Many congratulations to Sifan Li who successfully defended his PhD thesis today examined by Prof Mike Greaney and Dr Richard Grainger! Check out his papers on the publications tab.
Poster Prize
Congratulations to Ivy for her poster prize at the RSC Dalton Meeting in Warwick.
Prize winner
Congratulations to Ivy who won a poster prize at the John S. Fossey Memorial Symposium!
Dr Gini
Many congratulations to Elena Claudia Gini who successfully passed her PhD viva today! Thanks to Profs Rob Stockman and Jim Tucker for examining!
Congratulations Ale
Congratulations to Ale Ballela who defended his PhD thesis today! Ale is now working in Process Chemistry at Evotec.
New Paper
Congratulations to Sifan for his new paper out in Chemical Science from a UoB/SUSTech collaboration with Prof Wei Shu.
Modular Synthesis of α-Arylated Carboxylic Acids, Esters and Amides via Photocatalyzed Triple C−F Bond Cleavage of Methyltrifluorides, S. Li, P. W. Davies*, W. Shu* Chem. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC01905A
Postdoc position available
We are looking for a new member of the team with experience in advanced synthetic organic chemistry to work on an exciting project catalysis based reaction discovery and application. This ~3 year position is advertised here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CMQ425/research-fellow-in-synthetic-organic-chemistry
Informal enquiries welcome to my @bham email.
New paper
A personal account of our groups work into nitrenoid based annulations is now online at The Chemical Record
New Position
We have a PDRA position available to start before Feb 2022 to work on developing new catalysis based methods – see the advert here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CJH948/research-fellow-in-synthetic-organic-chemistry
Informal enquiries to learn more about the position are welcomed and can be sent to Paul (see UoB website for email address), but formal applications must be made through the University application portal (as in the advert). All such applications will be reviewed and so please do not also send your formal application package directly to Paul by email.
New Members
We are delighted to welcome new members to the team, with Bethan Greene joining us for PhD studies, and Clare Rabbitt, Nick Gocher and Alice Oram joining for their MSci projects! See https://syncatdavies.com/group-members
SynCat Research 