andy Zureick '13 and Cory Chang
'13 on their
graduation
this weekend. Andy got a scholarship for
medical
school
at the University of
Michigan in the
fall. Cory
will be teaching in
Boston next year
before he too goes
to medical
school. They
pose here with Dave
at our recent
graduation
barbecue.
Both honors chemistry majors got departmental awards. Andy received the Shafer-Bowen award for outstanding performance as an undergraduate teaching assistant, plus the venerable Haseltine chemistry-physics award (established in 1915!) for the most promise in those two subjects. Cory followed the group tradition (because catalysis is green chemistry) of winning the Stephen W. Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry award for research which "best exemplifies the practice of 'Green Chemistry'.
April 2013 Success in the return of Youngmin Kim '12 to Korea, where she has just started medical school at Hanyang University in Seoul.
March 2013 Congratulations to several students:
¶ Ge's
departmental seminar on Pd-catalyzed direct couplings via C-H activation had no fresh bread (see below) but still
completed this requirement successfully.
¶ Jesse and
Meaghan received Zabriskie
fellowships for
research in summer 2013.
¶ Andy, Cory and
David got Zabriskie
fellowships to support their ongoing Chem
87 honors thesis research.
Dartmouth
is very grateful to Dr.
John
L. Zabriskie '61 for his
generous support of undergraduate
research!
January
2013 Now up
to 9 students (4 grad students, 5 undergrads)
with the addition of new undergraduates Meaghan Deegan '14 and David Clemens-Sewall
'14 , thanks to
research fellowships from Dartmouth's Office
of Undergraduate
Research. See
the new group picture here.
Chris completed his 2nd-year departmental seminar with a talk on the
chemistry of breadmaking, complete with freshly-baked samples of ciabatta, anadama and olive bread. Attendance
was larger than usual...
November 2012 New student! Welcome to Zhiming Xu (MS, University of Dayton, BS Ocean U (China)), our new Ph.D. student.
September 2012 Big congratulations to new Department of Education GAANN fellows Matt Sanderson and Chris Knarr. These awards go to "assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course study at the institution in a field designated as an area of national need."
September 2012 Our paper on platinum bis(phospholane) catalyst
precursors is now out in Organometallics
here,
thanks to former postdoc Tess
Guino-o (now a professor at U. St. Thomas, MN), Andy
Zureick '13, sabbatical visitor (and Ph.D. 2005!) Natalia
Blank (professor at nearby Norwich U, VT) and several
other students over a few years.
Andy
presented this work at the ACS Philadelphia national meeting
in August. Here he poses in front of his poster with Organometallics
editor John Gladysz.
September 2012 After graduating in June, Chris Valleau '12 did more research over the summer before leaving Hanover to enter the real world. Update Nov 2012: Chris started his new job as a research analyst at Independent Project Analysis.
Balazs
Varga is also away, to do an internship at Harvard.
August 2012 Congratulations to Jesse, who got a
fellowship from Dartmouth's Office of Undergraduate Research
to support his off-term research in the fall. Thanks
to the Kaminsky Family Fund Award.
August 2012 New publications!
• C2-Symmetric
Pt and Pd diphosphametallacyclobutane (that's M(RPCH2PR))
complexes undergo selective alkylation, as described in Organometallics.
This project was started by Adam Schoenfeld '09, expanded by
Tim Chapp and finished by relief pitchers Cory Chang '13 and
Matt Sanderson.
• Samantha's beautiful C2-symmetric
benzodiphosphetane
C6H4(P(t-Bu))2 contains a reactive P–P
bond. Read all about it in Organic Letters.
August 2012 Conference news:
• Dave presented a poster at the Organometallics
Gordon Conference in Rhode Island in July
• Andy is presenting a poster at the ACS national meeting in
Philadelphia
June 2012 Undergraduate news:
• recent graduate Youngmin Kim '12 is back home in Korea
applying to medical school.
• Andy Zureick '13 won a Zabriskie summer fellowship to
support his research here this summer.
• Jesse Peltier '14 won a Junior Science Scholarship to
support his summer research.
• Meaghan Deegan '14 will join us a Presidential Scholar in
2013.
June 2012 Yet more congratulations to another new
graduate. Chris Valleau '12 received honors in the
chemistry major, as well as the Stephen
W. Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry award "to one or
more senior chemistry majors whose research best exemplifies
the practice of 'Green Chemistry'."
June 2012 Congratulations to new graduate Dr. Samantha Reynolds
(shown celebrating with champagne below), who completed her
thesis defense. Samantha puts our group's women Ph.D.
graduates in the lead again, 6 to 5 (11 total so far).
Next stop: teaching organic chemistry at UNH
Manchester in the fall.
June 2012 Congratulations to alum Dr. Matt Cain, who won
Dartmouth's Hannah Croasdale award for academic excellence, "awarded
annually to the graduating PhD recipient who best
exemplifies the qualities of a scholar." Can you identify the scholar
in sunglasses next to Matt?
Check out the Dartmouth grad studies news
item here
to see a picture of Matt receiving the award from Dean Brian
Pogue.
