June 2022: Today wasNick's last day in lab, He will be moving to Princeton and joining the Knowles lab.
June 2022: Connor had a fun first week at Pfizer! We are so happy for you!
May 2022: Behold, world! Jordan is a Ph.D candidate now!
May 2022: Our team is changing! We said goodbye to Dr. Holman and Dr. Delano, we know you will do great in GSK and Vertex! Rest assured that your office desk will be well utlized by our new team member Dr. Sven Richter!
April 2022: A new graduate student have joined our group. Welcome, Chung!
April 2022: Behold world! It's Dr. Nicholas Fastuca, Dr. Travis Delano, and Dr. Karli Holman now! Huge congratulations to Nick, Travis, and Karli for successfully defending their theses!
April 2022: We are celebrating Gaypril by honoring the valuable contributions our LGBTQ+ alumini made in our lab and in society! Check out this Trailblazer issue of C&EN to see how Raul Navarro (PhD 2014) reflect his time in our lab and how Carolyn Ladd (Postdoc 2020) is making a change now at DOW.
April 2022: Many congratulations to our rising star in total synthesis--Jordan--for receiving NSF graduate fellowship! Time for a Tiktok dance for celebration?
March 2022: We welcome NSF and Presidential Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Arianne Hunter to our lab! Can't wait to learn more about carbenoid chemistry from you!
March 2022: We said goodbye to Dr. David Hill this month. Best of luck at Ascendis Pharma!
February 2022 :Ever wonder how Sarah does it all while being an all-star advisor? Check out this podcast episode of Stereo Chemistry
February 2022 :Check out our enantioselective synthesis of (–)-C10-hydroxyacutuminine.
January 2022: Congrats to Dr. Michael Maser for his successful thesis defense!
January 2022: A new first-year has joined our group – welcome, Ángel!
January 2022: Congratulations to Sara Dibrell for receiving a 2022 Merck award!
November 2021: Check out this special issue of Synthesis in honor of Sarah.
November 2021: Congrats to Dr. Skyler Mendoza for his successful thesis defense!
August 2021: Check out our two recent collaborations in the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry – electrochemical Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi coupling and cobalt-electrocatalytic HAT.
August 2021: Congrats to Sara Dibrell for winning a BMS fellowship!
August 2021: Congrats to Dr. Caitlin Lacker for her successful thesis defense!
July 2021: Check out our synthesis of (–)-talatisamine, (–)-liljestrandisine, and (–)-liljestrandinine in ACS Central Science.
June 2021: Congrats to postdoc David Hill for receiving an NIH F32 award!
May 2021: Congratulations to postdoc Simon Cooper for receiving an NIH F32 award!
May 2021: A new graduate student and postdoc have joined our group – welcome, Jaron and Dave!
May 2021: Check out our tutorial review of palladium-catalyzed cascade cyclizations in natural product synthesis.
February 2021: Check out our total synthesis of the bis-steroidal pyrazine natural product ritterazine B and our Account describing the synthesis of oxidized diterpenes!
December 2020: Four new first-year graduate students have joined the group – welcome Jordan, Emily, Cedric, and Daniel!
Congrats to postdoc Conner Farley on being awarded an NIH F32 award.
November 2020: Sarah will be joining JACS as an Associate Editor in 2021. Congrats, Sarah!
October 2020: Check out our copper-catalyzed asymmetric oxime propargylation toward the synthesis of gliovirin and our work developing multi-label classification models for the prediction of cross-coupling conditions.
September 2020: Congratulations to Sarah on being named the Bren Professor of Chemistry!
Our collaboration with the Dougherty lab at Caltech was recently published in ACS Med. Chem. Lett. – check it out here.
Welcome to the group, Simon!
August 2020: Sarah's editorial discussing diversity, equity, and inclusion in organic chemistry has been published in JOC! Our Org Syn procedure for the synthesis of one of our bis(oxazoline) ligands has also been published.
Welcome to the group, Conner!
July 2020: Check out our two newest publications – a review of Ni-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-couplings as well as a conference paper describing our work on predicting reaction conditions using graph neural networks.
June 2020: Welcome to the group, David!
