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David MacMillan, a 2001 Cottrell Scholar, is among researchers reporting in the journal Science this month on a technique to accomplish "accelerated serendipity" by using robotics to perform more than 1,000 chemical reactions a day with molecules never before combined. In a single day of trials, MacMillan and his fellow Princeton researchers discovered a shortcut for producing pharmaceutical-like compounds that shaves weeks off the traditional process, the researchers report.
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Cottrell Scholar Rachel Bean has won a Presidential Early Career Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young science and engineering professionals doing independent research.
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Scott A. Snyder, a 2010 Cottrell Scholar, has earned g a 2012 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the Organic Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.
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RCSA-funded work by Cottrell Scholar Sarbajit Banerjee was featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and described on a video on the journal’s website. Click here to learn more and to watch the video.
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Cottrell Scholar Matt McIntosh wrote and directed a video entitled “Total Synthesis – From Chemistry to Medicine.”
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