Welcome to the Malapit Group
synthesis | catalysis | electrochemistry | organometallic chemistry
for reaction discovery and sustainable energy storage
About
The Malapit lab is Northwestern's newest synthetic chemistry research group.
We utilize a multidisciplinary approach using the concepts of organic synthesis, electrochemistry, and organometallic chemistry, towards the discovery of new reactions and sustainable catalytic transformations,
and the development of novel molecules for next-generation energy storage technology.
News and Events
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Fall & Summer 2024
Winter & Spring 2024
Fall & Summer 2023
Our group attends the ACS Fall 2023 in San Francisco!
Congratulations to Emily for receiving the Gold Award from ACS Energy and Fuels
for outstanding research and presentation.
We welcome Jinxiao Li (visiting scholar) and Chris Rapala (undergrad researcher) to the group.
Spring & Winter 2023
Congratulations to our second year graduate students:
An Kitamura, Stella Fors, and Emily Mahoney for passing their qualifying exams! #PhDCandidate
Grad student, An Kitamura, is on the headline news of Northwestern Now!
Fall & Summer 2022
We welcome first year graduate students: Griffin, Jessica, and Mo!
Congratulations to An Kitamura for receiving the inaugural Quad Fellowship!
We welcome our newest postdoc, Dr. Eva Alvarez!
June 2022
The Malapit lab is open!!!
We finally moved to our newly renovated lab and we're excited to discover amazing things.
Fist paper from the lab now out in JACS!
Congrats to Eva, Griffin, and Mo! Paper
Happy New Year!
Congratulations to Stella for receiving the Mirzayan Fellowship from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine.
Our recent paper in arene C–H amination is featured in Synfacts and ChemistryViews!
Our recent paper in arene C–H amination is among the most read paper in JACS for the months of February, March, and April.
Congratulations to grad student Griffin Stewart for receiving the prestigious NSF GRFP Award!
Congratulations to grad students Jessica and Griffin for passing their qualifying exams in flying colors!
Check out our latest publication in Angewandte Chemie on how alternating polarity efficiently generate aryl radicals from organoboron reagents. Congrats to Max, Jessica, Lorenzo, Ian, and Rossul! Paper
New review on electrochemical arene C–H amination out now in ChemCatChem! Congrats to Griffin and Chris. Review
Our latest work on "voltage-gated" electrolysis to enable the first electrochemical hydrotrifluoromethylation of unactivated olefins out now in Angewandte Chemie. Congrats to Eva and Jinxiao! Paper
We welcome our newest postdoc, Dr. Jake Evans, from CalTech!