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2022



12/18/22

Farewell

Farewell to David, wishing you all the best for your new position in the Leigh group!



11/28/22

Publications

Check out Ivan's new perspective on non-equilibrium steady states in catalysis, molecular machines, and materials, written in collaboration with @sgoldup.



11/14/22

Group Activity

Group dinner with @Javier_Read @UCSB_chemistry! Javier was in town for Sirun's thesis defense and delivered a brilliant departmental seminar @DartmouthChem.
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11/14/22

Graduation

Sirun Yang successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Yang! We are proud of you!
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11/11/22

Welcome

Welcome to the group Vedang and Shefali!
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11/08/22

Publications

Congratulations to Daniil and our wonderful collaborators @ShustovaLab on our latest @angew_chem paper, which was also selected as VIP (Very Important Paper)! We demonstrate how voids in COFs and MOFs impact photoisomerization in hydrazones.
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10/19/22

Group Activity

Fall is here! Lots of fun carving three beautiful pumpkins!
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10/01/22

Group Activity

Bowling at the Meyer Maple Lanes!
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07/25/22

Publications

Wonderful collaboration @J_A_C_S with the @GraceGDHan group @BrandeisScience. Congrats to Qianfeng and Sirun @dartmouth who did the heavy lifting!
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07/15/22

Welcome

Welcome to the group, Abigail!
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04/22/22

Group Activity

Early spring mini-golf! 

2021


10/20/21

Group Activity

The fall is here! Exciting corn maze and pumpkin carving contest! Congrats to Brandon and David for their award-winning pumpkin No.13!



09/30/21

Publication

Congrats to @SirunYang Jared, Laura & collabs @APriimagi & Gaurav for J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper showing how switching of hydrazone pendants results in photo-hardening. We also used the switch bistability to lock-in different Tg values in same polymer!
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09/30/21

Publication

Check out our lastest collabrative study in Angew. Chem. with Prof. Chenfeng Ke about photoisomerization of a hydrazone inside a porous HCOF!
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07/17/21

Publication

Congratulations to Sirun and our collaborators in the Mierke and Beeren labs for the Chem paper!
Also congratulations to Sirun for winning one of the ISMSC2021 poster awards, for his poster on this paper.
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05/18/21

Graduation

Congratulations! Baihao Shao just passed his PhD thesis defense with flying colors! We are proud of you Dr. Shao!
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05/18/21

Welcome

Moby just joined the group as a research assistant and chief cuddler!
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2020


07/14/20

Graduation

Congratulations to Laura and Chase for graduating @Dartmouth! Wishing them all the best with their new adventures!
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03/20/20

Publication

Check out Ivan's new perspective on ACS Cent. Sci. about molecular machines!
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02/25/20

Publication

Check out our new research on Chem. Sci. about light-controlled drug release with an emissive hydrazone! 
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02/04/20

Publication

Check out our new research on ChemistryOpen about red-shifting the activation wavelength by planarizing  the hydrazone! 
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2019


12/25/19

Welcome

Welcome to the group Aisha, Esma, Daniil and Heyifei! 
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10/12/19

Publication

Congrats to Sirun and collaborators in Zenobi lab on newest paper in JACS!
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07/19/19

Publication

Congrats to Baihao on newest paper in ChemCommun.
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05/22/19

Publication

Checkout Baihao's paper in ChemPhotoChem which is part of special issue on "Photoresponsive Molecular Switches and Machines"
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05/06/19

Publication

Congrats to Baihao, Hai and Quan for their recent JACS paper.
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05/02/19

Promotion

Congrats to Ivan for being promoted to Full Professor!



02/16/19

Farewell &
​Welcome

Jared, Mark, Quan, and Steve recenlty departed the group to pursue new careers in academia and/or industry. Wishing them all the best at their new positions. At the same time Chase and Laura (undergrads) joined us - welcome to the group!



02/16/19

Summary

The group published a number of papers about the new photochromic hydrazones and their use in manipulating liquid crystal properties, and polymer actuation. Check the publication section for more details. Jared and Mark published a PNAS perspective about new molecular switch architectures, Ivan became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Fellows, and we got new funding through NSF MSN. So we have been busy!



01/09/19

Publication

Congrats to Quan and our collabs on the new JACS paper!
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2017


06/23/17

Publication

​​Congrats to Hai and Susnata for their seminal paper about a new family of photochromic compounds JACS !
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05/25/17

Publication

Check out Ivan's perspective about molecular switches in ChemCommun!
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05/22/17

Fellowship

Ivan receives a prestegious Humboldt Research Fellowship!



