Congratulations to Boron researchers Mat Cross, Michael Ingleson, @chemguyeli.bsky.social, Arnaud Osi and Emily Hanover from the Ingleson/Zysman-Colman group on their most recent @angewandtechemie.bsky.social paper published last week.🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Boron researcher Chen Li from the @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social group was delighted to receive a BCSJ Award for his outstanding poster at this month's @iupac.org International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry in Munich. Congratulations Chen🎉

Our Boron: Beyond the Reagent researchers thoroughly enjoyed presenting their posters and talks at the IMEBoron-18 Conference in Tokyo last week. Thank you to the organisers for running such a fantastic conference!

Luis and Nathan presented their posters at IMEBoron-18 in Tokyo today! Thanks to @makoto-b.bsky.social for organising. @epsrcboron.bsky.social #ChemSky

Several lectures today at the #IMEBORON18 symposium, before the excursions in Tokyo. S.P. Thomas ( @spthomasgroup.bsky.social ), M. Ingleson ( @epsrcboron.bsky.social ), G.-F. Fontaine ( @universitelaval )...

Ally presenting his work at IMEBoron-18! @epsrcboron.bsky.social #ChemSky

Discover the surprising world of boron with Dr Stephen Mansell, author of the forthcoming book Boron: In Search of the Real Fifth Element. Boron PhD student Baptiste Boyer will then give a short talk on his area of boron chemistry research. Wednesday 14th Oct: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch of Boron: In Search of the Real Fifth Element

Join Heriot-Watt University researcher for the launch of his new book!

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Earlier this month Boron PI Prof Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS was in Hong Kong as a member of the Physical Sciences Panel for the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2026. Guy is pictured below with the other members of the panel. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Last month, Boron Co-I and PDRA Andrew Leach and Lia Sotorrios, along with fellow Leach Group member Nikeel Cull, had the pleasure of running a Molymods activity at the Onward Homes Brunswick Community Fun Day, great fun was had by all! www.onward.co.uk/sunshine-and...

It's been a busy time for Boron researchers over the summer, here is a throwback to the UoE Joseph Black conference where Boron PhD student Tracy Huang from the McKeown group won the Best Poster Prize for his poster 'Towards Boron containing Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (B-PIMs). 🎉

This summer Boron PDRA Lia Sotorrios and the Leach group at The University of Manchester welcome interns Isabelle Reid and Lin Hasan Abhari. Izzy is working on a boron reaction mechanism project, and Lin is working on an AI Drug Discovery project. Great to have you both!

Last week the Ingleson group had the pleasure of hosting S5 student Abdulmalik Babalola to find out more about what a career in a chemistry lab involves. It was inspiring to engage with such a dedicated and enthusiastic student, best of luck for your future studies Abdulmalik!

It was a double celebration for Boron PhD student Chen Li from @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social group last week. 🎉 Chen passed his viva and was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad for his Boroxines work published in JACS. Congratulations Chen!

Boron Co-I Mike Ingleson is looking forward to giving a lecture at the kick off meeting of the BoronPRO Collaborative Research Center at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg this week. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/boronpro/

Boron Co-I Stephen Thomas thoroughly enjoyed presenting some boron chemistry at the EPSRC CDT in Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis Summer Conference earlier this month.

We are delighted to announce that Varinder Aggarwal, Dennis Hall, @rebeccamelen.bsky.social and Mary Watson will deliver the Plenary Lectures at our Boron 2027 International Conference. www.boron.ac.uk/news-1/annou...

Very interesting to hear about Prof. Lloyd-Jones's journey in chemistry so far, highly recommend giving this interview a read www.nature.com/articles/s41... @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social #ChemSky

The path to understanding how reactions work and fail - Nature Reviews Chemistry

Ahead of his 60th birthday, Guy Lloyd-Jones, Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, spoke about his career in science.

