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Group News​
Jun 2018
Our work describing an interrupted Pummerer/nickel-catalysed cross-coupling sequence has been accepted in Angew. Chem. Well done Miles, Fabien, Jose, and Alex
Mar 2018
A Fixed Term Lecturer position is available in the group in the field of sulfoxide-directed metal-free cross-coupling 
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Mar 2018
A PDRA position will be advertised shortly in the field of copper catalysed cross-coupling technology.
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Mar 2018
Our work on the metal-free direct C2-arylation/alkylation of benzothiophenes is now published in Angew. Chem. Well done Zhen, Alex, Harry, Jose, Alberto, Jessica and Kevin
Mar 2018
Our work describing the first radical couplings of radical anions derived from ureas by electron transfer is now published in Angew. Chem. Well done Huanming and Joe
Mar 2018
Dr Jiajie Yan will join us shortly on a Swedish Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Stiftelsen Bengt Lundqvist Minne Post-dok Stipendium)
Jan 2018
Well done to Kay - Presentation prize winner (AstraZeneca Prize) at the CheM62 Network Meeting, MIB, Manchester 
Jan 2018
Our work on the integration of biocatalysis with SmI2-mediated radical cyclizations , carried out in collaboration with Nick Turner (Manchester) and Gideon Grogan (York) is now published in Angew. Chem. Well done Charlotte, Chantel and Xavi
Nov 2017
Our article on metal-free vicinal difunctionalization of heterocycles is out in Chem. Sci. Well done to Min and Alex
Oct 2017
Miles has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship, starting in June 2018
Aug 2017
Our article describing the first enantioselective cyclization cascades using SmI2 is out in Nature Chem. Well done Nico and Mateusz
July 2017
Well done to Kay - Poster prize winner at the 19th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS19), Jeju, Korea