Our Chemistry
Our research group aims to discover, develop and understand new transition metal-catalyzed reactions. The discovery of fundamentally new transition metal chemistry and its development into practical, catalytic synthetic methods is a theme of our research.
Alumni Profiles
Hundreds of Hartwig Group alumni have found successful careers in
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News & Events
July 2023: Dr. Yehao Qiu will begin his new position as a Research Investigator, Chemistry, at Incyte Corportation, Wilmington, DE.
January 2023: Prof. John Hartwig was the winner of the 2nd Akira Suzuki Award from Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.
August 2022: Prof. Yumeng Xi will begin his new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at National University of Singapore.
May 2022: Prof. John Hartwig was the winner of the Sven Berggren Prize for 2023.
May 2022: Dr. Eric Kalkman will begin his new position as a Senior Scientist at Dow Chemical Company in Collegeville, PA.
March 2022: Prof. John Hartwig was the winner of the Emanuel Merck Lectureship Award 2022.
August 2021: Dr. Trevor Butcher will begin his new position as a Postdoc Scholar in the Brian Stoltz Research Group at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Recent Publications
Yu, I.F.; Manske, J.L.; Diéguez-Vázquez, A.; Misale, A.; Pashenko, A.E.; Mykhailiuk, P.K.; Ryabukhin, S.V.; Volochnyuk, D.M.; Hartwig, J.F. Catalytic undirected borylation of tertiary C–H bonds in bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes and bicyclo[2.1.1]hexanes. Nat. Cat. 2023, 15, 685-693. |
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Ma, S.; Hartwig, J.F. Progression of Hydroamination Catalyzed by Late Transition-Metal Complexes from Activated to Unactivated Alkenes. Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, None, ASAP. |
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Bloomer, B.J.; Natoli, S.N.; Garcia-Borràs, M.; Pereira, J.H.; Hu, D.B.; Mechanistic and structural characterization of an iridium-containing cytochrome reveals kinetically relevant cofactor dynamics. Nature Catalysis 2023, 6, 39-51. |
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Conk, R.J.; Hanna, S.; Shi, J.X.; Ciccia, N.R.; Qi, L.; Bloomer, B.J.; Yang, J.; Su, J.; Heuvel, S.; Wills, T.; Bell, A.T.; Hartwig, J.F. Catalytic Deconstruction of Waste Polyethylene with Ethylene to Form Propylene. Science 2022, 377, 1561-1566. |
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Choi K, Mormino MG, Kalkman ED, Park J, Hartwig JF Palladium-Catalyzed Aryldifluoromethylation of Aryl Halides with Aryldifluoromethyl Trimethylsilanes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, None, ASAP. |
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