OLDER NEWS
| 08/2019 | Congrats to Dr. Jeff Van Raden for defending his thesis! Jeff is off to Oxford for a postdoc with the Anderson Group. |
| 06/2019 | Two recent awards in our group: Claire won a graduate student award for Excellence in the Teaching of Chemistry, and Patrick won the UO ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Award for being an outstanding senior undergraduate chemistry student. Congrats to both! |
| 06/2019 | Welcome to Julia, James, and Tavis who have officially joined the group. |
| 03/2019 | Congrats to Jeff and Brittany on their paper in ACIE! |
| 02/2019 | Congratulations to Terri and Curtis on their recent paper in Chem. Sci.! |
| 11/2018 | Our collaborative paper with the Alemán group was accepted into Nano Letters! |
| 10/2018 | Congratulations to PhD #7 from the Jasti group, Dr. Brittany White! |
| 10/2018 | Jasti lab collaborative work featured in Around the O: Link |
| 10/2018 | Congratulations to Tobi on his paper in ACIE! |
| 09/2018 | Congratulations to Brittany on her paper in ACS Central Science! |
| 06/2018 | Welcome to Claire Otteson who has officially joined the research group. |
| 04/2018 | Congratulations to Ruth Maust for receiving the NSF GRFP fellowship! |
| 08/2017 | Check out the cool research being done by Elizabeth Hirst (the first Jasti Group PhD student): Link |
| 06/2017 | Welcome to Ruth Maust who has officially joined the research group. |
| 06/2017 | Congratulations to Cyrus Waters for winning a SAACS Summer Research Award! |
| 06/2017 | Congratulations to Shayan Louie for being selected as a 2017-2018 Presidential Undergraduate Research Scholar! |
| 05/2017 | Congrats to former summer undergraduate James Collins on his enrollment to the University of Michigan graduate program in chemistry. Best of luck to James! |
| 05/2017 | Welcome to our new postdoctoral researcher, Tobias Schaub, from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. |
| 04/2017 | Check out former graduate student Tom Sisto's back-to-back papers in JACS from the Nuckoll's group! |
| 04/2017 | Congratulations to Penghao on his paper in ACIE! |
| 03/2017 | Congratulations to Jeff Van Raden and undergraduate Shayan on their paper in JACS! |
| 03/2017 | Congratulations to Evan, Brittany, and Lance on their paper in JACS! |
| 02/2017 | Congratulations to group alumni Matt Golder and Evan Darzi on their recent NIH postdoctoral fellowships! |
| 09/2016 | Professor Jasti discusses the group's research in lieu of the upcoming Camille-Dreyfus Symposium. You can see some of the other award winners here. |
| 07/2016 | Check out former graduate student Matt Golder's first publication as a postdoctoral scholar from the Johnson group at MIT! |
| 07/2016 | Check out the cool CURO-Pi logo designed by Evan Darzi. |
| 07/2016 | Congrats to former graduate student Matt Golder on receiving the 2016 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists! |
| 07/2016 | Our collaborative paper with the Nazin group has been accepted to Physical Chemistry Letters! |
| 07/2016 | Congrats to former graduate student Paul Evans on his nicely written highlight of the graphene work out of the Rubin group. |
| 06/2016 | Welcome to our undergraduate reseracher James Collins sponsored by the NIH MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR)! |
| 06/2016 | Welcome to Erik Leonhardt and Curtis Colwell who have officially joined the research group. |
| 05/2016 | Congrats to Lance for being awarded "Most Outstanding Organic Chemistry Student" at the UO from the American Chemical Society! Lance will be starting graduate school at UC-Irvine in the Fall! |
| 05/2016 | Congrats to Taryn for winning the Vice President for Research and Innovation Undergraduate Fellowship to support her research over the summer! |
| 04/2016 | We are now LIVE on twitter! Follow us @nanohoops! |
| 04/2016 | Registration for CURO-pi II is now OPEN! |
| 04/2016 | Our collaborative paper with Professor Juan Casado has been accepted to Chemical Science! |
| 03/2016 | Two papers on cycloaddition reactivity of nanohoops are available! Penghao's paper on the reactivity of strained anthracene units is now available in Organic Letters. Dr. Jackson's paper on the Diels-Alder reactivity of a nanohoop containing perylene will be available soon in Tetrahedron! |
| 02/2016 | Tom and Brittany's paper is now available in Chemical Science! |
| 02/2016 | Dr. Evan Jackson has accepted a job at Thermo Fisher Scientific. |
