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A Green group experimental paper, “From benzene to naphthalene: direct measurement of reactions and intermediates of phenyl radicals and acetylene,” (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/cp/c9cp04554f#!divAbstract) has been as a 2019 HOT Article and made free to access now on Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). This work contributed by Te-Chun Chu, Dr. Zachary J. Buras, Dr. Mica C. Smith, Awele B. Uwagwu, and  Prof. William H. Green successfully validates Hydrogen-abstraction–C2H2-addition (HACA) mechanism developed from ab initio calculations. A pressure-dependent model is provided with the paper for future modeling on PAH formation.

Yen-ting wins a scholarship to support students who graduate from the National Taiwan University School of Engineering that have been admitted to an MIT PhD program. The Think Global Education Trust provides the 2 year scholarship to encourage students to develop a global perspective.

JeeHyun Yang won the 2019 OTEFE (Opportunity to Earn Future Education Scholarship for overseas Korean students.

Connor’s work on automating organic synthesis and planning is featured in C&EN News. The original paper can be found at…

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6453/eaax1566

Prof. Green will receive the R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering at the AIChE National Meeting in November, for his work to make “it possible to predict products, equilibria, rates, and yields for a wide variety of chemical systems.”

Mark Payne won the Department’s Outstanding TA Award for his work teaching undergraduate thermodynamics.