May 2020: Chemistry World featured Sarah in their series "Chemists amid coronavirus". The group has been working on writing thesis chapters, grant applications, and review articles while we're away from our hoods.
April 2020: Congratulations to Sean for defending her thesis!
March 2020: Check out our newest paper on the SeO2-mediated oxidative transposition of Pauson–Khand products, recently accepted to JACS!
Congratulations to our four second-years, who have all passed their candidacy exams!
January 2020: Three new graduate students have joined our group – Ally, Lexie, and Andrea. Welcome!
October 2019: Sean, Mike, and Carolyn have all accepted jobs!
Sarah was awarded the 2019 Cottrell FRED award, which is designed to support "early stage, potentially transformative research". See the article here for more details about the award and what we plan to do with the funds!
Our synthesis of (+)-perseanol was featured in The Cyclo Edition!
September 2019: Check out our 16-step synthesis of (+)-perseanol, recently published in Nature and featured on both Chemistry World and C&EN!
Our enantioselective, electroreductive coupling of alkenyl and benzyl halides was highlighted in OPR&D!
Sarah was awarded the 2020 Elias J. Corey Award from the American Chemical Society. Congrats, Sarah!
August 2019: Our Ni-catalyzed conversion of enol triflates to alkenyl halides was accepted to Angewandte Chemie!
Congratulations to Alex for passing candidacy. All four of our second years are now PhD candidates!
July 2019: Welcome to our two FSRI students, Robin and Mahider!
Marco Brandstätter has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Marco!
June 2019: Travis' paper on the enantioselective, electroreductive coupling of alkenyl and benzyl halides was accepted to ACS Catalysis. Congrats!
Congrats to Dr. Alice Wong for a fantastic thesis defense! We will miss you!
May 2019: Happy birthday, Sarah! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate, and to John Wood for designing our 10-year anniversary T-shirts.
Congrats to Sean Feng, who was honored for her work on the total synthesis of (+)-pleuromutilin at the Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research.
April 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Julie Hofstra, Dr. Jordan Beck, and Dr. Kelsey Poremba for their successful thesis defenses. We will miss you!
March 2019: Congratulations to Karli and Travis for passing candidacy!
Jeff was awarded the NSERC fellowship. Go Jeff!
February 2019: Congratulations to Mike for passing candidacy!
Congratulations to Sarah for being awarded the inaugural Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry! She'll present an award lecture at the 2019 ESOC in Vienna, Austria. Read more here.
Congratulations to our postdoc Chris Lavoie on being awarded a NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Sarah on winning the OMCOS award! She will give an award lecture at the OMCOS meeting in Heidelberg, Germany in July.
January 2019: Our recent Chem Sci paper on a flexible route to enantiomerically enriched cyclobutanes was featured in Chemistry World! Check it out here.
December 2018: Check out Jordan, Caitlin, and Lauren's new paper on their modular approach to enantioenriched cyclobutanes, complete with a synthesis of (+)-rumphellaone A!
Congrats to Dr. Denise Grunenfelder on successfully defending her thesis! Good luck in your new position as a discovery chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb!
October 2018: Way to go Alice, Jordan, Julie, Luke, and Kelsey for accepting jobs and postdocs for next year!
September 2018: Congrats Dr. Arthur Han on defending your thesis! We know you will do great things at BMS Process!
July 2018: Congrats Dr. Nick Cowper on defending your thesis! Good luck as a postdoctoral fellow in the Wickens Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!
Justin, Denise, and Kohei's paper on the radical deoxychlorination of cesium oxalates for the synthesis of alkyl chlorides was accepted to Org. Lett.! Congrats!
June 2018: Congratulations to Suzie for starting her new position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Carthage College! We are so proud of you!
Our group made the trek up to Yosemite National Park for an awesome four day camping trip! Go check out the sweet pics we took on the photos page under group trips!
Go check out Chen and Arthur's paper on their oxidative dearomatization approach to prepare the pentacyclic core of ryanodol! Congrats Chen and Arthur!
May 2018: Lauren, Jordan and Caitlin's full article on the psiguadial B strategy is now up on JOC! Congrats!
Check out Sarah's interview with Katherine Bergeron, the president of Connecticut College, in the podcast Think.Do.Lead.