| 02/2016 | Jeff's paper was accepted for publication in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and was featured as a 2016 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Hot Article! |
| 01/2016 | Jasti Group welcomes Kathryn Chamberlain for an exciting Winter rotation. |
| 11/2015 | A collaborative paper between the Jasti and Rathore groups gives further insight into the complex oxidation of carbon nanohoops and was acceptd to JACS! |
| 10/2015 | Our recent ACS Central Science paper detailing Donor-Acceptor nanohoops is highlighted in the Around the O! Check it out! |
| 09/2015 | Jasti Group welcomes three talented rotation students: Curtis Colwell, Matt Cerda, and Eric Leonhardt. |
| 08/2015 | Matt defends his thesis and will begin as a postdoc with Prof. Jeremiah Johnson at MIT this fall. Congratulations, Dr. Golder! |
| 08/2015 | Evan and Liz's paper on the synthesis and characterization of nitrogen-doped donor-acceptor nanohoops has been accepted for publication in ACS Central Science! |
| 07/2015 | The whole group is back in Eugene after a month of conferences. Check out pictures from our travels! |
| 07/2015 | Evan, Penghao, Brittany, and Ramesh attended the Physical Organic Gordon Conference in New Hampshire. Congratulations to Penghao for being selected to present at talk at the associated Physical Organic Gordon Seminar and to Evan for receiving a poster award. |
| 07/2015 | Matt and Evan attended the National Organic Symposium in Maryland. |
| 07/2015 | Paul, Evan, and Ramesh attended ISNA-16 in Madrid, Spain. Congratulations to Evan for receiving another poster award! |
| 06/2015 | Incoming first year student Curtis Colwell arrives for summer research in the group. |
| 06/2015 | First year students Jeff Van Raden and Lisa Eytel officially join the group. |
| 05/2015 | Paul defends his thesis and will begin as a postdoc with Prof. Nazario Martin in Madrid later this summer. Congratulations, Dr. Evans! |
| 05/2015 | Dr. Evan Jackson (Montgomery Lab, University of Michigan) begins as a postdoc in the group. |
| 05/2015 | Brittany passes her 6th term oral examination and advances to candidacy! |
| 05/2015 | Tom defends his thesis and departs for Columbia to begin a postdoc with Prof. Colin Nuckolls. Congratulations, Dr. Sisto! |
| 04/2015 | Evan's tutorial review on size-dependent properties of [n]CPPs is published in Chemical Society Reviews |
| 04/2015 | Congratulations to former REU student George Pantelopulos (2013) for being awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. |
| 04/2015 | Welcome to spring rotation student Lisa Eytel and undergraduate student Taryn Kawashima. |
| 03/2015 | Lance Loventhal joins the group as an undergraduate student. |
| 02/2015 | Matt's review article on the synthesis and characterization of smaller [n]CPPs is published in Accounts of Chemical Research. |
| 02/2015 | The group attends its first Sunriver Organometallics Symposium ("Skiposium") with the Haley, Tyler, Pluth, and DeRose groups. |
| 01/2015 | Welcome to winter rotation students Patrick Gamache and Jeff Van Raden. |
| 10/2014 | Our collaborative paper on the size-dependence of [n]CPP optical properties is published in Nano Letters. |
| 09/2014 | Ramesh, Evan, Tom and Matt travel to Morocco for Fusion Carbon 2014. Congratulations to Evan for being selected to give a Flash Presentation! Check out pictures from our trip. |
| 09/2014 | Evan is awarded a travel award from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry to attend the 2015 National Organic Symposium. Congratulations, Evan! |
| 08/2014 | Our collaborative paper with the Irle Group at Nagoya University is published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. |
| 07/2014 | The unpacking begins in Eugene! |
| 06/2014 | The group will be moving to the University of Oregon this summer. We look forward to new opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 05/2014 | Liz defends her thesis as the first PhD from the Jasti Group! Congratulations, Dr. Hirst! |
| 05/2014 | Matt is selected to participate in the 2014 Graduate Research Symposium, sponsored by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, in Irvine, CA. |
| 04/2014 | Ramesh is selected to recieve a 2014 Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. Thank you to the Camille-Dreyfus Foundation for their support. |
| 04/2014 | Congratulations to Tom for winning best oral presentation at the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference! |
