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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 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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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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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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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 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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09/2022 Laura Winfrey gave a poster presentation at NWO Chains Conference 2022 in Veldhoven, Netherlands.
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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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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.
Electron deficient borane-mediated hydride abstraction in amines: stoichiometric and catalytic processes Chem. Soc. Rev. 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0CS00531B |
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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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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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04/2019 The group has been awarded a Royal Society Research Grant!
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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 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.
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.
An Interrupted Pummerer/Nickel‐Catalysed Cross‐Coupling Sequence |
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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
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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