January, 2024
Croix and Will's work with the List group is featured by UCD news and the College of Letters & Science.
August, 2022
News of Dean's ADVANCE Award.
August, 2022
Amy's work with the Shaw group is given a shout-out by collaborator Ben in his Synthesis Workshop presentation.
September, 2021
Croix, Volga and Kevin's work with the Tambar group is featured by Synthesis Workshop.
September, 2021
Dean's paper on drawing polycyclic molecules is featured as an ACS Editor's Choice article.
July, 2021
Croix, Volga and Kevin's work with the Tambar group is featured by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry.
June, 2021
Dean's lockdown office is featured in C&EN.
November, 2020
Dean comments on a cool theoretical study of a metal-promoted pericyclic reaction in C&EN.
April, 2020
Our work with Harry Beller is highlighted by Fu and Balskus in Current Opinion in Biotechnology as a paper of outstanding interest: "This work showcases the difficulty of studying radical enzymes and demonstrates how simulations can help distinguish different potential mechanisms.".
April, 2020
Our new website (still a work in progress) that provides AIMD trajectories of organic reactions for teaching (notthatDDT.org) goes online and is blogged about by Henry Rzepa.
April, 2020
Innes' work on serlyticin (in collaboration with the Olson group) is highlighted in an article on revising incorrect natural product structures (English translation).
December, 2019
The fantastic work of our collaborators from the Brown group (with a few tiny computational results from Dean) is featured in SYNFACTS.
October, 2019
Our collaborative work with the Britt group is the subject of a "First Reactions" article in ACS Central Science.
March, 2019
Dean and Young's work with the Christmann group is highlighted in the Organic Highlights column (FYI - Dean and Young did not contribute to the super-awesome synthetic strategy)
October, 2018
Dean's work with the Kurth group is highlighted in Synfacts.
October, 2018
Stephanie's work with the Sarpong group is highlighted in Synfacts.
September, 2018
Stephanie's work with the Sarpong group is highlighted in Steve Bachrach's blog.
September, 2018
Dean comments on the Burns group's excellent work on ladderane lipids in C&EN.
July, 2018
Young's work with Kevin Brown is highlighted in Douglass Taber's Organic Synthesis Highlights.
April, 2018
Dean's new book is highlighted by UCLA.
April, 2018
Nhu's work with Andrei Yudin is highlighted in Douglass Taber's Organic Synthesis Highlights.
September, 2017
Hoby and Dean's RSC Award is highlighted by RSC News.
August, 2017
Phil's work with the Sarpong and Hein groups is highlighted as a JACS Spotlight article.
July, 2017
Stephanie's review on dynamics calculations is highlighted in Steve Bachrach's blog.
July, 2017
Dean and other IUPAC Young Observers are featured on the ACS Axial blog.
May, 2017
Hoby and Dean's RSC Award is highlighted on the UCD Laurels page.
April, 2017
The group's revised mechanism for pentalenene formation appears in a textbook (p. 211)!
January, 2017
Dean comments on the unusual hexamethylbenzene dication in Science News and New Scientist.
October, 2016
Nhu's work on NMR prediction is highlighted in Steve Bachrach's blog.
September, 2016
Dean is named a "Top 10 Reviewer for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry".
May, 2016
Nhu's work on the Walking in the Woods with Chemistry project highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.
April, 2016
Dean's Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award is mentioned in the UCD news. Good thing Dean has ginormous hands to hold all those models...
February, 2016
Nhu's work on the Walking in the Woods with Chemistry project highlighted in UCD's The California Aggie.
January, 2016
Dean and someone named Brandi HuNdson are featured in UCD's 15 Professors Give Advice on Grad School web story.
December, 2015
Nhu's work on the Walking in the Woods with Chemistry project highlighted in UCD's Dateline.
May, 2015
Ryan's work on domino Diels-Alder reactions with Jeff Aube is highlighted in Naturalproductman's blog.
April, 2015
Ryan's work on santalin Y with Dirk Trauner is highlighted in Naturalproductman's blog.
February, 2015
Dean recent talk at the University of Toronto on post-transition state bifurcations is mentioned in Andrei Yudin's blog.
January, 2015
Of the 76 posts at Computational Chemistry Highlights in 2014, Rob Paton's post on Young's miltiradiene work was the second most viewed!
