Asst Prof at UT Dallas | Postdoc LBNL / UC Berkeley | DPhil University of Oxford | Electronic Structure + Phys Org Chem. He/him/his.
Richardson, TX
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Powerful reaction and a very interesting mechanistic proposal involving a nickel carbene - thanks for inviting me to be a part of this beautiful work.
The first paper from my group!
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17586
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Join us in congratulating Nikita and Valeriia for discovering a new reactivity of diazo compounds, undergoing branch-selective hydroalkylation with alkenes. Initial findings suggest a carbene-type mechanism which is unusual for nickel catalysis. Published today in @J_A_C_S
ALT https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c17586
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We have a fully funded #compchem #PhD position available to join our team (duartegroupchem.org)! If you know potential candidates interested in combining physorgchem and #ML please share this opportunity with them!
🗓️Deadline: 31/01/25
✉️Application: shorturl.at/nHyAo
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New preprint! With @JosephJGair1 + the Gair lab @MSUChem, we built a set of strained conformers for benchmarking DFT functionals and NNPs.
Our new benchmark set, "Wiggle150", is substantially harder than previous conformational benchmarks, with an avg ∆E of 103 kcal/mol.
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First end-of-semester party for the group! I'm fortunate to have such a great team, both in their research and their cooking skills
ALT Sterling research group sat around a table with food and drinks
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Excited to present a poster on Sunday (1pm) and a talk on Monday (8:40 am) at the meet the CoMSEF faculty candidate sessions of the #AIChEAnnual meeting. Stop by to hear how I use ML and statistical mechanics to study everything from CO2 electrocatalysts to quantum information!
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First group outing - watching an @NCL_Cricket game on campus at @UT_Dallas
ALT Photo of Sterling group members watching cricket
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Thanks @JOC_OL!
@dubois_maryne, @JR_Chemistry, @ASterlingChem, @fjduarteg, @miloasmith, @J2_Mousseau, Andrew, Hannah, Phil and Charlie.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Wouldn't it be great to take common waste plastics like PE and PP and break them back down to high value building blocks? We're excited to share our new method using base metal catalysts in @ScienceMagazine!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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We are pleased to announce that #LatinXChem24 is sponsored by the Centro de Química Teórica y Computacional (CQR&C) from @uandresbello . We appreciate your support in this new edition! Visit and register at latinxchem.org
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It was a long journey to get here, but I'm so pleased that our paper has finally been published! I still remember the excitement of the first LFER plot #physorg #compchem
Delighted to see Alistair's work @JOC_OL! We introduce a simple model for predicting strain-based reactivity, moving beyond the prevalent idea of geometric strain. As someone once said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
ALT https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.4c00857
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***We are hiring!***
My group is looking for a postdoc with comp chem experience to join us at @UTDallasChemBio from August '24.
You can find out more about the position and submit your application here: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/2…
Please share!
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Great to see this work in its final form! Sadly perhaps my final mechanistic study with @Jeremy__Nugent
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Delighted to publish our latest BCP/BCHep paper on alpha-amino bicycloalkylation in @ChemicalScience. Congratulations to the team, esp. @Jeremy__Nugent, @ASterlingChem and @AdrianLopezFra. See: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Arti…
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Last project I co-led during PhD is out: Measuring forces on core-excited potential energy surfaces from studying ground state vibrational dynamics with soft X-rays. Experiments from Leone & Neumark groups (led by my good friend Andrew).
arxiv.org/abs/2405.05437v1
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Fantastic to see our work appreciated by the organic chemistry community - thanks and congrats to all involved!
Delighted that this work has received such a
recognition from JOC! It was a fun project in fundamental organic chemistry with excellent coworkers and collaborators @dubois_maryne, @JR_Chemistry, @ASterlingChem, @fjduarteg, @J2_Mousseau, and the rest of team!
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The 1st paper from the Shee lab has been accepted, entitled “On the notion of strong correlation in electronic structure theory”! Congrats to our outstanding postdoc Dr. Brad Ganoe @RiceUniversity @ChemistryRice
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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In August I will be joining @UTDallasChemBio to start my research group! Thank you to many (@duarte_group , @EdAndersonGroup, @mhg_group, ...) for your support.
You can find out about my group's plans here: labs.utdallas.edu/sterling/
More very soon...
@UT_Dallas @UTDScience
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Delighted to share that our work on nodes, kinetic energy and chemical bonding is out now in @J_A_C_S!
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c10633
@mhg_group #compchem @UCBerkeley @UCB_Chemistry @BerkeleyLab
My first contribution as part of the @mhg_group attempts to answer tricky questions surrounding the origins of the chemical bond.
You can read it on @ChemRxiv here: go.shr.lc/3ryIKIT
#compchem @UCBerkeley @UCB_Chemistry @BerkeleyLab
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Delighted to share the published version of this work, out now in @J_A_C_S! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c13822
Huge thanks to Nico Ciccia and Yifan Guo for their great work @HartwigGroup @mhg_group @UCB_Chemistry @BerkeleyLab #compchem
Check out "Mechanistic insights into the origins of selectivity in a Cu-catalyzed C–H amidation reaction", now on @ChemRxiv (doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20…).
My second contribution as part of the @mhg_group, with beautiful kinetics from Nico Ciccia and Yifan Guo from the @HartwigGroup
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Check out "Mechanistic insights into the origins of selectivity in a Cu-catalyzed C–H amidation reaction", now on @ChemRxiv (doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20…).
My second contribution as part of the @mhg_group, with beautiful kinetics from Nico Ciccia and Yifan Guo from the @HartwigGroup
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If you like radical clocks, polytopal rearrangements, Hammett plots, and questions about Cu–C covalency, then maybe you'll like our paper!
@UCB_Chemistry @BerkeleyLab
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