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March 2017 - The Morris group welcomes all potential graduate students to the University of Toronto. Drop by our poster to say hi during the Graduate Student Weekend on March 4th, 2017!

February 2017 - Farewell to our visiting student Anne!

January 2017 - The Morris group welcomes Tristan Tan, visiting PhD student from WWU Münster (Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn) as part of the IRTG 2027 Exchange Program.

November 2016 - A Morris group paper was one of the five most viewed papers in Organometallics over the past five years (Article Accessed 13278 times): Iron Catalysts Containing Amine(imine)diphosphine P-NH-N-P Ligands Catalyze both the Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

October 2016 - Farewell to our visiting student Jan!

September 2016 - "It works in water!" - Check out Karl's latest work using water as the solvent for catalysis - a big step towards green chemistry! 10.1039/C6RA22538A

September 2016 - The Morris group welcomes new graduate student Matthew Gradiski, exchange student Anne Luepke from Mainz, Germany and undergraduate student Vanessa Lee!

Summer 2016 - The Morris group welcomes new graduate student Brian Tsui and undergraduate student Max Olson!

April 2016 - The Morris group welcomes exchange student Jan Unsleber as part of the IRTG 2027 Exchange Program!

March 2016 - "Metal hydrides - how acidic can they be and what can we do with them?" - Check out Bob's latest publication on Chemical Reviews about Brønsted-Lowry Acid Strength of Metal Hydride and Dihydrogen Complexes 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00695

February 2016 - The Morris group welcomes Dr. Paraskevi Lagaditis back as a Post-doctoral fellow!

September 2015 - The Morris group welcomes our new members, Elvira Bergen and Chris Seo

July 2015 - Farewell to our visiting students Florian and Jacob!

July 2015 - The Morris group welcomes our new member Afrooz Zirakzadeh, Post-doctoral fellow from Technische Universität Wien

June 2015 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Demyan Prokopchuk!

January 2015 - The Morris group welcomes our new member Florian Roelfes, visiting PhD student from WWU Münster (Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn) as part of the IRTG 2027 Exchange Program.

September 2014 - The Morris group welcomes our new members: Molly Sung (PhD student), Martin Yang (4th year project), Heiko Rebmann (visiting MSc student), and Savyo Santana (visiting undergraduate student). See the members page for more details.

September 2014 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Jessica Sonnenberg!

June 2014 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Peter Sues!

November 2013 - Non-precious metal catalysts developed in our lab are the most active transfer hydrogenation catalysts to date: 10.1126/science.1244466.

September 2013 - The Morris group welcomes our new graduate students, Karl Demmans and Kai Wan.

June 2013 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Paraskevi Lagaditis! See some pictures here.

June 2013 - The Morris group welcomes our new graduate student Samantha and undergrad summer students Julio, Brian, Young, and Roy to the group.

April 2012 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Alexandre Mikhailine! See some pictures here.

December 2011 - Congratulations to our newest graduate, Dr. Wylie O! See some pictures here.

November 2011 - The Morris group welcomes Dr. Weiwei Zuo as a postdoctoral resarcher.

October 2011 - The Morris group welcomes Professor Faraj Hasanayn as a visiting professor.

September 2011 - Congratulations to Jessica for being awarded an NSERC Vanier Scholarship!

July 2011 - Stereoelectronic factors in iron-catalyzed asymmetric tranfer hydrogenation catalysis: click here for more info.

May 2011 - We have reported the first example of base-free asymmetric transfer hydrogenation using iron PNNP complexes. Click here for more info.

February 2011 - Mechanistic investigations of transfer Hydrogenation using Ru(II) piano stool carbene complexes. Click here for more info.

November 2010 - Congratulations to Demyan for his poster award at the 2010 Inorganic Discussion Weekend in Windsor!

October 2010 - Take a look at Vivian's latest paper regarding iron complexes for transfer hydrogenation.

July 2010 - Prof. Morris has been appointed Chair of the Department of Chemistry.

April 2010 - See our new paper on cyclic phosphonium salts in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.

January 2010 - The new and improved Morris Group website is now online.

December 2009 - Congratulations to Vivian on her first published paper in the Morris group!

November 2009 - Wylie has recently published two papers in Organometallics on Platinum(II)/Palladium(II) NHCs and Nickel(II)/Ruthenium(II) NHCs. Congrats!

November 2009 - Congratulations to Vivian, Alex and Peter for their awards at the 2009 Inorganic Discussion Weekend in Guelph!