Nice to see our In Your Element article published in Nature Chemistry (@natchem.nature.com). Congratulations to Wylan (@chaoticmetazoan.bsky.social)!

Really pleased to share an EaStCHEM PhD studentship opportunity based in Edinburgh as part of a new collaboration with the Bhawal group (chem.ed.ac.uk/bhawal-group) at the @edinburghchem.bsky.social For more details, check out: tinyurl.com/5328yyj5 Deadline to apply: 16 Jan 2026

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📢 Register now: EB offer ends 28 October! bit.ly/31st_Annual_... An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

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Great news – this paper has now been published in ACS Catalysis! Huge congratulations again to Wylan (@chaoticmetazoan.bsky.social), and thanks to our collaborators in the Wallace Lab (@swallacelab.bsky.social) Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Concurrent Linear Deracemization of Secondary Benzylic Alcohols via Simultaneous Photocatalysis and Whole-cell Biocatalysis

Photobiocatalysis enables remarkable synthetic transformations by combining the exquisite stereoselectivity of enzymes with the mild generation of high-energy intermediates by photocatalysis, but prac...

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Congratulations to Wylan! Our collaboration with the Wallace Lab at the University of Edinburgh has borne fruit as a preprint of Wylan's work combining photocatalysis and whole-cell biocatalysis for deracemizing secondary alcohols is now online: doi.org/10.26434/che...

📢 Register now: Early bird offer ends 28 October! bit.ly/31st_Annual_... An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

📢 Register your interest! bit.ly/31st_Annual_... An exciting line-up of leading early career academics will deliver a series of review lectures covering a range of topics, including main group catalysis, organofluorine chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and DNA/RNA technology.

Congratulations to Wylan! Our collaboration with the Wallace Lab at the University of Edinburgh has borne fruit as a preprint of Wylan's work combining photocatalysis and whole-cell biocatalysis for deracemizing secondary alcohols is now online: doi.org/10.26434/che...

Our new preprint is now online @chemrxiv.bsky.social revealing that Cobalt can hydrate at least 100 alkenes using water: doi.org/10.26434/che.... Congratulations to David, Reece, and @balakumaremaya.bsky.social