Thank you for all on your hard work on the hydrazone project, and congratulations!
The Eur. J. Org. Chem. paper is published in the Early View section online. Congrats to Jason and Phyllis for your work on the monocarbonyl iodonium ylide problem.
We would like to welcome Dermot Gillen (visiting scholar, Trinity College Dublin) and Maegan Rodrigues (co-op, NSERC USRA) to the group.
The summer is over and the co-op students are heading back to class. Thanks for all your hard work and best of luck.
The first paper from the Murphy lab is accepted:
Phyllis and Jason combined efforts to demonstrate for the first time that monocarbonyl iodonium ylides are effective as metallocarbene precursors. The key was to trick a phosphorus ylide into undergoing carbene transfer (which they typically don't do), and then trap the resulting iodonium ylide with a metal catalyst. Congratulations Phyllis and Jason!