Pharm to Table

For our 2nd course, a #winning #MerckChemistry duo, Patrick Fier and Kevin Maloney, join us to discuss their discovery of the Maloney-Fier reaction (campaigning to be in the 2nd edition of the indispensable Strategic Applications of Named Reaction in Organic Synthesis by Kurti/Czako)  as well as other projects they've collaborated on in the last few years. We'll uncover why these two work so well together and how they balance exploring scientific curiosities while having day jobs as successful process chemists. Dani and LC also try to find out which famous duo they are most like: Batman and Robin? Han Solo and Chewy? Listen to find out!

Read their papers we discussed today here:

Direct Conversion of Haloarenes to Phenols under Mild, Transition-Metal-Free Conditions

Synthesis of Complex Phenols Enabled by a Rationally Designed Hydroxide Surrogate

Reagent Design and Ligand Evolution for the Development of a Mild Copper-Catalyzed Hydroxylation Reaction

NHC-Catalyzed Deamination of Primary Sulfonamides: A Platform for Late-Stage Functionalization

Reductive Cleavage of Secondary Sulfonamides: Converting Terminal Functional Groups into Versatile Synthetic Handles

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Every great meal starts with an inspiration....

Find out how Pharm to Table was created from an idea to our release. You'll find out how we gathered all the essential ingredients - including our name, logo, music and also folks that gave us great advice along the way. You will also get to meet a key early contributor, our Merck Future Talent program intern Jimmy Olsen (now a graduate student with Professor John Wood at Baylor!), who helped us get off the ground last year!

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For our 1st course (and inaugural episode!!), Dani and L.-C. serve up the true Pharm to Table experience by discussing the importance of academic-industrial collaborations through the lens of their comment piece published in Nature Chemistry titled “Harder, Better, Faster.” This article struck a cord with a lot of folks in the chemistry community (>22k views) and created a social media buzz where academics and industrial scientists debated the age old question “Why don’t you use my [insert science here]”?

To learn more about the origin story our article (think Stu Cantrill + Vanilla Ice + Twitter), how to improve industrial-academic relations, and how to get started in building your network and start collaborating – then tune in!

You can read the paper here: Harder, Better, Faster

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Another teaser! Here is our delicious theme song. Thanks to Mark Partridge (twitter: @markrightmedia) for this original piece!

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Check out our trailer! Join L.-C. Campeau and Dani Schultz as they explore the amazing stories and people behind the papers from #MerckChemistry. We promise to always bring tasty (pun intended) #MerckChemistry content to our table that is guaranteed to have you coming back for another dose (pun intended, again). Subscribe to get all our new episodes.