@leresearchgroup

- WELCOME -

We are a synthetic research group in the Department of Chemistry at York University focused on the

design of new organic and organometallic reactions for applications in drug discovery and development

Summer 2025

May: We're excited to welcome Emily as a volunteer undergraduate researcher to join our group! Welcome aboard!

June: The Le Group travels to Ottawa for the CSC meeting, where Dusty, Ali, Maryam, and Jesse presented their research. Maryam wins an oral presentation prize in the symposium Advances in Complex Molecule Synthesis: New Methods and Strategies. Christine attends the 2025 CSC Organic/Bioorganic Young Investigator Workshop. Maryam gives a poster presentation at the annual Technology-Enhanced Pharmaceutical Discovery summer conference at York University and wins a poster presentation prize!

July: Christine is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, and gives an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference in Organic Reactions and Processes in Smithfield, RI.

August: Christine attends the 21st European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry in Lisbon, Portugal.

Spring 2025

January: Ali's first-author paper on "Intramolecular Fluoroacylation Enabled by TrBF4-Catalyzed Fluoride Recycling" is now published in Organic Letters. Christine is awarded the 2025 CNC-IUPAC Travel Grant.

February: Dusty is awarded a highly prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Samantha is awarded the National Canadian Society for Chemistry Silver Medal for the top graduating student from the undergraduate chemistry program at York. Congrats to both!

March: Christine gives an invited lecture at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego in the Chemistry Across the Border symposium. Samantha presents at the 53rd Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference at the University of Guelph and wins an oral presentation prize. Maryam's review titled "Carbamoyl Fluorides: A Platform to Interrogate Fluoride-Enabled Reactivity" is published in Synthesis.

April: We bid farewell to Samantha and Sepehr who successfully defended their CHEM 4000 Honors Thesis projects. Christine gives an invited lecture at Brock University. Maryam's review titled "Carbamoyl Fluorides: A Platform to Interrogate Fluoride-Enabled Reactivity" is now published in Synthesis.