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[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Our 2026 Organometallics Bootcamp kicks off next week, Mon, Aug 10! Open to undergrads, grad students, industry chemists & more. Hybrid (in-person @ScrippsResearch + Zoom), Aug 10–21. Register: https://t.co/crKT2xNUgE

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Check out the @scrippsresearch NMR Core live tour w/ the Engle lab's own @madisonfayw!

https://t.co/JlTepUYU22

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

Why did Sourav Sekhar Bera (@SouravSekharBe2) choose chemistry as a career?

Find out on his #IntroducingAngewandte page on the occasion of his first article as a submitting corresponding author in Angewandte Chemie (https://t.co/59abevjPYH):

https://t.co/Z5zDamDPp3

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

@JonathanLKuo @avrlisboa thank you @JonathanLKuo! It was fun to follow the trail of clues from 10-years of product crystal structures to something measurable in the end!

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

What's the secret sauce that makes 8-aminoquinoline (AQ) a good directing group?🧐

@avrlisboa's new paper examines w/ 200+ X-ray structures + DFT + competition exps.

Spoiler: it's locked in 🔐

https://t.co/dlazsh5BNW

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Excited to share our new @ACSChemRev pub w/ the @bfshi lab at Zhejiang U! We survey enantioselective C–H functionalization with first-row TMs: mechanisms, ligand design, and applications across Co, Ni, Fe, and Cu. Check it out! 🔗 https://t.co/dNbe5897Ya

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Bench-stable Ni(II) precats w/ superb solubility that activate cleanly & work ↔️ Suzuki–Miyaura, Buchwald–Hartwig, Miyaura borylation, and olefin difunctionalization. The final version of Nana & Aimee's Ni(C6F5)2 paper is out @Orgmet_ACS #BMSChemistry https://t.co/eUyoYnWL7B

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

We found an unexpected byproduct in our cyclopropanation work. X-ray structure ➡️ isoxazoline N-oxide. We optimized for this [3+2] product, figured out the scope, and now share the final story in @JOC_OL 🔗 https://t.co/4vTlvlTlu8

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Bidentate DGs are a powerful tool for controlling reactivity and selectivity in π-bond functionalization—and for mechanistic elucidation!
Great seeing growing adoption and pleased to team up w/ @TaehoKang6's lab to review the state of play! @angew_chem https://t.co/IYNEQdtTOm

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Together w/ @pengliu_group & #BMSChemistry we inverted the classical selectivity paradigm of organometallic additions to Michael acceptors, achieving enantioselective anti-Michael addition of (hetero)aryl groups under Pd/PhTRAP catalysis. https://t.co/G5FKNRHT04

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

5+ years developing stable Ni catalysts—and always battling poor solubility!

Inspired by the inorg chem literature, our lab w/ a team from @UCSDChemBiochem & #BMSChemistry now report [Ni(C6F5)2] precats w/ superb solubility, stability & convenience.

https://t.co/6Lv6RyP7QO

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

The final peer-reviewed version of this collaborative study w/ #BMSChemistry, @pengliu_group, and @GuteGroup is online @ACSCentSci.

Alkyl-9-BBN reagents have quickly proven simple and surprisingly effective in numerous 3-component couplings in the lab!

https://t.co/FuurQCkSfC

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

C(sp3)-C(sp3) couplings w/o radicals? 🧐

We introduce alkyl-9-BBN reagents to the 3-component coupling party 🎉, enabling access to new encoded cyclooctene monomers for ROMP 🧵

w/ @pengliu_group @GuteGroup

@ChemRxiv: https://t.co/kXrINZmAcS

🧪 #TeamNickel #PolymerChem

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

The final peer-reviewed version of our collaborative study w/ #BMSChemistry, @EnamineLtd, @pengliu_group, & the Blackmond lab developing a flexible directing group for expanded scope in olefin hydroamination is online @J_A_C_S. Bravo @avrlisboa and team!
https://t.co/OLGyJYZHxN

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

🔧 In a mechanism🔁method tour de force, @avrlisboa & team show that a flexible directing group dramatically improves Pd-catalyzed functionalization of hindered olefins, leading to >115× rate boost and expanded scope. @ChemRxiv https://t.co/BaHBAFxvjV

@pengliu_group @EnamineLtd

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

Honored to play a small part in this seminal study—putting Pd(COD)(DQ) to use in a tricky C–N coupling, setting the stage for high-throughput SuFEx. Great to collaborate with molecular glue discovery masters upstairs!

[Michael Erb @Michael_A_Erb]

What a thrill to see this out! Our prospective, scalable, and target-centric solution for molecular glue discovery.

More thoughts and details here: https://t.co/k1Ylnzd3Cj

Paper here: https://t.co/XtTiavWZcr

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

The final peer-reviewed version of our Ni(DQ)2 study hit the presses @Orgmet_ACS earlier this month.

Update regarding commercial availability coming soon!

https://t.co/2kMPv3HimN

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

The newest chapter in air-stable Ni(0):

Ni(DQ)2

@ChemRxiv pre-print: https://t.co/ZgzW2vbqqf

@HarryHe88239850 @SongLinLab #BMSChemistry

[Tamara E @chemistte]

Hey @Support @Safety @X,
Our lab account @BaranLabReads was suddenly suspended, but we have exciting science to share! Appeal was submitted can you please help?

Calling on our science collaborators & friends to please RT for visibility. @ScrippsResearch

[Nature Synthesis @NatureSynthesis]

Now online and open access:

Article by @MykhailiukChem @pengliu_group K. Barry Sharpless, @englelab & co-workers

Alkyl sulfonyl fluorides as ambiphiles in the stereoselective palladium(II)-catalysed cyclopropanation of unactivated alkenes

https://t.co/LZ8PG5xdlz

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

The final version of @YilinCao_chem's study, reporting a unique approach to olefin cyclopropanation w/ Alkyl-SO2F compounds is now online in @NatureSynthesis!

https://t.co/do1IFYPSaX

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

The rise of SuFEx has focused a bright spotlight 🔦 on synthesis of RSO2F compounds.

What reactivity beyond SuFEx do these compounds possess and how can we unlock it? 🔐

@YilinCao_chem and team have the answer.🔎

https://t.co/UJlMezNToe

[Engle Lab @EngleLab]

🔧 In a mechanism🔁method tour de force, @avrlisboa & team show that a flexible directing group dramatically improves Pd-catalyzed functionalization of hindered olefins, leading to >115× rate boost and expanded scope. @ChemRxiv https://t.co/BaHBAFxvjV

@pengliu_group @EnamineLtd

[Scripps Research @scrippsresearch]

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