Another prelim in the books! Please join us in congratulating Antoine on becoming a PhD candidate. Félicitations! 🥳🍰
Huge congratulations to Dr. Jake Nicholson and Dr. An Tran, who both recently defended their PhD dissertations. Two new doctors in one week! We are so proud of you both.
Excited to share our latest paper, now out in Tetrahedron Letters as part of the special issue honoring Prof. Pep Cornella. @CornellaLab
“From amines to diazenes via SuFEx and the aza-Ramberg–Bäcklund reaction: scope and practical considerations.”
tinyurl.com/57t33ke6
Huge congratulations to Dr. Deepta Chattapadhyay on successfully defending his thesis yesterday! We will all miss having him around in the lab, but we can't wait to see the amazing things he'll accomplish in the future. 🎉🥂
We're looking for a motivated postdoc to join our group! The lab vibes are genuinely unmatched, we think you’ll love it here✨
Interested in synthetic organic chemistry, catalysis, photochemistry, electrochemistry, and polymer science? Apply below 👇
tinyurl.com/3eyfxusv
Proud lab mate moment 🥳 Congrats on this well-deserved award @MaryYenca!!
🎉Congratulations, 2026 Spring POLY Outstanding General Topics Presentation Awardees: Ziyu Huo (Virginia Tech), Mark James Jareczek (UNC Chapel Hill), Hwangseok Kim (ETH Zurich), and Mary Yenca (Texas A&M)!
View their outstanding work at: conta.cc/4uFc4by
Behold ✨ our newest @J_A_C_S paper just dropped! Check out this great collaboration with @Gutierrez_Lab on stereoretentive ROMP for precision PPV synthesis.
tinyurl.com/mr3ma379
Congratulations on passing your preliminary exam and officially becoming a PhD candidate! Now the real adventure begins. So proud of you, Vaishak! 🎓🎉
ACS Spring 2026 🧪✨
Presentations ✔️
Networking ✔️
Coffee ✔️
A successful week all around. We hope you had a chance to catch these great talks!
Here are a few moments from Quentin, Srutashini, and Mary 👇
Well done, Varun, for an amazing third-year seminar! His talk highlighted the hard work and progress he's made over the past few years. Excited to see what's next!🎉
Diazene fragmentation couldn’t help but look at a triplet energy transfer⚡️
A tunable handle for radical cross-coupling, a great collaboration with @LudoTroian !
✨Check out this cool new work out in @J_A_C_S
tinyurl.com/2u47x4u9
New precision PPV synthesis unlocked 🔓
In collaboration with the @Gutierrez_Lab, we leveraged mechanistic studies of stereoretentive ROMP of PCDs to uncover unique platforms for the precise synthesis of PPVs
Pre-print available now on @ChemRxiv ! 👀
tinyurl.com/yd2ntse5
We're delighted to announce not one but TWO awards recently received in the Michaudel Lab!
Srutashini Das, one of our amazing fourth-year grad students, and our very own PI Dr. Quentin Michaudel are recipients of two prestigious awards listed below. Both very well-deserved!🎉👏
@Srutashini has received the 2026 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute! With this award, she'll be presenting her research at the Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in San Antonio this coming June. Congrats, Srutashini!
Another big congratulations goes to our PI @q_michaudel on receiving the 2026 Augustine Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society! He'll deliver the 2026 Augustine Award Lecture at the 30th Biennial ORCS meeting this April! Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/4tbf2pbe
Can't ROMP pyridine-containing monomers because of Ru coordination?
Have you tried . . . ✨adding acid?✨
Our group's newest work on the acid-promoted ROMP and N-functionalization of pyridine-fused norbornenes is out now! Congrats to the team!💣🎉
tinyurl.com/3hnj2u43
Check out our group's new Perspective published in @ScienceMagazine highlighting some great work on modulating thermoplastic properties through light-mediated stereocontrol!
We love when others share our passion for polymer stereochemical control!🫶
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Just in time for this weekend’s winter weather! Stay inside by the fireplace with some hot cocoa while you check out our new review on “macroisostere” design as a powerful strategy in polymer synthesis. Out now in Progress in Polymer Science! ❄️🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.progpolyms…
Who's this? Oh, just Srutashini—one of our excellent grad students who was recently selected to the #ACSSpring2026 @POLY_ACS Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium! Make sure to check out her poster at session POLY034A this coming March in Atlanta!
Here comes double trouble (in the best way 😈)!
Check out our work now published in @angew_chem using fluorosulfonyl aziridines as bifunctional electrophiles as a platform for alkene diversification!
tinyurl.com/36xn4x38
New @ChemRxiv preprint alert! 🚨
Alkene diversification just got easier with our new work on the synthesis of fluorosulfonyl aziridines from FSO2NH2! When you see what this bifunctional electrophile can do, you'll be *twice* as excited to try it yourself✨
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