Dusty Cadwallader
@dustyc94.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Le group at York University
MSc @BrockU, BSc @TRU
Beer enthusiast, sports fan, cat dad ⚗️🍺🏈🐈
MSc @BrockU, BSc @TRU
Beer enthusiast, sports fan, cat dad ⚗️🍺🏈🐈
Very excited to finish this chapter at York University! On to the west coast for a change of pace where I’ll be working on photoluminescent materials 👨🔬⚗️🧪💡
Presenting PhD #1 from the Le Group: Dr. Dusty Cadwallader! (@dustyc94.bsky.social)
Many congratulations on a successful defense 🎉
Wishing you all the best as you begin your NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship @chem.ubc.ca with Zac Hudson!
Many congratulations on a successful defense 🎉
Wishing you all the best as you begin your NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship @chem.ubc.ca with Zac Hudson!
September 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very excited to finish this chapter at York University! On to the west coast for a change of pace where I’ll be working on photoluminescent materials 👨🔬⚗️🧪💡
My phone tells me that 7 (😰) years ago today I was running Birch reductions.
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My phone tells me that 7 (😰) years ago today I was running Birch reductions.
How many times do I have to click “stay signed in” on outlook to… stay signed in???🤔
June 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
How many times do I have to click “stay signed in” on outlook to… stay signed in???🤔
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Two more talks down from @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social and @dustyc94.bsky.social this morning in Ottawa!
Last talk from our group is tomorrow at 4 from Ali!
Last talk from our group is tomorrow at 4 from Ali!
June 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Two more talks down from @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social and @dustyc94.bsky.social this morning in Ottawa!
Last talk from our group is tomorrow at 4 from Ali!
Last talk from our group is tomorrow at 4 from Ali!
What effects does writing a PhD thesis, furiously catching up on labwork after a semester from hell AND watching your team lose in the first round to the same rival 4 years in a row have on a man? Perhaps you will find out in a couple weeks 😎 (I think we got ‘em this year boys)
April 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What effects does writing a PhD thesis, furiously catching up on labwork after a semester from hell AND watching your team lose in the first round to the same rival 4 years in a row have on a man? Perhaps you will find out in a couple weeks 😎 (I think we got ‘em this year boys)
This is for the 2nd year student who came up to the @leresearchgroup.bsky.social program poster in January, pointed at the boronic acid in our Suzuki scheme and said “ummmmm wouldn’t this work better with Na instead of B???”
Pushing the boundaries of #organosodium reagents, we are incredibly excited to report their applications in #iron #catalysed #crosscouplings with Sobi Asako and Laurean Ilies at RIKEN 🇯🇵 @naturesynthesis.bsky.social
@unibe.ch #openaccess #TeamWorkMakestheDreamWork
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@unibe.ch #openaccess #TeamWorkMakestheDreamWork
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
March 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is for the 2nd year student who came up to the @leresearchgroup.bsky.social program poster in January, pointed at the boronic acid in our Suzuki scheme and said “ummmmm wouldn’t this work better with Na instead of B???”
Reposted by Dusty Cadwallader
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
#chemsky check out this review on carbamoyl fluorides from my lab/office-mate/superfriend @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social!!!!
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Our review on the synthesis of carbamoyl fluorides and their use in fluoride-enabled reactions was just published in @synthesis1969.bsky.social! An excellent summary of an emerging field by @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...
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March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#chemsky check out this review on carbamoyl fluorides from my lab/office-mate/superfriend @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social!!!!
