Recent News
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.
The Lambert group welcomes first year graduate students Lea Benkoski, Meng Dou, Chirag Gheewala, and Xi Wang (Cathy).
Allison and Christine's paper on organocatalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis has been accepted at JACS. Congratulations Allison and Christine!
Our chiral cyclopropenimine catalyst is now commercially available from Aldrich (product number L511188).
Recent publications:
Cyclopropenone Catalyzed Substitution of Alcohols with Mesylate Ion. Nacsa, E. D.; Lambert, T. H. Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 38-41 .
Organocatalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis. Griffith, A. K.; Vanos, C. M.; Lambert, T. H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 18581-18584.
Diphenylcyclopropenone. Nacsa, E. D.; Lambert, T. H. Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis 2012. In press.
Enantioselective Brønsted Base Catalysis with Chiral Cyclopropenimines. Bandar, J. S.; Lambert, T. H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 5552-5555.
Featured in C&EN, April 2, 2012.
Development of a Catalytic Platform for Nucleophilic Substitution: Cyclopropenone Catalyzed Chlorodehydration of Alcohols. Vanos, C. M.; Lambert, T. H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 12222-12226.
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