Yoon Group
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Two other papers that garnered a lot of discussion in our PoY process were the Park group's report on photocatalytic furan to pyrrole conversion (doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6245) and the Phipps group's report on enantioselective HAA to epimerize of meso diols (doi.org/10.1126/science.adq8029)
Photocatalytic furan-to-pyrrole conversion
The identity of a heteroatom within an aromatic ring influences the chemical properties of that heterocyclic compound. Systematically evaluating the effect of a single atom, however, poses synthetic c...
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Two other papers that garnered a lot of discussion in our PoY process were the Park group's report on photocatalytic furan to pyrrole conversion (doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6245) and the Phipps group's report on enantioselective HAA to epimerize of meso diols (doi.org/10.1126/science.adq8029)
Our two other finalists were the Jacobson group's catalysis of an Sn2 by geometric preorganization (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07811-4) (the mod's personal favorite) and the Reisman/Peters groups' report on catalytic Sm (doi.org/10.1126/science.adp5777)
Catalysis of an SN2 pathway by geometric preorganization - Nature
A small-molecule (646 Da) hydrogen-bond-donor catalyst accelerates the SN2 step of an enantioselective Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction by recapitulating the geometric preorganization principle used by enzy...
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our two other finalists were the Jacobson group's catalysis of an Sn2 by geometric preorganization (doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07811-4) (the mod's personal favorite) and the Reisman/Peters groups' report on catalytic Sm (doi.org/10.1126/science.adp5777)
also see this great exo-to-endo nitrogen transposition in saturated rings by the Knowles lab! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Exo-to-endo nitrogen transposition in saturated rings
Biologically active molecules are often comprised of ring structures that precisely position functional groups to enable target-specific interactions. The iterative permutation of these structural arr...
chemrxiv.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
also see this great exo-to-endo nitrogen transposition in saturated rings by the Knowles lab! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...