Austin Durham

Fifth year PhD student working on Iron-mediated transformations at the University of Pittsburgh. DEI advocate and Ally. Ironman. Views are my own. he/him

[Austin Durham @AustinCDurham]

@Pitt_Chemistry comes to #ACSFall2022 Excited to join my colleagues @brittklootwyk and @jennamiller_11 in presenting our work! @WangGroupPitt @floreanciggroup #chemistry

[WangGroupPitt @WangGroupPitt]

Yue's paper (Jin and Austin as co-authors), the group's first foray into oxidative C-H functionalization and metalloradical chemistry, has been published in Angewandte:

https://t.co/ubsLW89CXl

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

[Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg]

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Biology
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Biology
Nobel Prize in Physics: Sounds like Biology

#NobelPrize

[Sketching Science @sketchscience]

Wonderful news! Parafilm M rules!
Very well-deserved recognition after helping so many other #NobelPrize winners achieve their breakthroughs! Congratulations @ParafilmM

[Tehshik Yoon @TehshikYoon]

Our undergrad Rodrigo wondered if we could replace the bespoke chiral acid used in our recent asymmetric photochemistry with commercial (S)-TRIP. His protocol for enantioselective truxinate synthesis on 2-gram scale just dropped on @OrgSynth: https://t.co/Af1e9Yq2TS

[WangGroupPitt @WangGroupPitt]

Congratulations to Jiao and the rest of the gang for getting this paper across the finish line! It's a fitting way to finish up his work as a postdoc in the group.

Have a safe journey back to China and best of luck in the next stage of your career!

https://t.co/KdQU58Y6DY

[nagib lab @nagiblab]

Excited to share our newest strategy to access carbenes from aldehydes - now via radicals!

Young & Jake found this highly practical, efficient, & selective way to make triangles - that even works in the presence of air or water!

@J_A_C_S

https://t.co/l57mWvRQIx

[ACS Organic Division @ACSorganic]

The 2023 NOS lecture by Prof. Mary Watson (@MPWatsonLab) from U. Delaware
(@ChemistryUD) entitled “Deaminative Cross-Couplings” is now available for viewing!

https://t.co/GYWAGNuV0h

[WangGroupPitt @WangGroupPitt]

Today is Sarah's last day in the group. Though a sad occasion, the publication of her solo work on allylic C-H functionalization using N-containing Michael acceptors in Chem. Sci. today is cause for celebration! Congrats, Dr. Scrivener!

https://t.co/qiHBl4Ay58

[WangGroupPitt @WangGroupPitt]

A C–H Functionalization Approach to Diverse Nitrogenous Scaffolds Through Conjugate Addition of Catalytic Allyliron Nucleophiles - now published in Chemical Science https://t.co/Cny8LBmrcq

[Saxena Lab @Saxena_Lab]

Josh and Shramana's review has been accepted for publication in the 80th EPR anniversary edition of Applied Magnetic Resonance. It is cleverly titled "PELDOR to the metal: Cu(II)-based labels put a new spin on distance measurements". Congratulations!

[Science News @SciencNews]

Nickel binding enables isolation and reactivity of previously inaccessible 7-aza-2,3-indolynes

@robertsgroupumn @jennahumke @belli_roman @ErinPlasek @Sal_K_3 @annabelly24 @CortnieRoberts @UMNChemistry @ScienceMagazine #Science #Chemistry #News #Research

https://t.co/hzcn55N2iT

[Austin Durham @AustinCDurham]

@OldSchoolRS Huge nerf to VW for endgame who use it at PNM, Corp, and Nex - Not a fan considering that some mettas are built on it. Very happy to see PNM get a long overdue rate buff and elder maul buff 💪

[WangGroupPitt @WangGroupPitt]

A new iron catalyst, a new transformation of alkynes, and a new first author for the Wang Lab? How many new things can we cram into our newest paper?! Find out here: https://t.co/a7u8wBzZ4n

[Scott Bagley @BagPhos]

Cool optimization of borylation at RT with the addition of a cat. amount of 2-ethylhexanoic acid from @brittklootwyk and @EliLillyandCo out in JOC asap @JOC_OL https://t.co/zH0Kd1603f

[Yang Yang @yang2biocat]

More thoughts on (stereoselective) halogen atom transfer (XAT) with metalloproteins: In 2021, we show that the heme center in P450s can allow for stereoselective XAT, including both halogen atom abstraction and halogen atom rebound. This activity extends to nonheme Fe centers:

[Saxena Lab @Saxena_Lab]

Sunil has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Provost's Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring at the University of Pittsburgh. Congratulations and well deserved! @Pitt_Chemistry

[Austin Durham @AustinCDurham]

@jmuiuc @lpachter @NIH Lol what hahaha