Archive Group News

2023

Nov

Congratulations to Andrew Nguyen on a successful M.S. defense! The best of luck in all your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Eni, EJ, and Noah on passing their Prop Exams!

July

Congratulations to Eni and Noah on receiving the departmental Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship for Spring 2024!

May

Wecome Quyen Nguyen from the University of Florida! We are excited to host Quyen, one of 2023 Duke AMGEN Scholars, to conduct her summer research in our lab!

Wecome Zach Glassband to join the lab and start his research with Duke Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to both Justin and Zach on receiving 2023 Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

March

Congratulations to Justin Zhang for 2023 ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award!

Jan

We celebrated the new year together with our annual holiday party on Jan 15, 2023!

Welcome Shuang-Hao (Sam) our first-year graduate student join the Wang Lab!

2022

Nov

Congratulations to Dr. Cho and Dr. Bitting. Their review article "Deprotonative C–H Zincation for Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation" is now online at Wiley-VCH. DOI: 10.1002/9783527834242.chf0197

Congratulations to Jonathan Dean on winning a poster award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) on presenting his undergradaute research with the Wang group in 2022 summer!

Oct

Congratulations to Hyejin and our collaborators from the Park group at UTSW - our first collaborative project from the team on designing 15N-HP/MRI probes for H2O2 sensing is now published at ACS sensors!

Congratulations to Guangshou, and Wang lab alum Colton and Jiaqi for the work on alkene aminofluorination, now in the JACS!

August

Congratulations to Hyejin and Shannon - our collaborative project with the Warren group on designing hyperpolarized nitric oxide sensors now published online.

July

New NSF grant! We thank NSF Chemistry for continuous support to our group's research!

June

Congratulations to EJ on receiving the departmental Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship for Spring 2023!

Congratulations to Eni, Noah, and Maria on receiving Pelham Wilder Fellowship in recognition of their efforts with the undergraduate laboratories!

Congratulations to Dr. Yung Kwon on her successful PhD defense - the Wang group's #9 Ph.D! Yung will start her new position as a process chemist at Seagen, Inc. Best wishes to Dr. Kwon for her new life at Seattle!

May

Congratulations to Hyejin! Her review article "State-of-the-Art Accounts of Hyperpolarized 15N-Labeled Molecular Imaging Probes for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging" now published on Chem. Sci.

April

Congratulations to Christina Hanson on a successful M.S. defense! Best wishes to her for a new start at Kansas!

Congratulations to Yung - her review article "Recent Advances in 1,2-Amino(hetero)arylation of Alkenes" is now online for a Special Collection on Women in Chemistry at Chemistry - An Asian journal.

March

Congratulations to Dr. Hyejin Park on her successful PhD defense - the Wang group's #8 Ph.D! Hyejin will start her new position as a medicinal chemist at Jnana Therapeutics. Best wishes to Dr. Park for her new life at Boston!

2021

Oct

Congratulations to Seoyoung and EJ! Their work on "three component difunctionalization of cyclohexenyl triflates as direct access to versatile cyclohexenes via cyclohexynes" now available at Angew Chem!

Congratulations to Junu, Hyejin, and our collaborators in the Warren's group on establishing 15N-labeled azides as practical and effective molecular tags for developing long-lived hyperpolarized MRI agents and it is now published on Chemical Science!

New ACS grants - we thank the support from the ACS PRF and Green Chemistry Institute to our group's research!

July

Congratulations to Yung and Wei - their work on Copper-Catalyzed Aminoheteroarylation of Unactivated Alkenes now published on ACS Catalysis.

We thank Duke DCI for a pilot grant award to support our hyperpolarized MRI probe development!

June

Welcome Justin Zhang to join the group for undergraduate research.

Congratulations to Yung and Hyejin! Yung received a departmental Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship and Hyejin received a Kathleen Zielik Fellowship for the Spring of 2022!

May

Congratulations to Hyejin, Kun, and our collaborators on developing "Novel 18F-PET Agents for Tumor Hypoxia Imaging" recently appearing at J. Med. Chem. A great team to work together!

April

Congratulations to Dr. Cho on her successful PhD defense - the Wang group's #7 Ph.D! Seoyoung will start her new position as a scienist at Incyte Corp. - Best wishes to Dr. Cho!

