Welcome to Laura Aguilar, who has just started her CONACyT-funded PhD project on using green reaction solvents in the development of new synthetic methods. Laura is the first Mexican student in the group ..read more

Happy to discover our recent article on aryne-mediated phenanthridine synthesis appears in @ChemCommun 60 most cited & accessed articles of 2023, great work team! https://rb.gy/ii8yuw ..read more

Welcome to Mariam Ahmed, who joins the group as a visiting PhD student from Egypt for 12 months ..read more

Congratulations to Sarah, who received her MRes degree at Winter Graduation this week. Thanks for all your hard work and best wishes for your upcoming PhD studies at Kings ..read more

Congratulations to Qi, Yue and Mi, whose paper on covalently bound Fe-porphyrin functionalised CNTs (for electrocatalytic applications) has just been published online: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202311086. This is the second paper in an ongoing collaboration with Professor Titirici’s group at Imperial and has enabled us to shed light on the specific role of the pyrrolic N4 configuration of FeTPP (iron 5,10,15,20-triphenylporphyrin) in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) applications. Covalent functionalisation has enabled an ~6-fold increase in Fe active site density (c ..read more

Congratulations to Qi, Yue and Mi, whose work on covalently bound Fe-porphyrin functionalised CNTs (for electrocatalytic applications) has just been accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials ..read more

Welcome to new PhD students, Eleanor Mathias and Kaicheng Zhang, who join the group this autumn. Eleanor will be working on developing new synthetic technologies for ADC linkers (in collaboration with AZ), whilst Kaicheng is working on a CSC sponsored project focussed on new synthetic methods for functional materials ..read more

Our work on the cyclisation of aryl amines onto tethered arynes for selective preparation of dihydrophenanthridines and phenanthridinones has just been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications. Congratulations to Weitao, Maria, Fahima, Yannic and Khushal on this true team effort. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/CC/D3CC03027J ..read more

Congratulations to Yue and Qi, whose paper on using pyridynes to covalently functionalise CNTs for electrocatalytic applications has just been published online: bitly.ws/L4qG. This is the first paper in an ongoing collaboration with Professor Titirici’s group at Imperial and has enabled us to shed light on the specific role of the pyridine nitrogen type in N-doped CNTs for use in the oxygen reduction reaction ..read more

Congratulations to Qi, who won the runner up prize for his 3rd year talk at the annual School of Physical and Chemical Sciences Research Symposium ..read more