• The group's latest paper on "The Catalytic Enantioselective, Protecting Group-Free Total Synthesis of (+)-Dichroanone" has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc., and can be found here.
• Brian won the Caltech ASCIT 2005-2006 Teaching Award for Chemistry!
• The group's latest publication on "The structural and synthetic implications of the biosynthesis of the calycanthaceous alkaloids" has been published in Tetrahedron. It is available here.
• We'd like to thank everyone who made it out for Brian's Tenure Party. Take a look at pictures from the party here. (Note: if you click on the printer icon underneath the photos, you can download the original files or order prints directly from shutterfly.com)
• Raissa Trend has successfully defended her thesis, and will be starting a postdoc with Horst Vogel at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Take a look at some pictures from the party.
• The group's latest paper on "2-Diazoacetoacetic acid, an efficient and convenient reagent for the synthesis of α-diazo-β-ketoesters" has been published in Chem. Commun. Take a look here.
• Brian was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry. Congratulations Brian!
• Pictures from Stoltz Bowl VI have been added.
• Pictures from our Christmas Party have been added.
• Uttam Tambar has successfully defended his thesis, and will be starting a postdoc with Jim Leighton at Columbia University. Take a look at some pictures from the party.
• Brian and Matthias Beller were co-editors of a special "Asymmetric Oxidations" issue of Tetrahedron: Asymmetry!
• Take a look at some pictures from Brian's Surprise Birthday and Raissa's Proposal Defense party.
• Take a look at the group's newest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on "Oxidative Cyclizations and Studies on the Stereochemistry of Oxypalladation" here.
• Congratulations to Dan, who recently won an ACS Fellowship.
• Eric Ashley has defended his thesis and will be joining the group of Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University for his postdoc. Take a look at some pictures from the party.
• Congratulations to our colleage, Bob Grubbs, who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"! He shares this award with Yves Chauvin and Dick Schrock.
• Congratulations to Brian for receiving the 2006 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award!
• The group's latest paper on "Pd-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Decarboxylative Allylation of Racemic β-Ketoesters" has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. as a hot paper. Take a look here.
• Take a look at the group's newest Chem. Commun. paper on "Ligand-Free Sonogashira Couplings" here.
• Jeff Bagdanoff has defended his thesis and will be working at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals. Take a look at some pictures from the party.
• Take a look at some pictures from Jeremy and Jeff's Thesis Defense Party.
• Jeremy May has defended his thesis and will be doing a postdoc for Samuel Danishefsky at Sloan-Kettering.
• Neil Garg received the Herbert Newby McCoy Award for an "outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry". He will give a formal divisional seminar on June 9th, 2005.
Eric Ferreira just defended his thesis and will be doing a postdoc for Barry Trost.
• The group's latest Org. Lett. paper on a "Heterogeneous Reductive Isomerization Reaction" is now online.
• The group's latest Org. Lett. paper on "The Development of a Tandem Stille-Oxa-Electrocyclization Reaction" is now online.
• In addition to Brian's recent Oscar, he also received his own Hollywood star.
• The group's latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on "The Development of an Enantiodivergent Strategy for the Total Synthesis of (+)- and (-)-Dragmacidin F" is now online.
• The group's latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on "The Direct Acyl-Alkylation of Arynes" is now online.
• Here are some photos from Brian's 2005 Novartis Lecture at Boston University. Here is a link to more information about Brian's 2005 Lecture.
• Neil Garg just defended his thesis and will be doing a postdoc for Larry Overman. Take a look at some pictures from the party.
• Brian was recently awarded a prestigious unrestricted grant in synthetic organic chemistry from Bristol-Myers Squibb! This award was featured on the inside cover of C&E news March 7, 2005.
• Brian won an Oscar at the Academy Awards!
• Take a look at this poster advertisement for Brian's upcoming Novartis lecture. It is entitled "Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry" and will take place at Boston University.
• Some pictures from our Christmas Party have been added.
• Some pictures from our Santa Anita Racetrack trip and Brian's Surprise Birthday party have been added.
• The group's latest Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. paper on "Intramolecular Fujiwara-Moritani Arylations" is now online.
• The group's latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on "The Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation" is now online.
• Congratulations to Raissa, who recently won an ACS Fellowship.
• Attention Caltech First Years! Please feel free to attend any and all of our group meetings and subgroup meetings. Here is the schedule. We also have weekly club meetings on Fridays discussing recent total syntheses, or metal-based methodologies and transformations. Those meetings are listed on our online group calendar and you should feel free to attend those as well.
• The group's latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on "The Total Synthesis of (+)-Dragmacidin F" is now online.
• Richmond Sarpong has just left our group to take over his responsibilties of Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley! We wish him the best. See our other graduates here.
• Take a look at some pictures from the Chemistry Club BBQ.
• Brian has been named a Presidential Early Career Award Winner by the White House! See the Caltech Press Release or the NSF Press Release.
• Brian's highlight review on Pd chemistry is now online.
• The group's latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on the model for stereoselectivity in the oxidative kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols is now online.
• One of the group's recent publications has been featured on organic-chemistry.org.
• Brian was recently a Closs lecturer at the University of Chicago. Take a look at a picture from his trip and description of the award.
• Congratulations to Jeremy, who recently won an ACS fellowship!
• Brian was recently a visiting professor at Tokyo University. Take a look at some pictures from his trip.
• A recent group picture at the world-famous Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles.
• Congratulations to our colleague, Bob Grubbs, who recently received the 2003 Pauling Award.
• The collaboration between the Stoltz group and the Beauchamp group is featured on the cover of Angewandte Chemie.
• Here's Harry, congratulations Brian and Erna!
