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17th April 2025: Alastair's paper on quantifying interactions in the active encounter complex of frustrated Lewis pairs has been published in Nature Communications! It took a while to get this project over the line but it has been well worth it. A huge thank you to all authors: to Alastair and Laura for experimental work, to Tao and Linjiang for computational expertise, and to Tim for all his patience as we got to grips with supramolecular chemistry techniques. It was a great collaboration that would not have been possible without contributions from everyone.
4th April 2025: It was a pleasure to host Dr Petra Vasko from the University of Helsinki here at Birmingham. She gave a wonderful talk on borylation chemistry and ammonia activation. I hope to return the favour and visit Finland in the future!
1st - 3rd April 2025: Dalton! The best chemistry conference delivered again. Alastair, Laura and Sandro all gave excellent talks on their research, and Lewis, Cathal and Ethan all presented posters. It was a really great few days, and the group have all come back enthused with ideas!
1st April 2025: The 2025 Midlands Inorganic Discussion Meeting in the morning was a success. A range of great talks from PhD students across the Midlands, including Kate Hadley from the Peacock group at Birmingham. We look forward to the next standalone event next year.
28th March 2025: Ethan's paper on the synthesis and sensing applications of pyrazolyl phosphine oxides has been published in Angewandte Chemie! This also featured work from our MSci student Izzy Hawes, who did a great job exploring how the fluorescence in these systems changes in the presence of different metals. This was a new research direction for the group, so hats off to Ethan for all the hard work.
20th March 2025: Andy visited the University of Southampton to give a talk on the second leg of the RSC tour. Thank you to Dr George Williams and all the other researchers there for the great discussions and showing me the electron diffraction set-up.
12th March 2025: Andy travelled to the University of Sussex to talk about the group's research as part of the RSC tour. Thank you to Prof Richard Layfield for being such a great host.
5th February 2025: It was a pleasure to host Dr Rebecca Musgrave from King's College London! She gave a fantastic seminar full of challenging synthesis and throrough characterisation data, and it will be great to see how the research on Acetal Coenzyme A mimics progresses in future.
4th February 2025: Today our PostDoc Laura collected her certificate in IOSH Managing Safely. Congratulations on all your hard work to achieve this qualification!
31st January 2025: Andy visited Cardiff University to give a seminar on the group's recent work. Thank you to Prof Rebecca Melen for hosting and for allowing me to join a group meeting afterwards.
6th December 2024: We welcomed Prof Tim Johnstone from UC Santa Cruz to the School of Chemistry to tell us about his group's work on antidotes for carbon monoxide poisoning and the characterisation of stibine oxides. He then joined our group for a group meeting where the students gave chalk-and-talks on their research and enjoyed more of Laura's amazing baking. Thanks Tim for coming over!
4th December 2024: The Jupp and Barendt groups had their joint Christmas dinner at Rudy's in Birmingham. Merry Christmas to all after a busy term.
29th November 2024: Andy travelled to Leicester to act as external examiner for the PhD viva of Joe Gillions from the Pulis group. It was a really good discussion of Lewis acid-catalysed organic transformations, and congratulations to the soon-to-be Dr Gillions.
20th November 2024: The group split in two and went head-to-head to see which team could complete their escape room the fastest. Both teams did very well and it was very close, but the team comprising Andy, Alastair, Charlie, Lewis, and Cathal were the victors (though the group insist this was despite having Andy on their team, not because of it). Dinner of fat naans at the Indian Brewery rounded off a great group social.
8th November 2024: Andy was the external examiner for the PhD viva of Will Jobbins from the University of Manchester. Will did his PhD with Dr Meera Mehta on the functionalisation and reactivity of group 15 Zintl clusters, and was supervised towards the end of the PhD by Dr Imogen Riddell. It was a really impressive viva, so congratulations to Will.
30th October 2024: It was an immense pleasure to host Prof Doug Stephan from the University of Toronto here at Birmingham. He told us about the breadth of frustrated Lewis pair reactivity from across the periodic table that his group has pioneered over the last couple of decades. An inspiring talk from a legend of main-group chemistry.
29th October 2024: The next round of the Jupp/Barendt/Lewis inter-group bowling tournament took place. There is no way to sugarcoat this - the Jupp group got absolutely hammered by the precision bowling of the Barendt and Lewis groups. More training required before a rematch next year!
