Group News
- May 2 - A warm welcome to Jessica Greger who joins us from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
- April 20 - Congrats to Charles Yeung on winning the Chair's Doctoral Medal for his thesis.
- April 20 - Congrats to Matthew Coulter on his new position at Vive Crop Protection.
- April 3 - A warm welcome to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Achim Bruch from the University of Muenster.
- March 25-29 - Road trip! Our group presented at the 2012 Spring ACS meeting in San Diego, CA. Click here to see album.
- Feb 21 - Congrats to Charles Yeung on winning the 2012 CCUCC Chemistry Doctoral Award. Charles will present his work at the upcoming CSC meeting in Calgary.
- Feb 20 - Congrats to Thi Phan on her new position as a level II-scientist at Patheon Inc.
- Dec 13 - Thi defends her thesis; congrats Dr. Phan.
- Dec 12 - We thank Eli Lilly for a 2011 Grantee Award.
- Oct 27 - Our latest advance in directed hydroacylation will appear in Organic Letters; congrats Stephen, Dave, and Matthew.
- Sept 20 - Our hydroacylation route to aldol products has been accepted by Chemical Science; congrats to Stephen and Matthew.
- Sept 19 - Christine Le and Lauren Longobardi officially join the lab, welcome.
- Aug 19 - Matthew defends his thesis; congrats to Dr. Coulter who has been awarded an NSERC industrial postdoctoral fellowship.
- Aug 18 - Tom defends his thesis; congrats to Dr. Hsieh who will start postdoctoral work with Professor Gates at UBC.
- Aug 17 - Charles defends his thesis; congrats to Dr. Yeung who will pursue postdoctoral studies with Professor Jacobsen at Harvard University.
- July 15 - Professor Dong has been appointed as the Adrian Brook Distinguished Professor; congrats Vy.
- July 4 - Welcome to Dr. I-Hon Chen from the Shibasaki group and Lauren Longobardi from the Stradiotto group.
- June 5 to 11 - We will be presenting posters at the NOS and then heading to NYC for a group trip.
- June 2 - Welcome Christine Le who joins us from Western Ontario.
- May 28 - Congrats to Hasan on being awarded the Sumner Memorial Fellowship.
- May 26 - Congrats to Charles Yeung on being selected a finalist for this year's Reaxys PhD prize.
- May 11 - Welcome to David Petrone who is joining us from Guelph.
- May 8 - Congrats to Byoungmoo on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
- March 24 - Congrats to Kevin and Stephen on being awarded Canada NSERC graduate fellowships.
- March 23 - Charles is awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.
- March 23 - NSERC recognizes Matthew as a meritorious candidate.
- March 3 - See the C&EN news report on Professor Dong's ACS Cope Award.
- Feb 14 - Hasan and Kevin's work is featured on the cover of Chemical Science; thanks to Peter for the design.
- Feb 9 - Our chiral C3-symmetric sulfoxide ligand will appear in Tetrahedron to honor Dean Toste; congrats Peter and Priscilla.
- Feb 5 - A warm welcome to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Max von Delius from the University of Edinburough.
- Jan 19 - Our oxazolidinone oxidative cross-coupling will appear in the special issue of Synlett dedicated to Professors Xiyan Lu and Li-Xin Dai; congrats Charles.
- Jan 19 - Our contribution to the special issue of Inorg. Chem. Acta dedicated to Professor Robert Bergman is in press; congrats Nadine.
- Jan 19 - Charles Yeung, Tom Hsieh, and Matthew Coulter are awarded travel grants from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to attend the National Organic Symposium this June.
- Jan 3 - Congrats to Charles Yeung on winning the departmental Boehringer Ingelheim Award of Excellence in Organic/BioOrganic Chemistry.
- Jan 2 - Our book chapter on catalytic routes to lactones is published; congrats to Charles and Peter.
- Dec 8 - Thanks to Hoffman La-Roche for recognizing our group with the 2011 Excellence in Chemistry Award.
- Nov 30 - Congrats to Kevin Kou for winning a Cook Memorial Fellowship, and Charles Yeung for a Merck Travel Grant.
- Oct 25 - Congrats to Tom Hsieh on wininng a Croft teaching award.
- Oct 18 - Our enantioselective synthesis of benzoxazepinones will appear in Chemical Science; congrats Hasan and Kevin.
- Oct 13 - Our lab's Ru-catalyzed rearrangement has been accepted by Chemical Science; congrats Charles and Tom.
