Recent News
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.
Oct. 2024. Good luck to Dom who leaves the group to start his own independent academic career at Heriot-Watt University!
Sept. 2024. Congrats to Nojus who passed his PhD. viva. Good luck with the PDRA position in Spain!
Sept. 2024. MJI speaks at the Beilstein Main group catalysis conference in Germany. A great focused meeting, great science and networking.
Sept. 2024 Welcome to Ian who starts his MChem. project on catalytic C-H functionalization.
July. 2024 MJI speaks at the University of Vienna, thanks to Prof. Davide Bonifzai for hosting, and great to see ex-group member Josue again.
June 2024. MJI is awarded the Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize, big social to come to celebrate and to thank the group for their massive contributions towards this! See here for more.
May 2024. Welcome to Taiki, he joins the group for three months from Yoichi Hoshimoto's lab in Osaka to work on borylation directed borylation.
April 2024. The group's work on borylation directed borylation is highlighted in OPRD, nice to see industrial chemists are interested! See here for more.
April 2024. The groups latest work (in collaboration with Macgregor, Thomas, Cowley and Dominey) on catalytic C-H zincation and alumination is accepted in Angew. Chem! Massive effort from Milan, Justyna et al. See here for the paper