Congratulations to Karli for being awarded the NDSEG Fellowship! Go Karli!
January 2018: Elliot, Felix, and Sean's paper on the total synthesis of (+)-pleuromutilin was accepted to JACS! Go Team Pleuromutilin!!
December 2017: Julie, Alan, and Ciara's paper on the synthesis of enantioenriched allylic silanes via nickel-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling is now in JACS! Congrats!
August 2017: We are excited to send off Dr. Elliot Farney to AbbVie this fall and visiting student Cedric Lozano, who is returning to the University of San Francisco. We will miss you!
June 2022: Connor had a fun first week at Pfizer! We are so happy for you!
May 2022: Behold, world! Jordan is a Ph.D candidate now!
May 2022: Our team is changing! We said goodbye to Dr. Holman and Dr. Delano, we know you will do great in GSK and Vertex! Rest assured that your office desk will be well utlized by our new team member Dr. Sven Richter!
April 2022: A new graduate student have joined our group. Welcome, Chung!
April 2022: Behold world! It's Dr. Nicholas Fastuca, Dr. Travis Delano, and Dr. Karli Holman now! Huge congratulations to Nick, Travis, and Karli for successfully defending their theses!
April 2022: We are celebrating Gaypril by honoring the valuable contributions our LGBTQ+ alumini made in our lab and in society! Check out this Trailblazer issue of C&EN to see how Raul Navarro (PhD 2014) reflect his time in our lab and how Carolyn Ladd (Postdoc 2020) is making a change now at DOW.
April 2022: Many congratulations to our rising star in total synthesis--Jordan--for receiving NSF graduate fellowship! Time for a Tiktok dance for celebration?
March 2022: We welcome NSF and Presidential Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Arianne Hunter to our lab! Can't wait to learn more about carbenoid chemistry from you!
March 2022: We said goodbye to Dr. David Hill this month. Best of luck at Ascendis Pharma!
February 2022 :Ever wonder how Sarah does it all while being an all-star advisor? Check out this podcast episode of Stereo Chemistry
February 2022 :Check out our enantioselective synthesis of (–)-C10-hydroxyacutuminine.
January 2022: Congrats to Dr. Michael Maser for his successful thesis defense!
January 2022: A new first-year has joined our group – welcome, Ángel!
January 2022: Congratulations to Sara Dibrell for receiving a 2022 Merck award!
November 2021: Check out this special issue of Synthesis in honor of Sarah.
November 2021: Congrats to Dr. Skyler Mendoza for his successful thesis defense!
August 2021: Check out our two recent collaborations in the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry – electrochemical Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi coupling and cobalt-electrocatalytic HAT.
August 2021: Congrats to Sara Dibrell for winning a BMS fellowship!
August 2021: Congrats to Dr. Caitlin Lacker for her successful thesis defense!
July 2021: Check out our synthesis of (–)-talatisamine, (–)-liljestrandisine, and (–)-liljestrandinine in ACS Central Science.
June 2021: Congrats to postdoc David Hill for receiving an NIH F32 award!
May 2021: Congratulations to postdoc Simon Cooper for receiving an NIH F32 award!
May 2021: A new graduate student and postdoc have joined our group – welcome, Jaron and Dave!
May 2021: Check out our tutorial review of palladium-catalyzed cascade cyclizations in natural product synthesis.
February 2021: Check out our total synthesis of the bis-steroidal pyrazine natural product ritterazine B and our Account describing the synthesis of oxidized diterpenes!
December 2020: Four new first-year graduate students have joined the group – welcome Jordan, Emily, Cedric, and Daniel!
Congrats to postdoc Conner Farley on being awarded an NIH F32 award.
November 2020: Sarah will be joining JACS as an Associate Editor in 2021. Congrats, Sarah!
October 2020: Check out our copper-catalyzed asymmetric oxime propargylation toward the synthesis of gliovirin and our work developing multi-label classification models for the prediction of cross-coupling conditions.
September 2020: Congratulations to Sarah on being named the Bren Professor of Chemistry!
Our collaboration with the Dougherty lab at Caltech was recently published in ACS Med. Chem. Lett. – check it out here.
Welcome to the group, Simon!