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Boron Co-I Mike Ingleson enjoyed presenting at the Core-to-Core annual conference organised by the @ezc-group.bsky.social at St Andrews yesterday. Mike's talk, 'Applying “novel” boron Lewis acids in the field of TADF materials' prompted some thought provoking questions during the Q&A session.

We have two @rsc.org prize winners in the Boron team - Lia Sotorrios has won the Dalton Horizon Prize as part of Team SMOM, and @chemguyeli.bsky.social has been awarded the Tilden Prize for Chemistry. Congratulations to all of the prize winners 🎉

Check out our latest pre-print in @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) in collab/w the Ingleson group, where we show red-shifted emission in #mrtadf and #tadf emitters through the coordination of Boron-based LA's. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social @epsrcboron.bsky.social

Congratulations to Boron Co-I Michael Ingleson et al on their recent @rsc.org Journal of Materials Chemistry B paper 🎉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Magnetic borylated conjugated polymer nanoparticles for deep-red optical and lifetime imaging

The near-IR emitting conjugated polymer (borylated poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole)) was processed into colloidally stable nanoparticles doped with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparti...

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Congratulations to Boron PDRA Alastair Nimmo and Boron PI Stephen Thomas et al on their recent Chemical Science Journal paper. 🎉 @rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Stereoselective, borane-catalysed synthesis of syn-β-hydroxyketones from α,β-unsaturated ketones

The reductive aldol reaction is a powerful tool for the regiocontrolled coupling of α,β-unsaturated compounds with aldehydes. The use of stoichiometric organoborane reductants has previously been repo...

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Congratulations to Boron Co-I Andrew Smith, Boron PhD student Martha Prindl and co-authors on their most recent @rsc.org Chemical Science paper 🎉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The acylative kinetic resolution of 1,2-azaborine naphthols

The enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric molecules containing stereogenic axes is becoming increasingly important due to their growing incorporation within medicinally relevant compounds. Organ...

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Congratulations to Boron Co_I @chemguyeli.bsky.social on being elected a fellow of the @royalsoced.bsky.social 🎉 rse.org.uk/global-leade...

Global leaders in health science and research elected as RSE Fellows in 2026

The RSE has announced that 43 individuals deemed excellent in their field were elected as RSE Fellows in 2026.

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Boron researchers Anna and Mat presented their work at the @rsc.org Main Group Interest Group Annual Meeting & AGM last week. Anna's talk 'Two heads are better than one – Proximal diborylation of arenes' and Mat's poster were both very well received, prompting some great scientific discussions.

Boron PhD students Masha, Mia and Joanna had a great time at the Craigmillar Community Science Festival last week engaging with young people and their adults over some molymod and glovebox activities inspired by their research.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to his lectures at Indiana University next week. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Great to see Acoziborole given a positive opinion by the EMA for the treatment of sleeping sickness. The drug was developed by @dndi.org. @ajbw.bsky.social et al are currently working on benzoxaboroles as part of EPSRC Boron: Beyond the Reagent. Read more about Allan’s work: www.boron.ac.uk

Boron: Beyond the Reagent

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Dr Javid Abdelmoneim@intlpresident.msf.org · 7mo ago

In 2014, I visited eastern DRC, where @msf.org teams were treating sleeping sickness - the only available treatment was a drug so toxic it killed 1 in 20 patients. In 2026 I'm so proud that, thanks to @dndi.org, patients can be cured with a single dose of a groundbreaking new oral drug, acoziborole.

During the Feb break, Boron PhD Mia Harris had the privilege of running activities as part of the Discover! Programme. The Discover! programme is a community project that engages with young learners & their families that are underrepresented in higher education. education.gov.scot/resources/ch...

Boron Co-Is Prof Stephen Thomas and Prof Mike Ingleson's Angewandte Chemie paper has been cited in Douglass Taber's Org. Chem. Highlights column this week; 'Functional Group Interconversion: The Hale Synthesis of Trichostatin A'. www.organic-chemistry.org/Highlights/2...