16th October 2024: Andy carried out an outreach event as part of ChemBAM at te Turves Green Boys School. He and the team discussed pollution, human health, and helped the students set up experiments to monitor air quality that will be analysed in a couple of weeks. They carried four separate sessions for different classes. Thank you so much to all the students for their enthusiasm and to the school for hosting us.
10th October 2024: A very special group update: Emma got married! It was an absolutely beautiful day and we wish Emma and Phil all the very best in their shared future together.
30th September 2024: A huge welcome to our new group members. Cathal and Lewis join as PhD students, and Jess and Charlie are the budding new MSci students. We look forward to seeing how their projects develop.
12th September 2024: We wrote a perspective article in Science that was published today, called A crystallized view of acid-base chemistry. This highlighted the amazing work of Liu and Gabbaï, who crystallographically characterised the inner and outer forms of Lewis adducts, and we disucssed how this related to fundamental understanding of the encounter complex in frustrated Lewis pairs.
12th September 2024: Andy gave the keynote lecture at the Midlands Inorganic Network at Nottingham Trent University, while Laura presented a poster and chaired a session. It was a great meeting showcasing chemistry from across the Midlands, and thank you to Sophie Benjamin for doing such a great job organising it. That makes it a clean sweep of attending regional inorganic conferences in the South, Midlands and North of England this summer!
6th September 2024: Emma's second paper on azophosphines has been published in the Applied Organometallic Chemistry special issue of Organometallics. This paper increases the scope of azophosphines that have been synthesised, and explores how the electronic nature of the substituents affects the properties and structure of the azophosphine. We also demonstrate the use of azophosphines as ligands in catalysis for the first time. Thank you to Ethan for computations, Holly for synthetic aid, and our collaborators, Bethan and Paul, for assistance with the ReactIR instrument, and Louise for crystallography.
4th September 2024: Laura represented the group at the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Dalton poster symposium in London. Alastair had also been selected to attend but unfortunately couldn't make it on the day. Fantastic inorganic chemistry from across the UK.
28th August 2024: The group attended the RSC Southern Dalton meeting at the University of Bath. Laura gave an excellent talk, and Ethan and Alastair presented posters. Thank you to David Liptrot, Kyle Pearce and the rest of the organising team for putting on such a fun conference.
14th August 2024: Andy gave the keynote lecture at the RSC Northern Dalton meeting hosted at the University of Manchester, where he also received his medal and certificate for the RSC Frankland Prize. Thank you to Conrad Goodwin and Darren Willcox for organising.
9th August 2024: Ethan's first first-author paper on the cycloaddition chemistry of azophosphines with electron-deficient alkynes is now published in Dalton Transactions. We showed that 5- and 7-membered heterocycles containing phosphorus and nitrogen could be prepared regioselectively, and showed that the Lewis acid B(C6F5)3 could catalyse the formation of the 7-membered rings.
28th July - 3rd August 2024: After IRIS, Andy hotfooted it south of the border to the 45th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) in Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA. He gave an invited talk in the Main-Group Coordination Chemistry for Bond Activation and Catalysis symposium organised by Simon Aldridge and Jose Goicoechea, and it was an honour to present alongside some giants in the field of inorganic chemistry.
21st - 26th July 2024: Andy and Ethan attended the 17th International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems (IRIS) meeting in Halifax, Canada. Andy gave an invited lecture on the synthesis, reactivity and applications of azophosphines, and Ethan gave a presentation focussing on his recent and unpublished results on metal ion sensing. It was a fantastic conference in a beautiful part of the world, so thank you to Chuck Macdonald, Saurabh Chitnis and the rest of the organising committee.
3rd July 2024: After winning the Bright SCIdea Challenge earlier this year, Alastair was invited back to SCI HQ at Belgrave Square to give a talk to the College of Scholars about his competition experience and how the team came up with their idea.
29th June 2024: A paper featuring work from Andy's PhD has been published in JACS. Carbamoylphosphinidene: A Phosphorus Analogue of Carbonyl Nitrene features the target fundamental compound that was generated through the photolytic (193 nm) dehydrogenation of phosphinecarboxamide (NH₂C(O)PH₂) in a solid N₂ matrix at 12 K.
27th June 2024: It was the 2024 University of Birmingham Graduate Symposium where Ethan gave a presentation and Alastair presented a poster. Congratulations to Ethan for picking up the runner-up prize for best presentation, great job!
