October 2017
Eric's paper on the ART of sulfonic acid derivatives has been published in Org. Chem. Front.
The Lambert group is moving to Cornell!
Tristan talks some high level chemistry in this clip for CNN.
August 2017
Our paper on the synthesis of PCCP derivatives has been published in Org. Lett.
July 2017
Chirag Gheewala has defended his thesis and is off to a job at AbbVie. Congratulations Chirag!
The Lambert group wishes a fond farewell to undergraduate researchers Raymundo Pantoja, Jr., Jess Hui, and Karen Tong.
April 2017
A paper with the Campos and Min groups on using cyclopropenium polymer nanoparticles for live cell imaging has been accepted to Chem Commun.
Former Lambert group member Dr. Jeff Bandar has accepted a faculty position at Colorado State University. Congratulations Jeff!
January 2017
A paper with the Campos group on TAC polymers has been accepted to Polymers.
November 2016
The Lambert group welcomes first year graduate students Ilana Stone and Jacob O'Leary.
October 2016
A paper with the Stockwell and Campos groups on transfection with cyclopropenium polymers has been accepted to Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
September 2016
A fond farewell to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Fiene Horeischi, who has returned to her native Germany.
August 2016
Zara has defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Seibel!
February 2016
Kenji's paper has been accepted to European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Kenji!
January 2016
Chirag and Bridget's paper has been accepted to Science! Congrats!
The Lambert group welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Julien Pomerole.
November 2015
The Lambert group welcomes first year graduate student Sharon Liu.
August 2015
Eric Nacsa has defended his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Nacsa!
Allison Griffith has defended her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Griffith!
July 2015
A paper with the Waymouth group using cyclopropenimines for lactide polymerization has been accepted to ACS Macro Letters!
Eric's higher-order superbase paper has been accepted to JACS. Congrats Eric!
May 2015
Tristan and Ged completed another successful round of consulting for Kevin Delaney's science segment on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
February 2015
Jeff and Anont's paper on phase-transfer catalysis with cyclopropenium ions has been accepted to Chemistry: A European Journal.
January 2015
Former Lambert group member Dr. David Hardee has accepted a position at AbbVie! Congratulations David!
November 2014
Tristan and Ged Parkin were scientific consultants for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
The book Organic Synthesis: State of the Art 2011-2013 by Doug Taber and Tristan Lambert is now in print.
Jeff, Alex, and Alon's paper on the development of cyclopropenimine catalysts has been accepted to Chemical Science.
Our paper in collaboration with the Campos group on the invention of cyclopropenium-based polyelectrolytes has been accepted to Nature Communications.
The Lambert group welcomes first year graduate students Barry Cohen and Zack Strater, as well as undergraduate researchers Louisa Carpenter-Winch and Gabrielle Lovett.
August 2014
The Lambert group welcomes postdoctoral researcher Alexandre Barthelme from the University of Nottingham.
July 2014
Jeff has defended his thesis and is off to a postdoctoral stay with the Buchwald group at MIT. Good luck Jeff!
Jeff's paper in collaboration with the Vetticatt group regarding transition state analysis of chiral cyclopropenimine catalysis has been accepted to J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations Jeff!
Tristan has been selected as a Swiss Chemical Society Lecturer for 2015.
Tristan (and family) just returned from a visiting professorship at Phillips-University Marburg in Germany. A great thanks to Profs. Armin Geyer, Ulrich Koert, Gerhard Hilt, and Paultheo von Zezschwitz for their incredible hospitality.
March 2014
Julia Allen's paper on diaziridinium ions has been accepted to Tetrahedron.
February 2014
A review with the Denton Group at the University of Nottingham on catalytic substitution reactions has been accepted to Org. Biomol. Chem.
November 2013
The Lambert Group welcomes first year graduate student Alex Radtke and undergraduate researcher Bridget Collins.
November 2013
A joint manuscript with the Houk group at UCLA providing computational insight into the hydrazine-catalyzed carbonyl-olefin metathesis reaction has been accepted to Chemical Science.
October 2013
The Lambert Group welcomes postdoctoral researcher Dr. Michael Wilsdorf, who comes to us from the Free University of Berlin (Reissig Group).
August 2013
The Lambert Group welcomes postdoctoral researcher Dr. Kenji Mishiro, who comes to us from Kyoto University (Kawabata Group).
July 2013
Jeff's paper on cyclopropenimine-catalyzed enantioselective Mannich reactions has been accepted to JACS.
June 2013
Our review on aminocyclopropenium ions has been accepted to Synthesis.
March 2013
Former Lambert group member Ethan Fisher has accepted a senior scientist position at Pfizer, Groton. Congratulations Ethan!
Our carbonyl-olefin metathesis paper was highlighted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. by Prof. Ai-Lan Lee.
December 2012
Our carbonyl-olefin metathesis paper was highlighted in SynFacts by Prof. Ben List.
Eric's paper on cyclopropenone-catalyzed mesylate inversion has been accepted to Org. Lett.
Eric Nacsa has been selected as the 2012-13 Arun Guthikonda Memorial Graduate Fellow.
November 2012
The Lambert group welcomes first year graduate students Lea Benkoski, Meng Dou, Chirag Gheewala, and Xi Wang (Cathy).
October 2012
Allison and Christine's paper on organocatalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis has been accepted at JACS. Congratulations Allison and Christine!
August 2012
Our chiral cyclopropenimine catalyst is now commercially available from Aldrich (product number L511188).
June 2012
Jeff Bandar has been selected as a 2012 Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation awardee. Congratulations Jeff!
Christine Vanos has defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Vanos!
Jeff's paper on cyclopropenimine catalysis has been featured in SynFacts.
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!