2020

Dec

Welcome the first-year students Eni, EJ, and Noah to join the group!!

Oct

Congratulations to Wei and Chengming - their work on "Copper-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Functionalization of Conjugated β,γ-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid" now published on ACS Catalysis.

August

Congratulations to Hyejin and Christina on their fellowships!

Hyejin received the department Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship. Christina received Pharmacological Sciences Training Program Fellowship for 2020-2022.

May

Congratulations to Yung - her work on copper-catalyzed alkene 1,2-aminocyanation work now published on Org. Lett.

Feb

Congratulations to Seoyoung - her work on ortho-difunctionalization of aryl triflates now published on Org. Lett.

Congratulations to Hyejin, Junu and Guannan- their work on d-DNP hyperpolarization of 15N2-diazirine-tagged biomolecules in water now published on Bioconjugation Chem.!

Jan

Congratulations to Hyejin and Chuan - their work on developing novel apomorphine analogs towards D1R/D2R biased ligands now published on ACS MedChemLett!

Welcome the first-year students Christina, Andrew, and Maria, as well as our new postdoc Dr. Guangshou Feng to join the group!

A great occasion for our group holiday party on Jan 11, 2020 to get together for a wonderful start to the new year and to welcome our new group members !

2019

Sept

Congratulations to Brett and Andy - their work on a three-component selective 1,2-amino oxygenation reaction of 1,3-dienes now published on ACS Catalysis!

July

Farewell to our visiting undergraduate student Jiaqi - best wishes to her future endeavors!

Best wishes to Brett, who will start his postdoc position at UIUC chemistry!

Congratulations to Colton on a successful M.S. defense! Best wishes to his new start at the University of Tennessee!

May

Congratulations and farewell to our undergraduate Andy Chen on his graduation! He will begin his medical school study at Indiana University. Andy is among the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Awardees 2019 - best wishes to Andy!

April

Congratulations to Lily on a successful M.S. defense! Best wishes to her future endeavors!

Feb

Welcome our new group member Dr. Wei Zhang!

Group holiday party on Feb 2, 2019 – best wishes to everyone for a great year in 2019!

Jan

Congratulations to Andy and Jiaqi on receiving URS award to support their Independent Study this Spring!

Andy and Brett published alkene amino oxygenation chemistry on J. Org. Chem. – Congratulations on your great team work!

2018

Nov

Congratulations to Brett on his successful thesis defense, the Wang group Ph.D. #6!

Oct

Congratulations to Jiaqi and Andy on receiving URS award to support their Independent Study this Fall!

August

Welcome Jiaqi Zhao to the group as an international visiting student from Shangdong University to Duke Univesrity - she will join the lab for her independent research study 2018–2019!

The group received a R21 grant - we thank NIH/NIBIB for supporting our research!

July

Congratulations to Katie and Junu on successful thesis defense! Now we proudly introduce Dr. Bitting Ph.D. #4, and Dr. Bae Ph.D. #5 of the Wang group!

Katie will start off as a tenure-track assistant professor of Chemistry at West Virginia State University. Junu will start medical school at the Ohio State University. Congratulations again and best wishes for beginning your next exciting journey!

May

Congrats to Brett on receiving the GAANN fellowship for Fall 2018!

Congrats to Seoyoung on receiving the C.R. Hauser Memorial Fellowship for Spring 2019!

April

Congratulations to Qiu on being selected as members of Duke’s Bass Society of Fellows in recognition of excellence in both research and undergraduate teaching.

March

Best wishes to our postdoc Kun, who will soon start his independent acadamic career in Wuhan!

Seoyoung's work on LiZnEt2(TMP)-mediated aryne formation now at Tetrahedron online - congrats!

Junu's work on 15N-tetrazine and bioorthogonal reaction–promoted hyperpolarization tagging strategy is now online at Science Advance and is featured on Duke Research Blog! Congrats to Junu and the team!

Feb

Group holiday party on Feb 24, 2018 – a wonderful occasion to celebrate together for a great year and to welcome our new group members!

Chuan's chemistry on "Alkenylation of sp3 C–H Bonds by Zincation/Cross-Coupling with Iodonium Salts" is now accepted for publication on Angew. Chem.!

Jan

Welcome our new postdoc Dr. Chengming Wang to the group!

