Recent Group News

  • 26/11/2019 – We are sad to say goodbye to our excellent postdoc Ben, who after 2 great years with us, will soon be joining Pharmaron as a Senior Scientist in Cardiff Bay! We wish you all the best for the future!

  • 30/10/2019 – Congratulations to Ben, Deepak, Alex and Tom, whose work on the Manganese-Catalyzed Electrochemical Deconstructive Chlorination of Cycloalkanols via Alkoxy Radicals has been published in Organic Letters! [link] This was a collaborative research effort with the Browne and Wirth research groups!

  • 29/10/2019 – We have a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship available for UK/EU students in synthetic organic chemistry to develop new transformations involving radical chemistry, starting 1st October 2020. [link]

  • 29/10/2019 – Congratulations to Will, Alex, Saqib and Ben, whose work on N-heterocyclic carbene acyl anion organocatalysis by ball-milling has been published in ChemSusChem! [link] This was a collaborative research effort with our good friends in the Browne research group!

  • 23/10/2019 – Congratulations to Kurt, whose work on iron-catalyzed borrowing hydrogen β-C(sp3)-methylation has highlighted in Synfacts! [link]