April 2012 Congratulations to Andy for winning a Goldwater
Fellowship. The Dartmouth
Now press
release says this makes him among "the nation's most
promising scientists."
March 2012 Samantha presented a talk and a poster at the San Diego National ACS meeting. Back home, Matt's 2nd year seminar talk on the tricky problem of using racemic catalysts to determine the selectivity of a reaction completed that requirement.
January 2012 C3 symmetry! Matt's Organometallics paper on the new P-stereogenic triphosphine "MT-Siliphos" was published here. Check out the structures of the triphosphine(borane) below, plus several metal complexes.
Group grows again. In addition to
the new grad students below, welcome Presidential Scholar
Cory Chang '13 and sabbatical visitor Professor Natalia
Blank Ph.D. 2005, from Norwich
University in Vermont.
Thanksgiving 2011 A successful recruiting year! Adding 3 new grad students means the group doubles in size (at least temporarily). Welcome to Chris Knarr (Humboldt State U, California), Balazs Varga (ELTE, Hungary), and Ge Wang (Lanzhou U, China), shown left to right below.
November 22, 2011 New
Ph.D. graduate! Dr. Matt Cain completed his thesis
defense today. Next stop: a postdoc at MIT with Dick
Schrock in January. The quiet glow of accomplishment
looks like this:
On the
right: alum Brian Anderson PhD 2008 made the drive up from
Keene State U for the thesis defense.
Fall term 2011 Welcome to new undergraduate
Andy Zureick '13, who is spending part of his off term
making chiral platinum complexes in the lab.
October 2011 Dave's book review of
"Phosphorus Compounds: Advanced Tools in Catalysis and
Material Sciences" is now out in JACS here.
September 2011 New grad student Chris Knarr
(from Humboldt State University, California) arrived early
and worked in our lab this summer.
September 2011 Matt went to Bangkok for the
Reaxys Prize Symposium at the Asian Chemical Congress.
Photos:
August 2011 Brian Anderson Ph.D. '08 has started his
assistant professor job at nearby Keene State
University. Check out his home page, complete with
hiking photo, here.
July 2011 More alumni news from academia
¶ Denyce Wicht Ph.D. '99 was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Suffolk U, Boston. Way to go Denyce!
¶ John Jewett '03 is moving from his postdoc at
Berkeley to an assistant professor position at University of
Arizona, in Tucson. Here
is John's new home page.
¶ Yoji
Kobayashi
'01 narrowly beat out John as the first undergraduate
from our group to get an academic job, as assistant
professor at Kyoto
University, Japan.
July 2011 Upcoming conferences: Matt will attend the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (student conference) at Salve Regina U, Rhode Island, then, at the same location, the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Conference; Dave will also be at that one.
Next up for Matt, the ACS fall national meeting in
Denver.
May 2011 Matt is a finalist (one of
45 worldwide) for the Reaxys
Prize, to be awarded for "research and publication
excellence in organic, inorganic, and organometallic
chemistry." Next stop: Bangkok, for the Prize symposium at
the Asian Chemical Congress
in September.
Alumni news: Natalia Blank (Ph.D. 2005) was
promoted to associate professor with tenure at Norwich U, Vermont.
Congratulations,
Natalia!
April 2011 Another review, on substrate
and catalyst control in asymmetric catalysis on symmetrical,
bifunctional substrates, has been published in the new RSC
journal Catalysis Science
and Technology. Click here for
this "Perspective" article.
March 2011 Several new papers came out
this winter. Click for the links.
1. Pt and Au-menthyl
complexes in Organometallics (Ashley and Samantha)
2. Electrochemistry
of Matt's ferrocenylmethylphosphines in JOMC (thanks to Chip Nataro
from Lafayette College)
3. For the special Bergman
issue of Inorganica Chimica Acta, Matt's
Cu-diphenylphosphinoquinoxaline chemistry, with related work
by Samantha and Brian.
January 2011 Brian Anderson (Ph.D. 2008)
will return to New Hampshire in summer 2011 as an assistant
professor at Keene State
College! Brian is now teaching @St.
Lawrence University.
November 2010 Two new grad students! Matt
Sanderson (MS, University of Texas, Austin) and Tiffany
Simons (Ramapo College, New Jersey) have joined our group.
Here's the new picture (January 2011), with, from left to
right, Samantha, Matt S, Matt C (standing) and Tiffany.
August 30, 2010 Supermodel Matt poses with
his Inorganic
Chemistry cover picture, also available here.
Photo credit: Samantha.
July 13, 2010 Congratulations to Matt, who
received one of the departmental GAANN
fellowships, and had his lengthy paper
on copper-catalyzed alkylation of diphenylphosphine
published here
in Inorganic Chemistry.
July 2010 Our latest review article, "Recent Advances in
Metal-Catalyzed C–P Bond Formation," has now appeared in the
book series Topics in
Organometallic Chemistry in a volume edited by
Arkadi Vigalok on C-X
Bond Formation. Available
June 2010 Dr. Tim Chapp
completed his thesis defense. More congratulations to
him for a string of papers this year and for getting a job at
Hamilton College (see below). This is Ph.D. student
#9...the score is now 5 women to 4 men.
