Welcome to Dong group! Our new website in UChicago.

Our research interests is to harness the power of transition-metal catalysts to address the challenges in the arena of chemoselectivity and multi-step synthesis. Our research philosophy is guided by three questions:

1) What would be the most efficient way to introduce functional groups into (small or large) organic molecules?

2) What would be the most efficient method to synthesize various molecular skeletons (bridged or fused rings) with high complexity?

3) What would be the most efficient strategy to access mutiple structurally complicated and biologically important natural products and their analogues in a rapid fashion?

 

 

 

 

Recent Updates

  • April. 2016
    Congratulations Dr. Ren! Zack successfully defends his PhD thesis!
  • April. 2016
    Congratulations Dr. Thompson! John successfully defends his PhD thesis!
  • Mar. 2016
    Congratulations Dr. Whittaker! Rachel successfully defends her PhD thesis!
  • Jan. 2016
    The Dong group welcomes Dr. Dong Xing to the lab.
  • Oct. 2015
    The Dong group welcomes Dr. Saiyong Pan and Dr. Marshall Brennan to the lab.
  • Aug. 2015
    The Dong group welcomes Dr. Ying Xia, Mr. Brent Billett, Mr. Tatsuhiro Tsukamoto, Mr. Jiaxin Xie, and Mr. Chengpeng Wang to the lab.
  • Apr. 2015
    Congratulations Prof. Tao Xu! Tao leaves to start his independent career at the Ocean University of China.
  • Mar. 2015
    Zhongxing Huang is a recepient of the 2015 International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) Elemental Graudate Student Award. Congratulations Zhongxing!.
  • Mar. 2015
    Congratulations Prof. Fanyang Mo! Momo leaves to start his independent career at Peking University.
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