| 04/2014 | Congratulations to Dharati for being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! |
| 03/2014 | Congratulations to Morgan and Jessie for earning UROP awards for the summer. |
| 03/2014 | Congratulations to Tom for winning the best poster award at the JCF student chemistry research conference (Frühjahrssymposium) in Germany! |
| 02/2014 | Paul and Evan's manuscript on the synthesis of [5]cycloparaphenylene has been accepted for publication in Nature Chemistry! |
| 01/2014 | Our first collaborative paper on [n]CPP excited state photophysics with the Kamat group at Notre Dame has been accepted in J. Phys. Chem. A. |
| 12/2013 | Penghao, Tom and Evan's paper on bent paraphenylenes has been accepted for publication in Organic Letters. |
| 11/2013 | Welcome to the newest (and youngest) member of the Jasti Group, Devdan ("Dev") Jasti! |
| 09/2013 | Our first paper on Raman spectroscopy of CPPs in collaboration with the Swan Group (BU Photonics) has been accepted for publication in Carbon. |
| Ramesh is awarded a Boston University Innovation Career Development Professorship. Only two BU faculty members were awarded this endowed professorship. (Highlight on BU Chemistry Website). |
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| First year graduate student Brittany White and undergraduates Dharati Joshi (2014), Colleen Gill (2014) and Morgan Myers (2015) join the group. |
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| 08/2013 | Matt is awarded the 2013 Vertex Scholar Award. Thank you to Vertex for their generous support! |
| Congratulations to Tom for recieving the 2013 Lichtin Award for Excellence in Research! |
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| Matt's paper on the radical cation of [8]cycloparaphenylene has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science. |
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| 07/2013 | George Pantelopulos joins the group for the summer as an REU student. Welcome, George. |
| Congratulations to Matt for being chosen to deliver a talk at the 2013 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar. |
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| Congratulations to Tom for being selected for a short talk at the 2013 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference. |
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| Tom is awarded a graduate fellowship from AstraZeneca. Congratulations, Tom and thank you to AstraZeneca for their generous support! |
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| 05/2013 | Doug is the recipient of the 2013 Undergraduate Research Award for his presentation at the undergraduate research symposium and Jessie is awarded UROP funding for the summer. |
| The group is a recipient of a Boston University MSE Innovation Grant (in collaboration with Prof. Xi Lin) for proposed work on new conductive polymers with carbon nanohoop functionality. |
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| 04/2013 | Ramesh's profile has been featured in the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry's Early Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry. |
| Liz has recieved a fellowship from the American Association of University Women. 245 grants and fellowships were awarded to graduate students, post-docs, professors and community leaders for 2013-14. Congratulations, Liz! |
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| Ramesh is featured in the Winter-Spring 2013 issue of Bostonia (CAS Faculty Member Wins Sloan Fellowship) and in BU Today (04/01/2013). |
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| 02/2013 | Our recent collaborative work with the Petrukhina Group at the University at Albany on the reduction of cycloparaphenylenes has been accepted for publication in ACIE and features the tetraanion of [8]CPP! |
| The Jasti group has been awarded an Ignition Award from Boston University to investigate carbon nanohoops as advanced energy storage materials. The Ignition Award Program provides funds to evolve BU research to the stage where it can be licensed, spun off as a New Venture, or create a new, non-profit enterprise. |
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| Ramesh is the recipient of a 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. |
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| 01/2013 | Undergraduate student Ashley Mellen (2016) joins the group. |
