We are enthusiastic about designing, creating, and playing with exotic small molecules and large polymers with unusual properties and behaviors.

NEWS

Sept, 2024
Congratulations to Ke and the team on reporting depolymerizable "polycyclohexene" in JACS! Ultrahigh MW, semicrystallinity, scalable synthesis from commodity monomers, and catalyst-triggered room temperature depolymerization, this polymer has it all.

Aug 26, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Robinson! PhD#11. "Investigation of Structure-Performance Relationships And Aging Behavior of CANAL Ladder Polymers for Gas Separations" Good luck with your future career at AFRL! 
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Summer, 2024
Congratulations to Erica and the team on a mechanochem paper in Angew Chem! Distant locations where to pull the mechanophore still affect its force sensitivity. 
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Welcome to new postdocs Ai He and Yong Min and visiting student Kazu!

May 22, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Matias Horst! PhD#10 "Structure-Reactivity Relationships in Cyclobutane-Containing Polymers for Understanding Force-Induced Reactivity" 
Good luck with your foray into the protein world at UCSF ! 

Feb, 2024
The group warmly welcomes Vittal and Ruilin to officially join the group!

Congratulations to Ashley and Francesca on their doubleheader in Macro Lett! New understanding on how CANAL polymer structures affect gas transport properties and how Ru Fischer carbene affects the reactivity of cyclic alkenes with moderate strain.

Department of Chemistry

Stanford University

Mailing address:

333 Campus Dr.
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Prof. Yan Xia
Office:
205 Stauffer II
Office Phone:  650-723-9059

Lab Location:
208 Stauffer II
Lab Phone:  650-723-5092
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Admin Associate:
Kathy Kieffer
[email protected]
650-724-4050