Liberal Arts and Sciences
Feng Lab
Led by Kaibo Feng · Chemistry
What we study
The Feng Lab creates new chemical reactions using transition‑metal and organocatalysts to attach functional groups to natural products and drug‑like molecules late in their synthesis. They focus on making these modifications selective and efficient through organic synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, and organometallic chemistry.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Papers
- 3
Recent papers, explained
- Development of a Deactivation-Resistant Dialkylbiarylphosphine Ligand for Pd-Catalyzed Arylation of Secondary Amines
2024 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
Designing a robust ligand to improve palladium‑catalyzed coupling of secondary amines.
- Pd-Catalyzed Amination of Base-Sensitive Five-Membered Heteroaryl Halides with Aliphatic Amines
2023 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
Creating a palladium method to attach aliphatic amines to delicate heteroaryl rings.
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- Late-stage oxidative C(sp3)–H methylation
2020 · Nature
Developing a reaction that adds a methyl group to carbon‑hydrogen bonds in complex molecules.
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