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News
August 2003

August 2007

The Bode Group is moving to the University of Pennsylvania! Interested graduate students should apply directly to the Department of Chemstry at Penn.

August 2007

Jeff is a 2008 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar!

August 2007

Jeff is awarded the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Unresticted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry!

June 2007

The group welcomes summer undergrads Seiko Fuji (Smith College), Charles Grove (CSUÐFresno), Brendan Beahm (UCSB), and Vasken Keleshian (UCBS).

April 2007

Dr. Takeo Fukuzumi (Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology) joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.

March 2007

Jeff is elected an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow!

March 2007

Pei-Chen and Juthanat's communication on enantioselective cyclopentene-forming annulations via benzoinÐoxy-Cope reactions is published in JACS!

February 2007

Dr. Jian Wu (Ph.D., Wayne State Univeristy) and Dr. Michael Rommel (Ph.D., University of Marburg) join the group as our first postdoctoral scholars. Welcome!

January 2007

Jeff is selected for the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ) Lectureship Award and will present an award address at the SSOCJ summer meeting!

December 2006

Our new method of amide bond formation is selected as a Chemistry Highlight 2006 in C&EN News!

November 2006

Congratulations to Nancy Carrillo and Justin Struble, who both advanced to candidacy!

October 2006

Our enantioselective NHC-catalyzed oxodiene Diels-Alder reaction is featured as a news story in C&EN news!

October 2006

Jeff Bode is a 2006-2011 David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow!

October 2006

Ming and Gerson's paper on enantioselective NHC-catalyzed oxodiene Diels-Alder reactions with less than 1 mol % organocatalyst is accepted in JACS!

October 2006

Alex and Juthanat's paper on the synthesis and properties of shapeshifiting organic molecules is accepted in JACS!

September 2006

Jeff Bode is listed as one of MIT Technology Review's Top Innovators Under 35.

September 2006

Jeff Bode is one of three 2006-2008 Eli Lilly Grantees!

September 2006

The entire Bode Group travels to the Fall 2006 ACS Meeting in San Francisio. Ming, Alex, Justin S., Stephanie, Justin R., and Nancy present their latest work. Pictures coming soon...

August 2006

Nancy Carrillo is awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship!

June 2006

Jeff Bode is one of two awardees of the 2006 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award! For previous winners, click here.

June 2006

Pei-Chen Chiang and Dan Burke join the group as first year graduate students! Gerson Uc-Basulto is an RISE summer undergraduate student from Fresno State. Shuhei Manabe, Jiyoung Yoon, and Shu-Ting Liu are UCSB summer undergraduate researchers.

May 2006

Jeff Bode is as selected for a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award!

May 2006

Ming's paper on catalytic enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions is published in
J. Am. Chem. Soc.

April 2006

Jeff Bode is a 2006 Beckman Young Investigator!

March 2006

Jeff Bode is chosen as the first Richard and Leslie Anderson Scholar!

February 2006

Jeff Bode is selected as a 2006 Amgen Young Investigator!

January 2006

Our novel amide-bond forming ligation is featured as the lead story in C&E News!

January 2006

Nancy, Justin, and Eric's paper on the iterative synthesis of b3-oligopeptides in water is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

January 2006

Our new method for chemoselective amidation without reagents or by-products is published in Angew. Chem.

November 2005

Our development of novel reactions catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes is highlighted in Angew. Chem!

Autumn 2005

Lei Ju, Melissa Flores, and Junthanat Keobambrung join the group as first year students.

July 2005

Stephanie's paper on the catalytic redox esterification of enals is published in Organic Letters.

June 2005

Lenore Hicks is a NIH BRIDGES summer intern; Justin Russak joins the group as first-year graduate student

June 2005

Undergraduate Summer Fellowships!  Evie Rosen wins a CCS SURF Fellowship; Eric Davalos wins a Pfizer AIR-SURF Award; Kyle Baucom wins a Roche Undergraduate Research Award.

June 2005

Ming He publishes the NHC catalyzed synthesis of gamma-lactams from enals and N-sulfonylimines.

May 2005

Stephanie Sohn advances to candidacy!

Winter 2004–05

Ryan Fox, Justin Struble, and Nancy Carillo join the group as first year graduate students.

December 2004

Ming He advances to candidacy; completes the synthesis of clausenamide.

December 2004

Construction (finally) finishes on the new Bode Labs!

November 2004

Jeffrey Bode is awarded a 2005–2009 NSF CAREER Award

September 2004

Stephanie Sohn and Evie Rosen publish in J. Am. Chem. Soc. the N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed generation of homoenolates.

June 2004

Undergraduate Awards! Adam Villa wins a Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship; Chris Day wins a CCS SURF Award; Evie Rosen wins a Roche Undergraduate Research Award.

June 2004

Ken Chow publishes the first method for catalytic generation of activated carboxylates in JACS!

Winter 2003–04

Stephanie Sohn, Ken Chow, Alex Lippert, and Ming He join the group as first year graduate students

August 2003

Jeffrey Bode is awarded the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.

August 2003

Bode Group founded at UCSB