Organic chemistry and catalysis group at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tweets by Chris Sandford and student group members.
Joined June 2021
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Sandford Lab retweeted
20 Dec 2025
My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 8/n:
Room temp catalytic amide formation with this ingenious bifunctional B-P reagent from our process chem in collab with the @SandfordLab UTSA
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27 Oct 2025
See the information below if you want to learn more about conducting a Ph.D. in Chemistry at UT San Antonio!
27 Oct 2025
Interested in a Ph.D. in Chemistry? Learn about our program at UT San Antonio, and ask any questions you have about our application process during our informational webinar. Registration is required: forms.office.com/r/EWS6t9Wrf…
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Sandford Lab retweeted
20 Oct 2025
The Dept. of Chemistry at UT San Antonio is currently seeking applications for the Department Chair position, which includes an endowed research chair. We invite interested candidates to apply & encourage you to share this opportunity with colleagues. linkedin.com/jobs/view/43165…
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Sandford Lab retweeted
3 Sep 2025
UT San Antonio researchers have joined forces to address one of the most common and expensive health problems in the country—chronic pain.
Read more about the research here: bit.ly/41zOwcj
ALT Three individuals in a laboratory observing and taking notes as one person writes on a glass board with diagrams.
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Sandford Lab retweeted
11 Aug 2025
Big day for the group as we share our first article in Nature - a facile approach to enantioenriched alkylidenecyclopropanes using BIMPS!
Huge congratulations to Jonny and Dong-Hang for their outstanding work, and to our computational collaborators!
->nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Sandford Lab retweeted
29 Jul 2025
Congrats to our 2nd cohort of the Voelcker Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Pharmaceutical Sciences! We wrapped up an incredible summer with a Poster Session & Closing Reception, where our students proudly showcased their research projects. @UTSASciences
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Sandford Lab retweeted
19 Jul 2025
This week's Paper-of-the-Week (POW) presentations in our weekly group meeting featured some great work by @SandfordLab @pfizer, @shchom83, @bobbypaton @YuyangDong and Wu Zhu group! #Chemistry #Boron
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Excited to share the first experimental work from our group in collaboration with colleagues at @pfizer, out now in @ChemCatalysis. cell.com/chem-catalysis/full… 1/2
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Leveraging the reactivity of boronic acid and phosphine oxide functionalities, we developed a catalyst for room-temperature amidation. Congratulations team! @UTSAChemistry @DartmouthChem 2/2
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16 Jul 2025
Also, for those without institutional access: Happy to provide the following link for free unrestricted access to all the materials for 50 days - authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRJn…
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Sandford Lab retweeted
7 May 2025
I am super excited to announce that my recent paper with @Sigman_Lab and @JacobsenLab has been chosen by The Journal of Organic Chemistry (@JOC_OL) as their 2025 Outstanding Publication of the Year! Read our article linked below or catch my award lecture at ACS Fall!
6 May 2025
Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Jacquelyn Read on winning the 2025 JOC Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award! Her team's groundbreaking work on noncovalent interactions in organic chemistry will be honored at ACS Fall 2025 in D.C.! tinyurl.com/mry98yyp
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Sandford Lab retweeted
9 Apr 2025
3/4 This #workshop series is on the future of automated chemical laboratories. It is exploring new concepts and funding pilot projects in how #automation and ML/AI might transform chemical laboratories and democratize access to advanced technologies.
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Sandford Lab retweeted
Thanks to all who participated in the 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories! Cosponsored by RCSA, @BeckmanFnd & Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, with Walder Foundation support.
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Sandford Lab retweeted
6 Mar 2025
A novel technique to drug discovery is being developed by one of our very own chemists! This innovative approach uses light to trigger reactions, and could lead to a new generation of antibiotics. 🤩
Learn more: bit.ly/4haueLd
#UTSA @UTSAResearch @UTSASciences
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Sandford Lab retweeted
30 Sep 2024
𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍? The PhD program in Chemistry at the UTSA offers great opportunities to advance your research & make impactful discoveries! Learn more: tinyurl.com/yzuxudxx
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Sandford Lab retweeted
20 Sep 2024
UTSA Chemistry in the @UTSASciences is seeking an Experimental Physical Chemist to join us as a tenure track Assistant Professor. Please help us spread the word, and direct candidates our way! lnkd.in/gZsMT_ub
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Sandford Lab retweeted
30 Aug 2024
I am so excited to announce that I will be moving to @UTSAChemistry in January 2025 to start a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor! We will be using data science and computational chemistry to aid our development of new organic transformations. (1/4)
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30 Aug 2024
We’re happy to announce that the Sandford Lab is moving to @UTSAChemistry in January 2025! We are also hiring postdocs to start in early 2025, including on our new @NIH @NIGMS MIRA award(!), more details below 1/3
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30 Aug 2024
Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are currently available to start at UTSA in early 2025. For information on how to apply for these positions, go here: bit.ly/3X8D7Nm. 3/3
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