Kohki Nakafuku

Aryl Hydrazines: Convenient Homogenous Reductants for Cross-Coupling. A great collaboration with the Blackmond lab and Abbvie, appearing today in @ChemRxiv : chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

We’re hiring a postdoc in collaboration with J&J! The position will be split between our lab and J&J’s Spring House site. We’re looking for someone with a strong chemistry background ideally with expertise in photochemistry and developing photocatalysts. jj.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/JJ/job/Spring-…

Check out our new @J_A_C_S article where we demonstrate an air-stable singe component precatalyst for the borylation of C–H bonds! Congrats Kyan, Chris and everyone involved! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Counterion Effects in [Ru(bpy)3](X)2-Photocatalyzed Energy Transfer Reactions By Olivier Baslé et al. @Univ_Toulouse @umontpellier @univ_paris_cite Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/bgk

After a decade of obsession, we are thrilled to share our enantioselective Hofmann-Loffler-Freytag reaction!! Many congrats to Pavitra and Ipshita on this valuable protecting-group free synthesis of chiral pyrrolidines! Open access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jxh-9URZ7rP…

Come participate in the 8th EWOC Virtual Symposium, taking place on November 22, 2024! Student speaker application deadline is October 15, 2024.

Ever had a radical reaction not work when it ‘should’? Mismatched *radical polarity* may be the issue. We often only look at BDE & redox (thermodynamics), but forget polarity (kinetics). Jake, Andrew, & I are excited to share this new resource to help! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

💃 10th Labiversary 🕺🏽 To celebrate our lab’s 10th birthday 🎂 we had a big reunion/party this summer 🥳 with exciting talks from our awesome alumni (and current rockstars too 🤩) Lots of laughs, stories and great advice. It was incredibly inspiring!

We are looking to recruit a new organic chemistry colleague @OhioState Come join our vibrant community! Tenure-track Assistant Professor: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job…

JJ’s Emma Parmee with a tour de force about chemistry success factors in drug discovery at #EFMCISMC24: Mastering structural complexity to drug more complex targets, the importance of hit ID diversity, HTE to speed up Make cycles, D2B for #PROTAC hit ID, Surf-DELs @EuroMedChem

The next chapter of our collab with @LevinChem is live! A wonderful collaboration between JnJ's Springhouse folk (Chris R., James R. and Cristina G.) and Mark's laboratory! Shout out to Myojeong and Carys for their amazing hard work on brining this awesome transformation to life!!! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Check out our most recent work in @J_A_C_S. Carboxylated amine-borane serves are boryl radical precursor in radical borylation of styrenes and imines to form novel sp3-organoboron materials directly applicable in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Excited to share our newest strategy to access carbenes from aldehydes - now via radicals! Young & Jake found this highly practical, efficient, & selective way to make triangles - that even works in the presence of air or water! @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@nagiblab @Icomc2024 @maiti_iitb @iiserkol That’s awesome!!!

Attending #ICOMC2024 with my son was such a wonderful blend of awesome science and memories! Thanks Swadhin Mandal & Deb Maiti for organizing such a successful and ICONIC event! @Icomc2024 @maiti_iitb @iiserkol

Save the Date!! July 17 @ 12 noon ET for the next @ACSOrganic Virtual Symposium featuring Keary Engle @EngleLab @scrippsresearch and Kevin Cole @EliLillyandCo Watch for free at: YouTube: orgn.link/watch Zoom: orgn.link/vs-zoom Thank you to @BeyondCCHF for hosting

Lots of friends @ #GRChets this week in Newport 12 y ago gave my first outside-Pfizer talk there as a short talk ~20 y into my career Giving talks wasn’t really on my radar – the whole experience was quite a ride & if you’ll indulge, here’s a thread #ImposterSyndrome 1/n

@jackiescha @NSF Congrats!!

“many people even harbour the mistaken notion that physicians invent most drugs; they do not. Chemists invent drugs – that is why I became a chemist.” …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

JnJ DPR at Spring House is growing!!! We're looking for talented synthetic chemists to support our mission of enabling med chem to find the best molecule fastest and facilitate early clinical deliveries. Come start your career with us! jobs.jnj.com/en/jobs/240617…

Excited to share our recent collaboration with @QinLab to access highly functionalized sp3-rich amines via 3-component alkyl petasis reaction! Dump and stir aldehyde + amine + alkyl B(OH)2 + 🔦 #MerckChemistry @JetTsien @SijieChen17 @yuzururururu @ChemRxiv go.shr.lc/48Usx0t