Really pleased to see our desymmetrization approach to madangamine E now out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!! 🎉🥳 It's been an honour to be a part of the team and work on this #totalsynthesis with Shinya 回復しつつあるドット虚無 and Ken Yamazaki!

A lovely farewell dinner last night to celebrate Ken's prolific time in the group! Ken Yamazaki has been a PhD student with us for 4 years, and will be sorely missed! Best of luck in your next position with Miura Lab at 岡山大学 🍾

Well worth a read!! A great insight into the toxic mix of state repression and Big Tech's grip on content visibility.

Struggling to make very hindered ethers? Look no further! Our review on alpha-tertiary ethers in synthesis is out now in Chem Soc Rev. 🚀 It was great to work with the 2020 SBM (SBM CDT) cohort on this! 🌿

Sharing the excitement of working on total synthesis Dixon Group Oxford Chemistry and the culmination of 8 years of collaborative work. Want to hear the full story from benshennan1? Join us online next week (Thurs, 16:00-18:00 BST) by registering at: chem.ox.ac.uk/event/autumn-c…

I'm very happy to share our latest work, published now in ChemRxiv, the BIMP-catalysed enantioselective nitroalkane addition to unactivated α,β-unsaturated esters! Congrats to Alistair Farley and Iain McLauchlan! SBM CDT Dixon Group chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Massive congrats to Roman, Sam, and the team for their enantioselective total synthesis of himalensine A! 🎉 A new cyclization reaction enables efficient, enantioselective construction of the core - modelled by Ken Yamazaki and Trevor A. Hamlin. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

The marriage of feedstock nitroalkanes and simple unsaturated esters, catalyzed by BIMPs, now out in Angewandte Chemie! Our new method can be used to rapidly generate medicinally relevant enantioenriched γ-nitroesters🔥 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Dixon Group SBM CDT #compchem

Redox Transpositions of Tertiary Amides - now online at ChemRxiv! Oxidation states dance in our new reductive activation of amides to enable one-pot synthesis of beta-functionalized amines. Congratulations to benshennan1 and Sergio! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

We're thrilled to announce that our enantioselective desymmetrization of phosphorus (V) is now out in Nature Chemistry! 🔥 Congratulations to Michele Formica and the team Tanya Rogova, Yao, Naoto, Bran, Alistair Farley Fernanda Duarte Ken Yamazaki 🎉🎉 nature.com/articles/s4155…

What a great few days of science at the Final Year DPhil talks - well done to all who spoke. Congratulations to the prize winners - including our very own benshennan1! Thanks to AstraZeneca and all the organizers.

We had a blast last week at #grasmere25! What a great time - blown away by the chemistry, the people and the nature. Huge thanks to the RSC_HSG , in particular Marc (@Allenamide) for the organization and to Andrew Smith for not getting us (very) lost! Until the next one. 🏔️

Great to see our recent BIMP-catalyzed addition of nitroalkanes to unsaturated esters has been highlighted in Synfacts! Chemistry at Thieme Check it out: thieme-connect.de/media/synfacts… And if you missed the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Check out our BIMP-catalyzed intramolecular oxa-Michael reaction - out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Well done Guanglong and the rest of the team - another great collaboration with Ken Yamazaki Trevor A. Hamlin Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

'We are sometimes forced to fight for our rights, in order to live.' For inkyfada | إنكفاضة, I wrote about the persecution of environmental activists in Tunisia, and the grassroots movements that have borne the brunt of this crackdown. inkyfada.com/en/2023/08/18/…

Great to see this out now! Here we present a convenient route to (hopefully) useful beta-functionalized amines directly from tertiary amides. Thanks to Sergio and Gabriele for all your help along the journey!

Check out our very Dixon total synthesis of incargranine A, featuring BIMP and Vaska's in the same synthesis 😱😱. Great work Anna Miller and Phil!

New and improved access to chiral at P(V) structures - check out our 2nd generation solution to enantioselective desymmetrization at P(V): chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi… Congrats to Michele Formica, Branislav Ferko, Tom Marsh, Ken Yamazaki & Tim Davidson!

Congratulations to Yaseen A. Almehmadi on passing his viva today! 🎉🎓 Many thanks to Profs Burton and Procter Procter Group for doing the honours!

Congratulations to ⁦Daniel Rozsar⁩ for passing his viva this morning! 🍾🍾 Best of luck with your upcoming postdoc in the Radosevich group ⁦MIT Chemistry⁩ Many thanks to Profs Phipps and ⁦Steve Fletcher⁩ for doing the honours! 🎉