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Huge thanks to Prof Paul Kelly from Loughborough Science for a thoroughly enjoyable seminar this afternoon. We meandered from the M54 launch from Telford to explosive main group complexes to fingerprints to Foggy the gerbil! Quite the journey!

Congratulations to Daniela Plana from Keele University 🐿️ on winning an honorable mention in the #LatinXChemEdu category.🏆We congratulate Daniela on this remarkable achievement.

Marley is making phosphate based minerals in his 3rd year project - what a lovely colour! Once formed he will be analysing by solid state NMR.

Helium fill day for our 400 MHz twins, Bert and Ernie!

Interesting seminar from Andy Wain from NPL this afternoon discussing the use of in situ vibrational spectroscopy to probe electrochemically active materials. Thank you, Andy!

Huge congratulations to Sian Woodfine, one of our wonderful Keele Central Science Laboratories technicians, for winning a Keele Excellence Award in the Outstanding Contribution category this evening. Truly deserved!

In the third year project lab today, Rebecca formed some beautiful crystals! Her project is working towards a model system for the synthesis of molecules with anti-cancer activity.

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas in our Keele Central Science Laboratories teaching labs!

In our 1st year tutorials this week, students have been working on fundamentals of organic mechanisms as well as calculating lattice energies. Tutorials are a great way to work through problems in small groups in order to really get to grips with how theory is put into practice.

In third year projects today, Marley has been making some copper phosphate minerals, adding some colour to the laboratory! He will be analysing these with a variety of analytical techniques, including XRD and NMR.

We welcomed Rianne Lord from the University of Warwick as our seminar speaker this week. She delivered a very enjoyable talk on biorelevant metal complexes and their use in the treatment of cancer. Thank you Dr Lord!

Our wonderful Keele Central Science Laboratories technicians are hard at work prepping for next semester. These samples contain rhodium with different ligands, which produces different colours. The students will then analyse these to determine the wavelength and energy of the HOMO-LUMO gap.

PhD available!! Join me and Peter Matthews at Keele Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry for a truly interdisciplinary project using new technologies to create inorganic 2D materials! Lots of travel and consumables to support! Deadline 17/02/25! findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

Last week our first years ramped up their practical education with their first column! They were separating ferrocene and acetyl ferrocene, which as you can see give us nice and distinct coloured bands.

It was wonderful to have you, James!

Here are some of our third year project students sample all prepped and ready to be analysed by powder X-ray diffraction. Our favourite is very sparkly sample number 4!

This week our first years have been exploring the effects of solvent on elimination reactions. There are two possible mechanisms by which their decarboxylative elimination can proceed, and they will use their knowledge of NMR coupling constants to determine which has taken place.

This week our 1st years are preparing colourful Cu(II) complexes with a range of N- and O-containing organic ligands. By obtaining UV-Vis spectra for the complexes & ranking these on a spectrochemical series, the relationship between chemical structure & colour can be determined.