The Chirik Group chips away at one of the great challenges of metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization with a new method that uses a cobalt catalyst to differentiate between bonds in fluoroarenes, functionalizing them based on their intrinsic electronic properties.

In a funding venture that could be transformational for imaging single molecules within a cell and determining their chemical composition, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a $3.4M grant to a Chemistry/Molecular Bio collab.

We are pleased to welcome Christopher Chang as the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry. Chang studies how metals on the periodic table give rise to an understanding of energy science, sustainability, and our own biology. 

Researchers in the MacMillan Lab have unlocked a pathway to earth-abundant metal photocatalysts with a discovery that exploits an unusual phenomenon called Marcus inverted region, published in Science this month.

In collaboration with structural biologists at Shinshu University and a former postdoc, the Hecht Lab lays out the fully articulated structure of Syn-F4, a de novo enzyme that carries out a life-sustaining function.

When Robert Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, goes on sabbatical next month, he will do so in the wake of an extraordinary, seemingly off-the-cuff suggestion for improving a quantum computing device that collaborators in ECE are working on.