Congratulations to Sergey Pronin for being awarded an NSF CAREER Award! His project, "Development of catalytic enantioselective hydrofunctionalizations of alkenes" allows Professor Pronin and his students to continue to develop new methods for the direct conversion of compounds that contain a double bond between two carbon atoms (i.e., alkenes) to compounds that contain nitrogen (amines), a oxygen-hydrogen groups (alcohols), and their derivatives.

Professor Shiraiwa's experience of "Make Our Planet Great Again" has been introduced in Chemistry World, a magazine by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Find the article by clicking here.

A recent collaborative effort by the Tobias and Shiraiwa groups at UCI and the Grassian group at UCSD, which provided a comprehensive description of the adsorption/desorption of a compound found in cleaning products with a common indoor surface (glass), was featured as a ChemSci pick of the week by the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Science. Click here to read full article. 

Graduate student Kellen Kartub's Instagram was recently featured by Chemical and Engineering News as one of "7 chemistry accounts we love on Instagram." Kellen will be doing a takeover of the C&E News Instagram account in January, hopefully featuring some of the exciting research going on here at UCI!  Follow Kellen's Instagram here.