October 2026

National Chemistry Week! Kenzie, Mia, and I shared our "iron in food" activity.





October 2026

Another New England fall, time for beautiful foliage and the department's annual pumpkin-carving activity. Here are some photos:

       
Before, with Kenzie + Mia        The ChemCatChem design                        Mia carving action shot                   Rachel working on the details        After, a job well done


September 2026, new jobs continued

Hannah's new job at UBE Corporation America in Connecticut is now LinkedIn official. Congratulations to Hannah on her return to this company, where she did a 1-year internship after graduating from college.



August 2026, new jobs edition

Congratulations to 2023 graduates Ryan Sexton and Sarah Chachula on their new jobs, both in Pittsburgh. Ryan is now at Covestro and Sarah has moved from the Naval Research Lab to Ascensus.

August 2026

Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Sexton, PhD #20 from our group after her successful thesis defense. The score is now 11 women to 9 men. With Kenzie on deck and Mia next, men are in a deep hole and may not be able to catch up. However, the MS count is tied, 2 to 2. Photos:

        

The last picture shows Hannah with her undergraduate advisor, Forest Robertson from Western Connecticut State University, who was here for the occasion (with his family! Note the kids in the background.) Forest was another Dartmouth chemistry PhD graduate back in 2012 (Jimmy Wu's first student).

Congratulations to Lauren Mendelsohn '19 on her wedding! Here she is for a brief visit to Hanover with husband David.



Congratulations to Jorge Garduño on his recent move from Morelos back to Mexico City for a faculty position at his alma mater, UNAM. Check out the photo from the article about him at the UNAM site.






June 2026

Congratulations to graduating senior Sumant, who won the department's Chandler White 1916 research prize. Next step: off to MIT for PhD studies.



Here he is (in the dark on the right, yellow shirt) with other group members at our annual end of the academic year barbecue.
From left to right, Hannah, Mia, Dave, Kenzie, special guest Nico, and Sumant. On the right, from his LinkedIn profile.

   

May 2026

Congratulations to Hannah, this year's winner of the department's Arthur Dunham Holmes 1906 Memorial Graduate Fellowship, awarded annually to a graduate student working in the broadly defined area of nutrition-related or organic chemistry research.



April 2026

• Science Day!
We participated in Dartmouth's yearly #Broader Impacts outreach program, which attracted around 500 people from local communities. Thanks to Hannah, Kenzie, and Jonah, shown here posing with one of our hands-on activities for kids.

             

• Congratulations to a few group alumni on their recent accomplishments.

Sarah Gallant Ph.D. 2019 was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Norwich University, Vermont. Here she is in uniform (Norwich photo)



Meaghan Deegan '14 (Santa Clara U, California) won a Cottrell Scholar award from the Research Corporation
Of the 24 winners chosen nationwide, she is one of only a few from PUIs, with most awardees from R1 schools including UNC, Michigan, Yale, etc.



Lauren Mendelsohn '19 published a tutorial in Organometallics on asymmetric hydrogenation with Co/Rh/Ir with her PhD advisor, Paul Chirik (Princeton).
Also, check out singer/songwriter Lauren's work on Apple music here (photo via Winding Way Records).




February 2026
Congratulations to Nathan, who received the department's Francis L. Town (class of 1856!) prize for outstanding academic achievement at the end of the sophomore year in November (see below). He and other students were honored in one of the weekly department seminars this month.



January 2026
• Happy new year! Thanks to ACS-PRF program officers William Aumiller and Allegra Liberman-Martin for including us in their recent paper highlighting ACS-PRF-supported research in organic and inorganic chemistry from 2000-2025 in Inorg. Chem., Organometallics, J. Org. Chem., and Org. Lett.
From over 2600 papers, this one made the cut for the final 42 covered. So far, it has 234 citations, according to Google Scholar.

"Pt(Me-Duphos)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrophosphination of Activated Olefins: Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Phosphines," Ivan Kovacik, Denyce K. Wicht, Navrose S. Grewal, David S. Glueck, Christopher D. Incarvito, Ilia A. Guzei, and Arnold L. Rheingold, Organometallics 2000,19, 950-953.

Where are the Dartmouth authors now? [Crystallographers Chris, Ilia, and the late Arnie Rheingold were at the University of Delaware.]

