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Regioselective C-C Bond Cleavage
Doctoral student Caleb Allpress in the Berreau lab has published studies of water-dependent regioselective aliphatic carbon-carbon bond cleavage in JACS.
PRMT1 SUBSTRATES CONTROL PRODUCT FORMATION
Graduate student Laurel Gui (Hevel lab) shows in a recent Biochemistry paper that the identity of the peptide substrate can control what type of methylated product is formed.
New Editor-in-Chief
Stephen Bialkowski has been chosen to be the new Editor-in-Chief for Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry. This is a top 10 journal in analytical chemistry with an impact factor rating of 3.9.
Noncovalent bond vs. hydrogen bonds
Various new sorts of noncovalent bonds are compared in detail with hydrogen bonds.
Novel metavanadate molecule
Doctoral student Vyacheslav Kuznetsov in the Hengge lab has published evidence for a novel metavanadate molecule at the active site of the phosphatase VHZ. Spotlighted by JACS.
USU Goldwater and URCO Scholars
One of our chemistry majors, Tyler Gish, was one of two USU Goldwater Scholars.
Shawn Helm, the undergrad in Dr. Edwin Antony's laboratory got an URCO grant.