Congratulations to Randy Hamchand who defended his MS Thesis with an entirely new topic for our group: The extraction of naturally occurring porphyrins/oligopyrroles in eggshells and the quills of hedgehogs. Randy will be joining the Yale graduate program in chemistry!
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Congratulations Drs. Sharma and Li!
Congratulations to Meenakshi Sharma and Ruoshi Li who successfully defended their dissertations! Dr. Li tackled the modification of octaethylporphyrin, while Dr. Sharma studied a number of oxygen-based pyrrole-modified porphyrins!
Congratulations Dr. Luciano!
Mike successfully defended his thesis, and Dr. Luciano is now to a postdoctoral position at the NIH! Congratulations Mike! We will miss you in our labs!
3-Part Series in Eur. J. Org. Chem. is out!
The 3-part series of papers study on the ring expansion reactions of the octaethyloxochlorins “Surprising Outcomes of Classic Ring Expansion Conditions Applied to Octaethyloxochlorin” is out (Part 1. Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation Conditions’ Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 1820–1825. Part 2. Beckmann Rearrangement Conditions. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 1826–1834, and Part 3. Schmidt Reaction Conditions). All contributions were led by Ruoshi Li, the crystal structures were provided by Matt Zeller, and the Part 2 is the full paper of the work began by Eileen Meehan. The series was also highlighted by a cover page. We learn from this work that hardly anything goes as planned in porphyrin chemistry!
