01 What?
We’re a research group based in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh who prepare and study new compounds of the abundant p-block elements. We work to discover new fundamental chemistry that we use to advance catalysis and materials chemistry.
02 News
16/12/22
Congratulations to Dr Ella Rice, who passed her PhD viva today!
24/11/22
Welcome to Dr Malavika Bhide who joins the group as a PDRA.
09/08/22
PDRA POSITION AVAILABLE. (Now Filled)
PhD POSITIONS (2) AVAILABLE. 2022/23 start possible. (Now Filled)
18/07/22
Welcome to Dr Jordann Wells, who joins the group as a PDRA.
13/06/22
Ryotaro Yamanashi joins us as a visiting student for three months, from the the Yamashita group in Nagoya. Welcome Ryotaro!
08/06/22
Michael has been awarded the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Awkward photos here.
01/04/22
Congratulations to Dr Abigail Levy, who passed her PhD viva today!
01/10/21
PAPER Our work on the Phospha-Bora Wittig reaction featured in Chemistry and Engineering News and was also one of the most read articles in J. Am Chem. Soc. during August and September. See also Chemistry Views.
14/09/21
PAPER We have published a paper on a dialumene that reversibly dissociates in Angewandte Chemie, together with our collaborators the Krämer group.
Congratulations to Dr Ella Rice, who passed her PhD viva today!
24/11/22
Welcome to Dr Malavika Bhide who joins the group as a PDRA.
09/08/22
PDRA POSITION AVAILABLE. (Now Filled)
PhD POSITIONS (2) AVAILABLE. 2022/23 start possible. (Now Filled)
18/07/22
Welcome to Dr Jordann Wells, who joins the group as a PDRA.
13/06/22
Ryotaro Yamanashi joins us as a visiting student for three months, from the the Yamashita group in Nagoya. Welcome Ryotaro!
08/06/22
Michael has been awarded the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Awkward photos here.
01/04/22
Congratulations to Dr Abigail Levy, who passed her PhD viva today!
01/10/21
PAPER Our work on the Phospha-Bora Wittig reaction featured in Chemistry and Engineering News and was also one of the most read articles in J. Am Chem. Soc. during August and September. See also Chemistry Views.
14/09/21
PAPER We have published a paper on a dialumene that reversibly dissociates in Angewandte Chemie, together with our collaborators the Krämer group.
03 Research
Modern society relies on the chemical synthesis of thousands of compounds. The sustainable synthetic chemistry of the future will need make best use of abundant, cheap, and preferably non-toxic elements. This is why we are researching and developing the chemistry of the p-block elements. Specifically, we aim to advance the chemistry of Aluminium, Boron, Phosphorus, and Silicon, studying their low-coordinate chemistry to enable new modes of small-molecule activation and catalysis that will lead to new, more efficient, and more powerful synthetic chemistry.
See our publications for more details.