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
academia, industry, and the government.
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News & Events
July 2021: Prof. Erik Romero will begin his new position as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, San Diego, CA.
May 2021: Prof. Yang Gu will begin his new position as an Associate Professor at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Techonolgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China.
February 2021: The lab celebrates Black History Month by highlighting specific Black chemists and their accomplishments. Check out our presentations here.
January 2021: Dr. Pengfei Ji will begin his new position as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Zhejiang University, China.
January 2021: Dr. Zhennan Liu will begin her new position as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore.
October 2020: Prof. John F. Hartwig won the 2021 Arthur C. Cope Award.
October 2020: Dr. Adrian Tlahuext Aca will begin his new position as a Senior Scientist at Corteva Agriscience in Indianapolis, IN.
Recent Publications
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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Bloomer, B.J.; Clark, D.S.; Hartwig, J.F. Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities with Artificial Metalloenzymes in Biosynthesis. Biochem. 2022, 61, ASAP. |
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Ma, S.; Xi, Y.; Fan, H.; Roediger, S.; Hartwig, J.F. Enantioselective hydroamination of unactivated terminal alkenes. Chem 2022, 8, 535-542. |
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Hanna, S.; Bloomer, B.; Ciccia, N.R.; Butcher, T.W.; Conk, R.J.; Hartwig, J.F. Contra-thermodynamic Olefin Isomerization by Chain-Walking Hydroboration and Dehydroboration. Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 1005-1010. |
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