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Congratulations to Dr Matt Westwood after passing his viva today! Thanks Roly Armstrong and Johnston Lab for putting him through his paces! St Andrews School of Chemistry

Nominations open for RSC HSG Charles Rees award! Deliver a plenary lecture @ 26th Lakeland Symposium, Grasmere in May 25. Prize money/travel/accommodation included, as well as conference fees/accommodation for two PhD students from the recipient’s group. rsc.org/membership-and…

Registration is still open for the 2nd RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postdoctoral symposium (AstraZeneca, Macclesfield 21st May), and we’re still accepting poster abstract submissions from PGRs (deadline 3rd May) rsc.org/events/detail/…

NOW OPEN Nominations for the RSC Charles Rees award. The recipient will deliver a plenary lecture at 26th Lakeland symposium (Grasmere May 25)-prize money/accommodation included and conference fees/accommodation for 2xPhD students from the recipients group rsc.org/membership-and…

Congratulations to Zhanyu, Tengfei and Kevin for completing our latest work detailing enantioselective heterocycle synthesis via a,b-unsaturated acyl ammonium species in flow Organic Process Research & Development; St Andrews School of Chemistry doi.org/10.1021/acs.op…

A first for the group; back-to-back acylative DKRs Angewandte Chemie! First up fantastic work from Haoxiang, Kevin and Alex St Andrews School of Chemistry with comp insight from the Cheong group Abdikani Farah - the DKR of tetrasubstituted morpholinone lactols doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Followed by more work from Shubham Agrawal, Pankaj, Kevin Dr Raj Kumar Tak with great comp support Ali Goodfellow - this time applied to the enantioselective synthesis of tetra-substituted 3-hydroxyphthalide esters Angewandte Chemie St Andrews School of Chemistry doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Really fantastic and engaging presentation by Allan Watson on amazing BORON chemistry in Pint of Science UK St Andrews.

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Wonderful to be back at my alma mater St Andrews School of Chemistry University of St Andrews and to soak up the tradition of this very special department. Looking forward to our PhotoReAct board meeting later today. Eli Zysman-Colman Watson Group Andrew Smith Allan Watson

AstraZenecaUK Very happy to announce Keith Livingstone from School of Chemistry - University of Leeds University of Leeds as our postdoctoral talk prize winner! 🏅

AstraZenecaUK Keith Livingstone School of Chemistry - University of Leeds University of Leeds Congratulations to our poster prize winner Natalie Roper from Newcastle Chemistry @UniOfNewcastle - and our poster runner up Benedict Williams from Oxford Chemistry @UniOfOxford 🌟

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Many congratulations to Prof John Irvine, Terry Smith and Bob Tooze from St Andrews School of Chemistry for being recognised in King’s birthday Honours 2024. See here for details: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/triple…

Registration is now open for the 38th RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Postgraduate symposium (3rd Sept. Uni of Edinburgh)-with 2 plenary speakers and presentations/posters from current postgrads. PGRs -get your presentation & poster abstracts in NOW. rsc.org/events/detail/…

Great work from Roberto Roberto del Río-Rodríguez, PhD during their thesis defence UAM Autónoma Madrid today with Kevin Lam and Sara Cembellín. Great to see jaleman and Jose Antonio Fernández Salas and thanks for your amazing hospitality!

Congratulations Darren on this award and looking forward to presenting this to you at the 2025 Grasmere Lakeland meeting next year!

I recently had the opportunity to present my work on Isothiourea -catalysed DKR on the Synthesis Workshop YouTube channel. Watch to explore this unique approach to a challenging DKR. youtu.be/Y4zJ7cUO3ds?si… Andrew Smith ADS Group #research #OrgChem #Chemistry

Really pleased to see this manuscript out John Callahan - our longest running and most complex project to date! Congratulations especially to Will Hartley Mark Greenhalgh and Kevin plus the rest of the team including Cheong group Oregon State University. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Haven't posted for a while but wanted to celebrate group publication success... First up congrats to Ffion and Yihong for their phosphonate-b-lactone work Chemical Science St Andrews School of Chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…