August 2020: Sarah's editorial discussing diversity, equity, and inclusion in organic chemistry has been published in JOC! Our Org Syn procedure for the synthesis of one of our bis(oxazoline) ligands has also been published.
Welcome to the group, Conner!
July 2020: Check out our two newest publications – a review of Ni-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-couplings as well as a conference paper describing our work on predicting reaction conditions using graph neural networks.
June 2020: Welcome to the group, David!
May 2020: Chemistry World featured Sarah in their series "Chemists amid coronavirus". The group has been working on writing thesis chapters, grant applications, and review articles while we're away from our hoods.
April 2020: Congratulations to Sean for defending her thesis!
March 2020: Check out our newest paper on the SeO2-mediated oxidative transposition of Pauson–Khand products, recently accepted to JACS!
Congratulations to our four second-years, who have all passed their candidacy exams!
January 2020: Three new graduate students have joined our group – Ally, Lexie, and Andrea. Welcome!
October 2019: Sean, Mike, and Carolyn have all accepted jobs!
Sarah was awarded the 2019 Cottrell FRED award, which is designed to support "early stage, potentially transformative research". See the article here for more details about the award and what we plan to do with the funds!
Our synthesis of (+)-perseanol was featured in The Cyclo Edition!
September 2019: Check out our 16-step synthesis of (+)-perseanol, recently published in Nature and featured on both Chemistry World and C&EN!
Our enantioselective, electroreductive coupling of alkenyl and benzyl halides was highlighted in OPR&D!
Sarah was awarded the 2020 Elias J. Corey Award from the American Chemical Society. Congrats, Sarah!
August 2019: Our Ni-catalyzed conversion of enol triflates to alkenyl halides was accepted to Angewandte Chemie!
Congratulations to Alex for passing candidacy. All four of our second years are now PhD candidates!
July 2019: Welcome to our two FSRI students, Robin and Mahider!
Marco Brandstätter has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Marco!
June 2019: Travis' paper on the enantioselective, electroreductive coupling of alkenyl and benzyl halides was accepted to ACS Catalysis. Congrats!
Congrats to Dr. Alice Wong for a fantastic thesis defense! We will miss you!
May 2019: Happy birthday, Sarah! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate, and to John Wood for designing our 10-year anniversary T-shirts.
Congrats to Sean Feng, who was honored for her work on the total synthesis of (+)-pleuromutilin at the Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research.
April 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Julie Hofstra, Dr. Jordan Beck, and Dr. Kelsey Poremba for their successful thesis defenses. We will miss you!
March 2019: Congratulations to Karli and Travis for passing candidacy!
Jeff was awarded the NSERC fellowship. Go Jeff!
February 2019: Congratulations to Mike for passing candidacy!
Congratulations to Sarah for being awarded the inaugural Dr. Margaret Faul Award for Women in Chemistry! She'll present an award lecture at the 2019 ESOC in Vienna, Austria. Read more here.
Congratulations to our postdoc Chris Lavoie on being awarded a NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Sarah on winning the OMCOS award! She will give an award lecture at the OMCOS meeting in Heidelberg, Germany in July.
January 2019: Our recent Chem Sci paper on a flexible route to enantiomerically enriched cyclobutanes was featured in Chemistry World! Check it out here.
December 2018: Check out Jordan, Caitlin, and Lauren's new paper on their modular approach to enantioenriched cyclobutanes, complete with a synthesis of (+)-rumphellaone A!
Congrats to Dr. Denise Grunenfelder on successfully defending her thesis! Good luck in your new position as a discovery chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb!
October 2018: Way to go Alice, Jordan, Julie, Luke, and Kelsey for accepting jobs and postdocs for next year!
September 2018: Congrats Dr. Arthur Han on defending your thesis! We know you will do great things at BMS Process!
July 2018: Congrats Dr. Nick Cowper on defending your thesis! Good luck as a postdoctoral fellow in the Wickens Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!
Justin, Denise, and Kohei's paper on the radical deoxychlorination of cesium oxalates for the synthesis of alkyl chlorides was accepted to Org. Lett.! Congrats!
June 2018: Congratulations to Suzie for starting her new position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Carthage College! We are so proud of you!
Our group made the trek up to Yosemite National Park for an awesome four day camping trip! Go check out the sweet pics we took on the photos page under group trips!
