Back Left to Right: James Cox, Mary Packard, Cristian Calcanas, Rami Shaker, Professor Joseph Topczewski, Ryan Daley
Front Left to Right: Angela Carlson, Alex Gomez, Matthew Porter, Amy Ott, En-Chih Liu
Recent Publications and News Items
The Topczewski lab is doing awesome! Two of our members, Amy Ott and Angela Carlson, were recognized at the first departmental seminar. Amy was one of the recipients of a third year Excellence in Graduate Studies Fellowship (the Wayland Noland Fellowship in particular), and Angela was honored for obtaining a 4.0 GPA last year. Wow! Looks like their hard work is paying off (figuratively and literally)!
Congrats again!
Porter, M. R.; Shaker, R. M.; Calcanas, C.; Topczewski, J. J. submitted.
In collaboration with Market Science (https://marketsci.org/), we went to the state fair to teach kids from all over about how fun chemistry can be! I don't know who had more fun: the kids, the adults, or us volunteers!
On Saturday, the Topczewski lab once again showed the Midtown Market that chemistry is fun and interesting! Despite the wind, almost 100 people came to learn about ocean acidification, precipitation reactions, catalysis, and how to make slime!
It's official! The National Institute of Health has officially given us money in the form of a MIRA grant. That's huge for an up-and-coming lab like us. Visit our Funding page to learn about our other funding sources, or, visit the department story (https://chem.umn.edu/news/professor-topczewski-researching-chiral-amines-nih-mira-grant) to see more.
Look at us go! Our JACS paper was written up in Synfacts (https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/journal/10.1055/s-00000131)! This has really been a great year for us.
Our lab just keeps churning out the papers! Already, paper number three is in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Way to go, Mary, James, and Vicky!
Packard, M. H.; Cox, J. H.; Suding, V. P.; Topczewski, J. J. "The Effect of Proximal Functionality on the Allylic Azide Equilibrium" Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017.
