May 1, 2018
Welcome to our new summer students Victor (Honors) and Daniel (Undergraduate)!
September 11, 2017
Congrats to Terry, Spencer, and Matt for their accepted manuscript in Chemical Science on photochemical alkylation in collaboration with Tito Scaiano!
September 4, 2017
Welcome to our new students: Samantha Rohe (MSc.), Andre Costisella (MSc.), and Rowan Swann (CO-OP)!
June 16, 2017
Congrats to Dr. Mathieu Morin on successfully defending his doctoral thesis! We wish him luck in his post-doc with Prof. Mick Sherburn (ANU Canberra)!
May 1, 2017
Welcome to our new graduate student: Montse Zidan (MSc.), and our undergraduate students: Alyson Poyser (Honors) and Avery Morris (Honors)!
January 11, 2017
Our new site is live! Take a look at recent research efforts in photoredox chemistry and our new photo section!
January 8, 2017
Farewell to Sam Rohe, our undergrad who is doing a research placement with Prof. Sherburn (ANU) before returning to start her master’s program! And also to Dr. Amandine Xolin who accepted an offer at Paraza Pharma (Montreal)!
December 20, 2016
Congrats to Phil on the completion of his total synthesis of Magellanine, which was accepted in Angewandte Chemie!
September 1, 2016,
Welcome to our new graduate students: Huy Tran (MSc.) and Martin Hubert (PhD.)
May 1, 2016
Congrats to Gabriel, who successfully defended his Ph.D thesis! We wish him good luck in his upcoming post-doc with Prof. K.C. Nicolaou at Rice University.
April 26, 2016
Congrats to Terry! His paper in the gold photoredox Minisci reaction has been accepted in Chemical Science.
January 4, 2016
Welcome to our new post-doc! Dr. Amandine Xolin
November 13, 2015
Congrats to Phil for being awarded Best Oral Presentation at QOMSBOC 2015 (Montreal) for his talk on the total synthesis of magellanine.
September 15, 2015
A joint paper with the Scaiano group detailing a thorough mechanistic study on gold photoredox has been accepted in Cat. Sci. Tech. Congrats to Matt and Terry
September 5, 2015
Welcome to Michael Forburg (MSc) and Samantha Rohe (Honors project)
August 31, 2015
Farewell to our loyal undergraduate students, Marina Sanita and André Philippe Costisella
April 28, 2014
Congrats to Gabriel, his paper on the total synthesis of hyperforin and papuaforins has been accepted in Angew Chem. Shortest synthesis so far!
April 28, 2014
Welcome to our new summer students: Michael, Julie, Prajesh and Maxime
April 25, 2014
Farewell to our honours students: Anika, Sherif and Ekatarina. Good luck in your research endeavours.
November 27, 2013
Welcome to our new post-doc! Dr. Alexandre Cannillo
November 8, 2013
Congrats to Matt and Pat for their manuscript accepted in BJOC special thematic in gold chemistry
Congrats Phil
For your prize on poster at CSC 2013
October 17, 2013
Congrats to Francis Barabé who successfully defend is PhD thesis External examiner: Prof. Liming Zhang UCSB
September 11, 2013
Our paper on Gold(I)-catalyzed photoredox transformation has been accepted in Angew Chem. Congrats to Terry and Matt.
September 1, 2013
Congratulation to Gabriel Bellavance on finishing his 5th PAPP with hyperforin.
August 27, 2013
Congratulations to Gabriel Bellavance for placing first at CSC 2013 (Quebec) with his oral presentation on “Unveiling Polycyclic Polyprenylated Acylphloroglucinols” and Boubacar Sow for placing third with his poster entitled “New One Pot Domino Pericyclic Oxy-Cope/Ene/Claisen/Diels-Alder Cascade”
February 22, 2013
Louis has been invited as visiting professor at Ecole Polytechnique (France). He will spent the whole month of June in Paris
February 17, 2013
Our paper on gold catalysis has been accepted in Pure and Applied Chem
Congratulation Louis
Louis was awarded the 2012 Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Research Excellence Award (formely the Merck-Frosst Award). This award is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to medicinally relevant organic or biophysical chemistry while working in Canada. Louis will give his award lecture at the CSC meeting in Calgary May 26-30, 2012.
