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Dr. Huiyuan Zhu | Virginia Tech
UVA Chemist Brent Gunnoe Wins National Award for Advances in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
Dr. Long Luo | Wayne State University
POSTPONED - Dr. Mitch Smith | Michigan State University
Stereoselective Synthesis and Applications of Sulfonylcyclopropanols as Modular Cyclopropanone and Homoenolate Equivalents
Cyclopropanone derivatives have long been regarded as unusable and elusive synthetic intermediates, mainly owing to their prominent ring strain and kinetic instability. In this work, we report the enantioselective synthesis of sulfonylcyclopropanols, shown to be modular and versatile
synthetic equivalents of the corresponding cyclopropanone derivatives. These reagents were found to smoothly react in a variety of reaction manifolds, including organometallic 1,2-addition affording cyclopropanols, nitrene chemistry to access chiral β-lactams, nickel-catalyzed C–C
In Memoriam: Richard J. "Dick" Sundberg
Richard J. "Dick" Sundberg died on November 1, 2021, in Hickory, N.C., after a period of declining health. A resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1964, he had relocated to North Carolina in May 2021, to be close to daughter Jennifer Sundberg Deal and her family. Born on January 6, 1938, at Sioux Rapids Hospital, Sioux Rapids, Iowa, to Ernest and Rosa (Christensen) Sundberg.