Recent Group News

  • 01/09/2020 – Congratulations to Mubarak, Joe and Rob whose work on the Transition Metal Free α-C-Alkylation of Ketones Using Secondary Alcohols has been published in Tetrahedron (Invited contribution to the Special Issue in memory of Prof. Jonathan Williams)! [link]

  • 25/08/2020 – Congratulations to Ben Reed-Berendt for passing his PhD viva today! Thanks to Dr Steve Thomas and Dr Ian Fallis for examining! Ben has joined CatSci as a Process Development Chemist! We wish you all the best for the future!

  • 20/05/2020 – Congratulations to the Luk group, whose work on the streptavidin-hosted organocatalytic aldol addition has been accepted for publication in Molecules (invited contribution to the Hybrid Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis Special Issue)! [link]

  • 02/04/2020 – Congratulations to Shyam, Ana and Laura, whose work on the B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Direct C3 Alkylation of Indoles and Oxindoles has been published in ACS Catalysis! [link] This was a collaborative research effort with the Pulis research group at the University of Leicester and the Melen lab!

  • 27/01/2020 – Welcome to Adam who joins the group to start his final year BSc project!