Melanie Blackburn

Discovery Chemistry, Merck-Boston | Postdoc with @JacobsenLab @HarvardCCB | PhD with @roizengroup @DukeChemistry | @FromtheHilltop alum | she/her

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

@stanna_dorn @NIGMS Stanna, this is amazing! So many congratulations!🎉

[EWOC Boston @EWOCBoston]

We're back with another Boston EWOC Happy Hour!! Come get to know your fellow EWOC members and allies at Craft Food Hall in Waltham, MA on 10/24 at 5:30 pm! Hope to see you all there!!

[EWOC Boston @EWOCBoston]

Calling all Boston EWOC members and allies!! Please join us at Lamplighter Brewing in Cambridge, MA on August 2nd from 5-7 pm to socialize and more importantly, hear from our amazing guest speakers, Brenda Burke from Sanofi and Kathy Lee from Pfizer! Can't wait to see you all!

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

@LaulheGroup @roizengroup @Krishna_K_S___ @lexiikellley @MaVictoriaCooke Amazing news! Congrats Seb and the rest of @LaulheGroup! Can’t wait to see all the cool chemistry you’ll continue to develop!

[Joseph J Gair @JosephJGair1]

🚀 The Gair group @MSUChem is about to launch! Seeking #Postdocs who are inspired by the shapes of molecules and driven to discover new molecular function that serves society.

Apply here 🔗 https://t.co/u5OV7HnURn to join our team!

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

Very glad to see this in its final form! This was such a fun project to work on, and I’m so grateful to have been a part of team HCl with @CorinWagen, Raul, @PamTadross, Andrew, @DennisKutatela1, and @JacobsenLab!

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Dual-H-Bond Donor & Brønsted Acid Cocatalysis Enables Highly Enantioselective Protio-Semipinacol Rearrangement Reactions JACS @JacobsenLab @HarvardCCB @Harvard @TotalSynthesis #HBond #BronstedAcid #Catalysis #Enantioselective #Semipinacol #Cyclobutanones https://t.co/QyxgeZXnri

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

@stanna_dorn Looks great! Just did my 6th (or maybe 7th?) big chop and donation a couple weeks ago!

[EWOC Boston @EWOCBoston]

Boston EWOC community! Please join us for our Spring Kick-off event on May 2nd at Harpoon Brewery! Great opportunity to meet fellow EWOC members and allies, and enjoy a drink. Hope to see you there!

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

@TheLindsayLab @JacobsenLab @ChemRxiv Yes! Your chemistry was so enabling for this project! Making the cyclopropanol substrates was very challenging at the outset, but they became much more accessible following your preps!

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

Excited to share what I’ve been up to in the @JacobsenLab! Now on @ChemRxiv, we show the ability to control highly reactive carbocations in enantioselective protio-semipinacol rearrangement reactions.

https://t.co/iRehhQry4Y

[Corin Wagen @CorinWagen]

How can one achieve high enantioselectivity (∆∆G‡=2.1 kcal/mol) in a nearly barrierless reaction (∆G‡<3 kcal/mol)? With @melashort, I'm excited to share new work addressing this question in the context of protio-semipinacol rearrangements: https://t.co/kxmMAjSLvQ

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

This research threw us surprises at every stage, and it would not have been possible without Eric, @CorinWagen, Raul, @PamTadross, Andrew, and @DennisKutatela1 and all of their efforts in getting this project off the ground and over the finish line.

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

@LaulheGroup @NSF Congrats, Seb! So excited to see all that your group continues to accomplish!

[Corin Wagen @CorinWagen]

Congrats to @JohnOvian, (Twitter-less) Petra Vojackova, and @JacobsenLab for a magnificent study of a Ru/HBD co-catalyzed reaction, featuring some really funky catalyst effects.

https://t.co/anLe1bQao1

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

Really delighted to see this tour de force in its final form! So many congratulations to this team!

[Jennifer Roizen @roizengroup]

Most rxns in this paper were run in 2 mo while shutting down our lab. I am grateful to the people who advanced this rsch & for the chance to have done it. Directed Photochemically Mediated Nickel-Catalyzed (Hetero)arylation of Aliphatic C–H Bonds https://t.co/gWsYyHnv0b

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

@kwon_mikey @roizengroup @hargrovelab @goodwinlaw Congrats, Mikey! 🎉 Let’s catch up once you get to Boston!

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

Such a cool approach to gamma C-H functionalization, and always happy to see new strategies that showcase the power of 1,6-HAT!

Congrats to all!

[nagib lab @nagiblab]

A new chaperone!

We can now do Gamma C-H functionalizations via a cool Triple HAT mechanism 😎 on vinyl sulfonamides

Congrats to James, Taylor, and Andrew in our 1st colab with @RajanBabuLab and 1st contribution to the rich MHAT field!

@J_A_C_S

https://t.co/JmeTFPjIls

[Jacobsen Lab @JacobsenLab]

Congratulations to Qiuhan, @SamuelMLevi, @CorinWagen, and @AlisonWendlandt on their publication in @Nature! Bis-thioureas engage biomimetic C-H pi interactions to catalyze highly site- and stereoselective glycosylation of unprotected sugar nucleophiles. https://t.co/FHMDzZGFxU

[Jacobsen Lab @JacobsenLab]

Huge congratulations to @KCFchemistry -- the Phosphorus queen -- on her publication in @ScienceMagazine! Catalytic, enantioselective synthesis of stereogenic P(V) compounds through a key chlorophosphonamidate intermediate.
https://t.co/4nEPDY93ht

[Melanie Blackburn @melashort]

So excited to see all of the discoveries that come out of the Gair lab!

[Joseph J Gair @JosephJGair1]

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @MSUChem in 2023! Huge thanks to @JCLewisLab and @JacobsenLab for your mentorship and support along the way!