CMD Hosts 2017 Symposium

July 20th, 2017 in Uncategorized

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Thanks to all who attended the 16th Annual CMD Symposium on June 23! Attendees were treated to fantastic talks from Professors Dirk Trauner, Ben List, Frances Arnold and Robert Langer, followed by a poster session highlighting new research from our students and postdocs.

Special thanks to Center Administrator Lisa Holik for a great job organizing this event, our friends at BUnano for help with setup and Prof. Aaron Beeler for organizing the poster session.

Thanks also to our generous sponsors listed below, without whom this event would not be possible:

  • AbbVie
  • Biogen
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • BU Translational Research in Biomaterials Training Grant
  • Celgene
  • Chemglass
  • Constellation
  • Eisai Research Institute
  • IKA
  • Interchim Inc.
  • Paraza Pharmaceuticals
  • Pfizer, Inc.
  • SanofiUS
  • Strem Chemicals, Inc.
  • Vertex
  • Yamazen

Check back in the future for news on our next CMD Symposium.

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CMD Paper in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry

July 18th, 2017 in Uncategorized

Congratulations to Han Yueh, Qiwen Gao, and Professors John Porco and Aaron Beeler on their recent paper in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry entitled “A photochemical flow reactor for large scale syntheses of aglain and rocaglate natural product analogues”

Abstract:  Herein, we report the development of continuous flow photoreactors for large scale ESIPT-mediated [3 +2]-photocycloaddition of  2-(p-methoxyphenyl)-3-hydroxyflavone and cinnamate-derived dipolarophiles. These reactors can be efficiently numbered up to increase throughput two orders of magnitude greater than the corresponding batch reactions.

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