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combining automation and synthesis to access new chemical space

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Fellowship Funding Available

Are you interested in undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship in digital chemistry? We are looking to support an applicant for the Heriot-Watt University EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. This is a highly prestigious postdoctoral fellowship looking to support promising early-career researchers for up to two years. Eligbility: Applicants who completed a doctoral postgraduate research degree with support…

16th Sep 2025

Welcome to Josef and Fern

Josef joins the group for a PhD after completing his MChem at Lancaster University, where he will be developing new methods for the synthesis of silicon-switch molecules. Fern joins the group for her MChem project and will be developing new reactivity with silyl-lithium compounds.

8th Sep 2025

sp3 Metalation

If you have ever used simple Lewis acids like AlCl3 and GaCl3 in your chemistry, you may be interested to learn how they react with non-nucleophilic bases. Really proud to be involved with such a great project from my time in the Ingleson group. Anna did an amazing job with this and has discovered some…

26th Jun 2025

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