Group news
2024
20/02/24 Congratulations to Mingyan on passing her viva.
29/01/24 Maddison joins the group for her SBM rotation
08/01/24 Nikki joins the group as a visiting student from McMaster University
08/01/24 May's copper-catalysed sulfinate synthesis is online at Organic Letters
2023
10/11/23 Jonny and Jagadeesh's sulfinamide work is highlighted in OPRD
02/10/23 Josh and Matt join the group for their DPhils
25/09/23 Jonny and Jagadeesh's decarboxylative synthesis of sulfinamides is online at JACS
25/09/23 Will, Maia, and Presiyan join the groups for their Part II projects
11/09/23 Suzie joins the group for her DPhil as part of the SBM CDT
17/07/23 Congratulations to Charlie on passing his DPhil viva
13/06/23 Congratulations to Jonny on passing his DPhil viva
01/03/23 May wins a prize for her poster at the Workshop on Organic Chemistry of Sulfur in Vienna
01/03/23 Lucia joins the group as a visiting student from the Slovak University of Technology
23/02/23 Both May and Ben win prizes for their posters at the Department's annual postgrad poster day
30/01/23 Suzie joins the group for her CDT rotation
2022
15/12/22 Tony's Ni-catalysed sulfonimidamide synthesis is highlighted in Synfacts
07/12/22 Mingyan's sulfonimidamide synthesis using TIPs-NSO is highlighted on the Organic Chemistry Portal
06/11/22 Ze-Xin's Trends commentary on sulfondiimidamide synthesis is online
01/10/22 Kangtao joins the group for his MSc
26/09/22 Gabby and Josh join the group for their Part II projects
19/09/22 Katherine joins the group for her DPhil, as part of the SBM-CDT
07/09/22 Congratulations to Ndi on passing her DPhil viva
24/08/22 Congratulations to Dan on passing his DPhil viva
01/08/22 Nerea joins us as a visiting student from Alicante
22/07/22 Jonny wins a prize for his talk at the ISOCS meeting at the University of Guelph, Canada
05/07/22 Congratulations to Janette on passing her DPhil viva
23/06/22 Congratulations to Jonny on winning a prize for his presentation at the AstraZeneca sponsored DPhil talks
21/06/22 Ze-Xin, Charlie, and Mingyan's new route to sulfondiimidamides is online at JACS
12/05/22 Congratulations to Xinlan on passing her DPhil viva
09/05/22 Michael, Damien, and Loïc's sulfonamide functionalization chemistry is online at ACS Catalysis
26/04/22 Congratulations to Ze-Xin on passing his DPhil viva
31/03/22 See a Preview of Ze-Xin's sulfondiimidamide work written by Prof. Nicholas Ball of Pomona College
21/02/22 Ze-Xin's sulfondiimidamide chemistry is now online at Chem
21/02/22 Erik joins us as a visiting student from the University of Göttingen
17/03/22 Janette's diarylmethane chemistry is online at Angewandte
22/02/22 Mingyan and Ze-Xin's new route to sulfonimidamides is online at Organic Letters
22/02/22 Our new TIPS-NSO reagent is available from Cortex Organics
31/01/22 Katherine joins the group for her SBM-CDT rotation
20/01/22 Jonny's review of the chemistry of DABSO is online at Synthesis
19/01/22 Terry's sulfonyl fluoride review is online at Nature Reviews Chemistry
18/01/22 Ndi's and Dan's hydroacylative route to saturated heterocycles is online at Chemical Science
2021
02/11/21 Michael's and Damien's catalytic enantioselective route to sulfonimidamides is online at Angewandte Chemie
14/10/21 Jonny's and Loïc's work on converting amines into sulfinates, by way of Katritzky salts, in online at Organic Letters
27/09/21 Dominic, Charlie, and Russell join the group for their Part II years
20/09/21 Tony's Ni-catalyzed additions of boroxines into sulfinylamines is onlne at J. Am. Chem. Soc.
15/09/21 Dan and Jagadeesh's azine N-oxide hydroacylation chemistry is online at Chemical Science
09/09/21 Xinlan and Loïc's latent sulfinate coupling chemistry is onlne at Angewandte
19/07/21 Michael passes his DPhil viva. Congratulations.
04/06/21 Our sulfinyl nitrene work is highlighted on the Organic Chemstry Portal
27/05/21 Antoine passes his DPhil viva. Congratulations.
24/05/21 Ben joins the group for his CDT rotation project
20/05/21 Thomas's mini-review on sulfinylamines is online at Chem. Eur. J.
05/05/21 Sang, Ming, and Eva's triazene-controlled hydroacylation chemistry is online at ACS Catalysis
01/02/21 Tony's sulfinimide paper is highlighted on the Organic Chemistry Portal
21/01/21 Thomas and Michael's t-BuONSO paper is the "SynFact of the month"
06/01/21 Damien joins the group as a Wiener Anspach Foundation postdoc
2020
01/12/20 Thomas's "Live Slides" commentary to our t-BuONSO paper is online
01/12/20 Congratulations to Antoine for a runners-up prize at the RSC Organic Division poster competition
30/11/20 Our new reagent for sulfonamide synthesis - t-BuONSO - is available at Cortex Organics
30/11/20 Thomas and Michael's method for primary sulfonamide synthesis is online at Organic Letters
23/11/20 Artem and Aiden join the group for their Part IIs
17/11/20 Our review on the challenges of 2-pyridyl coupling chemistry is online at Angewandte Chemie
05/11/20 Congratulation to Terry on passing his DPhil viva.
