Nov. 25, 2009
  Andy's novel ether synthesis is published in JACS. Link

Sep. 21, 2009
  Congratulations! Justin Struble gets Ph.D. degree and starts his postdoc research in Martin Burke group in UIUC.

Sep.18, 2009
  On Monday September 21 at 9:00 am in the Lynch Lecture Hall, Justin Struble will defend his dissertation titled, "N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: from   Design to Synthesis and their Application as Nucleophilic Catalysts."

July 06, 2009
  Pei-Chen & Yoonjoo's second generation of catalytic amide formation is published in ChemComm. Link

May 26, 2009
  Pei-Chen & Michael's new surrogate for α,β-unsaturated aldehydes is published in JACS. Link

Apr. 21, 2009
  Justin's paper of formal synthesis of salinosporamide A is published in Tetrahedron. Link

Apr. 02, 2009
  Lei's great solid phase peptide synthesis strategy now is published in OBC. Link

Mar. 03, 2009
Takeo's fantastic reagent for hydroxy amine synthesis is published in JACS! Link

Feb. 2009
Alex and Vasken's paper of bullvalene application is published in OBC. Link

Feb. 2009
Hiroshi and Nancy's paper of enantiopure isoxazolidine monomer is published in Tetrahedron Lett. Link

Jan. 2009
Theung's paper on enatioselective bicyclic cyclopentanes synthesis is published in OL. Link

Dec. 2008
Michael & Takeo's paper on Cyclic Ketimines as Superior Electrophiles for NHC-Catalyzed Homoenolate Additions is published in JACS! Link

Oct. 2008
Bode Group Open House will be held at 4:30 pm on Friday, Oct. 17th, 2008. Welcome to join us!

Oct. 2008
On Thursday October 16th at 1:00 in IAST 2000, Alex will defend his dissertation titled, "Part I. Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Oligosubstituted Bullvalenes;  Part II. Preparation of C-Terminal alpha-Ketoacids and N-Terminal Hydroxylamines for Decarboxylative Peptide Ligations."

Sep 2008
No group meeting on Friday, Sep. 19th, 2008.

Sep 2008
Our new wepsite is update

Aug 2007
The Bode Group is moving to the University of Pennsylvania! Interested graduate students should apply directly to the Department of Chemstry at Penn.

Aug 2007
Jeff is a 2008 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar!

Aug 2007
Jeff is awarded the Bristol-Myers-Squibb Unresticted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry!

Jun 2007
The group welcomes summer undergrads Seiko Fuji (Smith College), Charles Grove (CSUÐFresno), Brendan Beahm (UCSB), and Vasken Keleshian (UCBS).

Apr 2007
Dr. Takeo Fukuzumi (Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology) joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.

Mar 2007
Jeff is elected an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow!

Feb 2007
Dr. Jian Wu (Ph.D., Wayne State Univeristy) and Dr. Michael Rommel (Ph.D., University of Marburg) join the group as our first postdoctoral scholars. Welcome!

Jan 2007
Jeff is selected for the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ) Lectureship Award and will present an award address at the SSOCJ summer meeting!

Dec 2006
Our new method of amide bond formation is selected as a Chemistry Highlight 2006 in C&EN News!

Nov 2006
Congratulations to Nancy Carrillo and Justin Struble, who both advanced to candidacy!

Oct 2006
Our enantioselective NHC-catalyzed oxodiene Diels-Alder reaction is featured as a news story in C&EN news!

Oct 2006
Jeff Bode is a 2006-2011 David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow!

Oct 2006
Ming and Gerson's paper on enantioselective NHC-catalyzed oxodiene Diels-Alder reactions with less than 1 mol % organocatalyst is accepted in JACS!

Oct 2006
Alex and Juthanat's paper on the synthesis and properties of shapeshifiting organic molecules is accepted in JACS!

Sep 2006
Jeff Bode is listed as one of MIT Technology Review's Top Innovators Under 35.

Sep 2006
Jeff Bode is one of three 2006-2008 Eli Lilly Grantees!

Sep 2006
The entire Bode Group travels to the Fall 2006 ACS Meeting in San Francisio. Ming, Alex, Justin S., Stephanie, Justin R., and Nancy present their latest work.

Aug 2006
Nancy Carrillo is awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship!

Jun 2006
Jeff Bode is one of two awardees of the 2006 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award! For recent winners, click here.

Jun 2006
Pei-Chen Chiang and Dan Burke join the group as first year graduate students! Gerson Uc-Basulto is an RISE summer undergraduate student from Fresno State. Shuhei Manabe, Jiyoung Yoon, and Shu-Ting Liu are UCSB summer undergraduate researchers.

May 2006
Jeff Bode is as selected for a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award!

May 2006
Ming's paper on catalytic enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Apr 2006
Jeff Bode is a 2006 Beckman Young Investigator!

Mar 2006
Jeff Bode is chosen as the first Richard and Leslie Anderson Scholar!

Feb 2006
Jeff Bode is selected as a 2006 Amgen Young Investigator!

Jan 2006
Our novel amide-bond forming ligation is featured as the lead story in C&E News!

Jan 2006
Nancy, Justin, and Eric's paper on the iterative synthesis of b3-oligopeptides in water is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Jan 2006
Our new method for chemoselective amidation without reagents or by-products is published in Angew. Chem.

Nov 2005
Our development of novel reactions catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes is highlighted in Angew. Chem!

Sep 2005
Lei Ju, Melissa Flores, and Junthanat Keobambrung join the group as first year students.

Jul 2005
Stephanie's paper on the catalytic redox esterification of enals is published in Organic Letters.

Jun 2005
Lenore Hicks is a NIH BRIDGES summer intern; Justin Russak joins the group as first-year graduate student

Jun 2005
Undergraduate Summer Fellowships!  Evie Rosen wins a CCS SURF Fellowship; Eric Davalos wins a Pfizer AIR-SURF Award; Kyle Baucom wins a Roche Undergraduate Research Award.

Jun 2005
Ming He publishes the NHC catalyzed synthesis of gamma-lactams from enals and N-sulfonylimines in Organic Letters.

May 2005
Stephanie Sohn advances to candidacy!

Dec 2004
Ryan Fox, Justin Struble, and Nancy Carillo join the group as first year graduate students.

Dec 2004
Ming He advances to candidacy; completes the synthesis of clausenamide.

Dec 2004
Construction (finally) finishes on the new Bode Labs!

Nov 2004
Jeffrey Bode is awarded a 2005–2009 NSF CAREER Award

Sep 2004
Stephanie Sohn and Evie Rosen publish in J. Am. Chem. Soc. the N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed generation of homoenolates.

Jun 2004
Undergraduate Awards! Adam Villa wins a Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship; Chris Day wins a CCS SURF Award; Evie Rosen wins a Roche Undergraduate Research Award.

Jun 2004
Ken Chow publishes the first method for catalytic generation of activated carboxylates in JACS!

Dec 2003
Stephanie Sohn, Ken Chow, Alex Lippert, and Ming He join the group as first year graduate students

Aug 2003
Jeffrey Bode is awarded the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.

Aug 2003
Bode Group founded at UCSB