Amide Dehydration Review Online

Congrats to Mohammed for having his mini-review on metal-catalyzed methods to dehydrate primary amides published in the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry.  This mini-review was inspired by the method we published in Organic Letters, which is currently in 8th place for most read paper over the last 12 months!

Amide Dehydration Paper Hits 4,000 Views!

We are happy to see that our Pd-catalyzed dehydration of primary amides to make nitriles has been well-received!  We now have over 4,000 views in just under 9 months and are currently the 11th most read paper with Organic Letters over the last 12 months!  This collaborative work with the… Continue reading…

Decarboxylation Paper is Online!

Congrats to Mohammed, Mark, and Matthew for having their study of protodecarboxylation of polyenoic acids appearing in Organic Letters!  In addition to being a great paper, this is my first paper with four authors whose first name all start with M!

Latest Oberlies/Croatt collaborative publication is online!

Congrats to Mohammed, Pepe, Katsuya, and Jarrod on a fantastic paper in Organic Letters.  This was a collaborative effort where our group developed a method, the Oberlies group (with the help of a fungus from Cedric) utilized the method on a peptaibol to get some very interesting SAR, and Joanna… Continue reading…

Croatt and Oberlies Groups, Collaborators Publish New Paper Online

Congrats to the Croatt and Oberlies Groups for getting their paper published online! “Our amide dehydration paper is online! Great collaborative work by the Croatt group, including @briefspace , for the method, the Oberlies Group (UNCG) and Cedric (Mycosynthetix) for the peptaibol work, and Joanna (UIC) for bioassay!” https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02422