Group News, 2020
March
  • While we're saddened on-campus recruitment has been cancelled, we are looking forward to meeting our prospective students in a virtual recruitment weekend! Follow us on Twitter for highlights of our lab members, see photos of the lab in action, and keep up with our research! @SzymczakLab
  • Spring is just around the corner!
February
  • Recruitment season is here; welcome to the prospective students!
  • The first Szymczak lab bowling event was a great success!
January
  • A new year, a new rotator, and two new undergrads! Welcome to the group Shreya, Lucy, and Jared!

Group News, 2019
December
  • The group traveled to Michigan State University for the first Michigan Inorganic Chemistry Symposium (MICS). Posters were presented by Emily, Cheyanne, and Michael, and Jessi gave a talk on her current H-bonding project! Thanks to Emily for organizing a great symposium!
  • Along with the Shultz group, the lab enjoyed a fun holiday party hosted by the boss!
November
  • The lab was well-represented at Ohio Inorganic Weekend (OIW) at the University of Toledo in Toledo, OH, with posters from Jessi, Emily, Anna Li, Madison, Cheyanne, Siqi, and Jim!
  • Congratulations to Emily for completing her oral exam to become a Ph.D. candidate!
September
  • A new school year is upon us and with it come a bunch of new members! Welcome to visiting scholar Deeb, visiting undergrad Zhe, post-doc Shuo, and rotators Audrey, Madison, and Siqi! We're excited to have so many new faces!
  • John and Emily's Chem Comm paper featuring tetrahedral iron complexes with appended boranes is live - congrats!
August
  • Marianne received the Margaret & Herman Sokol Graduate Summer Research Fellowship to support her summer work. Congrats Marianne!
  • Marianne also traveled to San Diego to present her work on C-C bond formation and hydrogen transfer at the ACS National Meeting! 
June
  • Szymczak Lab group trip is a great success! Check out some photos in the Group Photos tab.
May
  • Emily and Cheyanne have officially joined the lab!
  • The boss has returned from a productive sabbatical at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea–we're glad to have you back!
  • Lily returned to Ann Arbor for graduation and to get her PhD hood. Danielle and Anna Li also graduated with their Bachelors degrees! Congrats to the graduates!
  • John and Jim's recent paper on tuning ligand field strength with Lewis acids is published in Chemical Science! Great work!
  • Lily and Marianne's Angewandte Chemie paper featuring ruthenium-keteniminates as intermediates for catalytic hydrogen transfer goes live! Congratulations!
  • The Szymczak lab is rolling out yet another great paper! Jim's study on hydrogen bonding to N2 at room temperature is published in JACS - congrats Jim!
April
  • Jacob's final paper with Ellen (Sanford Lab) describing difluoromethyl-borate adducts went live on ChemComm! Congrats!
February and March
  • We really enjoyed meeting everyone at the recruitment weekends! We hope to see you soon, and GO BLUE!
January
  • We are excited to have Cheyanne join us for her second rotation--welcome back!
  • Congrats to John on his paper in Inorg Chem detailing Lewis acid requirements to capture and cleave hydrazine!

Group News, 2018
December
  • Marianne successfully completed her candidacy exam to become a PhD candidate! Congrats!
September
  • The new school year has arrived and with it three new rotators and a new undergrad! Welcome to the Szymczak Lab Emily, Winston, Anthony, and Myles!
August
  • The Szymczak group was well-represented at the annual Karle Symposium: 5 posters were presented, and Jim and Jessi both took home inorganic poster awards! Congratulations Jim and Jessi!
  • Eric and John's zinc-peroxo JACS Comm goes live! Congrats!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Lily Hale for her successful thesis defense!!
July
  • Jacob and Michael's aryl-CF2 communications paper is published in JACS! Congrats!
June
  • Congrats to Jacob and Joanna on their CO2 hydrogenation paper!
  • Summer rotation students start early! Welcome to the lab Cheyanne!
  • Lily's perspective on Hydrogen Transfer Catalysis beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere is published in ACS Catalysis! Congratulations Lily!
May
  • Summer REU begins! Welcome Omar!
  • Group Trip 2018 was a success. No bear attacks, one Jenga champion, two tired dogs.
April
  • Dr. Jiaxiang Chu joins the lab!
  • John takes home bragging rights from the March-Madness pool!
March
  • Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Geri on his successful PhD defense!
January
  • Welcome winter rotation students Connor and Marianne!