August, 2014
Dean is informed that his review on carbocations in biosynthesis (Nat. Prod. Rep. 2011, 28, 1035) "featured in the top 10% of the most highly cited articles published in the latest Impact Factor window (2011-2012)" for NPR.
August, 2014
Hoby's ACS talk is mentioned in C&EN's The Safety Zone blog.
August, 2014
Hoby is featured in C&EN's who's who at the ACS meeting article.
July, 2014
Hoby is interviewed on the SeroTalk podcast.
May, 2014
Mike's work on citranilins is highlighted in a Nature Chemistry News & Views article (Wood, J. L. Nature 2014, 509, 293-294), in C&EN, in Steve Bachrach's blog, and in Naturalproductman's blog.
April, 2014
Brandi's work on Romo's Diels-Alder/lactonization reaction is highlighted in SYNFACTS.
April, 2014
Young's work on terpene dynamics is featured in a C&EN article, in Andrei Yudin's blog, and at the Computational Chemistry Highlights blog.
April, 2014
Brandi's work on Romo's Diels-Alder/lactonization reaction is highlighted as a JACS spotlight article.
March, 2014
Hoby's work on blind and visually impaired education issues is mentioned in The Community Voice, The Splendid Table, Waldorf Today and Confluence.
March, 2014
Young's work on sesquiterpene biosynthesis is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog.
February, 2014
Ryan, Phil, Bonnie and Krystina's work on dipolar cycloadditions in nature is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's blog.
January, 2014
Young's work on miltiradiene is highlighted in a Nature Chemistry News & Views article (Hornsby, C. E.; Paton, R. S. Nature Chem. 2014, 6, 88-89).
January, 2014
Mike and Dan's work on pentalenene is chosen as a "HOT Article" by Org. Biomol. Chem. and is highlighted on their blog and twitter feed.
December, 2013
Our work with the Beal group on RNA is highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News, ACS Chemical Biology, Nature's SciBX, and at the departmental website.
November, 2013
Young's work on viridacumtoxin is highlighted as a JACS spotlight article.
November, 2013
Dean's "Walking in the Woods" article is one of the top ten most accessed articles in Nat. Prod. Rep. between the months of July and September 2013.
October, 2013
Dean's thoughts on the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
September, 2013
Dean's views on bonding are included in a C&EN online feature.
July, 2013
Dean's work with Paul Schleyer on the nonamethylcyclopentyl cation is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's blog.
July, 2013
Dean is quoted in the July 8, 2013 issue of C&EN.
December, 2012
Hoby is featured at the Capital Press website.
November, 2012
Dean's collaborative project with the Kurth group is highlighted in SYNFACTS.
November, 2012
Mike's work on aquatolide is highlighted in Chemistry World, Chemical & Engineering News, Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog and Naturalproductman's blog.
October, 2012
Dean's talk at the Saul Winstein celebration is mentioned in the Musings on Music and Life blog.
September, 2012
Hoby is featured in a video that aired on PBS (see also).
September, 2012
Metallocene calculations highlighted at CRDF website.
July, 2012
Osvaldo's collabortive work with the Gagne group is highlighted in SYNFACTS.
July, 2012
Ladderane calculations featured on the cover of Org. Biomol. Chem.
May, 2012
Hoby visits the White House to accept his Champion of Change award (coverage: NSF press release, KQED radio, Davis Enterprise, Daily Democrat, White House video, White House blog, Capital Public Radio, Department of Rehabilitation newsletter, NBC Nightly News)!
April, 2012
Becky's collabortive work with the Shaw group is highlighted in Cheminform.
April, 2012
Hoby is featured in two articles by the Daisy Consortium (1 & 2).
April, 2012
Osvaldo's work with the Aube group (Kansas) on Schmidt reactions is highlighted in Naturalproductman's blog.
March, 2012
Dean's work with tye Kurth group is highlighted in Trends in Organic Chemistry.
March, 2012
Hoby is featured in the California Aggie.
February, 2012
Mike's work with the Garg group (UCLA) on using computed chemical shifts to confirm the structures of 3-hydroxy-N-methylwelwitindolinones is also mentioned in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog and in Computational Chemistry Highlights (this paper is also highlighted in Nature Chemistry, 2012, 4, 341)
February, 2012
Hoby is featured in a brief "UC Davis Today" article on the UC Davis homepage and is interviewed on Capital Public Radio's Insight program.