Go check out Chen and Arthur's paper on their oxidative dearomatization approach to prepare the pentacyclic core of ryanodol! Congrats Chen and Arthur!
May 2018: Lauren, Jordan and Caitlin's full article on the psiguadial B strategy is now up on JOC! Congrats!
Check out Sarah's interview with Katherine Bergeron, the president of Connecticut College, in the podcast Think.Do.Lead.
Congratulations to Karli for being awarded the NDSEG Fellowship! Go Karli!
January 2018: Elliot, Felix, and Sean's paper on the total synthesis of (+)-pleuromutilin was accepted to JACS! Go Team Pleuromutilin!!
December 2017: Julie, Alan, and Ciara's paper on the synthesis of enantioenriched allylic silanes via nickel-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling is now in JACS! Congrats!
August 2017: We are excited to send off Dr. Elliot Farney to AbbVie this fall and visiting student Cedric Lozano, who is returning to the University of San Francisco. We will miss you!
July 2017: Congrats to Dr. Mak for defending his PhD!!
June 2017: Congrats to Julie for receiving a Best Poster award at the National Organic Symposium!
Congratulations Dr. Chapman on defending your thesis and graduating!!
Congratulations Dr. Chapman on defending your thesis and graduating!!
April 2017: Kelsey, Nat, Naoyuki and Alan's paper on a Ni-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling to access 1,1-diarylalkanes was accepted to JACS! Go Team Nickel!
Naoyuki, Julie and Kelsey's paper on the Ni-cat. enantioselective cross-coupling of NHP esters with vinyl bromides was accepted to Org. Lett! Congrats!!
March 2017: Haoxuan, Clint, Jay, Paola, and Angela's paper on the enantioselective synthesis of (-)-acetylapoaranotin was accepted to Org. Lett! Yay ETP team!
Chen and Arthur's paper on the synthesis of (+)-ryanodine and (+)-20-deoxyspiganthine was accepted to ACS Central Science! Congrats!
January 2017: Congrats to Ciara for receiving second place in the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition!
December 2016: Congratulations to Suzie who has been awarded an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship! Woo Suzie!!
September 2016: Kangway and Maddi's paper on mild Larock indolization conditions to access unnatural tryptophans was accepted to Org Lett! Congrats!
August 2016: Kangway and Chen's paper on the 15-step synthesis of (+)-ryanodol is now in Science! Read about it on C&EN and Forbes. Congrats Kangway and Chen!
Naoyuki, Julie and Kelsey's paper on the Ni-cat. enantioselective cross-coupling of NHP esters with vinyl bromides was accepted to Org. Lett! Congrats!!
March 2017: Haoxuan, Clint, Jay, Paola, and Angela's paper on the enantioselective synthesis of (-)-acetylapoaranotin was accepted to Org. Lett! Yay ETP team!
Chen and Arthur's paper on the synthesis of (+)-ryanodine and (+)-20-deoxyspiganthine was accepted to ACS Central Science! Congrats!
January 2017: Congrats to Ciara for receiving second place in the Doris S. Perpall SURF Speaking Competition!
December 2016: Congratulations to Suzie who has been awarded an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship! Woo Suzie!!
September 2016: Kangway and Maddi's paper on mild Larock indolization conditions to access unnatural tryptophans was accepted to Org Lett! Congrats!
August 2016: Kangway and Chen's paper on the 15-step synthesis of (+)-ryanodol is now in Science! Read about it on C&EN and Forbes. Congrats Kangway and Chen!
Elliot has been awarded the NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congratulations Elliot!
July 2016: Lauren and Jordan's paper on the enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-psiguadial B has appeared in JACS. Congrats!
This synthesis was featured in an August C&E News article, Chem. Eng. News 2016, 94, 9, and in Synfacts 2016, 12, 1003.
May/June 2016: Congratulations to Nat and Kangway for successfully defending their theses and graduating with their PhD degrees!
This synthesis was featured in an August C&E News article, Chem. Eng. News 2016, 94, 9, and in Synfacts 2016, 12, 1003.
May/June 2016: Congratulations to Nat and Kangway for successfully defending their theses and graduating with their PhD degrees!
