Recent Group News

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October '26 Mary Owusu and Ben Wilkes join the group for their

Part D research projects

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July '26 Mary Owusu starts an RSC funded undergraduate bursary on the

synthesis of BCP containing dihydropyridines.

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July '26 MCK joins the RSC Organic Chemistry Community committee 

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July '26. Congratulations to Owen, who completes his MChem project.

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April '26 Congratulations to Jackie, who successfully defends his thesis on

polyether total synthesis 

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Oct. '25 Welcome to Owen Steele, who joins the group for his MChem project on synthetic approaches to BCP bioisosteres​.

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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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