Assistant Prof. of Chemistry @RiceUniversity • o-chem/catalysis at work • music/running/writing at home • Opinions mine • He/Him • @pushingarrows@bsky.social
Houston, TX
Joined March 2011
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Grateful to be able to share a little about our group in Synform @thiemechemistry. Check it out if you'd like to learn about our approach to growth within and outside the lab!
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Check out this new method from #WelchGrantee Julian West's @pushingarrows lab at @ChemistryRice on BCP boronate ester synthesis! This iron LMCT photocatalysis method enables the direct conversion of carboxylic acids to boronate esters using B2Pin2 in DMSO without pre-activation. This could be a remarkably useful reaction in the medicinal chemist's toolkit! Congratulations to 1st author Yongchen Wang and the rest of the co-authors on this awesome paper. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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𖣘 @pushingarrows transform extreme strain into function: Direct decarboxylative access to BCP boronates from acids—harnessing [1.1.0]Propellane strain for rapid 3D bioisosteres. A powerful leap for medicinal chemistry ✨
@NatureComms @RiceUniversity
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Principal Investigator Julian G. West (@pushingarrows) and researchers at @RiceUniversity report a photocatalytic anti-Markovnikov hydroazidation of alkenes enabled by cooperative ligand-to-metal charge transfer and hydrogen atom transfer. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Congrats to Shijin, Drew, and Martin on publication of this C-H arylation with remarkable terminal selectivity! 3,5-lutidine turns out to be key! Check it out @ChemEurJ
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Excited to share this new paper in @NatureComms co-led by @KangjieBian and Shijin Yu on photocatalytic azidofunctionalizations using iron terpy complexes. Iron LMCT in the visible range!
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Our Iron-photocatalysis approach to small-ring transfer is now live in its final form @angew_chem! Great collaboration with Julian West @pushingarrows. Congratulations to everyone involved 🚀
@DCBPunibern @SwissChemistry #chemistry
Check it out here 👉
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Ultimately, a single, carefully considered thought was all it took to solve this problem! I am happy to see the 3rd chapter of my PhD thesis in @angew_chem. Thanks to everyone at the West Group (@pushingarrows) and @KatayevL for the wonderful collaboration. @DCBPunibern @snsf_ch.
Our Iron-photocatalysis approach to small-ring transfer is now live in its final form @angew_chem! Great collaboration with Julian West @pushingarrows. Congratulations to everyone involved 🚀
@DCBPunibern @SwissChemistry #chemistry
Check it out here 👉
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The final version of our paper is available, and open access!
If you are interested in radical decarboxylative approaches or small rings, please have a look.
@snsf_ch @KatayevL @pushingarrows @DCBPunibern
Our Iron-photocatalysis approach to small-ring transfer is now live in its final form @angew_chem! Great collaboration with Julian West @pushingarrows. Congratulations to everyone involved 🚀
@DCBPunibern @SwissChemistry #chemistry
Check it out here 👉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Great to see this out! I still remember our first meeting in January 2024. I enjoyed working on this with Po-Kai and Shijin they were very supportive. Thanks to you, @KatayevL, @AJF_Chem for working on such a difficult problem together. It was a great team effort!
Really excited to share this collaboration with the @KatayevL group showing how Fe/S catalysis can make privileged bioisosteres quickly, easily, and cheaply! Check it out in @angew_chem
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Really excited to share this collaboration with the @KatayevL group showing how Fe/S catalysis can make privileged bioisosteres quickly, easily, and cheaply! Check it out in @angew_chem
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Congrats Austin Moser, Paige Sutter, Alex Chavez, and Sebastian Cruz on publishing this cool study on alkene hydroalkylation using TBADT/thiol catalysis! A brand new project area started and led by Austin! #realtimechem
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Delighted to contribute some thoughts to this wonderful article in @ChemistryWorld on putting fluorine in drug molecules along with @tnoel82, @GouverneurGroup, David O'Hagan, and Rob Young! Check it out!
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Excited for this collaborative paper on nanoscale photoreactors to finally be out in @ChemicalScience! Check it out!
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Principal Investigator Julian West (@pushingarrows) and researchers at @RiceUniversity report a photocatalytic anti-Markovnikov hydro- and deuterochlorination of unsaturated hydrocarbons enabling access to diverse alkyl and alkenyl chlorides regio- and stereoselectively. buff.ly/3WFrXQW
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Thrilled to welcome our newest postdoc, Shih-Chieh Kao, who joins us after his PhD in the West group at Rice. Looking forward to all the exciting chemistry you will do over the next few years. @pushingarrows @OxfordChemistry
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Reminder: Virtual Symposium is tomorrow anuary 15, 2025 @ 12 noon ET feat. Yang Yang @yang2biocat (UC Santa Barbara) & Julian West @pushingarrows (Rice University)
Watch for free:
YouTube: zurl.co/DHJuv
Zoom: zurl.co/oxRtz
Thank you to @BeyondCCHF
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#CottrellScholar 2023 & #Scialog SM3 Fellow @pushingarrows has a new paper in Nature Synthesis on a more sustainable photocatalytic process that eliminates the need for harsh chemicals or high temperatures typically required in chlorination. bit.ly/4iXCNuZ
What a fantastic surprise to see our new photocatalytic hydrochlorination featured by @TheAlexKnapp in The Prototype @Forbes We hope the reaction will help revolutionize discovery and manufacturing of important molecules for modern life.
Article here: nature.com/articles/s44160-0…
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Iron and sulfur catalysts activated by blue light to add chlorine atoms to organic molecules @pushingarrows
Anti-Markovnikov hydro- and deuterochlorination of unsaturated hydrocarbons using iron photocatalysis nature.com/articles/s44160-0…
