Excited to share our new paper 'Catalytic synthesis of saturated azacycles using transborylation' in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry with Mike Ingleson. doi.org/10.1039/d6ob...
I’m excited to join the TECS CDT 2026 Summer Conference at Bristol Chemistry!
Congratulations to Julie MacLeod for winning the Adam Crawford Prize! So proud of you Julie.😊
Good news, our collaboration with Dr Laura Winfrey, Dr Dominic Willcox and Prof Mike Ingleson has been published in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Read it below. doi.org/10.1002/anie... @domrwillcox.bsky.social #ChemSky
Three Component Thio‐ and Carboboration of Alkynes: A Modular Route to Functionalised Bicyclic Boronates
Three-component thio- and carbo-boration reactions to form functionalised benzoxaborinines and benzazaborinines are reported. The nucleophile scope includes thioethers, thiols, and (hetero)arenes. Me...
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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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Good news! Julie MacLeod and Alastair Nimmo's manuscript titled 'Stereoselective, Borane-catalysed Synthesis of syn-β-Hydroxyketones from α,β-Unsaturated Ketones' has just been accepted into Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org.
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Very interesting paper recently published in Catalysis Science & Technology doi.org/10.1039/D5CY...
Uncovering the role of boronic acids and boroxines in the catalytic hydroboration of alkenes
The catalytic hydroboration of alkenes with pinacolborane (HBpin) represents a valuable yet challenging transformation in main-group catalysis, furnishing alkyl pinacol boronic esters of broad synthet...
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Excited to share our new paper, 'Manganese-catalysed HIE of Arenes and Heteroarenes,' by Dr. Adrián Moreno González in Catalysis Science & Technology. doi.org/10.1039/D6CY...
Manganese-catalysed HIE of Arenes and Heteroarenes
Catalytic hydrogen isotope exchange (HIE) enables atom-economical deuterium incorporation into pharmacologically relevant molecules, typically with precious metal catalysts. The drive for increased su...
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A very interesting highlight this week. Prof. Douglass Taber has used some of our work in conjunction with the Ingleson group and Dom Wilcox @domrwillcox.bsky.social in a total synthesis of Trichostatin A which is due to be featured in Org. Chem. Highlights next week! #chemsky #chemistry
Functional Group Interconversion: The Hale Synthesis of Trichostatin A
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It was wonderful to see a past visiting student of ours Federica who was back in Edinburgh on holiday! #chemistry #chemsky
Congratulations to Dr Joseph Cockcroft who passed his PhD viva. Joe will be missed, and we wish him the best of luck.
Good news! Our paper with Joseph Cockcroft, 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation,' was included in the 15th anniversary collection for Chemical Science.
15th Anniversary: Chemical Science Leading Investigators collection Home
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Great news! Joseph Cockcroft has just published his paper in Chemical Science, titled 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation.' Congratulations Joe! doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #chemsky
Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation
As the least expensive, least toxic and most abundant of the first-row transition metals, iron catalysis underpins the future of sustainable synthesis. Yet the mechanistic understanding remains limite...
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Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemistry #chemsky
Colorimetric indication of hidden catalysis - Nature Chemistry
Hidden catalysis plagues catalyst development and occurs when an impurity or species generated in situ facilitates the reaction instead of the intended catalyst. Current methods to identify hidden cat...
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Here is Luke getting his prize from our Head of School Jason Love! Luke then gave a fantastic talk on his career up to this point and his work during his PhD. Thank you all who attended! #chemistry #chemsky
Congratulations to our former PhD student Luke Britton who is being awarded the Norma and Fraser Stoddart Prize today. He will be giving a talk today at 1500 in T250 in the Joseph Black Building we hope to see you there! #chemistry #chemsky
We would like to wish all the best to Jason our PGT student who has just finished his time in the lab. Thanks for being so much fun to work with and all your hard work! #chemsky #chemistry
Congratulations to Dr Adrián Moreno González who passed his PhD viva recently. Adrian has been with the group for years and will be missed, we would like to wish him the best of luck. Thank you to Dr Andres Garcia-Dominguez and Dr Marina Uzelac for their insightful discussions for the viva.
Steve enjoying the Poznan evening after giving a seminar. Thank you to Piotr Pawluc for hosting so generously!
We are very happy to announce that our collaboration with the Garden Group, Joseph Cockcroft's paper 'Highly Acyclic Selective Cobalt Catalysts for Butadiene Dimerization' has been published in ChemCatChem! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1002/cctc... #chemsky #chemistry
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Congratulations to our former group member Dom @domrwillcox.bsky.social and fellow Boron @epsrcboron.bsky.social student Anna Schellbach for their publication in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
Dom Willcox@domrwillcox.bsky.social · last yr.If you have ever used simple Lewis acids like AlCl3 and GaCl3 in your chemistry, you may be interested to learn how they react with non-nucleophilic bases. Anna did an amazing job with this and has discovered some really exciting new chemistry! Read the Accepted article in Angew. Chem. #chemsky
Steve gave a great Plenary Lecture at OZOM15 “Tranborylation Enabled Catalysis: From Old Reactivity to New Disconnections and a Cautionary Tale”. Based on the group's work in boron catalysis, thank you to the University of Queensland and Professor Rowan Young for hosting. #chemistry #chemsky
Here are some pictures from Steve's talk at the CSC yesterday. We would like to thank everyone at the CSC and everyone who attended the talk! #chemistry #chemsky
Steve will be giving a talk at the CSC in room 203 today at 1400 local time for the YOW! symposium. Hopefully you can catch it there!
Steve will be giving his presentation today hope you can be there to check it out!
Thomas Group@spthomasgroup.bsky.social · last yr.Steve is giving a presentation at CANUK in Quebec City alongside some other fantastic speakers from the 11th to the 14th June. #chemsky #chemistry