May 2016: The Reisman lab is now on Instagram! Follow us @reismanlabcaltech!
February 2016: Blake and Jane's paper on the synthesis of enantioenriched indolines by a conjugate addition/asymmetric protonation/aza-Prins cascade has been accepted into ACIE. Congrats!
February 2016: Blake and Jane's paper on the synthesis of enantioenriched indolines by a conjugate addition/asymmetric protonation/aza-Prins cascade has been accepted into ACIE. Congrats!
October 2015: Congratulations to Sarah for receiving the 2015 Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Lectureship award as well as to Brian for receiving the Mukaiyama Award!
September 2015: Congrats to Nat for receiving an Amgen Graduate Research Fellowship!
Sarah has been announced as a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator and was recently featured in this Science News article. Congratulations Sarah!
August 2015: Nat's paper on the Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross-coupling between heteroaryl iodides and α-chloronitriles has been accepted to JACS!
Alan and Nat's review on enantioselective/enantiospecific transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions has also appeared in Chem. Rev.!
July 2015: Lauren has received a travel award to attend the ACS National Meeting in Boston this Fall! Nat will also be presenting a poster at the ACS DOC Graduate Research Symposium in Austin, Texas.
Sarah has been announced as a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator and was recently featured in this Science News article. Congratulations Sarah!
August 2015: Nat's paper on the Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross-coupling between heteroaryl iodides and α-chloronitriles has been accepted to JACS!
Alan and Nat's review on enantioselective/enantiospecific transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions has also appeared in Chem. Rev.!
July 2015: Lauren has received a travel award to attend the ACS National Meeting in Boston this Fall! Nat will also be presenting a poster at the ACS DOC Graduate Research Symposium in Austin, Texas.
June 2015: Congrats Jane, Alan, Maddi, and Haoxuan!!!!
May 2015: A big month for the Reisman lab as Alan, Maddi, and Haoxuan all successfully defend their theses. Congratulations, Dr.'s!
March 2015: Congratulations to Denise and Kelsey, who have both been awarded NSF graduate research fellowships!
September 2014: Alan's paper, "Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Between Vinyl and Benzyl Electrophiles" has been accepted into JACS! Look out for that soon!
August 2014: Dr. Jane Ni has successfully defended her thesis. Congrats!
A big congratulations to Sarah on being awarded tenure!!! #tenureselfie
March 2014: The full paper on the total synthesis of (—)-maoecrystal Z, (—)-trichorabdal A, and (—)-longikaurin E has appeared in Tetrahedron as part of a special issue honoring Sarah's receipt of the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis.
Haoxuan's paper on the enantioselective total synthesis of (—)-lansai B and (+)-nocardiozines A and B has been accepted into ACIE. Look out for that soon!
Congrats to Amy for receiving an NSF Graduate Fellowship!
February 2014: Good news! Sarah has been selected for the 2014-2015 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Hooray!!!
Congrats to Dr. Yeoman for successfully defending his thesis!
December 2013: Check out our two recent papers on our publications page. Way to go Lindsay and Alan!
October 2013: Raul has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Prof. Raul!
September 2013: Congratulations to Alan for receiving an ACS Organic Fellowship!
July 2013: John and Victor's paper describing the total syntheses of (—)-trichorabdal A and (—)-longikaurin E has appeared in JACS! Woohoo!
Sarah has received the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis for 2014. Congratulations!
June 2013: Congrats to Dr. Nani and Dr. Repka on successfully defending their theses!
May 2013: Alan and Nat's paper on catalytic asymmetric reductive acyl cross-coupling has been accepted toJACS. Nice work Alan and Nat!
April 2013: Raul has been awarded a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. Congrats Raul!
March 2013: Lauren and Victor have received NSF Fellowships! Woohoo!
Maddi and Kangway's paper detailing a copper-catalyzed diastereoselective arylation of tryptophan derivatives and total syntheses of (+)-Naseseazines A and B has been accepted to JACS. Great job Maddi and Kangway!
Roger's paper on arene and alkene cyclopropanation of α-diazo-β-ketonitriles has been accepted to JACS! Congratulations Roger!
