Kyan D'Angelo

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Kyan D'Angelo

Awards and Honors

NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023

MIT Department of Chemistry Mentorship Spotlight Award, 2021

MIT Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2017

NSERC (Canada) Postgraduate Scholarship, 2017

 

Education

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California-Berkeley, 2022-2025

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022

M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Toronto, 2015

B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 2014

 

Research

Our group aims to develop new methods to simplify the synthesis of complex molecules with therapeutic potential. Central to our program is the development of novel catalytic transformations that enable strategic bond formations broadly applicable across diverse scaffolds and families of biologically active compounds.

An Air-Stable, Single-Component Iridium Precatalyst for the Borylation of C–H Bonds on Large to Miniaturized Scales

KA D’Angelo, C La, B Kotecki, JW Wilson, C Karmel, R Swiatowiec, NP Tu, ...

Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (47), 32717-32729, 2024

 

2-Aminophenanthroline Ligands Enable Mild, Undirected, Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation of Alkyl C–H Bonds

IF Yu, KA D’Angelo, ÁD Hernandez-Mejías, N Cheng, JF Hartwig

Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (11), 7124-7129, 2024

 

Total synthesis of himastatin

KA D’Angelo, CK Schissel, BL Pentelute, M Movassaghi

Science 375 (6583), 894-899, 2022

 

Borinic acid catalyzed stereo-and regioselective couplings of glycosyl methanesulfonates

KA D’Angelo, MS Taylor

Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 (34), 11058–11066, 2016