Happy St. Patrick's day from the Thomas group ☘️

A very interesting highlight this week. Prof. Douglass Taber has used some of our work in conjunction with the Ingleson group and Dom Wilcox @domrwillcox.bsky.social in a total synthesis of Trichostatin A which is due to be featured in Org. Chem. Highlights next week! #chemsky #chemistry

It was wonderful to see a past visiting student of ours Federica who was back in Edinburgh on holiday! #chemistry #chemsky

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – is expected to be announced on Wednesday as part of the UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. The final details of the announcement were agreed by the two sides on Tuesday, with a plan to allow UK students to participate in the EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources said. Continue reading...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Congratulations to Dr Joseph Cockcroft who passed his PhD viva. Joe will be missed, and we wish him the best of luck.

Good news! Our paper with Joseph Cockcroft, 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation,' was included in the 15th anniversary collection for Chemical Science.

Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation As the least expensive, least toxic and most abundant of the first-row transition metals, iron catalysis underpins the future of sustainable synthesis. Yet the mechanistic understanding remains limite...

Great news! Joseph Cockcroft has just published his paper in Chemical Science, titled 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation.' Congratulations Joe!
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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Colorimetric indication of hidden catalysis - Nature Chemistry Hidden catalysis plagues catalyst development and occurs when an impurity or species generated in situ facilitates the reaction instead of the intended catalyst. Current methods to identify hidden cat...

Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie!

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Here is Luke getting his prize from our Head of School Jason Love! Luke then gave a fantastic talk on his career up to this point and his work during his PhD. Thank you all who attended!
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Congratulations to our former PhD student Luke Britton who is being awarded the Norma and Fraser Stoddart Prize today. He will be giving a talk today at 1500 in T250 in the Joseph Black Building we hope to see you there! #chemistry #chemsky

We would like to wish all the best to Jason our PGT student who has just finished his time in the lab. Thanks for being so much fun to work with and all your hard work! #chemsky #chemistry

Congratulations to Dr Adrián Moreno González who passed his PhD viva recently. Adrian has been with the group for years and will be missed, we would like to wish him the best of luck. Thank you to Dr Andres Garcia-Dominguez and Dr Marina Uzelac for their insightful discussions for the viva.

Steve enjoying the Poznan evening after giving a seminar. Thank you to Piotr Pawluc for hosting so generously!

We are very happy to announce that our collaboration with the Garden Group, Joseph Cockcroft's paper 'Highly Acyclic Selective Cobalt Catalysts for Butadiene Dimerization' has been published in ChemCatChem! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1002/cctc...
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Congratulations to our former group member Dom @domrwillcox.bsky.social and fellow Boron @epsrcboron.bsky.social student Anna Schellbach for their publication in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

Steve gave a great Plenary Lecture at OZOM15 “Tranborylation Enabled Catalysis: From Old Reactivity to New Disconnections and a Cautionary Tale”. Based on the group's work in boron catalysis, thank you to the University of Queensland and Professor Rowan Young for hosting. #chemistry #chemsky

Here are some pictures from Steve's talk at the CSC yesterday. We would like to thank everyone at the CSC and everyone who attended the talk! #chemistry #chemsky

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Steve will be giving a talk at the CSC in room 203 today at 1400 local time for the YOW! symposium. Hopefully you can catch it there!

Steve will be giving his presentation today hope you can be there to check it out!

Prof. Steve Thomas is looking forward to speaking at CANUK this week in Quebec. @rsc.org

Steve is giving a presentation at CANUK in Quebec City alongside some other fantastic speakers from the 11th to the 14th June. #chemsky #chemistry

As a group we would like to wish all the best to our most recent undergraduate Joan Bigorra Papiol who is leaving this week. He has completed some fantastic work in the group and the office won't quite be the same without him. #chemsky #chemistry

Congratulations to Milan and Justyna from the Ingleson Group on getting their paper 'Ligand non-innocence and an unusual σ-bond metathesis step enables catalytic borylation using 9-borabicyclo-[3.3.1]-nonane' published in Chemical Science!
Keep an eye on the @chemicalscience.rsc.org website!

Steve is giving a talk at Stockholm University today! We would like to thank Professor Kalman Szabo for hosting him. @epsrcboron.bsky.social

Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Fantastic news! Dom's
@domrwillcox.bsky.social
review on Group 13 exchange and transborylation has just received 10 citations. Congratulations Dom!
www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

Fantastic to see such a great turnout for Prof Steve Thomas' Inaugural lecture last week including lots of past Thomas Group members. Steve's lecture 'Irn Brus & Pharma Violets' discussed iron & other earth-abundant metal catalysis in a fun & engaging way, congrats Steve! @spthomasgroup.bsky.social

Congratulations to our former group member Luke Britton on being awarded the prestigious Stoddart Prize for his work in his PhD and the university community!

Looking forward to Prof Stephen Thomas's inaugural lecture this Friday, "Iron Brews and Pharma Violets", there may even be some practical demonstrations too.

Prof Mike Ingleson thoroughly enjoyed presenting at the ICMGSC 2025 on Friday and would like to thank the organising committee and the @rsc.org.