Peng Liu, a Richard King Mellon Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Dietrich School has had some exciting news this month.
One of Liu’s students, Turki Alturaifi, was selected for the CAS Future Leaders Top 100 Program.
Liu’s research group published a paper in Nature last week. The paper, "Photoinduced copper-catalysed deracemization of alkyl halides," was published in collaboration with Professor Greg Fu from CalTech. You can read their research here.
In addition, two groups that Liu is working with have been awarded NFS grants. The first grant is for “GOALI: Advancing a Mechanism-Driven Predictive Model for the Catalyst-controlled Asymmetric Rh(I)-Catalyzed Pauson-Khand Reaction.” Kay Brummond, another Professor in the Department of Chemistry is also part of the research, which was granted $725,000 in total.
The other grant is for “Ideas Labs: USPRD: De Novo Design and Evolution of Enzymes for Biomass Upcycling to Surfactants and Fuels" and was awarded $441,974.