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 · 5mo 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...

Lia Sotorrios had a fantastic time at the @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop in Vienna last week, her talk was very well received and she would like to thank all of the event organisers.

Congratulations to Kevin, Andy and Will on their @synlettjournal.bsky.social paper! www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

@chemguyeli.bsky.social will be speaking at @innolae.bsky.social on Wednesday 18th February.

InnoLAE - Innovations in Large Area Electronics@innolae.bsky.social · 9mo ago

InnoLAE 2026 Invited Speaker Prof Eli Zysman-Coleman, University of St Andrews, will give a talk on light-emitting materials, and will also be on the OLED/QD topic panel. See more at: https://innolae.org/invited-speakers #organicelectronics #OLED

Thank you to our industrial panelists who gave their time to join online Q&A sessions with researchers earlier this month. Researchers were given insights into some of the different careers paths of chemistry PhD holders and had their questions answered in engaging and interactive online sessions.

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to hosting Tim Clark on Thursday for his lecture 'Developing Synthetic Tools in Organoboron Chemistry to Access Phosphonates and Phosphines.

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for 2026 from the Boron: Beyond the Reagent team.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS is looking forward to speaking at the @rsc.org NMR Discussion Group Winter Meeting in Burlington House on Thursday. His talk will be "Mixing it up: mechanisms by NMR". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Prof Mike Ingleson enjoyed giving his final Dalton Mid Career Prize Lecture of the series at the School of Chemistry, University of Leicester last week. Many thanks to the organisers. @rsc.org

Prof Steve Thomas enjoyed attending the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic chemistry poster symposium 2025 at Burlington House yesterday. He is pictured here with PhD student Julie Macleod and her poster 'Colourimetric Detection of Hidden Catalysis'. Read the Nature paper here: lnkd.in/eM2yWQxf