Former postdoc Ivan Kovacik continues his long career in industry, now at Alynylam Pharmaceuticals in Boston.
Denyce Wicht Ph.D. 1999 is a professor at Suffolk University, also in Boston.
Navrose Grewal '99 is a cardiothoracic surgeon in California.
Thanks to all for kicking off this long-running area of research in our lab!

• Jake Muldoon Ph.D. 2018 published his first paper in his new career as a computational toxicologist in Computational Toxicology. Check it out here, or read the hype from the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM). Congratulations to Jake for mastering a completely new research area after his PhD and postdoc training.

December 2025
Mia presented Hannah's summer Gordon Conference poster at our annual graduate student research symposium and won a prize!
Here's the sequence: (1) mentoring (2) presenting (3) winning.

   

December 2025
 • Congratulations to current and former group members on their recent publications.

Here's Jonah's 2nd paper from his undergrad research at Florida:

Brewer, C. R.; Das, B.; Singh, R.; Caretti, D.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Oni, O.; Kang, X.; Perry, J.; McElwee-White, L.; Walker, A. V. Photoassisted Chemical Vapor Deposition Using (η4-Diene)Ru(CO)3 Precursors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, 17, 55034–55044. link



Meaghan Deegan '14, now at Santa Clara U in California, has another paper on her phosphine-alkyne-phosphine pincer ligands:

Fejes, I. R.; Yap, G. P. A.; Deegan, M. M. Ruthenium Coordination Chemistry of a Bisphosphine Alkyne Pincer Ligand. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. e202500457. link



And here is the 2nd Science paper from Jesse Peltier '14, now at Northeastern. OK, he's one of multiple co-authors, but I'm still impressed.
 
Carsch, K. M.; Jiang, H. Z. H.; Klein, R. A.; Rosen, A. S.; Summerhill, P. S.; Peltier, J. L.; Huang, A. J.; Murphy, R. A.; Dods, M. N.; Silva, H. A.; et al. Multigas adsorption with single-site cooperativity in a metal–organic framework. Science 2025, 390, 808-812. link 




November 2025
• New student! We welcome recent rotation student Mia to the group for her PhD studies.



• Congratulations to Nathan for receiving the department's Francis L. Town (class of 1856!) prize for outstanding academic achievement at the end of the sophomore year (see his photo below in the August 2025 post). And see the October 2024 post below for last year's winner, Sumant!

• A bit late on this, but check out the AISES video honoring former senior honors thesis student Jesse Peltier '14, now assistant professor at Northeastern, on his selection as their 2024 most promising engineer or scientist. As you can see in the screenshot, the video includes footage and sound from Jesse's revisit to our lab in summer 2024, plus cameo appearances by Kenzie and Hannah.



September-October 2025
Welcome to new first-year grad students doing rotations in our lab, Chelsea and Mia.

August 2025
Photos from our annual group dinner, including almost everyone. Bonus extra guest Jill Moncarz PhD 2001 was luckily visiting Hanover and able to attend too.

   

July 2025
Congratulations to Zhiming Xu PhD 2017, who published a paper on synthesis of ruthenium metathesis catalysts in J. Organomet. Chem. here, with research from Chengdu Chemical and Catalytical Run Co. Ltd., Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Here are old photos of Zhiming before his return to China.

 

Graduation June 2025
It's time for the annual congratulations to Dartmouth's multiple valedictorians (4.0 GPA, 26 students!) and salutatorians (3.99, 24 more). Read all about them here. I taught some of them! Valedictorians included former Chem 6 students Jess Bargamian and Kat LaPlaza (earth sciences modified with chemistry major) and chemistry minor and Chem 64 student Allie Nishi. Chem 64 student Pat Herrin was a salutatorian.

June 2025
Important milestones for old and new group members: Meaghan Deegan '14 published her first independent paper as a professor at Santa Clara University in Organometallics here.
Incoming post-baccalaureate fellow Jonah Perry published his first paper, also in Organometallics, from his undergraduate research at the University of Florida with Lisa McElwee-White.

      

May 2025
Check out Dave's new review article here.
Glueck, D. S. Transition metal complexes with C-stereogenic alkyl ligands and P-stereogenic analogues: Synthesis, configurational stability, stereochemistry of fundamental transformations, and intermediacy in catalysis. Adv. Organomet. Chem. 2025, in press.



