Vy Maria Dong

Academic Title: Assistant Professor

Phone: 416-978-6484

Office: DB 343

Email:

Research Homepage: http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/staff/vdong

My research group is interested in green chemistry, transition-metal catalysis, and the total synthesis of natural products. Students in the Dong group are trained for future careers in academia and the pharmaceutical/fine chemical industry. Professor Dong is a recent recipient of the Boehringher Ingelheim Award for Organic Synthesis and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Please contact Vy or see our group website for more details.

Phan, D. H. T.; Kim, B.; Dong, V. M. "Phthalides by Rhodium-Catalyzed Ketone Hydroacylation." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 15608.

"Palladium-Catalyzed Olefin Dioxygenation.” Li, Y.; Song, D.; Dong, V. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 2962.

"Rh-Catalyzed Carbonyl Hydroacylation: An Enantioselective Approach to Lactones.” Shen, Z; Khan, H. A.; Dong, V. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 2916. See the highlight in Chemistry World featuring this work: James Mitchell Crow, "Rhodium fast tracks route to lactones." Editorial Board of SYNFACTS selects this article as the Synfact of the month.

“Molecular Recognition and Stabilization of Iminium Ions in Water.” Dong, V. M.; Fiedler, D.; Carl, B.; Bergman, R. G.; Raymond, K. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 14464. See the highlight in Nature featuring this work: Julius Rebek, "Molecules in Quarantine."

“Design of a new cascade reaction for the construction of complex acyclic architecture: The tandem acyl-Claisen rearrangement.” Dong, V. M.; MacMillan, D. W. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 2448.

“Development of a new Lewis acid-catalyzed Claisen rearrangement.” Yoon, T. P.; Dong, V. M.; MacMillan, D. W. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 9726.