Our latest work on Dual-Function Reagents is out in @chemcomm.rsc.org. Thank you to the editors for the highlight in their Emerging Investigator Collection 🙇
Fantastic work by Katherine Marris 🥼 Great team effort @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @astra-zeneca.bsky.social 🎉
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Check out the robustness screen in the SI too - it nicely illustrates the tolerance that this metal-halogen exchange-type process has towards ketones, nitriles, alkyl halides and more! 💪
Our work on Decarboxylative Metal-Halogen Exchange is now out in JACS Au @pubs.acs.org 🙌
Brilliant work by Danny Ryder 🥼 and a great collaboration with Ken Yamazaki 💻
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
This was popular in Japan. Both Itami and Yorimitsu groups had one. Not heard of anyone doing it here in the UK though. Would often take a hit to the yield and requires long machine time to get good separation (>8 hours would be normal). But a saviour when all other purification techniques failed.
Great collaboration with Professor Kong at Beijing University of Chemical Technology and well done to Xia Liu for driving the project forward! 🤝
A Para-Selective Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction out now in
@angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
No need for high-pressure CO2, excessive temperatures or stringently dry conditions. Our reagent unlocks a simple Kolbe-Schmitt-type reaction with unique para-selectivity.
Open to UK students and those eligible for a Horizon Europe fee waiver:
www.southampton.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Other international applicants will have to be competitive to apply for a Presidential bursary:
www.southampton.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
We have a fully-funded PhD position available in our group. For those interested in organic synthesis and developing their lab skills. 🧪
Feel free to get in touch for informal enquiries.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Brilliant teamwork! Great watching this project grow by connecting chemists and engineers based in the UK and Japan. Congrats all! 🤝
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
@chemicalscience.rsc.org
@amnightingale.bsky.social, @hideki-kuchem.bsky.social
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
Great to have Giannis, Alex, Grace and Emma join us as PDRAs and 4th Year MChem students 🤝 Also welcome back Siyuan Wang - he did an MRes project with us and enjoyed it so much he has stayed for a PhD. Exciting to see the group grow!
@rsc.org Election results are in! Congratulations to our successful members. Thank you to all candidates for wanting to contribute to our future success
www.linkedin.com/posts/roysoc...
Great to have Joshua Barham (University of Strathclyde) visit us this week. Great to have him back in the UK. An impressive body of work and a fantastic addition to the UK chemistry community 🌟 Thanks for visiting us Josh!
Last few days to apply! Deadline: Thursday 29th May.
Another beautiful day ☀️ Another great lecture
Thank you to Rachel Grainger from Astex Pharmaceuticals for visiting us yesterday. A captivating talk on automation and HTE in medicinal chemistry. Small organic molecules are still big business!
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📢 Come join us in sunny Southampton ☀️
The opening for our Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Synthesis is now live!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=3086025EB
Deadline: Thurs 29th May 2025
Start date: Flexible – anytime from now to early 2026
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Great to have Liam Ball visit us today in Southampton for his @rsc.org Hickinbottom Prize lecture. A beautiful sunny day for it too ☀️ Thank you for coming to visit us Liam and show the superb work you and your team have achieved!
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We will soon advertise a PDRA position in our group. Link to the official advert to follow.
Start date is October 2025, but earlier/later is possible.
Get in touch with Greg now to discuss further. More details/contact info available on our website: perrychem.net/join-us ☀️
Great to see the group enjoying the Bristol Synthesis Meeting. A true highlight of the year for synthetic/organic chemistry in the UK. Love hearing everyone coming back inspired and motivated. Varinder Aggarwal and the organisers always make this a fantastic event.
Now to enjoy the sakura and time with family before returning to the UK in a few days time 🌸 4/4
To give another sense of the scale of the meeting. The pdf for the whole programme was 1,500 pages. Downloaded it once but never again as it crashed my computer 😅 3/4
The best part is seeing so many PhD and undergraduate students presenting their research. I haven't attended an ACS meeting before but will have to see how that compares some day. Not sure we could achieve something like this in the UK, but would be great if we could. 2/4
Very impressed with the CSJ Annual Meeting. Remarkable organisation. ~4,000 presentations and 6,000 attendees. Every session running to time and well attended. All chemistry disciplines represented and events/childcare for families too. 1/4
With us is also Horikoshi-sensei, Sakamaki-sensei and Mino-san from the Hosokawa group!
I've met many people for the first time during CSJ nenkai. Often this has felt quite formal - exchanging business cards, 🙇. So meeting Fujihara-sensei (Kyoto) and Takeda-sensei
@takephos.bsky.social after they led a science event for families will live long in the memory. Great stuff!
An image showing a stretch of road in Osaka full of cars and some mopeds. High rise buildings flank each side of the road and a train track with trains passing dissects the centre of the road.
Rush hour in Osaka 🚗🚆🛵 Looking forward to the next few days of science at the Chemical Society of Japan Annual Meeting.
Hope you enjoyed your weekend @kozlowskigroup.bsky.social. It is good to see Yoshito-kun (previously @kenitami.bsky.social lab member)! I hope our paths cross again sometime.
He rocked it. Well done Taciano!
Beautiful. Keep these coming!
Group road trip! 🚗 Last week we visited Cambridge to visit the new AstraZeneca DISC facility, explore the corridors of Girton College and attend the International Isotope Society UK Annual Symposium. Looking forward to returning next year!
