News Archive
July 2024 – Congratulations to Matt K. and Albert for publication of their work in JACS: “Oxidative Addition of (Hetero)aryl (Pseudo)halides at Palladium(0): Origin and Significance of Divergent Mechanisms”
July 2024 – We welcome incoming 1st year student Bobby Lerch as a summer rotator!
April 2024 – Daniel wins a poster award at the Undergraduate Spring Research celebration for his work this semester on site-selective cross-coupling with Oliver. Congratulations!
April 2024 – Congratulations to Nate and Jacob for the publication of their work figuring out why bulky ligands can tend to promote over-functionalization in Pd-catalyzed cross-couplings of substrates bearing multiple halide substrates (answer: Pd(0) does NOT want to dissociate as a 12-electron species): “Mechanistic Origin of Ligand Effects on Exhaustive Functionalization During Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Dihaloarenes”
April 2024 – We are excited to welcome 1st year graduate student Matt Sandin to the group!
April 2024 – Our collaborative work with Melanie Sanford has been published in ACS Catalysis. “Nickel-Based Catalysts for the Selective Monoarylation of Dichloropyridines: Ligand Effects and Mechanistic Insights”
March 2024 – Congratulations to Albert for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
February 2024 – Congratulations to Collin for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!
January 2024 – Undergraduate students Riley, Zach, and Daniel join the lab.
December 2023 – Jacob successfully defends his PhD – congratulations!!
September 2023 – Congratulations to Oliver on a successful “4th year” departmental seminar!
August 2023 – Jacob receives a PhD dissertation completion award from the graduate school – congratulations!
May 2023 – Our collaborative work with Joe Clark has been published in JACS Au. Fun fact, Joe was Albert’s undergrad advisor! “Precision Deuteration Using Cu-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrodeuteration to Access Small Molecules Deuterated at the Benzylic Position”
April 2023 – It’s official, Sharon has been awarded tenure!
March 2023 – Congratulations to Grace, Vitor, and Cole for publication of their work in a special issue of Chemistry — An Asian Journal in honor of Ken Houk’s 80th birthday: “Triflate-Selective Suzuki Cross-Coupling of Chloro- and Bromoaryl Triflates Under Ligand-Free Conditions”
February 2023 – Congratulations to Steven and Matt for publication of their latest tantalum work in Organometallics “C(sp3)−H Oxidative Addition at Tantalocene Hydrides”
September 2022 – Congratulations to Jacob for publication of his Perspective article in Chemical Science ‘The Road Less Traveled: Unconventional Site Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Dihalogenated N‐Heteroarenes‘
August 2022 – Welcome to our newest group member, Collin Stein!
August 2022 – Oliver Jackson receives the 2022 Harlan Byker Research Award. Very well deserved, congratulations Oliver!
July 2022 – Congratulations to Dr. John Russell for a successful Ph.D. defense!
July 2022 – Congratulations Jacob and Nate for publication of their latest paper in ACS Catalysis “Different Oxidative Addition Mechanisms for 12- and 14-Electron Palladium(0) Explain Ligand-Controlled Divergent Site Selectivity“.
June 2022 – Welcome to REU students Claire Montowski and Conner Owen! And congratulations to Jacob Norman and Matt Kania on successful 4th year seminars.
May 2022 – Welcome to our newest group member, Oliver Jackson!
May 2022 – Congratulations Jacob, Nate, and Emily E. for publication of their paper in J. Org. Chem. “Unconventional Site Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Cross- Couplings of Dichloroheteroarenes under Ligand-Controlled and Ligand-Free Systems“.
May 2022 – Grace Ibsen is the recipient of the 2022 Pagenkopf Graduate Award – congratulations!
February 2022 – Grace Ibsen receives a CLS Dean’s Student Travel Award. This will help support her travel to the NOS this summer. Congratulations, Grace!
January 2022 – Congratulations to recent alumni Emily Elias (aka Reeves) and Steven Rehbein for publication of their paper in Chemical Science: Solvent coordination to palladium can invert the selectivity of oxidative addition. Their article was featured as a ChemSci Pick of the Week!
January 2022 – Welcome to our newest group member Albert Reyes!