12th June 2024: Andy has been awarded the 2024 RSC Dalton early career prize: Sir Edward Frankland Prize! A huge thank you to all group members, collaborators and mentors that made this possible.
30th May 2024: The group all ventured down to Bristol for the Gordon Stone symposium. It was great to listen to all the speakers and gain an understanding of their work.
27th May 2024: Ethan's work on five- and seven-membered phosphorus based heterocycles is now in pre-print on ChemRxiv. Congratulations Ethan!
20th May 2024: Sandro Paparakis has joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher after finishing his PhD with Martin Hulla. We welcome his enthusiasm and expertise in sustainable catalysis, and look forward to seeing his contributions over the coming months and years.
15th May 2024: As part of winning the Bright SCIdea competition in March, Alastair and his team were invited to the SCI Innovation & Sustainability Awards 2024 at the House of Lords where they were recognised again for their win at the competition.
14th May 2024: A really fun collaboration with Dr Paul Davies is now in print in Chem Eur J! Excellent work from Laura who helped to understand the key interactions between the gold and sulfur that directed the regiochemistry in the Au catalytic cycle.
25th April 2024: At this years (inaugural) awards night for those PhD students that undertake lab teaching Alastair was awarded the 'The PGTAs' PGTA of the Year'. He was nominated by various academics as well as fellow demonstrators for this award. Phil Craven (Director of Undergraduate Labs) said: "Alastair is an excellent and engaging demonstrator across multiple year groups in the teaching labs, resulting in nominations for 3 categories in the PGTA awards. Students often refer to his approachability and ability to help them with their understanding of the theory behind the experiment in his teaching practice. Alongside his demonstrating, Alastair has regularly gone above and beyond, most notably by setting up ‘Informal UG Help Sessions’. Providing further opportunity for UG’s to learn, but also providing PGR’s with additional teaching experience in a ‘classroom’ (rather than lab) setting. "
16th April 2024: Emma and Ethan's first paper is out detailing our work on azophosphines! Thank you to all our collaborators in Birmingham, Amsterdam. and Finland.
Abstract The conceptual replacement of nitrogen with phosphorus in common organic functional groups unlocks new properties and reactivity. The phosphorus-containing analogues of triazenes are underexplored but offer great potential as flexible and small bite-angle ligands. This manuscript explores the synthesis and characterisation of a family of air-stable azophosphine-borane complexes, and their subsequent deprotection to the free azophosphines. These compounds are structurally characterised, both experimentally and computationally, and highlight the availability of the phosphorus lone pair for coordination. This is confirmed by demonstrating that neutral azophosphines can act as ligands in Ru complexes, and can coordinate as monodentate or bidentate ligands in a controlled manner, in contrast to their nitrogen analogues.
10th April 2024: We hosted the RSC Main Group Interest Group Annual Meeting and AGM here at the University of Birmingham. It was a fantastic two days full of inspirational talks on main-group chemistry, and featured a fantastic conference dinner at Bundobust. We are particularly proud that this was a child-friendly event and two attendees felt cofortable to bring their young babies with them to enjoy the science! The group were well represented at the conference: Ethan gave a talk on his cycloaddition chemistry, Laura chaired a session, and everyone presented a poster - and Emma even managed to scoop up the Chemical Science Prize for best poster!
19th March 2024: Alastair has won the 2024 Bright SCIdea Challenge as part of a team of PhD students from the University of Birmingham! They have been awarded £5000 to develop their idea of a fully degradable fertiliser to improve soil health. Congratulations to Alastair and the team!
14th March 2024: Our paper on the [NCCCO]- cyanoketenate anion has been published in Angewandte Chemie! Thank you to all our collaborators in China and Canada, it was a very fun project.
12th March 2024: Andy has been elected to the UK Young Academy. He will attend a two-day induction next week and then start his 5-year term as part of this new organisation trying to make a societal difference.
28th February 2024: The group have moved into their fantastic new laboratory space in the Molecular Sciences Building. We can't wait to start making new discoveries in this great collaborative environment.
23rd February 2024: The group's first paper on azophosphines, the phosphorus-containing analogues of triazenes, has been uploaded to ChemRxiv. This topic has been the focus of Emma's PhD so congratulations for getting this project over the line.