• Big congratulations to Sarah Gallant PhD 2019, who continues to crush it as an assistant professor at Norwich University, Vermont. The latest: she was selected for their campus-wide teaching award, announced only every two years, and will speak at the fall convocation! Photo credit: Norwich University.




April 2025
Science Day! In our latest outreach activity for Dartmouth's annual Science Day, Hannah, Kenzie and Dave set up interactive experiments for kids and their parents on "iron in food." Visitors could extract iron metal from Cheerios with a magnet, or add an iron supplement to green tea and observe the striking color change. (See the before and after colors in the small beakers held by Hannah (right) and Kenzie (left). Photo credits for the first 2 landscape shots: Eli Burakian, Dartmouth.

   

    

February 2025

New fellowship! Senior undergraduate chemistry majors and recent graduates, please check this out.

Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in Chemistry, Dartmouth College
One-year research program in synthetic chemistry and catalysis, starting as early as July 1, 2025. $55,000 salary plus health benefits and opportunity to take classes.
Requires Bachelor’s in chemistry or a related field, completed by the start of the appointment, and research experience in synthetic chemistry. Ideal for students seeking research experience before applying to a graduate program.
See more details and apply (review begins March 20, 2025): https://apply.interfolio.com/163897
Questions? glueck@dartmouth.edu

February 2025

Congratulations to Kenzie, who passed her 2nd-year qualifying exam! She's posing here in front of the blackboard where she explained her project to the committee.




December 2024

Another departmental annual grad student colloquium complete!
Congratulations to Hannah, who gave her 4th-year talk, and to Kenzie for presenting her poster.
[No, Hannah's slide didn't actually have that color gradient. Blame my photography skills.]

     

Bonus: Dartmouth graduate alum (former Russ Hughes student) Jeremy Smith (Indiana U) gave the keynote lecture.





November 2024

Former senior thesis students Cory Chang '13 and Jacob Jo '17 went to medical school at Columbia and Vanderbilt, respectively. Now they are both residents in neurosurgery in the same program at Johns Hopkins!

       

Congratulations to Hannah, who was awarded a Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship, for students "in excellent academic standing and of a superior research promise."



October 2024

Congratulations to Sumant, who received the chemistry department's Francis L. Town Scientific Prize, awarded annually to "meritorious and deserving students at the end of their sophomore year, in the scientific course of the College." This award goes back at least to 1943 (link to a story in the alumni magazine).

 

For National Chemistry Week, we reprised our 'Mirror Image Molecules' activity from Science Day (see below). Casper especially enjoyed the liquid nitrogen ice cream, thanks to Wendy Epps.

          

Congratulations to Sarah on her latest paper, now out in Organometallics here. Rhodium catalysts activate the normally inert C-H bond in a t-butyl group to make a phospholane while controlling the newly formed P-stereogenic center. Bonus: detailed DFT calculations by Russ Hughes, including predictions of the stereochemistry of P-H oxidative addition and P-C reductive elimination. A long paper with a long title, but you might like it.
Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dehydrocoupling-Cyclophosphination of Supermesitylphosphines: Enantioselective Synthesis of a P-Stereogenic Benzophospholane via C–H Activation–Functionalization




We had lovely fall weather again for the departmental pumpkin carving event. See more photos on the group page here.



 
September 2024

Welcome to new undergrad researcher Nathan Chen '27, from California.



August 2024

Big congratulations to former senior honors thesis student Jesse Peltier '14, now an assistant professor at Northeastern, winner of the 2024 AISES prize for most promising engineer or scientist (link). [Yes, that's for the whole country in all STEM fields!] Stay tuned for the upcoming video, to appear on the AISES web site. Photo credit: David Cournoyer (AISES).
It was great to see Jesse back on the east coast after many years at UCSD and UC Berkeley.



July 2024, more reunion action

Jorge (now at UAEM, Mexico) stopped in DC on his USA tour, which included the Organometallics Gordon Conference in Rhode Island, to visit Sarah (Naval Research Lab) and Amber (Foundation for the NIH). Thanks to Sarah for the photo, which also features Dahlia (dog) and Felix (cat).



June 2024, reunion time

• After a visit from former Chem 64 and Chem 91 student Joe Brackbill '18 (PhD UC Berkeley with John Arnold, now a postdoc at LBL in Berkeley), it was also fun to see former group members Balazs Varga MS '13, now a medicinal chemist researching opiods and psychedelics at Washington U, St. Louis, and Lauren Mendelsohn '19 (PhD Princeton with Paul Chirik, now a process chemist at BMS). From left to right, here are Joe with his undergrad research advisor Kate Pletneva, Balazs and Hannah, and Lauren with Dave.