| 12/2012 | The group has earned an NSF CAREER award for the development of organic synthesis tools that will enable the preparation of structurally well-defined carbon nanotubes (CNTs). |
| 10/2012 | Liz's [n]Cycloparaphenylene synopsis has been accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem. |
| Jianlong and Matt's paper on cycloparaphenylene dimers has been accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc. |
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| Jianlong's gram-scale CPP synthesis has been highlighted in Synfacts: "Cycloparaphenylenes by the Gram" |
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| 07/2012 | Jianlong's Chem. Sci.paper on the first gram-scale syntheses of CPPs has been highlighted in C&E News! |
| Evan and Tom's paper describing an approach to [7]-[12]CPP has been accepted to J. Org. Chem. |
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| Jianlong's ACIE paper on [6]CPP has been highlighted by SYNFACTS. |
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| Jianlong's paper describing the gram-scale syntheses of [8] and [10]CPPs, as well as the crystal structure of C60@[10]CPP, has been accepted for publication in Chem. Sci. |
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| 06/2012 | Tom and Xia's paper on Tetraphenyl-Substituted [12]CPP is now in J. Org. Chem. |
| Undergraduate student David Rose (2013) joins the group. |
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| Congratulations to Liz for being elected President of the Boston University Women in Chemistry (BUWIC) student-run organization! |
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| 05/2012 | A nice review describing the rational synthetic approaches to carbon nanotubes has been published recently in Angewandte Chemie: para-Connected Cyclophenylenes and Hemispherical Polyarenes: Building Blocks for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes? |
| 01/2012 | Undergraduate student Doug Allison (2013) joins the group. |
| Jianlong's paper describing the synthesis, characterization, and crystal structure of [6]cycloparaphenylene has been accepted to Angewandte Chemie. |
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| 12/2011 | Tom's paper, "Overcoming Molecular Strain: Synthesis of [7]Cycloparaphenylene", is accepted to Synlett as a SYNPACTS featured article. |
| The group's recent JACS paper on the synthesis of [7]CPP was highlighted in Synfacts: "The Smaller the Redder" |
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| Ramesh is the recipient of a 2011 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award. |
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| 11/2011 | The group's recent work on cycloparaphenylenes was highlighted in the Noteworthy Chemistry section of the ACS website. |
| 10/2011 | Liz's paper, "Theoretical Analysis of [5.7]nCyclacenes: Closed-Shell Cyclacene Isomers", is accepted to Org. Lett.! Congratulations, Liz! |
| First year graduate students Evan Darzi and Penghao Li join the group. |
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| 09/2011 | The group's first paper, "Selective Synthesis of Strained [7]Cycloparaphenylene: An Orange-Emitting Fluorophore.", is accepted into J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations, Tom, Matt and Liz! |
| Undergraduate student Dylan Selden (2013) joins the group. |
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| 07/2011 | High school student Colin Guedj joins the group for the summer as part of the BU-RISE program. |
| 06/2011 | Dr. Jianlong Xia (Central China Normal University) joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. |
| 03/2011 | Liz Hirst passes her oral exam! |
| 02/2010 | Paul Evans passes his oral exam! |
| 01/2011 | Undergraduate student Alex Berkowitz (2012) joins the group. |
| 10/2010 | Welcome to the new group members: Tom Sisto, Matt Golder and Eric Boon. |
| 09/2010 | Dr. Tian takes a position at X-Chem, Inc. Good luck to Xia and the new job! |
| 07/2010 | Tom Sisto joins the group for the summer. Tom will be starting graduate school at BU in the fall. |
| 05/2010 | Ryan has been awarded a UROP stipend to conduct research this summer. Congratulations, Ryan! |
| 12/2009 | First year graduate students Elizabeth Hirst, Paul Evans, Lanita Gaworski and Han Xiao officially join the group. |
| 10/2009 | The lab is up and running... thanks to Xia and Ryan! |
| 09/2009 | Dr. Xia Tian and undergraduate Ryan Knowlton officially join the group. |