5th February 2024: Our pre-print on the synthesis and reactivity of the cyanoketenate anion [NCCCO]- is online on ChemRxiv. This is part of our continued collaboration with the Xu group and our honorary postdoctoral fellow Tongtong on the functionalisation of carbon monoxide, and features some interesting computational results by Laura.
18th December 2023: Andy and Alastair represented the group at the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Meeting in Birmingham. Andy gave a talk and Alastair presented a poster on his PhD work. It was a great conference and a very friendly chemistry community.
6th December 2023: Andy travelled to the University of Bath to talk about the group's research. Thank you to Dr Marina Uzelac for being such an excellent host.
16th November 2023: Andy gave the McCamley Lecture at the University of York, and had a fantastic time meeting all the students over the two days.
8th September 2023: Andy has won the 2023 Early Career Award from the Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Group of the RSC! A massive thank you to all the team and collaborators for making this possible.
25th September 2023: Welcome to our new Masters students Izzy and Lewis! They will spend the next 11 weeks with the group working in the lab (Izzy) and behind a computer (Lewis) - good luck!
8th September 2023: The newly anointed Dr English spoke at the Sustainability in Chemistry Symposium at the University of Birmingham, and won the prize for Best Early Career Researcher Presentation. Not a bad week for Laura!
5th September 2023: Our postdoc Laura passed her delayed viva from her PhD with the Liptrot lab in the University of Bath, and is now officially Dr English - congratulations!
30th August 2023: The first research article from the group has appeared as a pre-print on ChemRxiv while it awaits peer review. Our study used supramolecular techniques to quantify the association constant of the active encounter complex of a frustrated Lewis pair, and is supported by extensive computational investigations. We also show that a higher concentration of active encounter complex leads to a faster rate of hydrogen activation, which is the crucial step that underpins FLP hydrogenation catalysis. A huge congratulations to first author Alastair and to our collaborators Dr Linjiang Chen (computational) and Dr Tim Barendt (supramolecular) for all their work and support.
18th August 2023: The group had a fantastic time at the RSC Dalton Young Members Event (DYME) hosted at the University of Birmingham. Most of the group gave posters during the conference, and Ethan gave a talk on his research on cycloaddition chemistry that was rewarded with a runners-up prize, congratulations!
1st June 2023: We are delighted to annouce the arrival of Laura English, our first postdoc in the group! Laura has joined us after completing her PhD with Dr David Liptrot at the University of Bath, and will be working on phosphorus chemistry and functionalised photoswitches.
25th May 2023: We went to the Keele Inorganic Symposium in honour of Prof Doug Stephan winning the 2021 RSC Centenary Prize. Andy talked about the group's recent work on azophosphines, and all the PhD students gave excellent posters on their research. Congratulations to Emma for scooping up the best poster prize!
18th - 20th April 2023: The group had a great time at the Dalton Meeting in Warwick. Andy gave a talk and Emma, Ethan, Alastair, and Kimberley all did a sterling job presenting posters. Particular congratulations to Kimberley who won one of the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Poster Prizes!
17th April 2023: It was a pleasure to host Prof Saurabh Chitnis and Prof Jonathan Sessler as part of our When The Stars Align Symposium at the University of Birmingham. Fantastic chemistry and a really fun event afterwards for all the students to meet the speakers.
4th April 2023: Andy has joined the RSC Main Group Chemistry Group Committee, so if you have any suggestions or feedback for main-group chemistry events in the UK then get in touch.
28th March 2023: What a busy week! The group split forces so that we could be represented at different conferences. Emma, Ethan and Andy attended the 19th European Workshop on Phosphorus Chemistry in San Sebastian, Spain, and Emma gave a great talk on her work on azophosphines, while Ethan presented a poster. Meanwhile, Alastair attended the Sustainable Nitrogen Activation Faraday Discussion in London to learn more about this fascinating topic. And Kimberley presented a poster at the John Fossey Memorial Symposium here in Birmingham, in honour of our friend and colleague who passed away last year.
3rd January 2023: Andy is back from his parental leave, and would like to thank the group for working so well during his time at home.
7th December 2022: We had a delicious joint Christmas dinner with our friends in the Barendt group, complete with ridiculous hats. Merry Christmas!
1st December 2022: The Jupp and Barendt groups reignited their bowling feud, and we are delighted to announce that the Jupp group romped home with victory and retained the trophy.
