This week we are pleased to share the final peer-reviewed version in J. Am. Chem. Soc. of our study, led by Juntao Sun, unlocking the potential of copper(II) for π-Lewis acid catalysis, a reactivity paradigm typically reserved for previous metal catalysts. Already this new direction has revealed several novel transformations that we are excited to share soon. Congrats to the entire team, including Juntao, Letian, and Shenhua from scripps, and Thomas and Mithun from the Liu lab at the University of Pittsburgh.

For a link to the paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc., click here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c10387

As a reminder, we shared a pre-print of this work in ChemRxiv back in March: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/67a98e806dde43c9083f094e