Jane and Haoxuan's paper, "Direct, Enantioselective Synthesis of Pyrroloindolines and Indolines From Simple Indole Derivatives," has been accepted to Tetrahedron. Go Jane and Haoxuan!
August 2012: Maddi and Kangway's paper on the copper-catalyzed tryptamine arylation has appeared in Chemical Science!
Sarah has been named a 2013 Arthur C. Cope Scholar! Congratulations, Sarah!
Raul's progress toward the total synthesis of acutumine has appeared in Org. Lett.! Go, Raul, Go!
July 2012: Sarah has received a 2012 DuPont Young Professor Award!
John Yeoman received a BMS Graduate Fellowship! John will also represent Caltech at the 2012 Abbott Scholars Symposium! Woohoo!
May 2012: Jay has received a 2012 Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award! Woohoo!
April 2012: Sarah has been named a 2012 Amgen Young Investigator! Congratulations!
March 2012: Congratulations to Kangway for receiving an NSF Fellowship!
February 2012: Congratulations to Sarah for receiving the Boehringer Ingelheim New Faculty Grant!
Check out Jay and Angela's paper on (-)-Acetylaranotin, which has made the cover of JACS!
January 2012: Nat Kadunce is now an official member of the Reisman lab. Woohoo!
October 2011: Jay and Angela's paper, "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (–)-Acetylaranotin, A Dihydrooxepine Epidithiodiketopiperazine," has been accepted to JACS! Congratulations Jay and Angela!
August 2011: The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society has named Sarah a 2012 Rising Star Awardee! Congratulations Sarah!
Jake and John's paper describing the total synthesis of (–)-maoecrystal Z has been accepted toJACS. Nice work Jake and John!
August 2011: Congratulations to Raul for receiving an NIH predoctoral fellowship! Go Raul Go!!!
Congratulations to Lindsay for receiving an ACS Organic Fellowship!
July 2011: Kangway and Raul's paper describing the total syntheses of (–)-8-demethoxyrunanine and (–)-cepharatines A, C, and D has been accepted to Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations Kangway and Raul!
April 2011: Congratulations to both Maddi and Andy for receiving NSF graduate research fellowships!
March 2011: Kangway and Raul's paper describing highly diastereoselective 1,2-additions to benzoquinone-derived sulfinyl imines is now available at the Chemical Science advance articles page. Nice work Kangway and Raul!
Congratulations to Jane for receiving an NSERC graduate fellowship!
December 2010: Sergiy and Roger's paper describing an enantioselective total synthesis of salvileucalin B is now available on the JACS ASAP page. Congratulations Sergiy and Roger!
December 2010: We have a lot of new group members. See the "members" page to see who they are.
September 2010: Lindsay and Jane's paper describing an enantioselective synthesis of pyrroloindolines is published in JACS. Nice work!
June 2010: Congratulations to Kangway Chuang, Caltech class of 2010!
April 2010: Jay Codelli was selected as a recipient for both an NSF and an NDSEG predoctoral fellowship. Congratulations Jay!
The group moves into new, state-of-the art labs on the 3rd floor of Schlinger. The view of the mountains is spectacular!
March 2015: Congratulations to Denise and Kelsey, who have both been awarded NSF graduate research fellowships!
September 2014: Alan's paper, "Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Between Vinyl and Benzyl Electrophiles" has been accepted into JACS! Look out for that soon!
August 2014: Dr. Jane Ni has successfully defended her thesis. Congrats!
A big congratulations to Sarah on being awarded tenure!!! #tenureselfie
March 2014: The full paper on the total synthesis of (—)-maoecrystal Z, (—)-trichorabdal A, and (—)-longikaurin E has appeared in Tetrahedron as part of a special issue honoring Sarah's receipt of the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis.
Haoxuan's paper on the enantioselective total synthesis of (—)-lansai B and (+)-nocardiozines A and B has been accepted into ACIE. Look out for that soon!
Congrats to Amy for receiving an NSF Graduate Fellowship!
February 2014: Good news! Sarah has been selected for the 2014-2015 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Hooray!!!
Congrats to Dr. Yeoman for successfully defending his thesis!
December 2013: Check out our two recent papers on our publications page. Way to go Lindsay and Alan!
