04/2024: Dong, Michael and Yubin's paper "Generation, Characterization and Reactivity of a High-valent Mononuclear Cobalt(IV)-diazide Complex" was published in the Chemistry - A European Journal as a research article. Congratulations Michael and Yubin!

04/2024: Dong, Yan and Wenting's paper "A Co(III)-peroxo-arylboronate Complex Formed by Nucleophilic Reaction of a Co(III)-peroxo Species" was published in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry as an invited contribution to the "Larry Que Special Issue". Congratulations Yan and Wenting! Happy retirement Larry! 

12/2023: Dong and Yan's paper "10⁶-fold Faster C–H Bond Hydroxylation by a Co^III,IV₂(μ-O)₂ Complex (via a Co^III₂(μ-O)(μ-OH) Intermediate) Versus Its Fe^IIIFe^IV Analog" was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. Congratulations Yan!

09/2023: Dong gave an invited talk at the North Carolina State University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Wei-Chen Chang.

07/2023: Dong gave an invited talk at the University of Minnesota to celebrate the retirement and lifetime accomplishments of Prof. Larry Que.

05/2023: Yan Li successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Li!

02/2023: Dong gave an invited talk at the Mississippi State University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Xin Cui.

12/2022: Dong and Yan's paper "Direct Activation of the C(sp³)−NH₂ Bond of Primary Aliphatic Alkylamines by a High-valent Co^III,IV₂(µ-O)₂ Diamond Core Complex" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations Yan!

09/2022: First-year graduate student Wenting He joined the group. Welcome Wenting.

06/2022: Dong and Yubin's paper "C–H Bond Activation by a Mononuclear Nickel(IV)-Nitrate Complex" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations Yubin!

12/2021: Yubin Kwon successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Kwon!

04/2021: Our research is funded by the NSF Division of Chemistry. Congratulations to all!

04/2021: Graduate student Yan Li is the awardee of the UM Bertha Morton Scholarship of 2021-2022. Congratulations Yan!

03/2021: Dong gave an invited virtual talk at the Carnegie Mellon University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Alex Guo.

12/2020: Dong and Yan's paper "Opening the Co^III,IV₂(µ-O)₂ Diamond Core by Lewis Bases Leads to Enhanced C–H Bond Cleaving Reactivity" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations Yan!

10/2020: Dong gave an invited virtual talk at the Johns Hopkins University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Ken Karlin.

08/2020: First-year graduate student Michael Kayne joined the group. Welcome Michael.

07/2020: Dong and Yubin's paper "Crystal Structure and C–H Bond-Cleaving Reactivity of a Mononuclear Co^IV–Dinitrate Complex" was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and highlighted by JACS Spotlights. Congratulations Yubin!

04/2020: Congratulations to Yubin, Yan and Annie, who are receipients of this year's departmental scholarships. 

Yubin---Lola Walsh Anacker Scholarship
Yan---Stanley R. Ames Scholarship
Annie---Inorganic Chemistry Award

02/2020: Dong gave an invited talk at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Larry Que.

01/2020: Dong presented a poster at the annual metal in biology Gordon Research Conference in Ventura CA.

12/2019: Dong and Yan's paper "Highly Reactive Co^III,IV₂(μ-O)₂ Diamond Core Complex That Cleaves C–H Bonds" was published on the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and highlighted by the recent "JACS Spotlights". Congratulations Yan!

11/2019: Undergraduate student Annie Schmautz Joined the group. Welcome Annie.

11/2019: Dong gave an invited talk at Marquette University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Adam Fiedler.

10/2019: Dong gave an invited talk at the University of New Mexico. Thanks for the invitation from Profs. Jim Feng and Yang Qin.

09/2019: Dong gave an invited talk at Montana State University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Sharon Neufeldt.

09/2019: Dong gave an invited talk at New Mexico State University. Thanks for the invitation from Profs. Marat Talipov and Feifei Li.

06/2019: Dong gave a research talk at the ACS NORM meeting in Portland.

04/2019: Dong gave an invited talk at Eastern Washington University. Thanks for the invitation from Prof Eric Abbey.

03/2019: Dong gave an invited talk at the University of Idaho. Thanks for the invitation from Profs. Kris Waynant and Sebastian Stoian.

01/2019: Yan and Yubin presented their work at the Gordon Research Symposium. 

06/2018: Undergraduate student Garrett Evenson Joined the group. Welcome Garrett.

11/2017: Dong and Charlie's paper "Catalytic Water Oxidation by a Bio-inspired Nickel Complex with a Redox-Active Ligand" was published on Inorganic Chemistry. Congratulations Charlie!

08/2017: Graduate student Yan Li joined the group. Welcome Yan.

06/2017: Charlie Bruner began his second summer reserch in the group. Welcome back, Charlie.

04/2017: Yubin was one of the seven winners of the 2017 CBSD Summer Gradaute Fellows. Congratulations Yubin. 

04/2017: Dong gave a research talk at the 253rd ACS meeting in San Francisco.

11/2016: Graduate student Yubin Kwon joined the group. Welcome Yubin.

07/2016: Dong's project "Development of the next generation of biomimetic catalysts for effective and selective aliphatic hydrocarbon functionalization" was successfully funded as the subproject of the NIH CoBRE Phase II grant awarded to CBSD.

06/2016: High school teacher Charlie Bruner began his first summer doing research in the Wang group sponsored by the Murdock grant. Welcome Charlie. 

06/2016: Dong gave an invited talk at the 5th annual CBSD symposium.

03/2016: Dong recieved the MJ Murdock Partnership in Science Award.

02/2016: Undergraduate student Jade Fostvedt joined the group. Welcome Jade!

09/2015: Dong gave an invited research talk at the 4th annual CBSD retreat.

08/2015: Dong officially started the new position at the University of Montana.

07/2015: Dong gave an invited research talk at the University of Minnesota.