Milner Group at Cornell University

Shining a Light on the Photophysics of Tetraaryl[3]cumulene-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsmat…

Happy to announce that PJM received the International Award for Creative Work from @JSCCofficial! 🥳

Check out Zoe's work on the reactivity of stabilized carbanions with [redacted gas], now out in @JOC_OL! A fun continuation of our collaboration with @TheLambertLab to study new chemical pathways for [redacted gas] capture! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

.@AtkinsonCenter announces the Direct Air Capture Database, a new tool that tracks progress of technologies engineered to selectively remove CO2 from ambient air. The project was led by members of @CornellChem's Milner Group (@RunOfThePhill)

Cornell Chem's Dr. Youn Jue (Eunice) Bae is part of the team that won funding from the inaugural Scialog Award. More info in the following link! chemistry.cornell.edu/news/scialog-a…

Congratulations to @CornellChem professor Youn Jue (Eunice) Bae! She is a member of a team that’s won funding from the inaugural Scialog Award focused on Quantum Matter and Information, from @RCSA1. @ybae0221 as.cornell.edu/news/scialog-a…

Second, check out Yihuan's work on using gas-MOF reagents to access new reactivity patterns for electroorganic synthesis! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…

First, check out Emily's work on using MOFs to safely handle sulfuryl fluoride, an ideal reagent for late-stage fluorosulfurylation to access S-F electrophiles for SuFEx! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…

A MOFganic twofer for our lab, today out on ChemRXiv!

The Up and Coming Perspective gives opportunities to outstanding early-career researchers from across the materials chemistry community. This Collection showcases contributions from our Up and Coming authors, published in the journal between 2023 & 2025. go.acs.org/dHE

Caging the Chlorine Radical: Chemoselective Photocatalytic C(sp3)–H Functionalization Enabled by Terminal Cu–Cl Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Cornell pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Caging the Chlorine Radical: Chemoselective Photocatalytic C(sp3)–H Functionalization Enabled by Terminal Cu–Cl Sites in a Metal–Organic Framework dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5…

Congrats to all of the co-authors, including 2nd year Katrina, undergrad Sky, and 3rd year Danny, who helped with the scope and other experiments, and group alumnus Tyler who initiated this project building upon his work with Co(III)-Cl MOFs (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…)!

The formation of a less reactive Cl radical species is supported by TD-DFT studies conducted by Akash @KulikGroup and by the observation of a large primary KIE, which is not commonly observed for Cl radical.

Check out 🪨⭐️PhD student Mary's @_marycait paper on photocatalytic C-H functionalization with MOFs, out now in @J_A_C_S! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Photochemical Fluoroalkylations with Fluorinated Gases Facilitated by a Robust Metal–Organic Framework | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Photochemical Fluoroalkylations with Fluorinated Gases Facilitated by a Robust Metal–Organic Framework dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5…

Congrats also to Johari and @jhlee_david (DFT structures of MOFs), our own UG Valerie (now PhD student with @christhechang) and PhD Yihuan, and, in an exciting new direction for our lab, our industrial collaborator Truong from @pfizer for assistance with 19F SSNMR measurements!

The scope of potential reactions we can now develop is vast and should accelerate the discovery of new photochemical reactions for medicinal chemists. If anyone is interested in trying out these reagents or working with us to develop new ones, just let us know!

Check out our fantastic post-doc Jiachen's work on using frameworks to facilitate the photochemical fixation of fluorinated gases (try saying that five times fast!), now out in @J_A_C_S! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…