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We have another 3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship available in organoborane catalysis!
If you applied for the EPSRC DLA studentship, please also apply for this one! Closing date: 21st Feb.

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We explore and discover new reactivity of main group elements and apply them in the development of novel methods and applications for chemical synthesis.

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05/2025  Pulis group and Alison group succeeded escaping the wizard secret room.
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04/2025  Yuncong Gao gave a poster presentation in RSC Organic Community Midlands Regional Meeting at ​Nottingham. 
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04/2025  Pulis group attended the Bristol Synthesis Meeting 2025​. What a lovely day! (especially the after meeting activities)

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12/2024   Joe presents his poster at the RSC Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium 2024. Well done Joe. (Alex tags along for fun)

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11/2024   Alex gave invited lectures at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and ShanghaiTech. Thank you Huan-ming and Fanke for being excellent hosts.
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07/2024   Welcome our new Mchem student Josh Barkus.
And Happy Halloween!
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07/2024   Congratulations! PhD student Laura Winfery graduates. 
MChem student Ceri Rees graduates.
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07/2024   Joe gave an oral presentation at the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Congress 2024.
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07/2024   Our group attended the 2024 Oxford Synthesis Summer Conference in the University of Oxford​. ​Sophia gave a flash presentation. Lei and Sophia gave poster presentations.
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07/2024   Lei gave an oral presentation and Sophia presented a poster in the Leicester symposium day.
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06/2024   Alex talks at the New Starters in Synthesis and Catalysis 2024, at Imperial College London

04/2024   Our group attended the RSC Organic Community Midlands Regional Meeting at Keele University​. ​Alex gave an oral presentation. Joe, Sophia and Lei gave poster presentations and Sophia won the poster prize. Congratulations! 
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04/2024   Our group attended the Bristol Synthesis Meeting 2024​. And welcome to our new ​Postdoc, Maryia Barysevich. 
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04/2024   Sophia won the oral presentation prize at the RSC Fluorine Interest Group Postgraduate Meeting. Congratulations! ​
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03/2024   Our paper on the B(C6F5)3 catalyzed dehydrogenation of pyrrolidines has been accepted in ACS Catalysis. Well done Ana, Joe, Laura, and Yukang. It was great to collaborate with Dr Yang Li at Dalian University of Technology.
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03/2024   Alex presents at DSTL, Porton Down.​

02/2024   Alex presents at GSK in Stevenage for an Emerging Academics Seminar.​

01/2024   Alex has received a Thieme Chemistry Journal Award for 2024.​

01/2024   After a great collaboration with Rama Suntharalingam, our paper 'H2O·B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed para-Alkylation of Anilines with Alkenes Applied to Late-Stage Functionalization of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs' has been published Chemistry A European Journal. Well done Laura, Lei, and Ginevra. link
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11/2023  Alex gives seminars at Dalian University of Technology and Nankai University.  
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With Dr Fei Wang outside the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University
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With Dr Yang Li and her group at DUT
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09/2023  Lei and Sophia attended the 37th Postgraduate Symposium run by the RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group. Lei presented a poster and gave an oral presentation.
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07/2023  Joe presents a poster at 27th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry. 

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07/2023  
Congratulations! PhD student Ana Alvarez Montoya graduates. 
MChem students Liam Neligan and Halima Patel graduate. 
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06/2023  Joe gave a oral presentation and Lei presented a poster in the Leicester symposium day.

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06/2023  Laura and Sophia attend Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry Europe;
Laura presented a poster at this conference.

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06/2023   Our review on organoborane mediated hydride abstraction is out in Synlett. Well done Joe, Laura, and Lei. Great collaborating again with the Morrill and Melen groups in Cardiff.

Invited contribution to celebrate 60 years of Donald Matterson’s boron homologation
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Recent Advances in Catalysis using Organoborane Mediated Hydride Abstraction
Synlett 2023, DOI:10.1055/a-2111-9629
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05/2023  Dr Alex Pulis gave a talk and Laura Winfrey won the oral presentation prize at 25th Lakeland Symposium (Grasmere) 2023.
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04/2023  Dr Alex Pulis, Laura Winfrey, Joseph Gillions, Lei Yun and Sophia Moreen Gloria attended Bristol Synthesis Meeting 2023.
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10/2022   Welcome Halima and Liam, our new MChem students. We also welcome a new PhD student Sophia from University of Leicester.
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10/2022  Laura Winfrey gave a flash talk and poster presentation at GSK Synthetic Organic Postgraduate Symposium 2022.

