Recent News
April 2026: Well done to Anna for giving a great presentation at the RSC Main Group Meeting, and lovely posters from Laura, Mat and Zac.
March 2026: Well done to Justyna, Milan and Zac for their paper on electrophilic germylation being accepted into Angew Chem. Another enjoyable collaboration with Stuart Macgregor. See the paper here.
Dec 2025: Mike speaks at the University of Leicester, enjoyable day and thanks to Alex Pulis for hosting in difficult circumstances.
Oct 2025: Mike speaks at the University of Bath, nice to be back at the old alma mater, still a beautiful campus!
Aug/Sept 2025: Goodbye to the summer undergrads Chase and Gregor, and welcome to Zac and Hadrien who start their PhD and masters projects, respectively, in the group.
August 2025: Congrats to Emily and Anna for winning the oral presentation and poster prize, respectively, at the joint USIC/Scottish Dalton conference, well done a great end to a good conference!
August 2025: Congrats to Justyna, Milan et al. their work on transfer zincation is published in Dalton and selected as a Hot paper. See here for the open access paper.
July 2025. Anna's first "first author" paper is now out in Angew. Chem. Great effort Anna and everyone else! See here for the story on Intermolecular sp3C-H Metalation of Non-Nucleophilic Brønsted Bases Using Simple Lewis Acids
July 2025. Dr. Milan Bisai's finishes with the group, it was a great few years working with you, good luck in Germany with the Sjoerd Harder group on your Humboldt fellowship
June 2025. Welcome to Chase and Gregor who join the group as summer students working on short research projects.
June 2025. Mike speaks at the University of Durham, thanks to Russell for being such a great host.
May 2025. Welcome to Masahiro who joins the group for a 3 month secondment from Makoto Yamashita's group in Tokyo.
April 2025. Justyna and Milan's work is published in Chem. Sci., great effort by them and everyone else, another great collaborative effort. Here is the link to the paper titled "Ligand non-innocence and an unusual σ-bond metathesis step enables catalytic borylation using 9-borabicyclo-[3.3.1]-nonane."
April 2025. Mike speaks at the University of Gothenburg and the University of York, While team members Justyna and Milan speak at the Dalton Conference.
March 2025. Mike speaks at the University of Oxford, thanks to Mike, John, Meera, Simon et al. for being such great hosts.
Feb. 2025. Mike speaks at the 2nd International Conference on Main Group Synthesis and Catalysis in IISER Thiruvananthapuram (India). A long way to go but a great conference.
Jan 2025. Welcome to Mat Cross who joins as a PDRA as part of the boron program grant.
Dec. 2024. Early Xmas present comes with a 3rd Angew. Chem. of the year accepted. Well done Dom, Nojus, Laura et al. Here is the link to the story on Borane-Mediated Highly Secondary Selective Deoxyfluorination of Alcohols. A great end to 2024.
Nov. 2024. Welcome to Miriana who joins the group from Milan and Laura who joins from Leicester via Oz, and a sad goodbye to Clement who starts his industry job over in Glasgow. Good luck Clement, it was great working with you! Good timing to have the welcome/leaving social with a great meal had at Soul Vegan and fun drinks afterwards.
Nov. 2024. A busy month, two papers accepted, Clement and Dom's work in Angew Chem. as a VIP paper, see here for more. Also a paper collaborating with ex-group member Kang Yuan is accepted in Org. Lett. See here for more.
