The group reports a new strategy for "Enantioselective Linchpin Catalysis" facilitated by a novel SOMO a-chlorination procedure employing NaCl & LiCl.
Congrats Muriel, Teresa, and Sean! [link]

The group's work on cycle-specific organocascade catalysis is published, with applications to olefin hydroamination, hydro-oxidation, amino-oxidation, and natural product synthesis. Congrats Bryon and Abbas! [link]

The group reports a process for the rapid removal of dialkylamino-substituents from aromatic rings, and an application to the expedient synthesis of (R)-tolterodine. Congrats Nick and Bryon! [link]

Congratulations to Dr. David Nicewicz, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina! [link]
 

In its 2008 Review of the "Top Research of the Year," Nature highlights the group's work on photoredox organocatalysis. [link] [highlight]
 

The group reports the first enantioselective, organocatalytic carbo-oxidation of styrenes via SOMO Catalysis. Congrats Tom, Casey, & Nate! [link]
 

Photoredox catalysis has been featured on New Jersey News.
View the video clip [here]

The group's work on merging photoredox catalysis with organocatalysis will be published in an upcoming issue of Science. [link] [abstract]
Congrats Dave N.!

Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Rainey, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Montana State University! [link]

We are pleased to announce that the 1^st annual Merck Research Symposium @ Princeton University will be held on May 1, 2008.  
Find more details [here]

The group reports the total synthesis & a structural revision of callipeltoside C.
Congrats Joe, Alan, deMichael, Jake, & Sung-Gon! [link]
 

The group's manuscript on organocatalytic conjugate additions using vinyl and heteroaryl trifluoroborate salts is a top ten Most-Accessed Article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (Oct-Dec 2007). Congrats Sandy! [link]

For the second consecutive time, the group's enantioselective organo-cascade catalysis manuscript is rated as the #1 most cited paper at JACS, earning it the title of hottest paper at JACS.  Congrats Yong, Abbas, and Catharine! [link]

The group reports the first enantioselective organocatalytic alpha-vinylation of aldehydes via direct coupling of potassium organotrifluoroborate salts to SOMO-activated species. Congrats Hahn! [link]

The group publishes the first use of vinyl and heteroaryl trifluoroborate salts as viable substrates for amine-catalyzed conjugate additions. Congrats Sandy! [link]

The group reports the enantioselective a-enolation of aldehydes via SOMO catalysis. Congrats Hye-Young and J-B! [link]

SOMO catalysis has been featured on television on the local New Jersey News. See the video clip [here]

The group's work on SOMO catalysis will be published in an upcoming issue of Science. [link]
Congrats Teresa, Tony, J-B, and Kate!

The group's reductive amination paper was the second most cited paper in 2006 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations Ian, Yike and Diane! [link]

Dave will receive the ISHC Katritzky Junior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry and will give the honorary lecture in July, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.
[click to see previous awardees]

Dave is chosen for a 2007 Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award. The award presentation will be at the ACS National meeting in Boston in August, 2007.
 

Dave wins the Mukaiyama Award, which will be presented by the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry in September 2007 on Awaji Island in Japan.
 

The move to Princeton is complete!
The MacMillan Group is now established in Frick Laboratory.
 

Organo-cascade Catalysis paper is the 3rd Most-Accessed Article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (Oct-Dec 2005). Good job Yong, Abbas, and Catharine! [link]

Vy Maria Dong (MacMillan Group Ph.D., 2003) accepts a faculty position at the University of Toronto.
 

The MacMillan group is moving to Princeton (Sept. 2006). Prospective graduate students interested in applying to the Princeton organic chemistry program, please make inquiries directly to Dave. [e-mail]

Tristan Lambert (MacMillan Group Ph.D., 2003) accepts faculty position at Columbia University.
 

Dave wins the Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Will accept at the International Conference on Organic Chemistry.
[click to see previous awardees] [click to see award announcement]

Three group papers in the top 10 Most-Accessed Articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (Jan-Jun 2005). Good job Ian, Stephane, Jamie and Roxanne. [link]

Dave is awarded a 2004 Corday-Morgan Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He will receive the award in Birmingham in November 2005.
 

Dave wins the first ever Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. He will receive the award in Bordeaux, France in June 2005.
 

Simon Blakey (MacMillan Group Postdoctoral Scholar, 2005) accepts a faculty position at Emory University.
 

Tehshik Yoon (MacMillan Group Ph.D., 2002) accepts a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin.
 

Dave is invited to participate in the Koga-Yamada Prize symposium in Tokyo.
 
 

Dave wins the EJ Corey Award. Will accept at a special symposium at the San Diego ACS meeting.
 

Dave is invited to participate in the 9th International SFB meeting in Aachen, Germany. [click for poster]
 

Dave is invited to give the Merck Lectures at Cambridge, UK. He will present these lectures in May of 2005. [click to see previous awardees]