News

This summer, we will be hosting three new summer students in the Murphy Group.

Zoltan Richter-Bisson joins the group as an NSERC USRA summer student.

Ms. Prachi Gupta (India) joins the lab as a 2019 MITACS Globalink Research Intern.

Mr. Cássio Pires Lucato (Brazil) joins the lab as a 2019 MITACS Globalink Research Intern.

Welcome to the group, all of you!

Our recent work on using tandem Friedel-Crafts alkylations to generate 9-(arylmethyl)fluorenes is accepted in Synthesis.

Well done, both of you, and thanks for all your hard work.

Zhao and Liam's Chem. Eur. J. paper from 2018 concerning the iodoarene-catalyzed alkene arylation reaction is highlighted in the recent issue of Synfacts. Congratulations!

Our practical procedure for the large-scale synthesis of TolIF₂ has been accepted as a Practical Synthetic Procedure in Synthesis.

Congrats Jason!

Congrats to Avery and Kevin for making it through your departmental seminars. Well done gents, and now it's time to get back in the lab.

Two new students have joined the group. Ms. Islam Jameel is a new M.Sc. student, and Ms. Shafa Rizwan is an NSREC USRA intern. Both of them work on new reactions mediated by HVI reactions.

Welcome to the group!

Every year at the UWaterloo's Science Open House, we have a chemistry show with lots of fire, colour changes, smoke and explosions.  This year, Tristan, Avery, Kevin and Leanne all participated, and it was quite a show.

Check it out here!

Tristan has been working on using Wittig reagents as precursors to metallocarbenes. This paper has been accepted to Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry for their upcoming themed issue on Carbenes in Synthesis.

Congrats Tristan, and thanks for all the hard work.

Our newest work, concerning the oxidative alkene arylation using an iodoarene catalyst is accepted for publication.

Congrats to Zhao and Liam on your work.

The weather held on just long enough to have the "annual" group party. Both current and former group members got together for an afternoon of pizza, pool and water fights with the group's mascot.

Thanks you all for coming and making it a great afternoon.