26th September 2022: A huge welcome to the new group members! Kimberley and Alastair start their PhDs in the group, while Lauren and Ellen are carrying out MSci projects with us. We look forward to seeing their exciting contributions in the coming months and years.
9th September 2022: Andy gave an invited talk at the University of Edinburgh - thank you to Mike Ingleson and Mike Cowley for being such great hosts. Andy then travelled to Durham for MICRA (Meeting for Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed) 2022, and really enjoyed meeting other early-career researchs and discussing cool science.
7th September 2022: Emma attended the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Dalton Poster Symposium at Burlington House in London and had a great time sharing her results with the inorganic community.
20th August 2022: Andy attended the Fall ACS Meeting in Chicago, centred around the idea of Sustainability in a Changing World. Andy was invited to talk at a symposium in honour of Prof Doug Stephan winning the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. It was a great occasion, and there was even time to check out a baseball game at the iconic Wrigley Field.
15th June 2022: A Dragon Comes to Birmingham! An outreach event at the University involving 130 schoolchildren from nearby primary schools. Emma spent the morning making bath bombs with the children, and Andy was the Debbie McGee of the event by acting as Dr Zoe Schnepp's assistant for all her experiments and demonstrations. It was a fantastic day for the children and staff, and hopefully the dragon will visit us again one day.
19th May 2022: Congratulations to Ethan for giving his first talk at the Research School Liaison Committee seminar series - and even more so for winning a prize for best talk!
6th April 2022: Frustrated Lewis pairs comprising phosphines and boranes activate small molecules like H₂ via a three-component reaction. The encounter complex is a weakly held together adduct of the phosphine and borane that can be used to explain this termolecular reactivity. Our Frontier article that explores the computational and experimental evidence for this elusive encounter complex has just been publish in Dalton Transactions.
1st April 2022: Today was the last day of the MSci students working in the laboratory. I'd like to thank them for all their hard work over the year, and I hope they had a good time with us!
25th March 2022: Andy, Alastair and Mark had a fun evening at the University of Birmingham ChemBall at Edgbaston Cricket Ground. This was the first time the event has managed to go ahead in three years, and a good time was had by all.
8th March 2022: Emma attended and presented a poster at her first in-person conference since starting her PhD at the Celebrating Women In Chemistry Conference in Nottingham. Great work Emma!
20th December 2021: Another excellent collaboration with Tongtong, Maotong and Doug has led to our project on the FLP reduction of benzyl halides being published in Chemical Communications. Thank you to Shi-Ming Chen for wrapping up the final experiments, and to Zheng-Wang Qu and Stefan Grimme for their great computational insight on the reactions.
15th December 2021: We had a delicious group Christmas dinner with the Barendt group. Thanks to everyone for their hard work over the year, and have a great festive break, and let's hope for a less crazy 2022.
30th November 2021: We had a great time at the first Jupp/Barendt inter-group bowling competition - and we are delighted to say that we won! Congratulations to Ethan, Sam, Mark, and Andy - unfortunately Emma couldn't make it and Alastair had defected to the Barendt group (we are still not on speaking terms). We look forward to defending our title in the future.
26th November 2021: Congratulations to Flip for passing his PhD defence at the University of Amsterdam and becoming Dr. Holtrop! While there, Andy also gave his first in-person talk for over 18 months; it was so nice to discuss science in real life again.
4th October 2021: We have demonstrated the reduction of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide using a metal-free frustrated Lewis pair approach, and this work has just been published in Angewandte Chemie. The selectivity of the reaction could be tuned by varying the Lewis base, the solvent, and the silyl halide reagent to favour the formation of methoxysilane, disilylacetal, methane or methyliodide. This work was initiated by Andy in Toronto several years ago, but the success of the project since that time is due to the hard work of Tongtong Wang and Maotong Xu, as well as our computational collaborators. Great work all!
30th September 2021: Some of Andy's work from his time in Toronto has been published in Chemistry, An Asian Journal. The project explored the reactivity of benzyl potassium species with carbon monoxide to afford carbene-like intermediates, that can react further to form a range of alkenes, and 5- and 7-membered rings.
27th September 2021: Welcome to Sam, Mark and Alastair, who have joined the group as MSci students this year. And welcome back to Ethan, who is starting his PhD in the group following his MSci project with us last year.
8th September 2021: The group's new glovebox is now up and running! The air-sensitive chemistry can now properly begin.