Group News, 2017
December
  • Eric's hydrogen bond supported peroxodicopper complexes goes live in Chem. Commun.
  • John's paper on appended boron facilitated hydrazine capture and cleavage is published in JACS!
  • Congratulations to Michael and Jessi on becoming PhD candidates
  • The Jacob and Michael HCF3 collaboration made it into ACIE! Nice work!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Eric Dahl on his wonderful thesis defense!
September
  • New group undergrad Taim joins the fold!
​August
  • Josh joins the lab! Welcome!
​July
  • Jacob's HCF3 paper brings new life to borazine as recyclable trifluoromethylation reagents. Congrats Jacob!
​June
  • Michael Wade Wolfe joins the group!
​May
  • Congrats Nate Szymczak for being selected for the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award!
​April
  • Jessi officially joins the group!
  • Jacob and Jim's Fe-N2 paper is published in JACS!
​February
  • Eric and Toma's paper is accepted for publication in Chemical Communications!
January
  • A new year, a new batch of rotation students ready to take on the world. Welcome Wesley, Sibin and Jessica!

Group News, 2016
December
  • John joins the lab! Welcome John!
September
  • The group expands with three new rotation students Brad, Bernadette and Ellen as well as two new undergraduate researchers Anna Li and Danielle!
August
  • Another year, another great group trip! Expert paddler Nate Szymczak fearlessly leads the team down the Huron River
  • The Szymczak Group storms ACS-Philadelphia with the successful section "Secondary Coordination Sphere Influences: Stability, Reactivity & Everything in Between."
July
  • Tim's paper on the modular attachment of appended boron Lewis acids is accepted into JACS! Well done Tim!
June
  • Lily's paper on the mechanism of acceptorless amine dehydrogenation via N,N,N-Amide Ruthenium(II) Hydrides is published in ACS Catalysis!
  • Welcome to our new rotation students Michael and Hai!
  • A big welcome to the lab to Tufan!
  • Lily leaves for summer for ICIQ and the lab welcomes our collaborative exchange researcher Nicola!
May April
  • Tim successfully defends his thesis!!!
February
  • Cameron's paper on the dramatic influence of simple ligand modifcations on ruthenium catalyzed transfer hydrogenation is published in ACS Catalysis.
January​
  • A warm welcome to our new rotation student Mark Mantell
  • Congratulations to Tim and Steve for their work on ungrading ethanol to butanol now in Chem. Commun.
  • Eric's paper on an H-bond promoted entatic state with a square planar copper complex is accepted to Angewandte Chemie.
  • Welcome to the group Victor!



















Group News, 2015
October
  • Both Jacob's and Tyler's manuscripts are now published in JACS and Chem Sci!
September
  • Dr. Wes Brogden joins the group as our new postdoctoral researcher in a collaboration with the Thompson Group.
  • A warm welcome to our new rotators Max and Shantel!
August
  • Tim's mechanistic paper on N,N,N-Amide Ruthenium(II) Hydride Mediated Acceptorless Alcohol Dehydrogenation is accepted to ACS Catalysis!
  • A fond farewell to our visiting undergraduate researcher Ruxi Dai.
July
  • NIH funding awarded for the lab!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Moore on his successful thesis defense.
May
  • ​A warm Szymczak welcome to our new official lab members, Grayson and Jim!
April
  • Cameron's elegant examination of the impact of hydrogen bonding on NO generation, "Nitrite reduction by copper through ligand-mediated proton and electron transfer", has been accepted to Chemical Science! 
March
  • Cameron's paper, "Redox-induced fluoride ligand dissociation stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding", made the front cover of Chemical Communications! 
January​
  • Congratulations to Cameron and Eric for their review article in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, "Beyond H2: exploiting 2-hydroxypyridine as a design element from [Fe]-hydrogenase for energy-relevant catalysis"!

Group News, 2014
December
  • Tim's paper, "Regulation of Iron-Catalyzed Olefin Hydroboration by Ligand Modifications at a Remote Site", has been published in ACS catalysis. Congratulations!
  • Finishing the academic year in style, the lab enjoyed a night of fine food and drinks at our annual holiday party.
September
  • Congratulations to Cameron for his article in Chemical Communications, "Redox-induced fluoride ligand dissociation stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding"!
August
  • After another year of productive science, the group went to Ionia State Park for three days of canoe races, exploration, and grilling.
July
  • Tim's review, "Dehydrogenative Oxidation fo Primary Amines to Nitriles", was accepted to Synlett. Congratulations!.
May
  • This month, we warmly welcome Jim and Grayson Ritch as new rotators in the group.
April
  • This month, we welcome Lily Hale as an official graduate student in the group.
March
  • Cam's paper was recently accepted to Inorganic Chemistry! Congrats Cam!
  • Tyler's paper was also accepted this month to Organometallics! Congrats Tyler!
February January
  • This month, we send a warm Szymczak welcome to our two new rotators, Lily Hale and Andy Vitek.