- Oct 12 - The group's sulfide-directed hydroacylation will be published in JACS; congrats Matthew, Kevin, and Baye.
- Oct 1 – Our cyclopropene hydroacylation has been accepted to JACS; congrats Thi and Kevin.
- Sept 30 – Our study on C-S reductive elimination from Pd(IV) will be published in Angewandte; congrats Xiaodan.
- Sept 16 - Welcome new graduate students, Stephen Murphy (from Queen’s) and Joe Pignatelli (from York), as well as undergraduate researcher, Sylvia Maule.
- Sept 3 - Our collaborative study with ViveNano has been accepted to Chemical Science; congrats to Matthew.
- Aug 31 - The American Chemical Society awards Prof. Dong an Authur C. Cope Scholar Award for 2011.
- Aug 30 - Peter Dornan heads to UCLA for his internship with Ken Houk.
- Aug 10 - Professor Dong wins an Early Researcher Award.
- July 13 - Professor Dong has been promoted with tenure. Congrats, Vy. See photos here.
- July 4-10 - Happy four-year lab anniversary. Our group was in San Francisco presenting at the ISACS. See photos here.
- July 1 – Congrats to Charles Yeung on the F.E. Beamish Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology.
- May 28 – Congrats to Hasan on being awarded the Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship.
- May 18 - Nadine Borduas wins a Vanier Award and Priscilla Leung an NSERC CGS-M; congrats to both.
- May 10 — Congrats to Matthew Coulter on being awarded an OGS fellowship.
- May 7 – Congrats to Tom Hsieh on winning a TATP teaching excellence award.
- May 5 – Our cross-coupling is accepted to Chemical Science; congrats Charles, Xiaodan, and Nadine.
- May 3 – Professor Dong receives an Amgen Young Investigator's Award.
- March 10 - Congratulations to Zengming Shen who has accepted a faculty position at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
- March 5 – The Dong Group has been awarded the AstraZeneca Award in Chemistry.
- March 4 – Our oxidative arylation method is in press at JACS; congrats Xiaodan and Charles.
- Feb 12 - Congrats to Kevin Kou on being awarded the Edwin Walter & Margery Warren OGSST.
- Feb 11 - Congrats to Nadine Borduas who has been chosen to represent Canada as a young researcher at the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany.
- Feb 1 - Welcome to administrative assistant Cynthia Chew.
- Jan 27 - Congrats to Peter Dornan on being awarded the Michael Smith Fellowship.
- Jan 7 - Happy 2010! The Dong group celebrates on ice. See photos.
- Oct 8 - Our [3+2] cycloaddition is in press at Angewandte; congrats Yang and Kate.
- Oct 5 - Our enantioselective phthalide preparation is in press in JACS; congrats Thi and Byoungmoo.
- Sept 16 - Welcome new graduate students, Nadine Borduas, Kevin Kou, and Priscilla Leung.
- July 4 - Our lab turns three. See celebration.
- July 2 - Congrats to Elena on being recognized with a McGraw-Hill Ryerson Prize for her CSC presentation.
- July 1 - Thanks to the ACS Petroleum Research Fund for funding Charles's carbon-dioxide project.
- May 29 - June 2 - Our group presented at the 92nd CSC in Hamilton. Click here to see details.
- May 20 - Congrats to Charles on receiving the Andre Hamer Award from NSERC. Click here for details.
- May 19 - Welcome to our summer students, Baye, Mengzhou, Karyn, and Macy.
- May 12 - Thanks to UW-Madison for selecting Prof. Dong as the inaugural speaker for their Eli Lilly Young Investigator Lecture.
- April 30 - Peter receives a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Click here for details.
- April 17 - Our communication on asymmetric synthesis of seven- and eight-membered rings is in press at JACS; congrats Matthew and Peter.
- April 4 - Congratulations to Hasan, Elena, and Kate on winning graduate doctoral fellowships from NSERC.
- Feb 25 - CityNews’s Dr. Karl visits our lab to investigate a connection between French fries and acrylamide. See video.
- Feb 17 - Thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for awarding Prof. Dong a research fellowship. See awardees.
- Feb 12 - Our study on the use of arylsulfonyl chlorides to functionalize C-H bonds is in press at JACS; congrats Xiaodan and Elena.
- Feb 11 - Thanks to CNC-IUPAC for granting Prof. Dong a travel award. Click here for award announcements.
