Work of Richmond chemist highlighted in cover story

The cover story in the Aug. 13, 2007 issue of Chemical & Engineering News describes current research at the cutting edge of theoretical and computational chemistry. The article is on work conducted collaboratively with Edyta Brzostowska and Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University, specifically the design of organometallic enediynes that possess very low barriers for undergoing Bergman cyclization. Work undertaken in Carol Parish's laboratory at Richmond is highlighted in the piece. Read the full story.

The work originally appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129, 4401.

Posted November 1, 2007