18th August 2021: Andy's role as a judge on the "adult panel" of the Royal Society's Young People’s Book Prize 2021 has been revealed. The panel was chaired by volcanologist Prof Katharine Cashman FRS MAE, and also comprised broadcaster Gabby Logan MBE, author Sharna Jacksonand primary school teacher Robin James. The panel whittled down over 50 excellent science books aimed at children, and selected a shortlist of six.
Update: The shortlist has now been revealed. Now these six books will be sent to over 500 schools across the UK, and the winner will be chosen by the children themselves. Good luck to them all!
9th August 2021: Congratulations to Ethan, who was awarded the Jeremy Fullbrook Prize for his excellent performance in organic chemistry! Ethan will continue his adventures with the group as a PhD student in September.
16th July 2021: Congratulations to Alice and Ethan as the first MSci students to graduate from the group - they should both be very proud of their acievements after such a tumultuous year.
29th June - 1st July 2021: Emma and Andy attended the virtual Dalton Joint Interest Group Meeting, and Andy gave a talk on the formation of radicals in frustrated Lewis pair systems. The online meeting was a huge success, although we can't wait for the return of the in-person conference in future years!
28th April 2021: A project that Andy started back in his PhD with Prof Jose Goicoechea on chelating phosphinecarboxamides (phosphorus-containing analogues of urea) has been masterfully continued and improved on by Érica Faria, and has been published in Dalton Transactions today.
7th April 2021: The extended Easter break has given Andy time to add a Crosswords section to the group website; if you fancy a chemistry-themed distraction over your coffee then check it out. More will hopefully added over time.
8th March 2021: Alice and Ethan are in the lab! After a highly disrupted year, they are both able to get stuck in with the practical part of their Masters projects - good luck!
18th January 2021: Andy discussed the role of light in promoting single-electron transfer in frustrated Lewis pair systems at the Global Inorganic Discussion Weekdays seminar series.
1st December 2020: The book Frustrated Lewis Pairs, part of the Molecular Catalysis series and edited by Chris Slootweg and Andy, is out! A huge thank you to all the authors for contributing fantastic chapters that cover the whole range of structures, reactivity and applications of FLPs. Flip (Holtrop), Andy and Chris wrote a chapter on Radicals in Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry, which summarises the recent progress and understanding in single-electron transfer within FLP systems for radical reactivity; and Andy wrote a chapter entitled Heterogeneous Catalysis by Frustrated Lewis Pairs, covering the developments of solid-state FLP catalysts.
27th November 2020: Andy has been elected as a Topic Editor for Processes, an open-access journal on processes in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials, and related process/systems engineering research fields.
26th November 2020: The Jupp and Pike groups have held their inaugural joint group meeting! Thank you to all for the presentations and scientific discussion, and hopefully we can have one in person at some point in the future.
19th November 2020: Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling – Closing the Loop is published in Chemical Society Reviews. This open-access tutorial review describes the dovetailing environmental problems of too much phosphorus (in waterways) and too little phosphorus (to mine from the ground), and explores a range of phosphorus recycling technologies to solve these issues.
31st October 2020: Ethan Calder and Alice Harmer have joined the group as fourth-year MSci students, and their projects in the lab will commence in February. Welcome to the group!
28th September 2020: The group has doubled in size! Emma Jordan has joined as the group's first PhD student - welcome!
11th September 2020: The book chapter Steric attraction: A force to be reckoned with is in press. The chapter, as part of the most recent Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, describes the use of London dispersion interactions to manipulate molecular structures and chemical transformations.
10th September 2020: The group website is (finally) online!
26th August 2020: Andy has been awarded a prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, although admittedly not one of their most prestigious ones... keen readers of Chemistry World will spot that he has been awarded a £25 book voucher for solving the August Wordoku puzzle. One for the CV.
25th August 2020: Single‐electron Transfer in Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry is published in Angewandte Chemie! This research was carried out with the Slootweg and de Bruin Groups at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, where we explored the nature of single-electron transfer between Lewis acid and base systems, and whether or not the radical ion pairs are significantly involved in small-molecule activation.
12th August 2020: Andy has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to explore the sustainable synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds via the direct activation of N2. This news featured on the UoB Chemistry website, and featured a very literal image caption...
1st July 2020: Andy has started his independent career as a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
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