The first-year students Colton, Yung, Hyejin and Shawn joined the group - Welcome!!

2017

Nov

Congrats to Kun on his alkene aminoalkynylation work published at Chem. Sci.!

Our aminofluorination chemistry for 18F-radiolabeling now published in Synlett. Congrats to the team on a great job!

August

Congrats to Kun on his nice work "Copper-Catalyzed Alkene Aminoazidation as a Rapid Entry to 1,2-Diamines and Installation of an Azide Reporter onto Azahetereocycles" - it is online now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

Junu presented his latest work on hyperpolarized magnetic resonance (HP-MR) at the 254th ACS National meeting in Washington, DC!

Best wishes to Chuck and Chuan on starting new positions in U Penn and Chengdu!

July

Congrats to Chuck, Katie, and Seoyoung on their amination work "Site-Selective Copper-Catalyzed Amination and Azidation of Arenes and Heteroarenes via Deprotonative Zincation" published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

Welcome Colton to join the group for summer research.

June

Congrats to Kun, Junu, and Jerry again on another nice work "diazirine as a molecular tag for hyperpolarization NMR and MRI" accepted for publication on Angew Chem and selected as Very Important Paper! Congrats to all on the diazirine team!

May

Congrats to Kun, Junu, and Jerry on publishing the work with our collaborators "Direct Hyperpolarization of Nitrogen-15 in Aqueous Media with Parahydrogen in Reversible Exchange" in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

Our recent work on 3-amidation of indoles is highlighted in Synfacts and Org. Process Res. Dev.!

Congrats to Brett and Junu on receiving the GAANN fellowship for Fall 2017–Spring 2018!

Congrats to Andy Chen on receiving the Chemistry Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship!

Congratulate Seoyoung on passing her prelim exam and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!

March

Congratulations to Chuck on successful thesis defense! To Dr. Hendrick, the Ph.D. #3 of the Wang Group!

Congratulations to Jerry and Brett - their paper on "3-Amidation of Indoles Using Electrophilic N-[(Benzenesulfonyl)oxy]amides" now published on Org. Lett.!

An article with our collaborators on "Generalizing, Extending, and Maximizing Nitrogen-15 Hyperpolarization Induced by Parahydrogen in Reversible Exchange" is published as the cover article on JPCC!

Jan

Duke undergraduate Andy Chen joins the Wang lab for research - welcome!

Congratulations to Chuck on publishing J. Org. Chem. Synopsis!

The group received a new R01 grant - we thank NIH/NIGMS for supporting our research!

2016

Dec

We thank Duke Cancer Institute for supporting our research!

Congrats to Katie on the GAANN fellowship!

Group holiday party on Dec 17, 2016!

Sept

Congrats to Dr. Liu and Dr. McDonald!

Chuan's work on "arylation, vinylation, and alkynylation of arenes using iodonium salts" published on Org. Lett.!

Stacey's thesis is published in Springer Theses Series to recognize her outstanding Ph.D. research in the Wang group at Duke!

August

Brett delivered an oral presentation at the 252nd ACS National meeting in Philadelphia. Good job!

More good news from our former undergraduate and high school students - congrats to you all and best wishes!!

Barbara and Stephanie start the medical school at Washington University and UNC, respectively!

Bora starts her graduate school at Harvard University!

Katherine Yang starts her college at MIT!

July

Jerry successfully defended his Ph.D thesis – congratulate Dr. Ortiz, the #2 Ph.D. of the Wang Group!

Congratulate Brett on receiving the Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship for Spring 2017!

Congratulate Katie on receiving the Pelham Wilder Teaching Award!

Our paper on amino lactonization and alkene aminooxygenation is highlighted in Synfact.

June

Congratulations to Junu and Brett!

Junu received the GAANN fellowship!

Brett recieved the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Award to attend the upcoming ACS meeting!

May

Qiu received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!

Congratulations and farewell to our undergraduate Jeffery Cornelison on his graduation! Jeff is among the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Awardees 2016. He will begin his studies as a Chemistry Ph.D. student at Emory University this fall - best wishes to Jeff!

Katherine Yang, the high school student working with our group last summer, presented her work at the 2016 Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), and was featured at Duke Research Blog.