      

June 2024. End of the academic year.

• Congratulations to Tara Karim '24, who completed a double major in Hispanic Studies and Biology with Phi Beta Kappa honors while also doing research in our lab. Tara will be working in a hospital in Boston next year before attending medical school. Plus congratulations to another undergrad researcher and graduate, Will Daley '24, a biomedical engineering major.

 


• With 20 valedictorians (!) and 17 salutatorians (!) posting 4.0 and 3.99 GPAs, it's no surprise that I was able to teach some of them. Here are all the details from Dartmouth. Congratulations to valedictorians Avery Borgmann (Chem 6) and chem minor Max Teszler (Chem 6 and Chem 64) and salutatorians chem major Anjali Dhar (Chem 64) and Ian Smith (Chem 64), who was a bio major modified with chemistry.

April 2024 again

• Outreach! Kenzie and Dave participated in Dartmouth's annual Science Day, teaching kids (and parents) about mirror image molecules, featuring carvone (spearmint or caraway), limonene (lemons or pine) and lots of tetrahedral molecules.

           

April 2024

• Nice to see alumnae Sarah Chachula PhD '23 (Naval Research Lab) and Jill Moncarz PhD '01 (Eastman Chemical, here posing with Hannah) on their recent visits!

   




March 2024

• Congratulations to Andrew Sasser '23, currently a Teaching Science Fellow here (for Dave's Chem 6 class this term!), for his admission to medical school at U Miami.



• Check out the nice feature on Sarah Gallant Ph.D. 2019 from the Norwich University newspaper, the Guidon.



"Her proudest accomplishments so far are the successes of her students – being accepted to special programs, graduate schools, conference presentations and publications. “I could not be prouder of my students and their success,” she beamed."

Late January 2024

• Two new papers in Organometallics!

Jorge led the effort on the first (link), with help from Andrew and Hannah -- it's the first publication for those two. A nice example of bifunctional catalysis, where the Lewis acidic Pt binds the nitrile so the P-OH nucleophile can attack it to form a metallacycle. Water then attacks at P to open the ring and make an iminol complex. Tautomerization then gives the amide. Result: addition of water across the CN triple without direct attack -- it all happens with the SPO phosphorus as the water shuttle.



The second comes from big teamwork between Ryan and multiple collaborators (Russ and Arnie for DFT and X-ray as usual, plus Heather and Mick at DOW for high-pressure NMR and catalysis screening). Our chiral phosphiranes were poor ligands in Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation, and now we know why...CO displaced the ligand from the metal.



• Congratulations to former senior thesis student Lauren Mendelsohn '19 for completing her Ph.D. at Princeton with Paul Chirik. Thanks to @ChirikGroup for the photo. Next stop: Bristol Myers Squibb.



January 2024

• Thanks to Robert Gilliard (MIT) for visiting as the department's first 2024 seminar speaker. Left to right: Hannah, Dave, Robert, Kenzie, and Hassaan.




November 2023

• Welcome (again) to former rotation student and new graduate student Kenzie, plus new undergraduate Sumant, who will be starting in the winter.

 

October 2023

• Congratulations to Sarah Gallant Ph.D. 2019 (Norwich U, Vermont, see photo and link below), who visited last week to give a talk at DCAL, and to check out the departmental pumpkin-carving event.  Kenzie, Hassaan, Hannah and Randy showed off their work.



September 2023

• Welcome to our 2 new rotation students, Kenzie (from Berry College in Georgia) and Randy (from Monash U, Australia)

     

• Congratulations to 2008 REU student Brian Mosby, who was promoted to associate professor at Rollins College in Florida.

         

• Congratulations to Sarah Gallant Ph.D. 2019 (Norwich U, Vermont) on her two new papers, one in MolBank on research (detecting uranium in water) and another in J. Chem. Educ. on teaching (find out here what POGIL stands for and how it worked at Norwich).

July 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Chachula, our latest Ph.D. graduate, number 19. Sarah again puts women in the lead, now 10–9.  She will move to Washington DC soon for her postdoc at the US Naval Research Lab.  Check out the photos. In the middle, with visiting alums, left to right are Hannah, Sarah Gallant Ph.D. '19 (now at Norwich U), new Dr. Sarah, Amber Zimmerman '19, M.S. '20 (now at Foundation for the NIH), Andrew Sasser '23, and Tara Karim '24.

