January 29, 2025

Andrew Bach (Snaddon Lab), one of our current QCB ambassadors, has co-authored a paper published in Helvetica Chimica Acta. The team developed the first successful construction of quaternary-substituted stereogenic centers using a Lewis base-palladium cooperative catalysis scheme and demonstrated a novel approach to competing with direct deprotonation in chemical reactions. The paper has potential implications for synthesizing complex bioactive molecules and is an important step forward in asymmetric synthesis techniques. Congrats Andrew!