April

Congrats to Brett and Kun on their work of amino lactonization and alkene aminooxygenation published on J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

Congrats to Brett again on his recent Beil. J. Org. Chem. paper!

Chuck received the Shaffer-Hunnicutt Summer Research Fellowship 2016 - congrats!

Congrats to Kathy Dai on starting the Bass Program this summer!

March

Our work on developing novel MRI tag of 15N-diazirine is now published on Sci. Adv. Congrats to Jerry and all the co-authors! Thanks all for your hard work on this project – a great team work!

Chuck and Jerry presented their work at the 251st ACS meeting in San Diego! Also check out Jerry's photo with the 2016 Priestley Medalist Prof. El-Sayed in C&E News!

We thank the Michael J. Fox Foundation for funding the joint project on Parkinson's disease!

Feb

Qiu is selected as 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow!

Congrats to Stacey - her Ph.D. thesis is awarded for publication in the book series of Springer Theses!

Jan

The first-year student Seoyoung Cho joined the group - Welcome!

Congratulations to Katherine Yang named as a semifinalist in the 2016 Intel Science Competition!

2015

Dec

Congratulations to Katie, Dr. Chen and Kun!

Katie received the GAANN fellowship!

Chen's work on "formal insertion reaction of arynes into hydroxyindolinones" published on Org. Lett.!

Kun's work on "aminotrifluoromethylation of alkenes for a facile synthesis of CF3-containing lactams" published on Org. Chem. Front.

Group holiday party on Dec 5, 2015!

Nov

The group published the procotol of "tmpZnCl-LiCl mediated metalation and copper-catalyzed amination of aromatic C−H bonds" on Org. Synth. Congratulations to Stacey, Chuck and Katie, nice team work!

Oct

Katherine Yang, a high school student of our group, is selected and received the honor of Semi-Finalist in 2015 Siemens Competition. Congratulations!

Sept

Dr. Chuan Liu joined the group, Welcome!

Congratulate Kathy Dai on receiving the URS Grant to support her Independent Study in lab!

July

The group received a R21 grant - we thank NIH/NCI for the support to our research!

Congratulate Jeffery Cornelison, our undergraduate, named as 2015 Alvin Crumbliss Research Fellow!

Congratulate Chuck selected for an oral presentation at 2015 ACS DOC Graduate Research Symposium!

June

Kun and Chuck presented their research at 44th National Organic Chemistry Symposium!

Welcome Katherine Yang, high school student from NCSSM, to join the group for summer research!

May

Kun's work "copper-catalyzed diamination of unactivated alkenes with hydroxylamines" published on Chem. Sci. - Congratulations!

Congratulate Brett on receiving the Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship for 2015-2016! Keep up the good work!

Kathy Dai joins the group for summer research! She is also a 2015 Howard Hughes Research Fellow. Welcome and congrats!

Congratulations and farewell to Alice, Stephanie and Dr. McDonald!

Alice graduates with BA in Chemistry with the honor of Magna cum laude!

Stephanie graduates with BS in Biology with Distinction Art and Science!

Dr. McDonald is offically granted the degree of doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry! Congrats and best wishes!

Congratulations and farewell to Barbara, Natalie and Ken, our group's former undergradaute students in Class of 2015!

Congratulate our 2nd-year graduate students on all passing their prelim exams! Katie, Brett and Junu are now officially Ph.D. candidates!

April

NSF CAREER award! We thank NSF for the support to our group research! Congrats to the lab!

Brett received honorable mention on his NSF GRFP application!

Jeffery is awarded Chemistry Departmental Fellowship to support his summer research!

March

Congratulate Dr. McDonald! Stacey successfully defended her Ph.D thesis - she is the first Ph.D. of the Wang Group!

Jan

J. Org. Chem. paper online! Congrats to Chuck on his work synthesis of ortho-haloaminoarenes by aryne insertion of nitrogen–halide bonds!

Katherine Wang, the high school student who worked with the group last summer, named as a semifinalist in the Intel Science Competition! Cheers and congrats!

2014

Dec

Qiu is selected as Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee!

Group holiday party on Dec 6, 2014!

Nov

Our group at ACS meeting - several group members presented their research at the North Carolina ACS meeting on Nov 7. Good job!

Oct

Farewell to Dr. Chen. Best wishes to the future!