Who needs QNMR when one of your reactants is bright yellow 😎
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Who needs QNMR when one of your reactants is bright yellow 😎
Reposted by Dusty Cadwallader
Some of our work features the carbofluorination of pi bonds, a strategy for rapidly increasing molecular complexity via fluorine incorporation. Ali and @dustyc94.bsky.social recently published a review on this topic. Check it out here #ICYMI! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Carbofluorination of π‐Bonds and Related Reactions Involving Tandem C−C/C−F Bond Formation
A review on the carbofluorination of π-bonds and related transformations involving tandem C−C/C−F bond forming reactions is presented. The application of electrophilic fluorine and nucleophilic fluor...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Some of our work features the carbofluorination of pi bonds, a strategy for rapidly increasing molecular complexity via fluorine incorporation. Ali and @dustyc94.bsky.social recently published a review on this topic. Check it out here #ICYMI! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Grading the first year chemistry for engineering exams today and I’m not sure how many more “plywood is a semiconductor” answers I can handle 🥴
February 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Grading the first year chemistry for engineering exams today and I’m not sure how many more “plywood is a semiconductor” answers I can handle 🥴
Was furiously running around the department showing this to anyone who would listen. This is the type of science our 5 year old selves would come up with truly incredible
If you scroll the ASAPs for long enough you get to the good stuff
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
February 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Was furiously running around the department showing this to anyone who would listen. This is the type of science our 5 year old selves would come up with truly incredible
NO STOP KENDRICK HES ALREADY DEAD
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
NO STOP KENDRICK HES ALREADY DEAD
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Our first paper of 2025 is now online in Org Lett. Congrats, Ali, Yuriko, and Namrata! #ChemSky
Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Intramolecular Fluoroacylation Enabled by TrBF4-Catalyzed Fluoride Recycling
Alkyne- and alkene-tethered acyl fluorides undergo intramolecular carbofluorination via fluoride recycling using catalytic TrBF4. Excellent stereoselectivity is observed for the alkyne addition, enabling access to novel fluorinated indan-2-ones (all ≥95:5 E/Z) and cyclopentan-2-ones (85:15 E/Z). Fluorinated chroman-2-ones and tertiary alkyl fluorides can also be synthesized using this method, comparing favorably to previously reported protocols that employ expensive metal catalysts under harsher conditions.
pubs.acs.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our first paper of 2025 is now online in Org Lett. Congrats, Ali, Yuriko, and Namrata! #ChemSky
Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Incredible thank you Doug 💀
Doug Ford’s Ontario Place plan will make traffic congestion worse: report.
The redevelopment is projected to increase traffic volumes on Lake Shore Boulevard West as much as 40 per cent during major events, according to a staff report.
The redevelopment is projected to increase traffic volumes on Lake Shore Boulevard West as much as 40 per cent during major events, according to a staff report.
Doug Ford’s Ontario Place plan will make traffic congestion worse: report
The redevelopment is projected to increase traffic volumes on Lake Shore Boulevard West as much as 40 per cent during major events, according to a staff report.
www.thestar.com
December 24, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Incredible thank you Doug 💀
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We're incredibly proud to say that our review of Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles, Methods, and Applications in Synthesis is now online and open access at Chem Rev! Congrats to the team for this labor of love (and data!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
We're incredibly proud to say that our review of Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles, Methods, and Applications in Synthesis is now online and open access at Chem Rev! Congrats to the team for this labor of love (and data!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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OrgChem Starter pack has reached the 150 limit, so we started the sequel OrgChem2
go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF
go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF
December 8, 2024 at 8:23 AM
OrgChem Starter pack has reached the 150 limit, so we started the sequel OrgChem2
go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF
go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF
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Our OrgChem Starter Pack is growing with already 122 entries, but we will start a volume 2 if we go over the 150 limit!
go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ
go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ
December 5, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Our OrgChem Starter Pack is growing with already 122 entries, but we will start a volume 2 if we go over the 150 limit!
go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ
go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ
Took this last night. Best of friends. We got our tortie Mocha 2 months ago and she’s finally getting along with Maple and not screaming all night.
December 4, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Took this last night. Best of friends. We got our tortie Mocha 2 months ago and she’s finally getting along with Maple and not screaming all night.
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Something about traveling with a poster tube is so embarrassing. Like yes, hello I am an adult on my way to a very important science fair.
December 4, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Something about traveling with a poster tube is so embarrassing. Like yes, hello I am an adult on my way to a very important science fair.
Alright I guess it’s time to get involved! I’m Dusty, a Canadian chemist at YorkU in Toronto. My PhD has focused on making fluorinated electrophiles and using them to prepare amides useful to the pharmaceutical industry.
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Alright I guess it’s time to get involved! I’m Dusty, a Canadian chemist at YorkU in Toronto. My PhD has focused on making fluorinated electrophiles and using them to prepare amides useful to the pharmaceutical industry.