About
The Novel Chemical Reactivity Lab is led by Dr Richmond Lee, a synthetic/computational chemist and currently a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He is hosted by the Yu group and the Hyland group in UOW.
Research focus
- Employ computational chemistry to study catalytic processes, intersecting organic, organometallics and physical organic chemistry, and to gain insights into reaction mechanisms, and knowledge crucial to build reliable predictions to understand chemical reactivity that aid in development or discovery of new reactivity or reaction.
- Establish combined theory-experimental efforts to link key mechanistic insights to chemical reactivity and allowing this new knowledge to improve overall understanding of the catalytic system through rational computational chemical design and experimental validation.
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Passing away of Bao Nguyen Do Doan
I am very saddened to find out only recently about the sudden passing of my former RA/student Nguyen in a traffic accident in Tuscon, AZ, in Dec 2021. Nguyen was a passionate chemist, smart and dedicated. He had to overcome a lot of adversity to study in Singapore and obtained a First Class Honours from NTU.
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New Paper! Electrostatic Contribution to 19F Chemical Shifts in Fluorotryptophans in Proteins
You can read more about the paper here.
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Eric's New Paper is Out! DFT mechanistic insights into the Ni(II)-catalyzed enantioselective arylative cyclization of tethered allene-ketones
You can read more about the paper here.
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New Paper! Diastereoselective Petasis-Borono-Mannich Crotylation Reactions of Chiral α-Heteroatom (F, OBz, OH) Aldehydes: Rapid Access to Valuable Mono and Bicyclic Heterocyclic Scaffolds
You can read more about the paper here.
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New Paper! Guanidine-based biomimetic hydrides for carbon dioxide reduction
You can read more about the paper here.
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New paper! Visible light−driven copper(II) catalyzed aerobic oxidative cleavage of carbon−carbon bonds: a combined experimental and theoretical study
You can read more about the paper here.
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New Paper! Coupling Partner-Dependent Unsymmetrical C−H Functionalization Reactions of N-Phenoxyacetamide Leading to Sophisticated Spirocyclic Scaffolds
You can read more about the paper here.
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New Paper! Direct SN2 or SN2X Manifold ─ Mechanistic Study of Ion-Pair-Catalyzed Carbon(sp3)–Carbon(sp3) Bond Formation
You can read more about the paper here.
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New Paper! Pentanidium-Catalyzed Direct Assembly of Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters through C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Formation
You can read more about the paper here.
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New Paper! Postsynthetic Modification of Half-Sandwich Ruthenium Complexes by Mechanochemical Synthesis
You can read more about the paper here.
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Two PhD positions available!
Two PhD positions available in the laboratory of Dr Richmond Lee at the University of Wollongong, Australia, NSW.
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Computational chemistry reads #1
MUST READ if you are starting on comp chem projects.
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Richmond awarded ARC DECRA 2021
Richmond has been awarded the highly competitive ARC DECRA Fellowship commencing 2021!
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New ASAP paper - Enantioselective Addition-Alkylation of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyls via Bisguanidinium Silicate Ion Pair Catalysis
You can read more about the paper here.
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Gaussian Guide
You can read more about the guide here!
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First post!
The webpage is alive! This is the first post!