12/10/20 Congratulations to both Janette and Xinlan, for prize winning posters at the GSK postgraduate symposium
18/09/20 Congratulations to Antoine on winning a prize for his talk at the RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group
Postgraduate Symposium
16/09/20 Xinlan's, Antoine's, Janette's and Loic's review of 2-pyridyl coupling reactivity is online at Angewandte
26/08/20 Thomas, Michael, and Nick's work on a common route to both sulfoximines and sulfonimidamides is online at JACS
28/07/20 Congratulations to Antoine on winning a prize for his rapid fire talk at the Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference
15/07/20 Rita passes her DPhil viva. Congratulations.
25/05/20 Rita's hydroacylative route to alpha-amidoketones in online at Chem. Eur. J.
11/05/20 Antoine's "mechanism of the month" article is online at Trends in Chemistry
14/04/20 Tony's sulfinamide synthesis in online as a Feature Article at J. Org. Chem.
24/02/20 Jagadeesh joins the group as a Marie Curie postdoc
07/02/20 Antoine's study on the mechanism of Pd-catalysed desulfinative coupling is online at JACS
03/02/20 Nicoleta starts her CDT rotation in the group
24/01/20 Our collaborative work with the Gouverneur group on sulfinate-based 18F reagents is online at JACS
06/01/20 Nick joins the group as a new EPSRC funded postdoc
2019
09/12/19 Qian Wen passes her DPhil viva, congratulations
26/11/19 James’s work with the Weller group on fluorobenzene rhodium complexes is online at Chem. Eur. J.
25/11/19 Terry’s work on sulfonyl fluoride substituted boronic acids is online at Tetrahedron in an issue dedicated to Prof. S. G. Davies
18/11/19 The Live Slides for Tony’s Ni-catalysis are available
07/11/19 Terry’s work on alkenyl sulfonyl fluorides, in collaboration with Scott Bagley at Pfizer, is online at Angewandte Chemie
31/10/19 Antoine wins a best poster prize at the department’s Pfizer poster symposium
28/10/19 Tony and Yiding’s nickel-catalysed sulfination chemistry is online at ACS Catalysis
24/10/19 ZeXin wins the participants prize at the department’s Merck poster symposium
01/10/19 Mingyan joins the group as a DPhil student
30/09/19 Ben, Hugh, and Alex join the group for their Part II year
01/10/19 CDT students Charlie and Jonny join the group for their DPhils
30/09/19 ZeXin’s “LiveSlides” presentation is online at JACS
23/09/19 ZeXin’s and Thomas’s sulfondiimine synthesis is online at Journal of the American Chemical Society
10/09/19 Thomas wins a poster prize at the ESOC conference in Vienna
12/08/19 Charlie and Pearse join the group for their 2nd CDT rotations
19/07/19 A summary of Michael’s lecture at last year’s ISOCS meeting is online
28/05/19 Milan and Rob’s sulfide variant of a Sonogashira reaction is online at Chem. Commun.
23/04/19 Jack and Jonathan join the group for their first CDT rotations
14/02/19 Thomas passes his DPhil viva, congratulations
04/02/19 Vincent passes his DPhil viva, congratulations
2018
05/12/18 Tim and Phil’s heterocyclic coupling chemistry using allylsulfones is online at the Journal of the American Chemical Society
12/11/18 Thomas wins a prize for his presentation at the Department’s final year DPhil talks day
04/10/18 Ndi, Xinlan and Dan join the groups as DPhil students
01/10/18 Sean, Nicoleta and Gwyndaf join the group for their Part IIs
24/09/18 Thomas wins a prize for his talk at the UCB PhD day in London
24/09/18 Thomas wins the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan prize for his poster at the ISOCS-28 meeting in Tokyo
03/08/18 Arne joins the group as a visiting student from the University of Münster
03/09/18 Vincent’s copper-catalyzed synthesis of PFP-sulfonate esters in online at Organic Letters
27/08/18 TrNSO is launched by TCI
06/08/18 Congratulations to Alvin on winning a prize for his Part II project
23/07/18 Yiding, Phil and Alyn’s copper-catalysed sulfonamide synthesis is online at the Journal of the American Chemical Society
03/07/18 Our TIMSO reagent is launched by TCI
21/06/18 James’ work with the Weller group on amido-aldehyde hydroacylation is online at the Journal of the American Chemical Society
01/06/18 Dan joins the group for his CDT rotation
30/05/18 Rob and MIchele’s latest hydroacylation chemistry, our contribution to the Sir Derek Barton centenary issue, is online at Tetrahedron
03/05/18 Eva joins the group as a visiting student from Friedrich-Alexander University
09/04/18 Yiding passes his DPhil viva, and is off to postdoc in Cambridge - congratulations
22/03/18 Dennis joins the group as a visiting student from LMU
20/02/18 Ndidi and Xinlan group the group on their CDT rotations
05/02/18 Leon’s collaborative work with GSK on the beta-sulfonylation of cyclic amines is online at Chemical Science
22/01/18 Congratulations to Thomas who wins the industry prize for his poster at the RSC’s graduate poster competition in London
