The ORELLANA group
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
SYNTHESIS, CATALYSIS & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
We are a research group at York University interested in all aspects of organic chemistry
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Group News
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2024
January - Abel joins the group as an M.Sc. candidate
January - We welcome Natasha as an undergraduate volunteer.
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2023
November - Congratulations to Dr. Jiaqi Shi!
November - Our work on fluorination of alkylpyridines accepted in Organic Letters
November - Jiaqi presents our work on pyridines at QOMSBOC
September - Our work on piperidine synthesis highlighted in Organic Process Research and Development
September - Our review on electrocyclization of heptatrienyl anions appears in Synthesis
September - We welcome Dr. Andrei Nikolaev to the group.
September - We welcome Abdullah to the group.
August - Matthew defends his M.Sc. thesis
August - Bill defends his M.Sc. thesis
August - Art is ready for the next sabbatical...
July - Art returns from sabbatical!
June - Our work on piperidine synthesis appears in Organic Letters
May - Art presents our work on heterocycles at the University of Zurich
May - Art presents our work on heterocycles at the University of Paris - Saclay
May - Art presents our work on heterocycles at Roche headquaters in Basel
March - Art presents our work on heterocycles at the University of Grenoble
February - Art presents our research at the University of Toronto
January - Art goes on sabbatical...
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2022
October - Faizan, and Jiaqi will present at QOMSBOC
October - We welcome Ekta Gupta to the group as a PDV
September - Faizan presents our work at the Roche TIS symposium
September - We welcome Hanna Le as an undergraduate researcher
September - We welcome Indrajit to the group as a PDV
September - Art presents an invited talk at the International Congress for Heterocyclic Chemistry
July - Brian defends his M.Sc. thesis
July - Our collaboration with Henry Krause and Carolyn Cummins appears in Science Signalling
June - Congrats to Anmol, Jiaqi, Faizan, Matthew, Bill and Samira for successful research evaluations
June - Samira becomes a Ph.D. candidate
April - Ali defends CHEM 4000 and completes her B.Sc. degree
January - Jiaqi and Ashik publish more heterocyclic chemistry in Organic Letters with Roche
September - Faizan becomes a Ph.D. candidate
September - Bill and Matthew join the group as M.Sc. candidates
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