Our group at the 66th SERMACS! Graduate student Stacey presented her C-H amination chemistry and high school student Kathrine Wang presented her summer research on aripiprazole compounds!

Sept

Congratulate Stephanie and Alice on receiving URS award to support their Undergraduate Independent Study Fall semester!

August

Welcome Jeffery Cornelison to join the group for undergraduate research.

July

Synlett paper online! Congrats Stacey!

Our paper on (hetero)arene amination is highlighted as Synfact of the month!

Congrats to Chuck and Jerry - Chuck recieved a C.R. Hauser Memorial Fellowship for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. Jerry received a Burroughs Wellcome and C.R. Hauser Memorial Fellowship for Spring 2015!

June

Welcome Katherine Wang, high school student from NCSSM, to join the group for summer research!

May

Congratuations and farewell to Tyler and Bora, our group former undergraduates in Class of Duke 2014! Best wishes to the future!

Our paper on alpha-amination of phosphonates and and phosphine oxides is highlighted in Synfacts.

Feb

Angewandte Chemie paper on C-H amination of heteroarenes and arenes – congrats Stacey and Chuck on their nice work!

Welcome Donovan Loh to work with the group on freshmen research course Chem81 this Spring!

Jan

Chem. Comm. paper – congrats to Stacey on her work alpha-amination of esters and amides – good job!

Group holiday party on Jan 25, 2014!

2013

Dec

Welcome Brett, Junu, and Katie the new first-year students to join the group.

Congrats to Jerry and Bora on J. Org. Chem. article online – the synthesis of 3-azido- and 3-aminopiperidines. Good job!

Nov

Stacey's Angewandte Chemie paper accepted! Copper-catalyzed alpha-amination of phosphonates and and phosphine oxides – Congrats!

Group Thankgiving party on Nov 16!

Sept

Welcome new group members Dr. Shen, Dr. Chen, and Duke undergraduate Alice.

July

Welcome Stephanie and Katie to join the group for summer research.

Congrats to Jerry and Lily on recieving Burroughs Wellcome Graduate Student Fellowship this year!

June

Congratulate Chuck and Stacey on Org Lett paper aryne insertion of haloamines! Good job!

May

Congratulate Lily on her contribution to the review chapter "DOS-Derived Small-Molecule Probes in Chemical Biology" in the book "Diversity-Oriented Synthesis: Basics and Applications in Organic Synthesis, Drug Discovery, and Chemical Biology"

April

Our group's first paper! Congratulations to Hubert, Tyler, Barbara and Jerry on great team work! The paper is online Org Lett - An Efficient Synthesis of Fluorinated Azaheterocycles by Aminocyclization of Alkenes.

Group spring party at Stacey's lovely home!

Jan

Welcome undergraduate student Natalie Fahey! She will work with the group for independent study Spring 2013.

Welcome Jackson Eckert to work in the group for freshman research course Chem81!

Group holiday party on Jan 12, 2013!

2012

Sept

Welcome undergraduate students Kenneth Segall and Bora Kang to join our group for research!

August

Congratulations to Stacey and Chuck - Stacey received the department Burroughs Wellcome Graduate Student Fellowship for 2012-2013 and Chuck receives Pharmacological Sciences Training Program award for 2012-2014.

July

Congratulate Barbara on receiving Howard Hughes Research Fellow Award to support her summer research!

Congratulate Tyler on receiving undergraduate Dean's Fellowship to support his summer research!

June

Welcome high school student Michael Zhou from NC Project SEED program to the group for summer research!

May

Congratulation and farewell to Hubert and Nick! Congrats our first two undergraduate students on graduation!

Hubert will go to Graduate School at Harvard University. Nick will attend Vanderbilt Medical School. Best wishes to the future!

Feb

Welcome two Duke freshmen, Germaine and Barbar! Both will work with the group for Chem81 research.

Welcome undergraduate student Tyler Lacy to the group for independent study Spring 2012.

Jan

Our first four graduate students! Stacey, Chuck, Jerry, and Lily joined the lab!

The first group holiday party on Jan 21, 2012!

2011

Sept

Undergraduate student Hubert Huang joined the lab! Welcome our second group member!

Undergraduate student Nick Shelburne joined the lab as the first memeber of the group, Welcome!

August

The Wang lab started at Duke Chemistry!