May 2010 Tim wins
Dartmouth's Filene
Teaching Award, to augment his Chemistry department Wolfenden
Teaching Award and Stockmayer Fellowship.
Plus, his 2nd Organometallics paper is now out here.
Matt and
Samantha have completed their research proposals. Both
will make presentations at the summer ACS Boston national
meeting. Matt will also be in Seattle this summer
for a few days at the CENTC
summer school.
April 2010 Congratulations to
Tim, who got a visiting professor position at Hamilton College!
Looking forward to the summer and next year, we will welcome
new undergraduate students Ethan Emerson (Bates College,
materials summer REU) and Chris Valleau (Dartmouth '12,
Presidential Scholar).
March 2010
Our Inorganic Chemistry paper on a
self-assembled Au8P8 cluster is now on
the web, thanks to Liz and Tim. Click here.
January 2010
Much
more
news from the fall term
¶ Former postdoc Tess Guino-o will move from teaching at Oberlin to a tenure-track position at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota
¶ Former postdoc Tim Brunker got a 3-year appointment as an endowed chair (Jess and Mildred Fisher Endowed Chair in Biological and Physical Sciences) at Towson University, Maryland. See the press release here.
¶ Ashley Zuzek '09 has joined Ged Parkin's group at Columbia
¶ Corina Scriban Ph.D. '06 will move from CARLA (Heidelberg) to Johnson Matthey Catalysis and Chiral Technologies (Cambridge, England)
¶ Tim's first
Dartmouth paper has appeared in Organometallics here.
Check out this nice example of negative cooperativity in
catalysis.
June 2009 Lots of news items
from this academic year:
• Just like Liz Lane '08 before them, graduating seniors Adam
Schoenfeld and Ashley Zuzek '09 received the department's
Steven Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award at the
department's Senior Honors Lunch.
• Congratulations to Adam and Ashley, who are graduating with
honors. Adam's off to UCSF medical school; Ashley to
Columbia's Ph.D. chemistry program. Here they are, June
2009. See the photos
page for more pictures from our barbecue.
• Tess
Guino-o got a 1-year job teaching organic chemistry at
Oberlin, and will start there soon.
• Brian Anderson got a similar job at St. Lawrence, Tim's alma
mater.
• Tim and Matt gave talks and posters at the Salt Lake City
ACS national meeting.
• Tess and Samantha will go to the Washington DC national
meeting later this summer.
• REU student Sara Roderiques (Stonehill College) will soon
arrive for the summer.
• Our paper on ferrocenylmethylphosphines (thanks to Mitch Pet
and Matt Cain) has finally appeared in JOMC here.
November 2008
Samantha's
2nd-year departmental seminar, on aza-Diels-Alder reactions,
is now also done.
October 2008
Congratulations
to Matt, who fulfilled his 2nd-year departmental seminar
requirement with a well-received talk on NHC ligands in Suzuki
couplings.
Our paper on Pt-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of the new
AcePhos ring system, by Brian and Tess, has appeared in Organic Letters here.
September 2008 Featured on the Dartmouth home page again -- Matt draws molecules on the glass, while Ashley and Adam are fuzzy in the background. Photo credit: Joseph Mehling '69, Dartmouth College Photographer
See more new
pictures on the current
photos
page
Two more
papers have appeared on the web:
1. A Dalton Trans. review
on nucleophilic M-X groups in catalysis
2. Brian's Organometallics paper on
synthesis of chiral diphosphines via Pt-catalyzed asymmetric
alkylation
June 2008 More pictures from
the group barbecue to honor the proud graduates Dr. Brian and
future Dr. Liz. Main row: Tess Guino-o, David and Sarah
Glueck, Brian Anderson, Samantha Reynolds, Tim Chapp, Lucy
Glueck. Front row: Liz Lane and Matt Cain. In the
tree: Adam Glueck.
With the
arrival of new REU student Brian Mosby (Grambling State U.,
Louisiana), group size has swelled to a record 9! This
will relax to more normal numbers after the summer when Liz
and the 2 Brians are gone.
June 2008 Brian's hand and
his photogenic molecule have been on the Dartmouth home page (see
the far right at the top) for a while now. Photo credit:
Joseph Mehling '69, Dartmouth College Photographer
Congratulations to Liz, who received the department's Steven
Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award at yesterday's Senior
Honors Lunch.
summer 2008 Upcoming events:
Dave will present a talk at NERM in
Burlington Vermont, while Liz and Adam will give posters at
the Beckman Scholars symposium in Irvine CA.
May 29, 2008
Congratulations
to Brian on the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis (#8;
now 3 men and 5 women). Next stop: a postdoc with Matt
Sigman at the University of Utah.
late May 2008 Several new publications are on the web:
1. A concepts
article in Chem. Eur. J. on Catalytic
Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Phosphanes
2. A review in Coord. Chem. Rev. on 31P
NMR Spectroscopy in our catalytic asymmetric synthesis
of P-stereogenic phosphines
3. Another Diana paper on gold
nanoparticles
2-08 New group pictures
are now here.
So is new Presidential Scholar Ashley Zuzek '09.