Sven Kaster

Ph.D. student at UIUC

[Chemistry at Illinois @ChemistryUIUC]

A research team led by M. Christina White & PhD student Sven Kaster @MCWhiteGroup have developed a catalyst to simplify the synthesis of ethers, key functional components of many drugs, foods, & personal care items.
Video▶️https://t.co/eB8HuerKTA
https://t.co/f53RVmBkAx

[WhiteGroup @MCWhiteGroup]

Meet Team: Sven Kaster (@KasterSven) a MCWhite group & @ChemistryUIUC alum (PhD ’24) now a postdoc in @MacMillan_Lab.  Checkout Sven at graduation & hooding and his thesis research recently published in @ScienceMagazine: https://t.co/qGiAHm7dsC

[WhiteGroup @MCWhiteGroup]

Positioning for reactivity (image Jose Vazquez) : A small molecule catalyst takes a nucleophile & electrophile, pulls them together and lines them up to form C—O bonds, check it out in @ScienceMagazine: https://t.co/qGiAHm7Lia

[WhiteGroup @MCWhiteGroup]

Meet the awesome MCWhite team @OCB_UIUC @ChemistryUIUC led by graduate student Sven Kaster (@KasterSven) w/ Lei Zhu, William Lyon, Rulin Ma, Stephen Ammann. They discovered a catalyst to position olefins & alcohols to form ethers @ScienceMagazine : https://t.co/qGiAHm7Lia

[KerriganGroup @NessanKerrigan]

Congratulations to Ahmad, Stephen and Margot on their Chem Commun publication
'Asymmetric synthesis of enantioenriched α-allyl esters through Pd(BINAPHANE)-catalysed allylation of disubstituted ketenes' https://t.co/EtBDtaBklC

@DCUChemistry @DCUFSH

[WhiteGroup @MCWhiteGroup]

Throwback Thursday: Teaching organometallics and reminded of two seminal (and often overlooked papers): in 1955 and 1956 Shunsuke Murahashi of Osaka University reported the first examples of directed, catalytic aryl C—H functionalizations

[MacMillan Group @MacMillan_Lab]

Waiting for Rings of Power season 2 @LOTRonPrime? Forge your own rings, not in Mount Doom, but with our method for the alkyl-alkyl cross-coupling of alcohols and bromides! Now out in @J_A_C_S. Congrats Will! https://t.co/atGU5PbIkA

[Total Synthesis @TotalSynthesis]

Expedient Access to Underexplored Chemical Space: Deoxygenative C(sp3)–C(sp3) Cross-Coupling by William L. Lyon and David W. C. MacMillan @dmac68 @MacMillan_Lab at @PrincetonChem in @J_A_C_S https://t.co/DPxXAyLtmw