05/22/17

Publication

Congrats to Hai and Baihao for their Tetrahedron paper, about the red-light photomodulation of the emission of an azo-BF2 switch.
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05/22/17

Publication

Congrats to Hai and collaborators for their ChemPhotoChem paper, about the solid-state emission of triazolopyridinium salts!
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05/22/17

Publication

Congrats to Hai for his JACS communcation, showing how the half-life of a photochromic compound can be manipulated using aggregation.
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2016


11/15/16

Publication

Congrats to Susnata for his JACS communcation, demostrating an artifical negative feedback loop.
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11/01/16

Welcome

Welcome to the group Baihao Shao!



09/26/16

Publication

Congrats to Hai for his Nature Chem paper! This paper is part of our Collaborative NSF project with Liptak at UVM aimed at understanding solid state emission.
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11/01/16

Award

Ivan wins the CLP Supramolecular Chemistry award!


2015


12/21/15

Publication

Hydrazone switches are becoming popular; Ivan's Nature Chem Perpective on Leigh's hydrazone-based robotic arm paper.




07/31/15

Welcome

Welcome to the group Selbi, Mark and Quan!



06/03/15

Acknowledgement

We are thankful to the Army Research Office for funding our light-activated liquid crystal project.



05/15/15

Acknowledgement

We are thankful to the NSF DMR (and MSN) for funding our hydrazone-based solid-state emitters project.






05/15/15

Publication

Congrats to Hai for his ChemCommun paper, which was highlighted as a front cover.



04/15/15

Career

Congrats to Xin on his new position at Wiley. Xin will start as an associate editor of Advanced Materials.



02/23/15

Career

Congrats to Yin on her post-doc position at NIST.


2014


12/04/14

Publication

Congrats to Luke and Justin for their JACS communication, which addresses the decades old problem of waste production in chemically activated switches. The communication was highlighted in Science Daily, PhysOrg, and is the cover story of LaserFocusWorld. It was also featured in JACS Spotlights



10/24/14

Interview

Check out Ivan's Dartmouth Now interview.



09/26/14

Publication

Congrats to Justin and Debdas for their ChemSci article about the use of coordination coupled deprotonation in signaling and signal amplification.




09/15/14

Publication

Congrats to Yin for her communication in JACS about the first NIR light activated azo compound!



07/21/14

Publication

Congrats to Molly and Xin for their ChemPlusChem paper, which will appear in the Early Career Series



07/14/14

Fellowship

Congrats to Ivan for the Linda B. and Kendrick R. Wilson III 1969 Fellowship, in recognition of excellence in teaching and research



06/17/14

Fellowship

Colleen Gill from BU joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome to the group Colleen!



05/16/14

Tenure

Congrats to Ivan for being Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!​



04/30/14

Farwell

Farewell to Xin and good luck at NETL!​




04/28/14

Conference

Hai, Xin and Ivan just came back from the SciFest in DC. Pics coming soon.



04/25/14

Publication

Congrats to Luke and Xin for their Accounts paper!




04/24/14

Scholarship

Congrats to Saara-Anne for her Reynolds Scholarship!



04/01/19

Career

Congrats to Elise @Harvard for her NSF GRFP award, and Tom @Stanford for the honorable mention!



03/24/14

Award

Congrats to Xin for winning an award from the Chinese Scholarship Council



01/16/14

Publication

Xin's Chem. Soc. Rev. about hydrazones in supramolecular chemistry is online! Check out the inside front cover



01/16/14

Farewell

Farewell Justin, and good luck with the post-doc position in Strasbourg!


2013


12/12/13

Publication

Congrats to Xin for his communication in Org. Lett.



10/30/13

Publication

Congratulations to Justin for successfully defending his thesis!



10/16/13

Publication

Congratulations to Xin for successfully defending his thesis, and becoming the first PhD student to graduate from group!



09/01/13

Welcome

Luke Tatum from the King group in Reno has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Luke!



08/21/13

Publication

Congrats to Xin and Sahag for their new Angew. Chemie. communication, which is highlighted in C&EN , Medical News Today , Wiley-VCH Hot Topics , Chemistry Views ,and as a frontispiece.



05/09/13

Conference

Congrats to Xin for being selected to the upcoming DOC Graduate Research Symposium.



04/30/13

Publication

Congrats to Tom, Hai and Xin for their Org. Lett. paper!



04/02/13

Award

Ivan is profiled in the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry as part of their Early Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry series.




02/25/13

Conference

Justin and Xin talk about their experience at the ACS IDSS meeting in the new issue of The Nucleus.



01/21/13

Acknowledgement

Ivan is thankful to the National Science Foundation for a generous CAREER Award.


2012


10/22/12

Publication

Congrats to Justin for receiving a GAANN fellowship.



09/23/12

Conference

Xin and Justin, who will be representing NESACS at the upcoming ACS IDSS meeting are mentioned in The Nucleus. Congrats to both!



09/07/12

Publication

Congrats to Xin and our collaborator Matt Liptak (UVM) for the communication in Chem. Commun., which will appear in the the 2013 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Issue.