- Nov 18 - Our mechanistic study on ketone-hydroacylation is in press at JACS – congrats Zengming, Peter, and Hasan.
- Nov 17 - Our Pd-catalyzed route to indoles will appear in Tetrahedron’s upcoming special edition; congrats Tom.
- Nov 7-9 - Peter, Matthew, Charles, and Hasan present at QOMSBOC.
- Oct 27 - Our acylsilane rearrangement is accepted by Angewandte – congrats Zengming.
- Sept 22 - Welcome graduate students: Marija Antonic, Elena Dimitrijevic, Boni Kim, and Kate Jardine.
- Aug 24 - Zengming heads to Shanghai Normal University to start her academic position - congrats, Prof Shen. See party.
- Aug 8 - Thanks to Boehringer Ingelheim for a Young Investigator Award. See announcement.
- July 4 - The lab turns two. See party.
- June 13 - Congrats to Hasan on being awarded the Edwin Walter & Margery Warren OGSST.
- June 1 - Dr. Xiaodan Zhao joins the group.
- May 16 - Our JACS paper on catalytic carboxylation is in press - congrats to Charles.
- May 15 - Welcome to our summer undergraduate researchers Khoa, Chloe, and Lisa.
- May 2 - Congrats to Jane for winning a Pfizer summer research fellowship. See list of awardees.
- April 6-10 - Our lab is in New Orleans attending the 235th ACS Meeting. Click on the title to see abstract and seminar details.
- Feb 22 - Our hydroacylation work is featured in Chemistry World, click here.
- Feb 16 - Congratulations to Jane for winning an NSERC URSA award.
- Feb 5 - Our manuscript on a Pd-catalyzed dioxygenation is accepted by JACS – congrats to Yang.
- Feb 4 - Our report of a new Rh-catalyzed hydroacylation is accepted by JACS – congrats to Zengming and Hasan.
- Jan 7 - Welcome new Ph.D. student Peter Dornan.
- Jan 5 - The website has been updated to include a virtual tour of the lab.
- Dec 3 - Jane Ni joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
- Sept 20 - Welcome new graduate student Hasan Khan.
- Sept 10 - Angelica Rojas joins the lab to pursue her fourth-year thesis project.
- July 3 - Prof. Dong wins a Connaught New Staff Matching Grant.
- June 23 - Group summer celebration, see photos.
- June 18 - Undergraduate volunteers Ben Wong and Saurabh Patel begin their apprenticeship.
- June 13 - Welcome to Ali Rostami (U Alberta) and Hasan Khan (U Ottawa) who join us for the summer.
- June 4 - Travis Ancelet (U Saskatchewan) and Matthew Bancerz (York U) start their summer internships - welcome to the lab.
- May 22 - Welcome to Khoa Pham and Steven Xu - our 299 summer undergraduates.
- April 15 - Congratulations to Charles Yeung on winning a Canada Graduate Doctoral Fellowship from NSERC.
- March 28 - NSERC supports our research with both a discovery grant and new instrumentation grant.
- Jan 22 - We’re pleased to welcome Thi Phan, a new Ph.D. student, who joins us from York University.
- Jan 15 - Welcome to undergraduate Boris Popov and visiting scholar, Jackie Hsi from UofT Scarborough.
- Dec 11 - Special thanks to Merck Frosst for awarding Prof. Dong a Young Investigator Grant.
- Dec 4 - Thieme Synlett - Synthesis selects Prof. Dong for a Journal Award recognizing promising new professors.
- Dec 2 - See the highlight in Nature featuring Prof. Dong's postdoctoral work - "Molecules in Quarantine".
- Dec 1 - Our lab is awarded a start-up grant by the Connaught Foundation of UofT.
- Sept 25 - Dr. Yang Li has arrived to spearhead our collaborative research project with the Song Lab.
- Sept 22 - Pete Ng joins the lab to pursue his fourth year thesis project.
- Sept 20 - Welcome to our first class of graduate students: Matthew Coulter, Tom Hsieh, Marc Tremblay, and Charles Yeung.
- Sept 12 - Dr. Zengming Shen joins the group as a postdoctoral scholar.
- July 24 - Welcome to Tram who joins us as a summer student.
- July 10 - Our website is live.
- July 5 - Welcome to our summer research students; Marc, Elton, Eric, and Jackson!
- June 25 - Vy and Wilmer celebrate their wedding with family and friends in Long Beach, California.