February, 2012
Young's work on taxadiene formation is featured in a JACS Image Challenge.
January, 2012
Dean's selection as the 2012 Natural Product Reports lecturer is highlighted in the NPR blog.
January, 2012
Mike's work with the Garg group (UCLA) on using computed chemical shifts to confirm the structures of 3-hydroxy-N-methylwelwitindolinones is highlighted in Naturalproductman's blog.
December, 2011
Our NMR website, CheShiReCCat, is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog.
October/November, 2011
Mike's work on using computed chemical shifts to revise the structure of nobilisitine A is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog and in this UCD Chem news item.
October, 2011
Hoby is interviewed by KGO’s Dining Around with Gene Burns.
October, 2011
Hoby is interviewed by The California Aggie.
September, 2011
CHE130B is featured in a College of Letters and Science "Inside the Classroom" article.
September, 2011
Hoby is interviewed by The Sacramento Bee about his approach to doing chemistry.
September, 2011
Hoby is interviewed by Chemical & Engineering News about his work on two chemistry camps for blind students.
August, 2011
Matt's work on (2+2) cycloadditions with Kay Brummond is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog.
June, 2011
Our 3D printing work is featured on the UCD College of Letters & Science website and in the "College Currents" magazine:
June, 2011
Terpene calculations featured on the cover of Nat. Prod. Rep.
May, 2011
Hoby is interviewed for KQED's QUEST radio show about his work with a local chemistry camp for blind students (see also this link). His interview was also aired on The California Report.
April, 2011
As soon as it becomes available online, Mike's paper on using computed chemical shifts to reassign the structure of nobilisitine A is highlighted in Naturalproductman's blog.
March, 2011
Mikes's work on nobilisitine is highlighted in Trends in Organic Chemistry.
November, 2010
Our work on terpene biosynthesis is highlighted in the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's annual Projects in Scientific Computing publication.
September, 2009
Young's work on bifurcations in terpene biosynthesis is highlighted in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog and Nature Chemical Biology (2009, 5, 614):
September, 2007
Matt's transition state complexation work is mentioned in Steven Bachrach's Computational Chemistry blog.
August, 2007
Pradeep's proton sandwiches are mentioned in the cover story of the August 13, 2007 issue of Chem. Eng. News on "Molecules that Could Be". Also mentioned are Dean's postdoc advisor Roald Hoffmann and UC Davis colleague Phil Power.
July, 2007
Dean's back ;-) appears in an ACS advertisement:
April, 2007
January, 2007
Dean's studies on sigmatropic shiftamers are mentioned in the January 29, 2007 issue of Chem. Eng. News (pp. 37-40). Also mentioned are Dean's postdoc advisor Roald Hoffmann, Dean's graduate advisor Ken Houk, and UC Davis colleagues Phil Power and Marcin Brynda.
January, 2007
Acc. Chem. Res. paper on Shiftamers is one of the journal's most accessed articles during the second half of 2006.
September, 2006
Young's trichodiene paper is featured in the Curious Wavefunction blog.
July, 2006
Shiftamer calculations featured on the cover of Acc. Chem. Res.
March, 2006
Dean is quoted in Dateline article about UCD's new pharmaceutical chemistry program.
May, 2005
Our Proton Sandwiches article is highlighted in the "Science Concentrates" section of the May 2, 2005 issue of C&EN.
February, 2004
Dean is quoted in the "Science Concentrates" section of the February 2, 2004 issue of C&EN.
January, 2004
Shiftamer Tapes calculations featured on the cover of Eur. J. Org. Chem.
December, 2003
Pericyclic Analogies calculations featured on the cover of Angew. Chem.
December, 2002
Fickle Hexadienes cover art featured in the J. Org. Chem. 2003 Calendar.
October, 2002
ODCase artwork featured in Access article on collaborator Jeehiun Lee.
March, 2002
Fickle Hexadienes cover discussed in a C&EN editorial.
March, 2002
Fickle Hexadiene calculations featured on the cover of J. Org. Chem.
March, 2001
IMDA calculations featured on the cover of J. Org. Chem.
October, 2000
Antibody Decarboxylase calculations featured on the cover of J. Mol. Biol.