January 2022 – Congratulations to the Neufeldt lab’s second PhD graduate – Steven Rehbein! Steven was the first graduate student to join the lab back in Fall 2016, and we will miss him and his expertise in conducting dangerous chemistry safely.
July 2021 – Congratulations to Steven and Matt for publication of their paper in Organometallics: “Experimental and Computational Evaluation of Tantalocene Hydrides for C–H Activation of Arenes“!
July 2021 – Aaron’s paper “Mechanistic Investigation into the Gold-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Iodoarenes” is published in ACS Catalysis! This is a continued collaboration with the Topcewski lab at the University of Minnesota.
May 2021 – John Russell’s Synpacts article “C—O Selective Cross-Coupling of Chlorinated Phenol Derivatives” is published in Synlett!
May 2021 – Congratulations and good luck to Gunner Mitchem, Malcolm Martelon, and Julia VanOosterhout, who have now graduated from MSU with their bachelor’s degrees!
March 2021 – Congratulations to Aaron Morrenzin for receiving an Honorable Mention by NSF GRFP, and to alumna Leidy Hooker for receiving a Graduate Research Fellowship for her current PhD work in the Bandar group at CSU!
December 2020 – Welcome (officially) to two new group members: Nate Larson and Grace Ibsen!
December 2020 – Congratulations and good luck to Damian Chaplin, who has now graduated from MSU with a B.S. in Chemistry!
November 2020 – Congratulations to the Neufeldt lab’s very first PhD graduate – Emily Reeves! With her impressive thesis defense, Emily set the bar very high for those who will follow.
November 2020 – Emily Reeves’ and Emily Entz’ review on “Chemodivergence between Electrophiles in Cross-Coupling
Reactions” is published online in Chem. Eur. J.!
August 2020 – Congratulations to Emily Entz, John Russell, and Leidy Hooker (former undergrad in our group) for publication of their paper in JACS – “Small Phosphine Ligands Enable Selective Oxidative Addition of Ar—O over Ar—Cl Bonds at Nickel(0)“.
August 2020 – Emily Reeves receives a PhD Dissertation Completion Award from the Graduate School – congratulations!
August 2020 – We say a sad goodbye to Emily Entz, who is moving on to become a different kind of doctor (the kind that’s useful in an emergency). Good luck and congratulations Emily!
August 2020 – Sharon receives an NIH MIRA award from NIGMS!
July 2020 – Congrats to Aaron Morrenzin for his first paper (JACS 2020 142 13210)! This is a collaboration with the Topcewski lab at the University of Minnesota on Gold-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Iodoarenes.
February 2020 – Sharon receives a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement!
January 2020 – Sharon receives a Thieme Chemistry Journals award – thank you to the editorial boards of Synlett, Synthesis, and Synfacts.
January 2020 – Emily Entz and Aaron Morrenzin officially join the group – yay!
August 2019 – Congratulations to Emily R. (again) and Jenna Humke (REU) for publication of their work describing using NHC ligands to control chemoselectivity of Pd-catalyzed Suzuki couplings!
August 2019 – Congratulations to Emily R., Olivia, and Gunner for publication of their communication on solvent effects on selectivity of Suzuki couplings in the Israel Journal of Chemistry (special issue in honor of the 2019 Wolf Prize to Buchwald and Hartwig).
August 2019 – Emily Reeves and Steven Rehbein present their research at ACS San Diego.
June 2019 – Congratulations to John Russell for receiving an NOS Travel Award to help support his travel to the National Organic Symposium! Thank you to the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry.
June 2019 – Incoming 1st year grad student Aaron Morrenzin and summer REU student Daniel Jespersen start research in the group! Gunner leaves (temporarily) for an REU program at North Dakota State University.
May 2019 – Bridges student Rosa Martinez joins the lab for 8 weeks of research.
May 2019 – Farewell to two group members: Leidy Hooker graduates with her B.S. and is moving on to Colorado State University for graduate school. Mike Giroux graduates with his M.S. after completing his thesis looking at electronic effects of phosphine ligands.
May 2019 – Second-year graduate student John Russell passes his candidacy exam!
