Happy new year everyone! If you haven't registered for our annual WICTO symposium, TODAY is the LAST DAY for REGISTRATION!! This event is open to all undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs! For more details and to sign up: eventbrite.ca/e/2nd-annual-w…

Excited to share our latest paper on the Ni-catalyzed arylation of nitrile-containing NHP esters, out now in JOC! This one has methods, mechanism, and more. Sophie Rousseaux Nick Michel pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Environmental Seminar Series: Come hear Jillian Downey speak about The Environmental Fate of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Understanding their Aggregation Behaviour, Aging Transformations, and Characterizing Environmental Samples. To learn more: uoft.me/a8A

Boronic Acid-Catalyzed Regio- & Stereoselective N-Glycosylations of Purines & Other Azole Heterocycles: Access to Nucleoside Analogues | JACS Chemistry at UofT University of Toronto U of T Arts & Science #BoronicAcid #Glycosylation #Purine #Heteranes #Nucleoside Total Synthesis and Methodology Highlights #Catalysis pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Marco Mendicino,CanadianPM,Chrystia Freeland As Budget 2024 approaches, let's advocate for increased funding for graduate students and postdocs in Canada. It's time to recognize their invaluable contributions #SupportOurScience

Excited to share that The Mills Lab will start this fall at the University of Houston! This is possible due to my mentors and training Sophie Rousseaux Paul Chirik Chirik Group Stay tuned and follow below for more news: x.com/millslabchem

Last month, two TMU Molecular Science graduate students participated in the annual Working towards Inclusivity in Chemistry Toronto Symposium to learn about applying EDI in science while sharing their research and building professional relationships with the local science community. Read more: torontomu.ca/science/news-e…

Awesome new paper from John & James!

Photocatalytic O- to S-Rearrangement of Tertiary Cyclopropanols (Sophie A. L. Rousseaux and co-workers) @Jmonteith_Chem, Sophie Rousseaux #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

#WICTOsPersonofInfluence for March was Indra Nooyi. To learn more about her, swipe through and/or click the link in our bio!

Excited to share our computational study of carboxylate elimination from pyranoside monoesters now out in OBC! I am very grateful to Prof Hendrik Zipse for inviting me to visit his lab and for his mentorship during this collaboration! OBC pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Federal funding for graduate students in Canada has finally increased after over 20 years! A welcome step in the right direction for Canadian science.

Happy to share our work on the synthesis of borylated (aminomethyl)cyclopropanes using 1,1-diborylalkanes. Very grateful to Alex Gabbey Julia Turner Sophie Rousseaux and Prath (not on Xwitter) for all of their hard work. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share our work on the synthesis of mandelic acid derivatives via a dual Ni/photoredox cross-coupling approach, now online in #OL J Org Chem/Org Lett Sophie Rousseaux pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out some of our work recently published in JACS! We report a method for enantioselective carbon isotope exchange in amino acids with isotopically labeled CO2. Many thanks to our amazing collaborators at Sanofi. Great work everyone! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Calling all Quebec & Ontario organic & biological chemists! We are excited to announce that QOMSBOC 2024 will be held at the University of Toronto from Nov 8–10. We already have some fantastic plenary speakers lined up! Check out qomsboc.ca for more details 👩‍🔬😊 📆

Our first paper on Pd-catalysis, a Suzuki coupling of carbamoyl fluorides is out in Chemical Communications! 🥳 Congrats to MaryamJabbarpoor, Jesse LeBlanc, Zichuan Chen and Dusty Cadwallader. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Organic Syntheses announces the election of Professor Sophie Rousseaux Sophie Rousseaux of the University of Toronto to the OS Board of Editors. sites.chem.utoronto.ca/rousseaux

We are excited to announce an incredible lineup of plenary speakers for QOMSBOC 2024. Registration and abstract submission opens on September 3rd. We hope you can join us in Toronto this November! Keep an eye on qomscboc.ca for more updates 👀

Registration and abstract submission for QOMSBOC 2024 are now open! Join us at the University of Toronto from Nov 8–10 by registering at qomsboc.ca. We hope to see you there 🤩