Organic synthesis & catalysis for sustainable futures
| December 2025 | Ethan presents a poster at the annual RSC Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium (Burlington House). |
| November 2025 | The group's work on the thermally driven reductive initiation of radical chains is published. Congratulations to all involved, a real team effort! Read more about it here. |
| October 2025 | Abby Sutton joins the group for her final year MChem research projects. Welcome Abby! |
| September 2025 | Tom sets sail to AstraZenca for a three month secondment. Have fun Tom! |
| June 2025 | Ethan attends the European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2025) in Copenhagen and presents a poster. |
| May 2025 | Bradley presents his work on nucleophilic amination at the 35th SCI Fine Chemicals Group Postgraduate Symposium and wins a runner-up prize for his talk. Congratulations Bradley! |
| May 2025 | Erin and Frazer present their work at the MChem Research Symposium. Congratulations both and good luck with your final vivas! |
| March 2025 | Ethan starts a three month placement at AstraZeneca. |
| March 2025 | The group receives a Bronze award in recognition of actions undertaken to improve our sustainability practices as part of the laboratory efficiency assessment framework (LEAF). Thank you Tom for leading this initiative! |
| March 2025 | Bradley presents his work on nucleophilic amination at the #RSCPoster 2025 competition and wins first prize in the organic section. Congratulations Bradley! |
| March 2025 | A fully funded PhD position working towards developing new approaches to nucleophilic aromatic subsitution is available. Please read more about this position here. |
| February 2025 | Elisa Dousson joins the group as a visiting student from the Univeristy of Montpellier. |
| December 2024 | Bradley presents a poster at the annual RSC Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium (Burlington House). |
| November 2024 | The group's work on the nucleophilic amination of aryl halides is published. Congratulations Bradley, Tom, Ethan and Katherine! |
| October 2024 | Bradley presents his work on nucleophilic amination at the Fifth GSK Synthetic Organic Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium and wins first prize for his poster. Congratulations Bradley! |
| September 2024 | Erin and Frazer join the group for their final year MChem research projects. Welcome to the team! |
| September 2024 | The whole group attends ECOFR XV and Jonathan presents a poster. |
| July 2024 | A second collaborative project with the Trujillo Group, on the computational design of new systems for halogen bond-mediated organocatalysis is published. Congratulations everyone! |
| July 2024 | Our first collaborative project with the Trujillo Group, studying which computational methods should be used for investigating organic radical species is published. Congratulations Tim and Ethan! |
| May 2024 | Ed presents his work at the MChem Research Symposium and finishes his studies in the group. Congratulations Ed and good luck in Bristol! |
| April 2024 | Chung Doan completes his iCAT rotation and leaves the group. Thank you for all your hard work Chung! |
| March 2024 | The group's work on the denitrative sulfonylation of nitroarenes is published. Congratulations Jonathan, Michaela, Bradley, Tom and Ethan! Time to braai! |
| January 2024 | Michael was awarded a Thieme Chemistry Journals Award. |
| January 2024 | Chung Doan joins the group as an iCAT rotation student. |
| November 2023 | Mon passes his viva and becomes Dr Inprung! Huge congratulations to Mon and thank you for all of your hard work. |
| October 2023 | Edward Caffyn-Parsons joins the group for his final year MChem research project. Welcome Ed! |
| September 2023 | Tom Harris joins the group and begins his PhD studies. Welcome Tom! |
| August 2023 | In collaboration with the Unsworth Group, our work on the dearomatising spirocyclisation of benzisoxazoles is published. Congratulations Mon! |
| July 2023 | Michaela Čierna completes her visit and leaves the group. Thank you for all your hard work Michaela and good luck with the rest of your PhD! |
| June 2023 | Ethan Lim joins the group as a PhD student working on an exciting collaboration with the Trujillo Group. |
| May 2023 | Katherine presents her work at the MChem Research Symposium and finishes her studies. Congratulations Katherine! |
| April 2023 | Jonathan da Luz joins the group and begins his PhD studies. |
| April 2023 | Ethan Lim and Ali Najmi join the group as iCAT rotation students. |
| February 2023 | Michaela Čierna joins the group as a visiting student supported by the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic. |
| January 2023 | The group's work on the denitrative hydroxylation of nitroarenes is published. Congratulations to Lee, Harry, Adam, Andrew, George and Ivan! Read more about it here. |
| December 2022 | An industrially funded PhD position working towards "the synthesis of amines through radical-nucleophilic substitution" is available. Please read more about this position here. |
| October 2022 | Bradley Cooper (PhD) and Katherine Hooper (MChem) join the group. |
| September 2022 | The group has moved to the University of Manchester! |
| June 2022 | Working in collaboration with the Fairlamb group, a laboratory experiment designed to teach new graduate students how to safely handle air-sensitive organometallic reagents is published |
| June 2022 | Harry and Adam finish their MChem studies and leave the group. Congratulations! |
| May 2022 | Two PhD positions working towards the "Development of new retrosynthetic disconnections through radical-nucleophilic substitution" are now available. Please read more about these positions here. |
| March 2022 | Nantachai is a prize winner at the Johnson Matthey poster competition! Well done Mon. |
| March 2022 | Pat and Andrew's MSc theses have both passed their examination! Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work through a really difficult year. Good luck with your PhD studies! |
| January 2022 | A collaborative project showcasing the synthetic versatility of indole-ynones is published. A great team effort led by Mon! |
| October 2021 | The group's work on the hydroxylation of aryl halides is published. Congratulations to Andrew, Pat, Will, George and Ivan! Read more about it here. |
| October 2021 | Harry Meakin and Adam Richardson join the group for their MChem research projects. |
| June 2021 | Will and George finish their studies and leave the group. Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work! |
| March 2021 | Nantachai's work on thiol-mediated ring expansion cascades is published. Congratulations Mon! |
| October 2020 | George Smith and Will Owens-Ward join the group for their MChem research projects. |
| September 2020 | Andrew Greener joins the group with a funded studentship from the Department of Chemistry. |
| June 2020 | Patrycja Ubysz won a Wild Fund Gold Scholarship to join the group. Congratulations Pat! |
| March 2020 | The group was awarded a Research Grant from the Royal Society. |
| October 2019 | Nantachai Inprung joins the group as a joint PhD student with Dr Will Unsworth and Prof. Richard Taylor. |