Everyone took a break Saturday to play paintball before visiting undergraduate Denise returned to Munich to finish her final semester. Although Zhen’s lab coat protects him from chemicals in the lab, it didn’t help from having paintballs fly at him in the arena. Thanks to all the members who came out and good luck to Denise in her future chemistry career!
Malkanthi Karunananda joins the Engle Lab as the newest postdoc after finishing her P.hD. at the University of Illinois Chicago with Prof. Neal Mankad. Malkanthi is excited to bring her computational skills and fondness for glovebox chemistry to the Engle lab.
In a communication appearing online today in J. Am. Chem. Soc., the Engle lab and Liu lab (U Pittsburgh) describe a new family of removable tridentate directing groups that enable regiocontrol in nucleopalladation, stabilizing otherwise elusive 6-membered palladacycles. Congrats to the whole team: Miriam, Rei, Josh, John, and De-Wei from Scripps; and Yanyan and Gang from Pitt. Special shout out to undergraduate co-author Josh Turnbull, who made several key contributions and has recently started in the PhD program at UC Berkeley. Thanks to the Liu lab for another great collaboration! Way to go, everyone! Click here for a link to the paper.
(not pictured: John, Josh, and Gang)
Congratulations to Keary, who was selected as the 2017 Society of Fellows Outstanding Mentor! The award is given to one TSRI faculty member on the basis of recommendations from current and former group members. Awesome recognition and well deserved!
For a write-up in TSRI News and Views, click here.
We are thrilled to announce that the Engle lab’s second postdoc, Miriam O’Duill, has accepted a position in the Chemistry Department at NUI Galway and will start her independent academic career in January 2018. We can’t wait to see awesome chemistry from the O’Duill group soon! Best of luck on this next adventure, Miriam!
Congratulations to John, Joe, and Zhen, the first class of graduate students in the Engle lab, who have all successfully passed quals and advanced to candidacy during the past month. Well done, team!
After an awesome two months, Huiqi wraps up summer research in the Engle lab. She now heads back to USTC for her junior year, equipped with an expanded knowledge of palladium chemistry and having made many new friend at Scrippss. Thanks to her mentor Zhen for providing excellent guidance over the summer.
Denise Kahler has joined the Engle Lab for a 7 week internship as a DAAD RISE Fellow from LMU München. Even on her first day, she set up some reactions to make a series of new ligands with John. Denise also joins fellow intern Elaine as the second cycling commuter of the Engle Lab.
Today undergraduate chemistry students from Zhejiang University of Technology visited the Engle Lab to do some experiments and see what life in a research lab is like. Vincent and Zhen helped conduct a urea polymerization, Rei and Tanner held a “weighing challenge” in the glovebox, and Mingyu and Jose ran the iodine clock experiment. The students had a great time seeing what an international research lab is like and are looking forward to the rest of their trip to Las Vegas and LA.
Joining her classmate Pusu from Nankai University, Elaine wasted no time getting in lab and setting up reactions. Coming from the lab of Prof. Tang Pingping, Yiyang (Elaine) Xiao is excited to learn more about catalysis and organometallics. Elaine is fitting right in with the California lifestyle by being the first cycling commuter in the Engle Lab!
Molecular Complexity through Catalysis 