09/2022  Laura Winfrey gave a poster presentation at NWO Chains Conference 2022 in Veldhoven, Netherlands.
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07/2022    Laura Winfrey goes to the Slootweg research group in Amsterdam with the Turing Scheme 2022.
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06/2022    Joe Gillions is the winner of the poster competition during the  UoL PG Chemistry Research Day.
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05/2022    Alex gave a talk at the Keele Chemical Sciences Symposium​.
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03/2022    Laura Winfrey gave a poster presentation at Charles River PhD Poster Competition 2022​.
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10/2021   Welcome Sophia and Haris, our new MChem students. We also welcome a new PhD student Lei from Dalian University of Technology.

03/2021   Our review on borane mediated hydride abstraction is out in Chem. Soc. Rev. Well done Shyam, Laura, and Betty. Great collaborating again with the Morrill and Melen groups in Cardiff.
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Electron deficient borane-mediated hydride abstraction in amines: stoichiometric and catalytic processes
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0CS00531B
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10/2020   The group welcomes our new MChem project student, Anthony. We also welcome a new PhD student Joe from the University of York.
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04/2020   Our first research paper from Leicester is out in ACS Catalysis! Well done Shyam, Ana, and Laura. Great Collaboration with the Morrill and Melen groups in Cardiff.

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Direct C3 Alkylation of Indoles and Oxindoles

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​01/2020
   Our review on FLPs is out!  Well done Laura and Ana.

Uncovering the Synthetic Potential of Frustrated Lewis Pairs
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09/2019   The group welcomes several new members: Our new MChem project students, Amy Shah and Tom Arkley; Laura Winfrey to start her PhD; and Djawid Mohammadi from Hamburg for his Masters project. Welcome!

06/2019   Laura Winfrey (MChem project student) presents at the SCI Undergraduate Research Symposium at Imperial College London.
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06/2019   Alex publishes in ACS catalysis with Prof. Procter, Tao Jia, Marshall Smith and Gregory Perry

Enantioselective and Regioselective Copper-Catalyzed Borocyanation of 1-Aryl-1,3-Butadienes
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05/2019   We welcome to Zhiming Yang (Steve) into the group for his MSc project.

04/2019   The group has been awarded a Royal Society Research Grant!
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04/2019   We welcome to Antoine, an Erasmus student from the Universite de Rouen, (France).

04/2019   Alex publishes in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  with Prof. Procter, Mindaugas Šiaučiulis and Nanna Ahlsten 

Transition metal‐free cross‐coupling of benzothiophenes and styrenes in a stereoselective synthesis of substituted (E,Z)‐1,3‐dienes


​and with Zhen He

The interrupted Pummerer reaction in a sulfoxide‐catalyzed oxidative coupling of 2‐naphthols


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01/2019   A huge welcome to Ana, the groups first PhD student! Ana Alvarez Montoya is from Universidad de Oviedo (Spain).

01/2019   Alex publishes in ACS Catalysis with Prof. Procter, Kay Yeung, Fabien Talbot and Gareth Howell

Copper-catalyzed borylative multi-component synthesis of quaternary α-amino esters
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11/2018   Alex publishes in Org. Lett. with Prof. Procter , Kevin Yang and Greg Perry.

Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of C3-Arylated Benzofurans from Benzothiophenes and Phenols

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09/2018   Research starts at The University of Leicester!

It has been a great experience at the University of Manchester. A big thank your to Prof. Procter, and his fantastic research group.
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07/2018   Alex publishes in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  with Prof. Procter, Tao Jia, Qiong He (Jessica), and Rebecca E. Ruscoe.
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Regiodivergent copper catalyzed borocyanation of 1,3-dienes
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06/2018   Alex publishes in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  with Prof. Procter, Miles H. Aukland, Fabien J. T. Talbot, José A. Fernández-Salas, and Matthew Ball.
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An Interrupted Pummerer/Nickel‐Catalysed Cross‐Coupling Sequence

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05/2018   As we say farewell to an excellent bunch of MChem students (Yasmin and Lucy), we welcome Adrien (Erasmus, Universite de Rouen, France) and Suki (MSc Taught project) for the summer.

03/2018   Alex publishes in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  with Prof. Procter, Zhen He, Harry J. Shrives, José A. Fernández-Salas, Alberto Abengózar and Jessica Neufeld
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Synthesis of C2 Substituted Benzothiophenes via an Interrupted Pummerer/[3,3]-Sigmatropic/1,2-Migration Cascade of Benzothiophene S-Oxides
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11/2017   Alex publishes in Chem. Sci. with Prof. Procter, Mindaugas Šiaučiulis and Selma Sapmaz.

Dual vicinal functionalisation of heterocycles via an interrupted Pummerer coupling/[3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement cascade
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08/2017    Luke, Hassan and Alex publish in Chem. Commun. Well done Luke!

One-pot borylation/Suzuki-Miyaura sp2–sp3 cross-coupling  
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