A contribution from Alexa Torelli is the Synfact of the Month

Just out in #OrgLett , The Lautens Group reports the synthesis of enantioenriched spirocyclic β-lactam pyrrolidinones in a copper-catalyzed Kinugasa/aldol domino reaction. Check it out here:

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
Alexa Torelli, Mark Lautens

Well done ⁦Alexa Torelli⁩ ⁦The Lautens Group⁩ in the defence of your PhD thesis. #56 from the group

A big thanks to my colleagues (Mark Taylor, ⁦Sophie Rousseaux⁩ ⁦Doug Stephan⁩ ) and Professor Kami Hull our external examiner.

On to ⁦GilmourLab⁩

At long last, we're thrilled to share our group's first published work in JACS! With ureas, we boldly went [into regions of ligand space for Pd] where no phosphine has gone...and came out with a versatile method for heteroannulations with dienes. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Excited to talk today to The Lautens Group and Chemistry at UofT about consulting in pharma! #altchemjobs

Thanks to Alexa Torelli for contributing this Synfact.

Alexa did some beautiful cobalt chemistry, so this topic was in her wheelhouse.

Group Christmas lunch 2021

Funniest gift: a book of our beloved Leafs Championships over the past 50 years.

AKA a blank notebook. 😅😂🤣☺️

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

We are overwhelmed and over the moon!
Many Congratulations to Ben🎉🍾 on receiving the #nobelprize #chemnobel
The Nobel Prize

Congrats to Mark Lautens, 2021 recipient of the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods! Nominations for 2023 #ACSNationalAwards close Nov. 1. Nominate today! fal.cn/3iNpj

Continuing with our summer recap - check out our paper by Ken and Bijan and our NMR collaborator Dr. Karl Demmans on Enantioselective Syntheses of Spiro-oxiranes, published in Angewandte Chemie

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Wiley Chemistry

The 6th annual 2021 WCC Merck Research Award Symposium recognized eight outstanding and talented 3rd and 4th-year graduate students at the Fall 2021 Hybrid ACS National Meeting. Follow link to read about their amazing talks! #WomeninChemistry Merck

acswcc.org/2021-wcc-merck…

Iron-Catalyzed Reductive Cyclization by Hydromagnesiation: A Modular Strategy Towards N-Heterocycles (Lautens) Mark Lautens The Lautens Group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Congratulations to Alexa Torelli who is the winner of one of this year's WCC Merck Research Awards!

ACS WCC Merck Mark Lautens

chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/alexa-tor…

Appreciate the shoutout.

Joachim (PhD with Lutz Ackermann ) led the effort based on his idea. Egor (now with Morandi Lab ) joined in towards the end of his PhD.

Built on fundamental studies from Thomas Group

6th in Angewandte Chemie in 2021 - a record. Improving with age - like good🍷 😉

#AsymmetricSynthesis of Enantiopure Pyrrolidines by C(sp3)-H Amination of Hydrocarbons (Dauban) icsn_upr2301 Université Grenoble Alpes Tanguy Saget onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

We’ve worked to close the gender gap, yet still acknowledge there is plenty of room to grow. On this #WomensEqualityDay , let’s show girls and young women they have a future in #STEM . See some of the women who made major strides at our company and beyond: bit.ly/3kFKpVV

Nothing can get in the way of an outstanding WCC Merck Research Award Symposium this year. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the Merck mentors, the Merck keynote speaker, and the WCC organizers!
#MerckChemistry #womeninchemistry #ACSFall2021 ACS WCC

Thank you ACS WCC for an awesome symposium today at #ACSFall2021 ! It was great to have the opportunity to share my research alongside some amazing chemists 👩🏽‍🔬 and a HUGE thank you to Marion Emmert (she/her) for the mentorship over the last few months!

WCC Merck Research Award Symposium starting at 10:30 AM EDT. Join in to hear all the amazing talks! #ACSWCC #FallACS2021