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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · 21d

Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie!

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky

Colorimetric indication of hidden catalysis - Nature Chemistry

Hidden catalysis plagues catalyst development and occurs when an impurity or species generated in situ facilitates the reaction instead of the intended catalyst. Current methods to identify hidden cat...

www.nature.com

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here is Luke getting his prize from our Head of School Jason Love! Luke then gave a fantastic talk on his career up to this point and his work during his PhD. Thank you all who attended!
#chemistry #chemsky

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations to our former PhD student Luke Britton who is being awarded the Norma and Fraser Stoddart Prize today. He will be giving a talk today at 1500 in T250 in the Joseph Black Building we hope to see you there! #chemistry #chemsky

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Aug 26

We would like to wish all the best to Jason our PGT student who has just finished his time in the lab. Thanks for being so much fun to work with and all your hard work! #chemsky #chemistry

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to Dr Adrián Moreno González who passed his PhD viva recently. Adrian has been with the group for years and will be missed, we would like to wish him the best of luck. Thank you to Dr Andres Garcia-Dominguez and Dr Marina Uzelac for their insightful discussions for the viva.

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jul 25

Steve enjoying the Poznan evening after giving a seminar. Thank you to Piotr Pawluc for hosting so generously!

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jul 25

We are very happy to announce that our collaboration with the Garden Group, Joseph Cockcroft's paper 'Highly Acyclic Selective Cobalt Catalysts for Butadiene Dimerization' has been published in ChemCatChem! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1002/cctc...
#chemsky #chemistry

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations to our former group member Dom @domrwillcox.bsky.social and fellow Boron @epsrcboron.bsky.social student Anna Schellbach for their publication in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

Dom Willcox @domrwillcox.bsky.social · Jun 26

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. Anna did an amazing job with this and has discovered some really exciting new chemistry! Read the Accepted article in Angew. Chem. #chemsky

Intermolecular sp3C‐H Metalation of Non‐Nucleophilic Brønsted Bases Using Simple Lewis Acids

2,6-Di-tert-butyl substituted pyridines (tBu2-py) are widely used non-nucleophilic Brønsted bases. Their ubiquity is due to their highly hindered basic site and chemically robust nature. Herein we re...

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 27

Steve gave a great Plenary Lecture at OZOM15 “Tranborylation Enabled Catalysis: From Old Reactivity to New Disconnections and a Cautionary Tale”. Based on the group's work in boron catalysis, thank you to the University of Queensland and Professor Rowan Young for hosting. #chemistry #chemsky

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 18

Here are some pictures from Steve's talk at the CSC yesterday. We would like to thank everyone at the CSC and everyone who attended the talk! #chemistry #chemsky

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 16

Steve will be giving a talk at the CSC in room 203 today at 1400 local time for the YOW! symposium. Hopefully you can catch it there!

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 13

Steve will be giving his presentation today hope you can be there to check it out!

Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 12

Steve is giving a presentation at CANUK in Quebec City alongside some other fantastic speakers from the 11th to the 14th June. #chemsky #chemistry

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Jun 9

Prof. Steve Thomas is looking forward to speaking at CANUK this week in Quebec. @rsc.org

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Jun 12

Steve is giving a presentation at CANUK in Quebec City alongside some other fantastic speakers from the 11th to the 14th June. #chemsky #chemistry

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · May 27

As a group we would like to wish all the best to our most recent undergraduate Joan Bigorra Papiol who is leaving this week. He has completed some fantastic work in the group and the office won't quite be the same without him. #chemsky #chemistry

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congratulations to Milan and Justyna from the Ingleson Group on getting their paper 'Ligand non-innocence and an unusual σ-bond metathesis step enables catalytic borylation using 9-borabicyclo-[3.3.1]-nonane' published in Chemical Science!
Keep an eye on the @chemicalscience.rsc.org website!

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Mar 27

Steve is giving a talk at Stockholm University today! We would like to thank Professor Kalman Szabo for hosting him. @epsrcboron.bsky.social

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Mar 20

Fantastic news! Dom's
@domrwillcox.bsky.social
review on Group 13 exchange and transborylation has just received 10 citations. Congratulations Dom!
www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

www.beilstein-journals.org

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Feb 24

Fantastic to see such a great turnout for Prof Steve Thomas' Inaugural lecture last week including lots of past Thomas Group members. Steve's lecture 'Irn Brus & Pharma Violets' discussed iron & other earth-abundant metal catalysis in a fun & engaging way, congrats Steve! @spthomasgroup.bsky.social

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congratulations to our former group member Luke Britton on being awarded the prestigious Stoddart Prize for his work in his PhD and the university community!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Feb 19

Looking forward to Prof Stephen Thomas's inaugural lecture this Friday, "Iron Brews and Pharma Violets", there may even be some practical demonstrations too.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Feb 17

Prof Mike Ingleson thoroughly enjoyed presenting at the ICMGSC 2025 on Friday and would like to thank the organising committee and the @rsc.org.

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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Feb 11

In Beilstein Talks this week Professor Dennis Hall will be presenting his group's research on boron heterocycles in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry. It will be held on February 13th 5-6 pm CET and you can register at the link below!
www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/org...

Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · Feb 6

Congratulations to our Post Doc Sarah @sarahmconie.bsky.social for completing her Introduction to Academic Practice course and becoming an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy!