Undergraduate researcher in biological chemistry receives CLAS Scholars Award

Alexander Duong, an undergraduate researcher in the Eddy Research Group, was recently named a recipient of a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Scholar Award. UF CLAS provides this award to high achieving undergraduate students who show great promise for making significant contributions to original scientific research, and the award provides undergraduate students an … Read more

2019 Tarrant Awards Announced

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Tarrant Summer Graduate Research Scholarships. The endowment honors Prof. Paul Tarrant, a member of our department from 1946 to 1981, and this award promotes outstanding research for graduate students working in the division of Organic Chemistry. This year’s recipients are Ehsan Fereyduni and Jacob Lessard. … Read more

The Roitberg group describes a method to calculate accurate molecular energies without the computational cost

The Roitberg group has recently published a method that uses Machine learning techniques, to compute highly accurate energies, but at a low computational cost. Photographer: Bernard Brzezinski, UF Press Office The article, written with chemistry graduate student Justin Smith and collaborator Olexandr Isayev (U North Carolina):http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/SC/C6SC05720A#!divAbstractA less technical description:https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/neural-network-provides-accurate-simulations-without-the-cost/2500544.articleA playful story for the general public:http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2017/04/the-anakin-method-using-artificial-intelligence-to-fight-disease.php

The Roitberg group describes a method to calculate accurate molecular energies without the computational cost

“The Roitberg group has recently published a method that uses Machine learning techniques, to compute highly accurate energies, but at a low computational cost.”

University of Florida researchers have identified addictive nut’s derivatives that could help smokers break their nicotine addictions

“Worldwide, over 1 billion people smoke cigarette and 600 million chew betel quid, an addicting mix of areca palm nut that can include tobacco. University of Florida researchers have identified at least one compound derived from the areca nut that targets the nicotinic receptor subtypes involved in nicotine addiction. In a collaboration between Roger L. … Read more

Aponick Group research featured on the JACS website masthead

A recently published paper by the Aponick Group is featured on the JACS website. The work, entitled “Enantioselective Alkyne Conjugate Addition Enabled by Readily Tuned Atropisomeric P,N-Ligands” describes how moving from the traditional 6-membered atropisomeric biaryl ligand architecture to chiral biaryl ligands containing a 5-membered heterocycle facilitates tuning. By the nature of the scaffold structure, ligand congeners … Read more

Sumerlin Group publishes paper in Chem achieving unprecedented molecular weights for well-defined polymers

“In a recent paper in�Chem�(Cell Press), the Sumerlin Research Group reports a new polymerization strategy that leads to the highest molecular weight polymers ever prepared by a controlled radical polymerization (CRP) method. Developments in CRP have revolutionized polymer chemistry over the last two decades, allowing access to polymers with well-defined and predictable molecular weights, narrow … Read more

The Grenning Lab Has Designed A Simple Synthesis of Common Terpenoid Cores

“Highly oxidized and complex terpenoid natural products are important drugs for treating diseases. Unfortunately, they can suffer from poor natural abundance and be challenging to synthesize from commodity chemicals. UF Chemistry Department researchers have successfully developed a simple strategy to synthesize related structures with high structural diversity.”

The Grenning Lab Has Designed A Simple Synthesis of Common Terpenoid Cores

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