News
July 22, 2016
Congrats to Jikun and Justin!
Their co-authored communication, titled ‘Mechanistic Investigation of a Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Catalyzed Epoxidation in (-)-4’-Methoxycyclopenin Biosynthesis’, is published on Journal of the American Chemical Society (link).
June 7, 2016
Congrats to Justin!!!
Justin is one of 51 graduating undergraduate students nationwide to receive the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowships from the Honor Society of of Phi Kappa Phi (link).
May 24, 2016
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Spectroscopic Evidence for the Two C-H-cleaving Intermediates of Aspergillus nidulans Isopenicillin N Synthase’, is published on Journal of the American Chemical Society (link).
May 20, 2016
Congrats to Ruixi!
Ruixi co-authored article, titled ‘Mechanism for Six-Electron Aryl-N-Oxygenation by the Non-Heme Diiron Enzyme CmlI’, is published on Journal of the American Chemical Society (link).
May 12, 2016
Welcome Yijie Tang to our group!
Yijie obtained his Bachelor’s degree at University of Science and Technology of China, majoring chemistry.
April 29, 2016
Congrats to Justin!
Justin successfully defended his Honors Thesis, titled ‘A Study of the Mechanism of the Epoxidation Reaction in the Biosynthesis of Virdicatin’
April 15, 2016
Congrats to Justin!!!
Justin is one of 41 undergraduate students in the Class of 2016 to be named as 2016 Andrew Carnegie Society Scholars from CMU (link).
March 31, 2016
Congrats!
Ruixi passed his 2nd year oral exam.
February 15, 2016
Congrats to Ruixi!
Ruixi co-authored communication, titled ‘Modeling Non-Heme Iron Halogenases: High-Spin Oxoiron(IV)–Halide Complexes That Halogenate C–H Bonds’, is published on Journal of the American Chemical Society (link).
November 26, 2015
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Endoperoxide formation by an α-ketoglutarate-dependent mononuclear non-haem iron enzyme’, is published on Nature (link).
August 5, 2015
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Oxoiron(IV) Complex of the Ethylene-Bridged Dialkylcyclam Ligand Me2EBC’, is published on Inorganic Chemistry (link).
July 9, 2015
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Low Frequency Dynamics of the Nitrogenase MoFe Protein via Femtosecond Pump Probe Spectroscopy – Observation of a Candidate Promoting Vibration’, is published on Journal of Inorganic Biohemistry (link).
June 11, 2015
Welcome Dr. Jikun Li to our group!
Jikun obtained his Ph.D. degree at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign under the guidance of Prof. Eric Oldfield.
June 1, 2015
Congrats!
Justin received the 2015 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) from CMU.
February 12, 2015
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘On the Iron(V) Reactivity of an Aggressive Tail-Fluorinated Tetraamido Macrocyclic Ligand (TAML) Activator’, is published on European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (link).
January 12, 2015
Welcome Justin Lee to our group!
Justin is an undergraduate student in our department, majoring chemistry.
January 8, 2015
Alex gave a talk, titled ‘Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Diiron(IV) Complex with an [O=FeIV-O‐ FeIV-OH] Core’ on 8th North American Mössbauer Symposium (Jan. 8th to 9th, 2015 at Northeastern University)
December 1, 2014
Welcome Ruixi Fan to our group!
Ruixi obtained his Bachelor’s degree at Tsinghua University, majoring chemistry.November 7, 2014
Lab renovation finishes (photos)
August 17, 2014
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Mechanism of the C5 Stereoinversion Reaction in the Biosynthesis of Carbapenem Antibiotics’, is reported on August 15 issue of the Tartan newspaper of Carnegie Mellon University (link).
June 15, 2014
Lab renovation begins (photos)
May 30, 2014
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Mechanism of the C5 Stereoinversion Reaction in the Biosynthesis of Carbapenem Antibiotics’, is reported as science highlight on the website of Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University (link).
March 07, 2014
Alex’s co-authored article, titled ‘Mechanism of the C5 Stereoinversion Reaction in the Biosynthesis of Carbapenem Antibiotics’, is published on Science (link).
