PhD candidate at @PittTweet with @pengliu_group | @ColoradoStateU alumni with @bobbypaton
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined January 2015
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Turki Alturaifi retweeted
Equivalent Atrop- and Positional Isomerism in Styrene Derivatives Prepared by Enantioselective 1,3-Diarylation | Journal of the American Chemical Society @EngleLab @scrippsresearch pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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Our paper is officially out in @ScientificData! We've built HArD, a database of >31,000 heteroaryl substituents to predict electronic and steric properties.
Huge congrats to the team: Turki Alturaifi @0iTurki, Grace Scofield, and Shengchun Wang! 🎉
#CompChem #OpenData
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atropisomers? positional isomers? both?
We present beautiful and curious class of molecules today in @ChemRxiv. 🧐🪞
tinyurl.com/yxyb5rup
@ASimlandy @0iTurki @pengliu_group
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Very excited to be part of the team with Bill DeGrado (UCSF) and @yang2biocat where we designed four-helix bundle proteins to catalyze stereoselective alkene cyclopropanation and carbene Si-H insertion reactions. @ScienceMagazine @Pitt_Chemistry
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Thanks for having me @CorinWagen! I am excited to see the future of Rowan!!
Our third Rowan Research Spotlight focuses on Turki Alturaifi (@0iTurki), who studies how to accelerate reaction discovery + optimization with computation.
Turki is a graduate student with @pengliu_group (@PittTweet) and previously worked with @bobbypaton (@ColoradoStateU).
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
Excited to share our latest publication in @J_A_C_S We used MD simulations to predict enantioselectivity of dirhodium tetracarboxylate-catalyzed cyclopropanation and the unique HFIP solvent effects. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Congrats to @0iTurki @khanhbinh183 @C_M_Mithun
Check out our latest work!
Excited to introduce our website and preprint about HArD, a database of heteroaryl descriptors. If you ever wondered "what is the Hammett constant for 2-pyridyl?" or any other heteroaryl group, now you can do a simple search at: hard.pengliugroup.com/
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
Congratulations to Turki Alturaifi @0iTurki from our group for winning a 2024 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color! 🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color! 🎉 See open roles in our R&D team to join us: bit.ly/492ohMs #PoweredByInclusion
I'm deeply honored to be selected as a winner of the 2024 Merck UCC Research Award. It's a privilege to stand among such inspiring peers. Looking forward to a year of learning and growing with #Merck. Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way.
#MerckChemistry
🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Merck Underrepresented Chemists of Color Research Award! 🥇👏 Get ready for a great year of mentorship and networking with @Merck chemists! 🌟#MerckChemistry
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
After a few years in development, we introduce ROBERT, a program carefully crafted to make #MachineLearning more accessible to chemists of all programming skill levels while achieving results comparable to those of field experts. #compchem
📝 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
1st of a 2-part story (part 2 slated for next week!) showing how the hemilabile and redox-active properties of quinone ligands unlock 🔑 unprecedented scope in Ni-cat alkene additions: tinyurl.com/yc8dzj3c @chemrxiv
@ZiqiLi0513 @0iTurki @ChicagOChemO @pengliu_group
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
Enantioselective Hydroalkenylation and Hydroalkynylation of Alkenes Enabled by a Transient Directing Group: Catalyst Generality through Rigidification (Keary M. Engle and co-workers) @ASimlandy @englelab @0iTurki @pengliu_group #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Thrilled to share our collaboration with @ASimlandy @EngleLab on L-tert-leucine's unique effectiveness as a TDG. We focused on the impact of the α-substituent on TDG rigidity and stereoinduction modes during migratory insertion. @pengliu_group @Pitt_Chemistry
The final version of @ASimlandy's study is now online in @angew_chem: bit.ly/3paBy4d.
New since the pre-print: @0iTurki's in-depth DFT study of the special feature of tert-leucine that make it such an effective TDG across different migrating groups (@pengliu_group).
In contrast, with L-alanine as TDG, the square planar Pd geometry is maintained due to conformational flexibility. This results in lower enantioselectivities due to steric effects caused by the allylic strain between the pseudo-equatorial α-substituent and the imine C–H bond.
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
Very nice piece written by @gomobel in @ChemistryWorld ! 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks to @kjelljorner for your comments and credit to all the team in the paper @shree_sowndarya @bobbypaton @0iTurki
New open source software AQME could streamline computational chemistry experiments and save chemists huge amounts of time, as @gomobel reports:
chemistryworld.com/news/open…
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New open source software AQME could streamline computational chemistry experiments and save chemists huge amounts of time, as @gomobel reports:
chemistryworld.com/news/open…
Turki Alturaifi retweeted
Thrilled to see this one out in WIREs! @bobbypaton @shree_sowndarya @0iTurki #compchem
We're looking to start collaborations and research exchanges to automate new QM/ML workflows. If interested, please reach out to us.
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
Had a great time at @Merck’s Emerging Talent Symposium. Got to network and meet with great scientists and talented students. Thank you to the people who made this possible!
#MerckChemistry