08/30/12

Publication

Congrats to Xin and our collaborators from Estonia (Leito group) for the paper in Chem. Commun. which will be part of the special issue on Aromaticity.



07/09/12

Fellowship

Congrats to Justin for receiving a GAANN fellowship.



06/19/12

Publication

Congrats to Debdas and Justin for their paper in Nature Chemistry. See also the highlight in Nature Chemistry News and Views.



06/07/12

Career

Congrats to Elise for winning the Hartshorn and Zabriskie prizes and upcoming graduation.



05/15/12

Career

Congrats to Xin for advancing to candidacy!



05/11/12

Publication

Congrats to Xin and Timo for their communication in BJOC, which will be part of a thematic issue about molecular switches and cages.



05/01/12

Publication

Congrats to Justin and Elise for their communication in CrystEngComm, which willl be published as part of the "New Talent Americas" special issue.



04/15/12

Career

Congrats to Tom, Elise and Sahag for being accepted to the PhD programs of Stanford, Harvard and MIT, respectively.


2011


12/03/11

Welcome

Congrats to Xin for being selected to the GDCh Exchange program. You can read more about it in The Nucleus.



11/04/11

Publication

Congrats to Yin and Xin for their paper in Chem. Sci. which was one of November's top 10 most accessed papers! It was also highlighted by ACS Noteworthy Chemistry.



10/17/11

Welcome

We are thankful to the ACS PRF for a generous grant.



09/01/11

Welcome

Welcome to the group, HHMI fellow David Clemens-Sewall (Dartmouth 14').



08/01/11

Career

Congratulations to Yin and Justin for becoming PhD candidates.



07/07/11

Welcome

Jonathan Leitschuh (Thetford Academy, hetford, VT) joins the group as an ACS Seed Fellow.



06/20/11

Welcome

Welcome back to the group, Isaac (WPI 11') and Tom (Dartmouth 11').



06/15/11

Welcome

Debdas Ray (IIT, Kanpur) joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher.



06/09/11

Graduation

Congratulations to Tom for graduating magna cum laude.



05/17/11

Publication

Our collaborative effort with the Goddard (Caltech) and Elhabiri (Strasbourg) groups just bore its first fruit; Congratulations to Shainaz for her JACS paper.



2010


12/09/10

Publication

Double whammy for Xin! Two communications, one in Org. Lett. and the other in Angewandte Chemie, were accepted in one week! Congrats to Tom as well for his first publication in ACIE.



09/11/10

Outreach

Self-Assembly on the go: Justin, Xin and Ivan have been busy with outreach in NH, VT and DC (USA Science Festival).



08/22/10

Conference

The group presented 3 posters at the Boston ACS National Meeting, two of which were chosen for the SciMix session. Great job Shainaz, Xin and Justin! In the meanwhile Ivan chaired a Materials, Devices and Switches session



08/04/10

Award

Xin was recently chosen as a Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) Student Information Exchange Program scholar. Congratulations Xin! For more detail see the news article in Dartmouth Now.






07/01/10

Welcome

Timo Lessing (University of Dusseldorf, Germany) joins the group as a DAAD Exchange Student.



06/23/10

Publication

A poster presented by Ivan gets picked (out of 80 others!) for a short talk at the Reaction Mechanisms Conference in UMass Amherst.



06/20/10

Welcome

Ivy Song (Lebanon High School, Lebanon, NH) joins the group as an ACS Seed Fellow.



06/20/10

Welcome

Thomas F. Robbins (Dartmouth 11') joins the group as a Zabriskie Fellow. Elise B. Wilkes (Dartmouth 12') joins the group as a Presidential Scholar. Everett D. Jackson (Western Washington University) joins the group for the summer as part of the NSF REU program.



04/01/10

Conference

Shainaz wins the "Women in Science" Presentation Award at Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference and is awarded membership to Sigma Delta Epsilon.



01/04/10

Welcome

Alena M. Carlson (UMass Boston) joins the group for the winter.


2009


12/07/09

Publication

Our first communication was accepted for publication in JACS (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 151, 18269-71.)! Congratulations to Shainaz. Here is the news coverage in Dartmouth Now.



10/21/09

Lecture

Technology in Class: Ivan experiments with new capture technology at Dartmouth.



09/22/09

Welcome

Graduate student Xin Su (Nankai Univeristy, China) joins the group.



06/24/09

Welcome

Sahag Voskian (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) joins the group for the summer. Morgan L Baima (St. Edward's University) joins the group for the summer as part of the NSF REU program.



01/04/09

Welcome

Postdoctoral researcher Shainaz M. Landge (UMass Boston) joins the group.


2008


12/15/08

Welcome

Graduate students Justin T. Foy (Saint Michael's College) and Yin Yang (East China University of Science and Technology) join the group.



08/25/08

Welcome

Brad W. Hagedorn (Dartmouth 10') joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.



08/10/08

Outset

Ivan comes to Dartmouth. Let there be the group!


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