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Graham was informed that he is a recipient of the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award for 2014.

Recipients are loosely defined as promising young professors at the beginning of their career (more or less), and every year a few of them are chosen to receive free print and electronic subscriptions of Synlett, Synthesis, and Synfacts as a gesture of encouragement.

Thank you to the editorial boards of the three journals for you consideration, and thanks to the group for their hard work.

Dermot's time with us has come to an end.  Thanks for all the interesting anecdotes and bizarre conversation starters.

Best of luck in your continued studies!

Congratulations to Jason and Richard.  The JACS communication has been accepted for publication, and it is in the ASAPs now. Well done!

Amy is a visiting student from Newcastle University, doing her 3rd year exchange at Waterloo. She joins the lab to work on functionalization of indole derivatives.  Welcome!

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!

Paper #1 submitted on our work with monocarbonyl iodonium ylides.

Best of luck, wherever you go. 

In the spirit of the Murphy lab, here are some words to live by:

" If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

--Snoop Dogg