Matt spoke at an event celebrating Carleton’s recently announced pledge of $2M to the Reimagine Northfield High School project. This amazing contribution recognizes the important symbiotic relationship between Carleton and the local public schools, and Matt was able to share insights about benefits to Carleton students who have hosted NHS AP Chemistry classes for organic chemistry experiments for many years. Thanks to all our partners for making this a wonderful event!
We’ve just closed the books on another great summer of research. Thanks to Aidan, Annika, Claire, Collin, Isaac, and Sergio (and collaborator Dani Kohen) for a fun and productive summer! Expect to see some exciting results making it into the literature in the next 8-12 months.
Matt and Prof. Baird Jarman (Art History) are co-PIs on a recent “Humanities Connections” award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the development of Curricular Bridge courses linking Humanistic and STEM disciplines. Read More
Matt has just co-authored a publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society with the Miller group at UNC resulting from some of his sabbatical work. The paper describes a powerful approach to switchable catalysis, where hydrogen bonding of a pendant crown ether to a bound ammine ligand can serve as a gate to catalysis that opens in the presence of cations that disrupt hydrogen bonding. The situation is analogous to biological systems, but this approach has not previously been demonstrated in synthetic systems. Congrats especially to Sebas, also to other Miller group members for their fantastic work!
As one of several summer community-building activities, the Whited group joined others from the Carleton Chemistry Department for a session of goat yoga at Gray Hobby Farm in Prior Lake, MN. It was memorable!
We are fast approaching the end of the academic year, which means congrats are in order to our graduating research students, who have been so awesome these past few years! So, thanks and congrats to Wenlai Han, Emma Watson, Ellie Vandel, Helen Jin-Lee, and Jackson Cleveland!
Congrats are also in order to group alumni as they move on to next steps:
Again, congrats all around and thanks to all for your amazing work supporting our research at Carleton!
The Whited Lab has been awarded an NSF grant for $356k to support our research into use of metal/silicon bonds to support cooperative catalysis. In the project, “RUI: CAS-SC: Promoting Group-Transfer Reactions at Metal/Main-Group Bonds,” we will target cut-and-paste-style reactions where reactive chemical fragments can be stitched onto inexpensive and readily abundant substrates to afford products with applications in both bulk- and fine-chemicals. This approach also seeks to replace expensive and toxic metals with earth-abundant ones in catalysis, and thus contributes to the Critical Aspects of Sustainability – Innovative Solutions to Sustainable Chemistry (CAS-SC) initiative.
Matt’s promotion to full professor has been approved by the Board of Trustees, beginning fall 2023! Thanks to all the students, colleagues, and collaborators who have made this possible!
After nearly 8 (awesome) months working in the Miller Lab at UNC, Matt has returned to Carleton. Thanks to all in the Miller Lab for being fantastic hosts, with special recognition to Sebastian Acosta-Calle and Prof. Alex Miller!
This is the time of year when we thank and congratulate Whited lab alumni! Congrats to Ben Brewster, who is graduating and will be starting in the Chemistry PhD program at University of Wisconsin in the fall! Also a slightly belated congrats to Irene Stoutland ’21, who is already at UW-Madison working in the Blackwell lab and was recently awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
