News

April 2012

Jeff's paper on cyclopropenimine catalysis has been featured in Chemical & Engineering News.

Zara Seibel has been awarded an NSF graduate fellowship. Congratulations Zara!

Jeff Bandar has been selected as a 2012 Roche Symposium: Excellence in Chemistry awardee. Congratulations Jeff!

March 2012

Jeff's paper on enantioselective catalysis with cyclopropenimines is now on JACS ASAP. Congratulations Jeff!

December 2011

Tristan has been selected as one of this year's Eli Lilly Grantee Award winners.

November 2011

The Lambert group welcomes first year graduate student Zara Seibel.

September 2011

Christine's paper on the development of cyclopropenone catalysis has been accepted to Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations Christine!

June 2011

Congratulations to graduate student David Hardee on successfully defending his thesis. David is off to do postdoctoral work with Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard.

Congratulations to graduate student Ethan Fisher on successfully defending his thesis. Ethan is off to do postdoctoral work with Prof. Richmond Sarpong at UC-Berkeley.

Congratulations to graduate student Lisa Ambrosini-Vadola on successfully defending her thesis. Lisa is off to do postdoctoral work with Prof. Howard Hang at Rockefeller University.

Congratulations to graduate student Julia Allen on successfully defending her thesis. Julia will be working in the chemical industry in New Jersey.

April 2011

Congratulations to graduate student Rocky Coscia on successfully defending his thesis. Rocky is off to an exciting career in the world of consulting.

March 2011

Jeff and Rocky's paper on fulvene reversibility has been accepted to Tetrahedron as part of the special issue in honor of Dean Toste.

February 2011

Congratulations to graduate student Brendan Kelly on successfully defending his thesis. Brendan will be working as a consultant in New York and other cities around the globe.

January 2011

Brendan's paper on the cyclopropenium activated cyclodehydration of diols has been accepted to Org. Lett. Congratulations Brendan!

December 2010

Julia's paper on the tropylium ion mediated oxidation of amines has been accepted to JACS. Congratulations Julia!

Christine's Beckmann rearrangement paper was one of the most viewed in Chemical Science for the month of October.

November 2010

The Lambert Group welcomes first year graduate students Shane Deighton, Allison Griffith, and Eric Nacsa.

October 2010

Christine's paper on cyclopropenium activated Beckmann rearrangments has been featured in Nature Chemistry.

September 2010

Tristan spoke to Manhattan's Upper West Side crowd about aromaticity on September 13th at Cafe Science.

Christine's paper on cyclopropenium activated Beckmann rearrangements has been accepted to Chemical Science. Congratulations Christine!

July 2010

Congratulations to former Lambert group postdoctoral fellow Elnaz Menhaji-Klotz on accepting a position at Pfizer, Groton.

June 2010

The Lambert group welcomes undergraduate researchers Scott Levin, Tyler Browse, Vivian Emengo, and Gilbert Choi and high school researchers Helen Lim and Eric Hernandez.

May 2010

Congratulations to Corey Reeves for receiving the Thomas J. Katz Prize. The Katz Prize was endowed in 2008 by former students of Professor Katz and is awarded annually to an outstanding graduating chemistry student. Corey will be attending graduate school at Caltech in the fall.

Tristan has been selected as one of the 2010 Amgen Young Investigator Awardees.

The Lambert group welcomes undergraduate researcher Carmen Del Valle.

March 2010

David and Lyuda's paper on cyclopropenium-activated nucleophilic acyl substitution has been accepted to JACS. Congratulations David and Lyuda!

Tristan has been selected to present at the Young Academic Investigators Symposium at the Fall 2010 ACS meeting in Boston.

February 2010

Tristan has been selected as one of the 2010 Sloan Research Fellows.

Lisa and Tim's paper on the multicatalytic synthesis of tylophora alkaloids has been accepted. Their Synthesis Featured Article on oxidative formylation and ketonylation is now on the web. Congratulations Lisa and Tim!

The Lambert Group welcomes undergraduate researchers Brad Collins and Scott Levin.

January 2010

The Lambert Group has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for the development of novel catalytic cyclopropanation methods.

We would like to express our deep gratitude for a research grant from the Guthikonda family.

December 2009

Tristan has been selected to receive a 2010 Thieme Synlett/Synthesis Journal Award.

David Hardee has been selected as the 2009-10 Arun Guthikonda Memorial Graduate Fellow.

Lisa Ambrosini has been selected as the 2009-10 Novartis Graduate Fellowship.

November 2009

Lisa and Tim's oxidative formylation and ketonylation paper has been accepted as a Featured Article in Synthesis. Congratulations Lisa and Tim!

The Lambert Group officially welcomes graduate student Jeff Bandar.

October 2009

Our cyclopropenium activation paper was one of the most viewed papers in JACS for the previous month.

September 2009

Brendan's paper on cyclopropenium activation is now on JACS ASAPs. Congratulations Brendan!

August 2009

Ethan's carbon as a leaving group paper is now on Org. Lett. ASAPs. Congratulations Ethan!

June 2009

Welcome to undergraduate researcher Lyuda Kovalchuke.

Welcome to summer NSF-REU researcher Jennifer Johnson and welcome back to ACS-Project SEED researcher Catalina Adorno.

April 2009

David's methylene transfer cyclopropanation paper has been accepted to JACS. Congratulations David!

The Lambert group has received an ACS-PRF grant.

Tristan has received the Abbott Young Investigator Award.

February 2009

Brendan and Julia's multicatalysis paper has been accepted to Org. Lett. Congratulations Brendan and Julia!

Tim's JACS communication on the development of a multicatalytic Aminochlorocarbonylation / Friedel-Crafts acylation is on ASAPs. Congratulations Tim!

Rocky's JACS communication on the development of a [4+1] cycloaddition is on ASAPs. Congratulations Rocky!

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Tim Cernak on accepting a position with Merck medicinal chemistry!

The Lambert group has received a Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grant.

January 2009

The Lambert group has received an NSF SGER grant.

October 2008

Watch Tristan talk about the haloform reaction on CNN (end of part 1 + beginning of part 2)

part 1 part 2

 

August 2008

Welcome to Postdoctoral Fellow Elnaz Menhaji-Klotz from Yale / Colorado State University.

 

May 2008

Postdoctoral fellow Tim Cernak has been awarded an FQRNT fellowship. Congratulations Tim!

 

January 2008

Welcome to graduate student Christine Vanos and undergraduate researcher Corey Reeves.

 

October 2007

The Lambert group has moved into our newly rennovated labs on the fifth floor of Havemeyer Hall.

 

Welcome to Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Tim Cernak from McGill University.

 

January 2007

The Lambert "group" welcomes its newest and smallest member, Benjamin Lambert.

Welcome to visiting researcher Daniel Karl.

 

December 2006

Welcome to graduate students Ethan Fisher and Brendan Kelly.

 

November 2006

Welcome to graduate student Rocky Coscia and undergraduate student Scott Simonovich.

 

July 2006

Welcome to graduate students Julia Allen, Lisa Ambrosini, David Hardee, and Rachel Tundel as well as undergraduate students Hans Renata and Daniel Landman.

 

March 2006

Check out a recent write-up in Chemical and Engineering News about Tristan's postdoctoral work on the synthesis of the telomerase inhibiting natural product UCS1025A. Link