http://www.carbene.de The Huynh Group Singapore Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:25:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to Han Yuan for being a finalist for the Reaxys PhD Prize, which awards original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry in a worlwide competition. As a finalist she is invited to participate in a special poster session and reception at the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/finalist-for-reaxys-phd-prize/ The semester has finally ended, and since the last post many things have changed in our group. The five honours students have completed their projects and have left the group. Of course we wish them all the best for their future endeavours. After a short stint, Dr Jana also went ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/next-update/ 2010 is already 1 month old, I realized that the last entry was months ago. I was probably too busy, too comfortable or simply too lazy to update the webpage. Anyway, many things have happened since the last entry and therefore this update will be rather "concentrated". Let's start with some ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/new-year-update/ On 30th June 2009, the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY has been conferred upon my very first graduate student Han Yuan. During her candidature, she has always worked very hard and demonstrated an excellent attitude towards science, which has already led to 10 publications (!), and more are in preparation. ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/farewell-to-dr-han-yuan/ For the last weekend of March in 2009, we had our first ever group retreat in Desaru, Malaysia. The main aim of this group retreat is to write up a student training program for our group, which was accomplished in those three days. :-) Another aim is of course to ... http://www.carbene.de/activities/our-1st-group-retreat/ It was a special time of year, Boss was feeling extremely generous and so he treated the Huynh Group to a group lunch at Modesto’s located at Vivocity. It was a welcome break from labwork that resulted in much humour, “cute-ness” and well-filled tummies. As they say, “a picture speaks ... http://www.carbene.de/activities/group-lunch-at-modestos/ Some results of our former honours students Wu Jiang, Chew Ying Xia and Lee Li Juan have been published or just accepted by Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Inorganica Chimica Acta and Organometallics. In addition, Basu's 3rd paper has just been published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry in a special ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/update-on-our-recent-publications/ It is lunar new year and lots of water has flown down the Kallang River since the last entry. Many things have happened as well. A new semester has started and heavy teaching duties have kicked in. Last year, I spent the whole of November at the National Taiwan University ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/gong-xi-fa-cai/ In November 2008 I visited the chemistry department of the National Taiwan University (NTU) as part of our NUS-NTU interdepartmental exchange program that started in early 2007. After touching down at the Taoyuan International Airport on the 3rd of November, I was welcomed by administrative officer Emilie Hui-Chen Hsu and ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/ntu-visit-031108-011208/ Our paper “Solvent-controlled selective Synthesis of a trans-configured Benzimidazoline-2-ylidene Palladium(II) Complex and Investigations of its Heck-type catalytic activity” (J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 3854-3860) has been recognised as a 'top 50' most cited article from Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, as published 2005-2008. In addition, Basu's and Han Yuan's papers below ranked ... http://www.carbene.de/group-news/highly-cited-and-top-25-hottest-articles/