COSAM News Articles 2015 May Merner group’s first paper selected as ACS Editor’s Choice

Merner group’s first paper selected as ACS Editor’s Choice

Published: 05/08/2015

Graduate students Nirmal Mitra and Rolande Meudom’s paper, A Non-Cross-Coupling Approach to Arene-Bridged Macrocycles: Synthesis, Structure, and Direct Regioselective Functionalization of a Cycloparaphenylene Fragment, has been selected as an ACS Editor’s Choice Article. Based on the recommendation of ACS editors, one new peer-reviewed manuscript is selected daily to be featured as an open access article for the global chemistry community. Mitra and Meudom are second year graduate students in Prof. Brad Merner’s research Group in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and their article was published with this distinction on May 8, 2015. Prof. John Gorden completed important crystallographic work for this article and is also a co-author.

Link to article: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.5b01102?ref=ec-highlight