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We are a synthetic chemistry and catalysis group based at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Left-Right: Jamie, Ai-Lan, Steven, Sarah, Pauline, Richard, Paul, James |
News
- May '12: Congratulations to Richard Mudd who won a prize for best MChem project talk on MChem Day.
- April '12: Jamie and James' paper on "Mild and Ligand Free Pd(II)-Catalyzed Conjugate Additions to Hindered γ-Substituted Cyclohexenones" is published online in Organic Letters. Well done! We have been awarded a Royal Society International Exchanges grant to work with Dr James Crowley, University of Otago. We welcome Erasmus student Nina Schopf.
- Mar '12: Our mechanistic paper entitled "Computational Studies on the Mechanism of the Gold(I)-Catalysed Rearrangement of Cyclopropenes" in collaboration with Prof. Stuart Macgregor has been accepted for publication in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Richard presents results from his MChem project at the 3rd SCI YCP Scottish Undergraduate Symposium at University of Glasgow.
- Feb '12: Ai-Lan presents at University of Sussex.
- Jan '12:Our work on "Divergent outcomes of gold(I)-catalyzed indole additions to 3,3-disubstituted cyclopropenes" is published online in Organic Letters. Well done to everyone who contributed to the paper.
- Dec '11: Jamie presents his work on Pd-catalysed conjugate additions at the RSC's 40th Scottish Organic Regional Meeting in Glasgow.
- Nov '11: We welcome new PhD student Sarah Walker. Congratulations to James Sanderson (Nuffield summer student 2011) who has been awarded an AztraZeneca Research Bursary. Congratulations to Pauline and James who both won best talks for their respective departmental Final Year PhD Talks on 2nd Nov and 23rd Nov.
- Oct '11: Congratulations to Paul who won a School of EPS 1st Year Postgraduate Prize.
- Sept '11:We welcome MChem project students Richard Mudd and Steven Levey, and exchange student Marta Witkowska. Ai-Lan presents at the Gregynog Synthesis Workshop.
- August '11:Our review on '1,3,4-Trisubtituted-1,2,3-Triazol-5-ylidene 'Click' Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Catalysis and Self-Assembly' is published in the Aust. J. Chem. special Research Fronts issue on N-Heterocyclic Carbenes.
- July '11: Ai-Lan presents at the 16th IUPAC OMCOS conference in Shanghai. Our paper on gold(I)-1,2,3-triazolylidenes is featured as one of the Gold 100 Article Collection by the RSC and World Gold Council.
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