October 2013: Raul has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Prof. Raul!
September 2013: Congratulations to Alan for receiving an ACS Organic Fellowship!
July 2013: John and Victor's paper describing the total syntheses of (—)-trichorabdal A and (—)-longikaurin E has appeared in JACS! Woohoo!
Sarah has received the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Organic Synthesis for 2014. Congratulations!
June 2013: Congrats to Dr. Nani and Dr. Repka on successfully defending their theses!
May 2013: Alan and Nat's paper on catalytic asymmetric reductive acyl cross-coupling has been accepted toJACS. Nice work Alan and Nat!
April 2013: Raul has been awarded a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. Congrats Raul!
March 2013: Lauren and Victor have received NSF Fellowships! Woohoo!
Maddi and Kangway's paper detailing a copper-catalyzed diastereoselective arylation of tryptophan derivatives and total syntheses of (+)-Naseseazines A and B has been accepted to JACS. Great job Maddi and Kangway!
Roger's paper on arene and alkene cyclopropanation of α-diazo-β-ketonitriles has been accepted to JACS! Congratulations Roger!
Jane and Haoxuan's paper, "Direct, Enantioselective Synthesis of Pyrroloindolines and Indolines From Simple Indole Derivatives," has been accepted to Tetrahedron. Go Jane and Haoxuan!
August 2012: Maddi and Kangway's paper on the copper-catalyzed tryptamine arylation has appeared in Chemical Science!
Sarah has been named a 2013 Arthur C. Cope Scholar! Congratulations, Sarah!
Raul's progress toward the total synthesis of acutumine has appeared in Org. Lett.! Go, Raul, Go!
July 2012: Sarah has received a 2012 DuPont Young Professor Award!
John Yeoman received a BMS Graduate Fellowship! John will also represent Caltech at the 2012 Abbott Scholars Symposium! Woohoo!
May 2012: Jay has received a 2012 Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award! Woohoo!
April 2012: Sarah has been named a 2012 Amgen Young Investigator! Congratulations!
March 2012: Congratulations to Kangway for receiving an NSF Fellowship!
February 2012: Congratulations to Sarah for receiving the Boehringer Ingelheim New Faculty Grant!
Check out Jay and Angela's paper on (-)-Acetylaranotin, which has made the cover of JACS!
January 2012: Nat Kadunce is now an official member of the Reisman lab. Woohoo!
October 2011: Jay and Angela's paper, "Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (–)-Acetylaranotin, A Dihydrooxepine Epidithiodiketopiperazine," has been accepted to JACS! Congratulations Jay and Angela!
August 2011: The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society has named Sarah a 2012 Rising Star Awardee! Congratulations Sarah!
Jake and John's paper describing the total synthesis of (–)-maoecrystal Z has been accepted toJACS. Nice work Jake and John!
August 2011: Congratulations to Raul for receiving an NIH predoctoral fellowship! Go Raul Go!!!
Congratulations to Lindsay for receiving an ACS Organic Fellowship!
July 2011: Kangway and Raul's paper describing the total syntheses of (–)-8-demethoxyrunanine and (–)-cepharatines A, C, and D has been accepted to Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations Kangway and Raul!
April 2011: Congratulations to both Maddi and Andy for receiving NSF graduate research fellowships!
March 2011: Kangway and Raul's paper describing highly diastereoselective 1,2-additions to benzoquinone-derived sulfinyl imines is now available at the Chemical Science advance articles page. Nice work Kangway and Raul!
Congratulations to Jane for receiving an NSERC graduate fellowship!
December 2010: Sergiy and Roger's paper describing an enantioselective total synthesis of salvileucalin B is now available on the JACS ASAP page. Congratulations Sergiy and Roger!
December 2010: We have a lot of new group members. See the "members" page to see who they are.
September 2010: Lindsay and Jane's paper describing an enantioselective synthesis of pyrroloindolines is published in JACS. Nice work!
June 2010: Congratulations to Kangway Chuang, Caltech class of 2010!
April 2010: Jay Codelli was selected as a recipient for both an NSF and an NDSEG predoctoral fellowship. Congratulations Jay!
The group moves into new, state-of-the art labs on the 3rd floor of Schlinger. The view of the mountains is spectacular!