     


June 2023

Another end-of-the-academic year roundup

• Our paper on Rh-catalyzed asymmetric phosphine dehydrocoupling is out here in Organometallics!  Congratulations to Sarah for completing this long-running project, and to Perry Scheetz and Andy Zureick for starting it long ago.



• Congratulations to Dr. Ryan, seen here with Sarah at graduation



• Congratulations to graduating senior Andrew '23, who received the department's Chandler T. White 1916 prize   for "outstanding performance in an independent research project."  Andrew was also our nominee for the campus-wide Gazzaniga family research prize.  After a brief break, he'll be back for the summer term as a Teaching Science Fellow, starting with Chem 52 (organic 2).



April 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Tipker, Glueck group Ph.D. #18, tying the M/F score at 9.  But with Sarah on deck and Hannah next, the women will soon take the lead again.  Later this summer, Ryan will move back to his home town of Pittsburgh for his new job as a formulation chemist at Ardex.

         

• Congratulations to Hannah, who was named an "outstanding graduate student teacher" by DCAL (Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning) for her work as a TA in Chem 52 (organic chemistry 2), thanks to nominations by her undergraduate students.

• Welcome to new undergraduate researcher Tara Karim '24



March 2023

• ACS Omega Coauthors Jake and JJ celebrating their latest publication with dinner in Nashville, where JJ is a student at Vanderbilt medical school.  Plus bonus throwback photo showing them back in the lab in 2017.

    

• Ryan's phosphirane protonation is out in ACS Omega here.  It's #open access, so anyone can read it.
In our 2022 Angewandte Chemie paper, MeOTf alkylates P.
But in this new 2023 work, the proton from HOTf ends up not on P but on C.
Read the paper to find out how!



• Ryan is collecting selfies with the click chemistry 2022 Nobel laureates, with Amber also featured on the left.  Now we just need to invite Morten Meldal to Hanover, or send Ryan to Copenhagen...

      

Update: Ryan says he will gladly go to Denmark, and he'd also like to visit Japan for a photo with Noyori, another 2001 winner.

February 2023
Alumni job updates!
• Congratulations for former postdoc Jorge Garduño on his new job at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos in Cuernavaca, Mexico (UAEM, in Spanish).  Here are more links to the chemistry institute and the organometallics group.

Cuernavaca, the "city of eternal spring", just a few hours from Mexico City, was a favorite spot for summer residences of Aztec emperors.

 

• Congratulations to Amber Zimmerman '19, MS '20 for her new job as a project manager at the Foundation for the NIH in DC.



• Congratulations to John Alexander '95 for his new job as VP, head of intellectual property at Nimbus Therapeutics in Cambridge MA.



• Congratulations to Jesse Peltier '14, who visited recently to give the departmental seminar on his research in California at UCSD (PhD) and UC Berkeley (postdoc).



October 2022
new group photos!



July 2022
Sara Paisner '96 was back for her reunion.



June 2022
end of the academic year roundup
• congratulations to Chris Connors '21, now a medical student at Mt. Sinai in NYC
• congratulations to former Chem 64 student Sophia Miller '22, one of this year's salutatorians
• congratulations to Meaghan Deegan '14 for her new job as assistant professor of chemistry at Santa Clara University ("the Jesuit University in Silicon Valley")
• it was fun to see Chase Shipp '17, now a biopharma/medtech consultant inn San Francisco, back for his 5th reunion.  Who wore it better?

  

• Jorge's paper made the cover of Organometallics!

          

• Another Organometallics paper, this one by Ryan and Sarah.

  

April 2022

• A temporary goodbye to postdoc Jorge Garduño, who is returning from Mexico to work right next door with Chris Sandford.  Special thanks for Jorge for daring to come to Dartmouth during COVID and for successfully starting a new ACS-PRF project in our group on nitrile hydration catalysis.

• Hello to new undergraduate Will Daley '24, who will be working in our lab this summer.

• Welcome back to Ryan and Sarah, after their conference trip to Germany with the ACS Northeastern section.

         

from left to right: Jorge, Will, Ryan presenting in Germany, and Sarah

January 2022

another tough year, but it's still good to live in a beautiful place with nice people.  Photo credit: Adam



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