Group Meeting (Fall 2024)

Subject to Change - Check back often!

Full Group meeting: Every Friday 3 PM Kolthoff 283

Subgroups meet every other week
(weeks of 09/02, 09/16, 09/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11)

Early Transition Metals Subgroup: Thursdays 2:30 PM, Smith 221 

Arynes (Organic): Thursdays 11 AM (after seminar), Kolthoff 568B

Arynes (Organometallics): Thursdays 1 PM, Smith 221

The Chemistry

At the Roberts Group, we use inorganic and organometallic chemistry to solve fundamental problems in organic chemistry.

Our main focuses include:

The Group

At the Roberts Group, we don't accept the excuse "it's always been done that way."
We celebrate our diversity, and we fight to make science more inclusive.

Recent Publications

Recent News

[09/21] Congrats to Sofie for winning the outstanding poster award at the Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium!

[09/06] Congrats to Douglas for the honorable mention for outstanding TA award!

[08/28] The HTE-platform-based development of a novel aminohalogenation of arynes via halogen transfer has been disclosed in Organic Letters! Congrats Josh and Lars! Check it out here

[08/17] Our study of the role of the ancillary phosphine in inaccessible aryne formation and reactivity has been disclosed in an article published in Organometallics! Check it out here

[08/12] Congrats to our newest PhD, Dr. Josh Gavin! Josh is headed to Cambrex next month! (Ph.D. #4)

[08/05] Our investigation of a series of redox-active tris(amido) lanthanide complexes and their applications to cross-coupling has been published in Inorganic Chemistry! Check it out here

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