Blum Research Laboratory
Research at the forefront of organic, organometallic, inorganic, and mechanistic chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
05/22/2024
Welcome to our newest group member, Pegah Honarmand!
Congratulations to Yiqing Zhang for publication of her studies on surfactant-dependent partitioning of organic reagents in JOC! This article was an Editor's Choice article.
05/11/2024
Another successful Lee dinner in the books!
Congratulations to Pat McShea as the new Gebel Awardee for sustainable chemistry research!
Congratulations to Alexis Ravenscroft for being awarded the Outstanding 1st-year Teaching Assistant!
Congratulations to Hannah Peacock for characterization of aqueous–organic Suzuki coupling, now in ChemRxiv!
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!
Congratulations to Yiqing Zhang for elucidating surfactant-dependent partitioning of organic reagents, now in Chemrxiv!
12/18/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada, Sylvia Lou, and Patrick McShea for differentiating microenvironments of oxidative addition intermediates in zinc, now in Chem. Eur. J.!
Thanks to PicoQuant for a microscope that makes these findings possible!
Metal Activation Produces Different Reaction Environments for Intermediates during Oxidative Addition Commercial zinc metal powder requires activation for consistent and reliable use as a reductant in the formation of organozinc reagents from organohalides, and for the avoidance of supplier and batch...
10/25/2023
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!
Mechanistic Insight from Lewis-Acid-Dependent Selectivity and Reversible Haloboration, as Harnessed for Boron-Based Electrophilic Cyclization Reactions Different reaction selectivity occurs with the Lewis acids B-chlorocatecholborane (ClBcat), B-bromocatecholborane (BrBcat), and BBr3, favoring either alkyne haloboration, electrophilic cyclization of a tethered nucleophilic sulfur onto the alkyne, or group transfer of the nucleophile. This reaction....
Congratulations to Joe Kaplan for receiving the departmental Dissertation Fellowship and to Hannah Peacock and Pía López for receiving the Allergan Graduate Research Fellowship!
09/07/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada and Patrick McShea for the publication of their work on the activating role of TMSCl in Angewandte!
Trimethylsilyl Chloride Aids in Solubilization of Oxidative Addition Intermediates from Zinc Metal Trimethylsilyl chloride (TMSCl) is commonly used to “activate” metal(0) powders toward oxidative addition of organohalides, but knowledge of its mechanism remains limited by the inability to characte...
Congratulations to Joe Kaplan for publication of his research on group transfer of substituted alkenes in JOC!
08/12/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Erin Hanada for defending her thesis!
We had a professional development workshop, Activate to Captivate, run by Bri McHorter. If you're interested in taking your presentations to the next level, we highly recommend!
07/05/2023
Pía López presents her research discovering autofluorescence for polymerization monitoring at the International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis in Bergen, Norway, Go, Pía!
06/19/2023
Antonio Garcia IV, Erin Hanada, and Prof. Blum participate together in UCI’s 2023 Graduate Hooding Ceremony with friends, family, and colleagues. Congratulations Dr. Garcia and Soon-to-be-Dr. Hanada!
Congratulations Martin Stang, winner of the Chemistry Department Graduate Student Service Award, announced at the annual Lee Event and Dinner!
06/07/2023
Welcome to our newest group member, Jay Won!
Congratulations to Pia and Vy for publication of their autofluorescence studies on polymerization progress in Angewandte!
Congratulations to Pia and Vy for publication of their autofluorescence studies on polymerization progress in Angewandte!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anie.202304618
04/25/2023
A belated welcome to our newest graduate member, Yiqing Zheng!
Congratulations to Hannah Peacock and Prof. Blum, presenting their research at the Spring ACS National Meeting!
03/23/2023
Hannah Peacock elucidated the physical environments of micelles under synthetic organic conditions, now published in JACS! Congratulations, Hannah!
Surfactant Micellar and Vesicle Microenvironments and Structures under Synthetic Organic Conditions Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) reveals vesicle sizes, structures, microenvironments, reagent partitioning, and system evolution with two chemical reactions for widely used surfactant–water systems under conditions relevant to organic synthesis, including during steps of Negishi cr...
Congratulations to Antonio Garcia IV on successful defense of his PhD thesis! Dr. Garcia will join Olympus–Evident in the LA region.
Our new 405 nm laser and hybrid detector are installed, adding imaging capabilities. We’re excited to take our new PicoQuant devices for a spin!
The group welcomes new PhD student Yiqing Zhang! Great scientific discoveries and conversations await. Welcome to the team, Yiqing!
The group welcomes new PhD students Sylvia Lou and Patrick McShea! Great scientific discoveries and conversations await. Welcome to the team, Sylvia and Pat!
01/24/2023
Dr. Or Eivgi developed a method to image block-selective copolymer solvation by FLIM, revealing this selective solvation’s impact on polymer self assembly/disassembly, now in JACS! Congratulations, Dr Eivgi!
Imaging Block-Selective Copolymer Solvation Understanding individual-block solvation in self-assembled block copolymer systems is experimentally difficult, but this solvation underpins the assembly and disassembly observed at the bulk scale. Here, covalently attached viscosity-sensitive molecular rotors for fluorescence lifetime imaging micro...
01/23/2023
C&EN News highlights Prof. Blum as a 2023 ACS Cope Scholar Awardee. Go, Prof. Blum!
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12/02/2022
Tony Garcia discovered way to determine polymer molecular weight by fluorescence lifetime, enabeling determination of Mw without removal from ongoing reaction mixtures and regardless of polymer solubility for GPC, now in JACS! Congratulations, Tony!
Polymer Molecular Weight Determination via Fluorescence Lifetime Control of polymer molecular weight is critical for tailoring structure–function properties; however, traditional molecular weight characterization techniques have limited ability to determine the molecular weight of polymers in real time without sample removal from the reaction mixture, with spat...
Congratulations to Erin Hanada, recipient of a departmental Dissertation Fellowship!
The Department of Energy awarded our laboratory a research grant to study catalytic polymerization reactions through fluorescence chemical imaging! Exciting discoveries await. Congratulations to Team Polymers and to the entire group!
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