April 2019 – Mike Giroux successfully defends his master’s thesis!
April 2019 – John, Emily E., and Ian’s paper on Ni-catalyzed Stille coupling of C—O electrophiles is featured on ACS Catalysis’ “most-read” list.
March 2019 – Olivia Bauman receives an INBRE award to help support her research this summer – congratulations Olivia!
March 2019 – First year graduate students Jacob Norman and Matt Kania join the group – welcome (back)!
March 2019 – John, Emily E., and Ian’s paper on Ni-catalyzed Stille coupling of C—O electrophiles is published in ACS Catalysis!
February 2019 – Sharon receives an NSF CAREER award to support our research on site selectivity in cross coupling reactions – thank you, NSF!! (MSU news story here.)
January 2019 – MSU freshman Olivia Bauman joins the group – welcome!!
January 2019 – First year graduate student Jacob Norman starts a rotation in the lab.
December 2018 – Our XSEDE allocation is renewed – thank you XSEDE!
October 2018 – First year graduate students Patrick Anderson and Matt Kania start rotations in the lab.
October 2018 – The group’s first paper is published in Tetrahedron. Way to go Leidy!
October 2018 – MSU seniors Leidy Hooker and Emily Entz receive grants from the MSU Undergraduate Scholars Program to help support their research over the academic year.
August 2018 – The Neufeldt lab, especially John Russell, hosts a group of Hilleman scholars for a day.
July 2018 – Incoming MSU undergraduate Troy Bearcomesout joins the group.
June 2018 – REU student Jenna Humke arrives to do research in the Neufeldt lab for the summer.
April 2018 – 3rd year graduate student Emily Reeves receives a Montana Academy of Sciences 2018 Student Research Grant, and will be presenting her research at the Montana Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting in April 2019.
April 2018 – MSU juniors Leidy Hooker and Emily Entz receive Geer Howald Callis Undergraduate Research Awards to help support their research over the summer. Emily also receives a Ralph A. Olsen Scholarship, and Leidy’s poster receives 1st place in a departmental undergraduate poster competition. Way to go undergrads!
March 2018 – MSU juniors Leidy Hooker and Emily Entz receive grants from the MSU Undergraduate Scholars Program to help support their research over the summer.
March 2018 – First year graduate student Ian Joyce joins the group!
January 2018 – Junior Leidy Hooker wins a Spring 2018 research grant from the MSU Undergraduate Scholars Program – congrats Leidy!
January 2018 – MSU junior Emily Entz joins the group!
January 2018 – First year graduate students Ian Joyce and Nick Kuehl start rotations in the lab.
December 2017 – We are awarded computational time through XSEDE to work on several different projects. Thank you XSEDE!
December 2017 – 3rd year graduate student Emily Reeves wins the MSU Chemistry GSA 2017-18 travel grant – congratulations Emily!
December 2017 – 1st year graduate student John Russell joins the group!
October 2017 – First year graduate student Katelyn Duncan starts a rotation in the lab.
June 2017 – The Neufeldt lab is awarded a grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund for their work on methane polymerization. Thank you ACS PRF!
June 5, 2017 – REU student Scott Shreiber arrives at MSU to do summer research in our group.
June 1, 2017 – Incoming 1st year graduate student John Russell starts a summer rotation in the lab.
May 2017 – First triannual group cleanup day.
May 2017 – Undergraduate Leidy Hooker joins the group.
April 2017 – Graduate student Michael Giroux joins the group.
January 9, 2017 – Graduate student Emily Reeves and undergraduate Mona Abdelgaid join the group!
December 6, 2016 – Our solvent system (JC Meyer) is installed.
November 7, 2016 – First year graduate student Sean Zabawa starts a rotation in the lab.
November 7, 2016 – We ran our first reaction!
November 4, 2016 – Our GC (Shimadzu) is installed.
October 3, 2016 – First year graduate student Sarah Hopfner starts a rotation in the lab.
September 21, 2016 – Our gloveboxes (LC Tech) are installed.
August 29, 2016 – Undergraduates Kat Watson and Kayla Creelman join the group.
August 29, 2016 – First year graduate student Steven Rehbein starts a rotation in the lab.