Increasingly high-technology lifestyles have resulted in economic, scientific and societal challenges in supply, demand and use of finite global resources such as metals, minerals and fuels. Current linear manufacturing processes which extract, process, exploit and dispose of these resources are being challenged, with a greater impetus towards circularity in material and resource use.
Recent work from the Ingleson group developed the first examples of simple boron based compounds (organoboranes) as phase transfer catalysts for nucleophilic fluorination to form C-F bonds using inexpensive CsF as the fluoride source.
School of Chemistry PhD students Jenke Scheen from the Michel group, Yuan Gao from the Guy Lloyd-Jones group and Optima CDT 4th year PhD student Daisy Dickinson have all been named as finalists in the prestigious STEM for Britain national awards.
Professor Andy Lawrence and his group have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant of £293,670 for work on “Biomimetic [1,2]-shifts in the synthesis of complex diterpenes”.
Congratulations to Professor Mark Bradley on being awarded a distinguished lectureship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Category A: For Distinguished Scientists.
The award will see Professor Bradley conducting a lecture tour and hosting researchers from CAS.
The PIFI program is a specific funding program to attract talented foreigners to CAS for scientific exchanges and research cooperation.
Dr Stephen Thomas has been announced as a finalist in the UK Blavatnik Awards 2022. This follows on from being awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Merck, Sharp and Dohme Award in 2021.
The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom is a highly prestigious national prize celebrating the accomplishments and future potential of the UK’s most innovative young academic staff, scientists and engineers working across Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry.
Final year PhD student Kiani Jeacock recently travelled to Pacific Grove, California, USA to attend and present at the 36th Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry (ACMS).
Congratulations to School of Chemistry PhD Student Craig Steven, who has won two prestigious RSC prizes recently and also has written a chapter in a newly published book.
Craig is based in the research groups of Professors Alison Hulme from the School of Chemistry and Valerie Brunton from the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre.
Professor Scott Cockroft and final-year PhD student Dominic Cairns-Gibson have had their Perspective covering nanopore modification published in Chemical Science. Nanopore technology is a powerful tool for single-molecule studies and has been utilised in a range of applications: from biomimetic ion-selective channels to handheld-devices capable of sequencing single DNA molecules.
Stuart Johnstone is the University of Edinburgh’s only scientific glassblower and he is based within the Joseph Black Building, servicing the School of Chemistry in designing, creating, and repairing scientific glassware. Stuart helps keep synthetic laboratories stocked with glassware, such as separating funnels and condensers, by repairing damaged items in-house.
