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Dusty Cadwallader
@dustyc94.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Le group at York University
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!
September 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My phone tells me that 7 (😰) years ago today I was running Birch reductions.
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How many times do I have to click “stay signed in” on outlook to… stay signed in???🤔
June 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Dusty Cadwallader
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!
June 17, 2025 at 5:22 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)
April 17, 2025 at 10:53 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???”
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...
March 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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...
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
#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...
Thieme E-Books & E-Journals -
www.thieme-connect.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Who needs QNMR when one of your reactants is bright yellow 😎
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
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
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...
February 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
NO STOP KENDRICK HES ALREADY DEAD
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The excitement of submitting the #CSC2025 abstract and immediately realizing it’s still 5 months away :(
January 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
No context
January 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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.
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
Reposted by Dusty Cadwallader
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
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OrgChem Starter pack has reached the 150 limit, so we started the sequel OrgChem2
go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF
December 8, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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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
December 5, 2024 at 6:37 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.
December 4, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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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
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