Ring in the new year reading this expert summary of the compounds I love to hate (mostly love, sorry @christinemle.bsky.social) by my PhD lab, led by the talented @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social

Synthesis Journal@synthesis1969.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🏆TOP 5 Most Downloaded Articles of 2025! Carbamoyl #fluorides —an emerging frontier in organofluorine chemistry✨Explore their unique reactivity in this short review by Maryam Jabbarpoor and Christine Le @christinemle.bsky.social @leresearchgroup.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/HUPwctC

Been a while! Here are some pics from the postdoc life out in Vancouver 😎💡👨🏻‍🔬

Very excited to finish this chapter at York University! On to the west coast for a change of pace where I’ll be working on photoluminescent materials 👨‍🔬⚗️🧪💡

Christine Le@christinemle.bsky.social · last yr.

Presenting PhD #1 from the Le Group: Dr. Dusty Cadwallader! (@dustyc94.bsky.social) Many congratulations on a successful defense 🎉 Wishing you all the best as you begin your NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship @chem.ubc.ca with Zac Hudson!

My phone tells me that 7 (😰) years ago today I was running Birch reductions.

How many times do I have to click “stay signed in” on outlook to… stay signed in???🤔

Two more talks down from @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social and @dustyc94.bsky.social this morning in Ottawa! Last talk from our group is tomorrow at 4 from Ali!

What effects does writing a PhD thesis, furiously catching up on labwork after a semester from hell AND watching your team lose in the first round to the same rival 4 years in a row have on a man? Perhaps you will find out in a couple weeks 😎 (I think we got ‘em this year boys)

This is for the 2nd year student who came up to the @leresearchgroup.bsky.social program poster in January, pointed at the boronic acid in our Suzuki scheme and said “ummmmm wouldn’t this work better with Na instead of B???”

Eva Hevia@evaheviagroup.bsky.social · last yr.

Pushing the boundaries of #organosodium reagents, we are incredibly excited to report their applications in #iron #catalysed #crosscouplings with Sobi Asako and Laurean Ilies at RIKEN 🇯🇵 @naturesynthesis.bsky.social @unibe.ch #openaccess #TeamWorkMakestheDreamWork www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

#chemsky check out this review on carbamoyl fluorides from my lab/office-mate/superfriend @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social!!!!

The Le Group@leresearchgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Our review on the synthesis of carbamoyl fluorides and their use in fluoride-enabled reactions was just published in @synthesis1969.bsky.social! An excellent summary of an emerging field by @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

Who needs QNMR when one of your reactants is bright yellow 😎

Some of our work features the carbofluorination of pi bonds, a strategy for rapidly increasing molecular complexity via fluorine incorporation. Ali and @dustyc94.bsky.social recently published a review on this topic. Check it out here #ICYMI! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Carbofluorination of π‐Bonds and Related Reactions Involving Tandem C−C/C−F Bond Formation

A review on the carbofluorination of π-bonds and related transformations involving tandem C−C/C−F bond forming reactions is presented. The application of electrophilic fluorine and nucleophilic fluor...

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Grading the first year chemistry for engineering exams today and I’m not sure how many more “plywood is a semiconductor” answers I can handle 🥴

Was furiously running around the department showing this to anyone who would listen. This is the type of science our 5 year old selves would come up with truly incredible

Cool molecule pictures online@moleculesgohard.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you scroll the ASAPs for long enough you get to the good stuff doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

NO STOP KENDRICK HES ALREADY DEAD

The excitement of submitting the #CSC2025 abstract and immediately realizing it’s still 5 months away :(

Our first paper of 2025 is now online in Org Lett. Congrats, Ali, Yuriko, and Namrata! #ChemSky Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Intramolecular Fluoroacylation Enabled by TrBF4-Catalyzed Fluoride Recycling

Alkyne- and alkene-tethered acyl fluorides undergo intramolecular carbofluorination via fluoride recycling using catalytic TrBF4. Excellent stereoselectivity is observed for the alkyne addition, enabling access to novel fluorinated indan-2-ones (all ≥95:5 E/Z) and cyclopentan-2-ones (85:15 E/Z). Fluorinated chroman-2-ones and tertiary alkyl fluorides can also be synthesized using this method, comparing favorably to previously reported protocols that employ expensive metal catalysts under harsher conditions.

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Incredible thank you Doug 💀

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2y ago

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We're incredibly proud to say that our review of Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles, Methods, and Applications in Synthesis is now online and open access at Chem Rev! Congrats to the team for this labor of love (and data!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

OrgChem Starter pack has reached the 150 limit, so we started the sequel OrgChem2 go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF

Our OrgChem Starter Pack is growing with already 122 entries, but we will start a volume 2 if we go over the 150 limit! go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ

Took this last night. Best of friends. We got our tortie Mocha 2 months ago and she’s finally getting along with Maple and not screaming all night.

Something about traveling with a poster tube is so embarrassing. Like yes, hello I am an adult on my way to a very important science fair.

Alright I guess it’s time to get involved! I’m Dusty, a Canadian chemist at YorkU in Toronto. My PhD has focused on making fluorinated electrophiles and using them to prepare amides useful to the pharmaceutical industry.