News & Events

March 2012:

  • Njamkou has won an NSF GRFP and Brendan earned an Honorable Mention! Congratulations Njamkou! Congratulations Brendan!

february 2012:

  • Our Metal-Free, Aerobic Ketooxygenation of Alkenes paper has been accepted by Chem. Sci. and is available online. Congratulations Val!

november 2011:

  • Our Palladium-catalyzed Heck-type reactions of unactivated alkyl iodides paper has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. and is available online. Congratulations Kayla and Becca!

October 2011:

  • The Alexanian Group welcomes Ryan and Caitlin.

august 2011:

  • Our metal-free, intermolecular dioxygenation of alkenes using simple hydroxamic acid derivatives paper has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. and is available online. Congratulations Ben and Val!

July 2011:

  • Our metal-free oxyamination of alkenes using hydroxamic acids paper has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. and is available online. Congratulations Val!
  • The Alexanian group welcomes Ryan as a Venable scholar for the summer.

May 2011:

  • Our [2+2+2] cycloaddition paper is now available online!
  • Congrats to John on graduating and moving on to graduate school at U. Texas at Austin!
  • James joins the lab as an undergradate.

March 2011:

  • Andy's paper on a [2+2+2] stereoselective approach to complex carbocycle synthesis is accepted to Angewandte Chemie. Congrats Andy!

december 2010:

  • The group has earned an NSF-CAREER Award for our work on transition-metal-catalyzed cycloaddtions. Congrats Erik and Andy!!

november 2010:

  • The Alexanian Group welcomes Rahul.

october 2010:

  • The Alexanian Group welcomes Brendan, Becca, and Njamkou.

September 2010:

  • The group moved into our new lab space in Venable Hall.

August 2010:

  • Our second paper has been accepted by J. Am. Chem. Soc. and is available online. Congratulations Kayla!

July 2010:

  • The Alexanian group welcomes Becca and Brendan as Venable scholars for the summer.

May 2010:

  • Our first paper, recently highlighted in the May 24th edition of C&E News, is now available online.

March 2010:

  • Our first paper has been accepted by Angewandte Chemie! Congratulations Val!

October 2009:

  • The Alexanian group welcomes Ben and Justin.

May 2009:

  • Erik and Sarah celebrate tying the knot with a cash $$$ wedding.
  • John joins the lab as an undergraduate.
  • Congrats to Tyler on graduating and moving on to graduate school at Texas A&M!

September 2008:

  • Tyler joins the lab as the first undergraduate.
  • Valerie, Kayla and Liz join the lab establishing Erik’s first class of graduate students!

July 2008:

  • Erik moves into his new lab space and begins research.
  • Andy joins the lab as Erik’s first graduate student.