Group News, 2013
October
  • This month, Tim and Andrew’s paper detailing the oxidant-free conversion of primary amines to nitriles was accepted to JACS! Congrats to both of you!!
September
  • This month, we described Tyler’s recent work on borazine reduction during an ACS press conference.
  • The Szymczak group presented at the National ACS meeting in Indianapolis, IN.
  • We also send a warm welcome to our newest rotator, James Bour.
August
  • This month, Tim's paper, "Base-Free, Acceptorless, and Chemoselective Alcohol Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by an Amide-Derived NNN-Ruthenium(II) Hydride Complex," was one of the top 10 most read articles: April-June 2013!
July
  • Kicking back after a year of good science, the group is going on its offical camping trip. Pictures to come!
May
  • This month, we warmly welcome our new summer rotators, Jacob Geri and Alex Nett.
March February
  • Oscar’s manuscript was accepted to JACS, congrats Oscar!
  • This month, we also extend a warm Szymczak welcome to our newest undergraduate researcher, Justin.
January
  • This month we give a warm Szymczak welcome to our new rotator, Nomaan Rezayee.



















Group News, 2012
November
  • Camerons’s manuscript introducing dihydroxy terpyridine as a proton-responsive, bifunctional ligand was accepted to ChemComm. Congrats Cameron!
October
  • Tyler’s manuscript illustrating metal-mediated borazine reduction was accepted to Angewandte Chemie. Congrats Tyler!
September
  • This month, we give a warm Szymczak welcome to our two new rotators: Eric Dahl and Chelsea Cates, and one undergraduate: Andrew Rizzi
June
  • This month, Cameron’s communication in Dalton Transactions was listed as one of the top ten most accessed articles in May 2012
May
  • This month we welcome Tiffany Chuang, Timothy Tseng, and Qi Zhang to the lab, We look forward to working with you guys!!
  • The group's first manuscript detailing a hydrogen-bond appended ligand appears as an invited contribution to Dalton Transaction (New Talent: The America's). Congratulations to Cameron!
  • The lab has been officially certified as a sustainable lab, and been given a rating of 'Gold'.
April
  • This month we bid a fond farewell to Charles Lhermite, and Mitchell Smith, you will both be missed, good luck in your new labs.
February
  • This month we give a warm Szymczak welcome to our newest undergraduate researcher; Laura Essex.
January
  • This month we have the pleasure of welcoming two new rotation students, Mitchell and Charles, to the lab. We also welcome our newest undergraduate students; David Quist.



















Group News, 2011
November
  • This month we said goodbye to Chengbao Ni, his excellence in analyzing raw crystallographic data will be missed. Good luck in your next post-doc CB!
September
  • We give a warm welcome to our two newest graduate students, Katie Craigo and Tim Tseng!
August
  • We wave a fond farewell to Yineng Xioa, and say thanks for a wonderful semester!
July
  • The group outing to Silver Lake was great fun!
  • Congratulations to Cameron Moore on being awarded the Vaughan Symposium Travel Award for top poster!
  • Cameron Moore and Tyler Carter presented posters at the Vaughan Symposium on the 28th
  • On the first of the month, we welcome Yineng Xiao, an exchange student from Peking Universty, to the Lab!
June
  • On the 13th we welcome Tanvi Ratani, our newest University of Michigan undergrad to the Szymczak Group!
  • On the first of this month we give a hearty Szymczak welcome to our newest post-doc, Chengbao Ni!
May
  • We welcome Cameron Moore and Tyler Carter as permanent members of the lab! Congratulations you two!!
April
  • Congratulations to Cameron Moore on being awarded the NSF Graduate Fellowship!
March
  • The vacuum has been set up in both the Szymczak 1 and 2 gloveboxes
February
  • The IR spectrometer is installed and ready for use, as is the UV spectrometer
January
  • The glove boxes are officially ready for use
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