March, 2012


We welcome Daniel von Laufenberg from the research group of Andreas Gansäuer at Bonn.  Daniel will be carrying out mechanistic studies on the titanocene-catalyzed arylation of epoxides.

Synthesis and Calorimetric,Spectroscopic, and Structural Characterization of Isocyanide Complexes of Trialkylaluminum and Tri-tert-butylgallium
Kingsley, N.B.; Kirschbaum; Teprovich, J.A., Jr.; Flowers, R.A., II; Mason, M.R. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 2494-2502.

Congratulations Nick and Joe!


Effect of Crown Ethers onthe Ground and Excited State Reactivity of Samarium Diiodide in Acetonitrile
Maity, S.; Choquette, K.A.; Flowers, R. A., II; Prasad, E. J. Phys. Chem. A 2012, 116, 2154-2160.

Congratulations Sandeepan and Kim!


Catalytic atom-economical aromatic substitutionvia radicals 
Gansäuer, A.; Fleckhaus, A.; Behlendorf, M.; von Laufenberg, D.; Sadasivam, D.V.; Flowers, R.A., II Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012 (in press) Designated a Hot Paper by the journal editors

Congratulations Maike, Daniel, Andre, Christain, and Sada!