University of California, Irvine

Blum Laboratory

PASSION FOR UNDERSTANDING
HOW CHEMICAL REACTIONS WORK

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Research at the forefront of organic, organometallic, materials, catalysis, chemical imaging, microscopy, and mechanistic chemistry at the University of California, Irvine

 

Latest News:

Nov 6: Congratulations to Pía López on publication of her Perspective, “Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) as a Tool to Understand Chemical Reactions and Catalysis” in ACS Catalysis!

Sept 14: Congratulations to Dr. Joe Kaplan on publication of gold redox aryl thiolation of alkynes, now in JOC!

Sep 3: Joe Kaplan defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Kaplan!

August 20: Group alum Erin Hanada receives a prestigious Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations on all your achievements, Dr. Hanada!

August 2: Congratulations to Pía López, recipient of a departmental Dissertation Fellowship! Go, Pia!

July 26: Hannah Peacock defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Peacock!

July 17: Congratulations to Hannah Peacock on publication of her studies, “Buildup and Consumption of Species in Emulsion Droplets during Aqueous Suzuki Coupling Correlate with Yield,” now in JOC!

July 17: Group alum Tony Garcia receives a prestigious UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Go, Dr. Garcia!

June 16: Joseph Kaplan, Hannah Peacock, and Prof. Blum participate together in UCI’s 2024 Graduate Hooding Ceremony with friends, family, and colleagues. Congratulations soon-to-be-Drs. Kaplan and Peacock!

May 16: Congratulations to Yiqing Zhang for publication of her studies surfactant-dependent partitioning of organic reagents, now in JOC! This article was selected as an ACS Editor’s Choice article.

May 9: Congratulations, Alexis Ravenscroft, Outstanding 1st-Year Teaching Assistant!

May 9: Congratulations, Pat McShea, Gebel Awardee for sustainable chemistry research!

May 8: Welcome new PhD student, Pegah Honarmand! She will investigate catalytic polymerization by FLIM.

April 17: Congratulations to Hannah Peacock for her imaging characterization of Suzuki coupling under aqueous–organic conditions, now in ChemRxiv!

April 8: We watch the solar eclipse and a SpaceX rocket launch in the same week, enjoying science together.

April 1: Joe Kaplan starts his Dissertation Fellowship. He will investigate and develop heterocyclization reactions. Congratulations, Joe!

Mar 29: Yiqing Zhang receives the ACS Green Chemistry Pharmaceutical Round Table Travel Award! The award comes with the prestigious opportunity to be one of only a few student presenters at the Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference. She will present her research on “Surfactant–Dependent Partitioning of Reagents in Sustainable Reaction Systems Characterized by Imaging.”Congratulations, Yiqing!

Mar 6: Congratulations to Yiqing Zhang for elucidating surfactant-dependent partitioning of organic reagents, now in Chemrxiv!

Jan 3: Hannah Peacock starts her Allergan Graduate Research Fellowship, thanks to the Allergan Foundation.

Dec 18: Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada, Sylvia Lou, and Patrick McShea for differentiating microenvironments of oxidative addition intermediates on zinc, now in Chem. Eur. J.!

Oct 25: Congratulations to Martin Stang and R. J. Mycka for harnessing Lewis acid selectivity and reversible haloboration for boron-based cyclization reactions, now published in JOC!

Sep 20: Congratulations to Hannah Peacock and Pía López, recipients of the Allergan Graduate Research Fellowship!

Sep 19: Congratulations to Joe Kaplan, recipient of a departmental Dissertation Fellowship!

Sep 6: Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada and Patrick McShea for discovering an activation/solubilization pathway of TMSCl to make organozinc reagents, now in Angewandte!

Sep 1: Congratulations to Joe Kaplan for development of iodination–group transfer to generate substituted alkenes, now published in JOC!

Aug 19: Joe Kaplan presents a poster on his borylation and iodination methodology development at the Overman Symposium. Go, Joe!

Aug 17: David Calderon presents a talk at the UCI Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Go, David!

Aug 15: Joe Kaplan presents a talk on his development of iodonation–group transfer reactions, at the ACS Meeting in San Francisco. Way to go, Joe!

Aug 15: Prof. Blum gives the ACS Cope Scholar Award Address at the ACS Meeting in San Francisco. Congrats, Prof. Blum!

Aug 7: Erin Hanada defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Hanada!

July 24: The group enjoys an Activate to Captivate scientific-communication workshop by Bri McWhorter.

July 19: The group celebrates a year of great scientific discoveries with cake, go karts, minigolf, laser tag, and batting cages.

July 17: Alexis Ravenscroft is back—this time joining as a rotating summer student before the start of her PhD at UCI. Welcome to the group, Alexis!