Recent Group News

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May '25 Our work on the synthesis of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentylpyridinium,

quinolinium and pyrazolium salts from DIBCP has been accepted in

The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Many thanks to all that contributed.

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May '25 Greg presents a poster at the 26th Lakeland Heterocyclic and Synthesis

Symposium, Grasmere, UK

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April '25 Jackie and Dolapo present posters at the RSC Midlands Organic

Regional Meeting, University of Nottingham, UK

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Nov. '24 Congratulations to Harvey for passing his PhD viva, and many thanks to

Prof. Ed Anderson (University of Oxford) for acting as the external examiner!

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Oct. '24 The group welcomes Max Bracewell and Hafsah Khalifa to begin their final year MChem projects, as well as Emily Vernon and Ella Claridge who will undertake their 3rd year Natural Science projects.

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July '24 MCK presents at the 29th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) Congress, Aveiro, Portugal 

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May '24 Harvey and Greg present posters at the 2nd Postdoctoral Symposium: Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield.

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May '24 The group welcomes Bradley Duff to begin his MSc project.

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April '24 The group welcomes Dolapo Bello to start her PhD studies.

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March '24 MCK gives a research talk at the University of Greenwich.

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Jan '24 A collaborative review on the Kornblum DeLaMare rearrangement and its 25 year impact in natural product synthesis with Dr. Darren Lee of Nottingham Trent (previously at Yale) is published in Natural Product Reports.

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Dec. '23 Our work on the application of continuous flow to synthesise 2,5-diarylfurans using metal free conditions has been accepted in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Many thanks to all that contributed.

 

 

Nov. '23 Our preprint on the synthesis of 1,3-disubtituted bicyclo-[1.1.1]-pentane salts - arylpyridinium, ammonium and sulfonium isosteres, appears on Chemrxiv. Many thanks to all that contributed.

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Oct. '23 Matthew Bill joins the group on an MPC MChem project on the synthesis of novel arene bioisosteres. Emily Vernon joins the group on a Nat. Sci. Part C project investigating novel cross-coupling reactions on BCP bioisosteres.

 

 

Sept. '23 Our preprint on the application of continuous flow to synthesise 2,5-diarylfurans using metal free conditions appears on Chemrxiv. Many thanks to all that contributed.