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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 22h

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 22h

Boron PhD student Salil Kumar Jana thoroughly enjoyed presenting his poster 'A Molecular Design Strategy for Solution-Processed MR-TADF Emitters via Nitrogen-Linked Boron Based Building Blocks' at last month's Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium in Frankfurt.

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 20d

Happy #ResearchAdministratorDay to all of our lovely research administration staff across our institutions. Thank you for all you do! #ARMA #CelebratingResearch #BehindEveryDiscovery

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats to PhD student Julie Macleod & Prof Stephen Thomas on their paper in Nature Portfolio Chemistry - 'Colorimetric Indication of Hidden Catalysis'. Special mention to Julie as the single experimental author on this paper! chem.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 29d

During Postdoc Appreciation Week we are saying a huge thank you to all Boron PDRAs past and present. #NPAW #LovePostdocs

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Sep 8

Boron PhD Student Tracy Huang from the McKeown Group had a great time at the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry Organic Section Residential Meeting at Firbush last month.

Tracy is pictured here with his poster 'Towards Boron Containing Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (B-PIMs)'

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations to Boron Co-PI @ajbw.bsky.social on his appointment as Deputy Head of the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews 🎉
Allan is pictured here with fellow Boron Co-Is @chemguyeli.bsky.social and Andy Smith.

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

Congratulations to Prof. Mike Ingleson et al on their most recent paper - Catalytic Transfer Zincation Using Ammonium Cations.

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

Gregor Cargill presented some very successful work from his 'Borylation Directed Double Borylation' summer project in the Ingleson group, we look forward to seeing it in print soon!

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations to Boron Co-I Steve Thomas who started as Head of Organic Chemistry within the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry last week. @spthomasgroup.bsky.social

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

Last month the Leach Group thoroughly enjoyed attending the WATOC2025 conference in Oslo & would like to thank all of the organisers. Boron PDRA & PhD student Lia Sotorrios & Mauno Lius both presented posters which stimulated some great scientific discussions with delegates.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Ingleson group have recently welcomed MChem student Gregor Cargill to the lab for the summer to work on 'Boron Directed Borylation', lovely to have you Gregor!

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

Boron PDRA Mat Cross from the Ingleson group enjoyed presenting his poster at the EaStCHEM ECR Conference earlier this month, thank you to the organisers for putting on a great event!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Jun 23

Boron PhD students Mauno Lius & Chen Li had a great time presenting posters at the @rsc.org Physical Organic Chemistry Interest group Postgrad meeting at @astra-zeneca.bsky.social Macclesfield on Friday. Congratulations also go to Chen for winning the best poster prize! @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Jun 11

There were lots of great talks and posters from PhD students at the UoE School of Chemistry Joseph Black Conference last week. Boron PhD student Chen Li from the @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social gave an interesting and well received talk 'The Boroxine-Boronic Acid Equilibrium'.

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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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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Jun 3

This month we welcome our newest PDRA at St Andrews John Marques dos Santos, great to have you here!

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Jun 3

Boron PI Mike Ingleson is looking forward to speaking at Durham University tomorrow.

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · May 29

The Boron team had a fantastic research team meeting this week at Glenmore Lodge. Some great scientific presentations, fruitful discussions and energising walks. All have come back eager to get back to their research and build on the new connections made!

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · May 21

Check out the latest article from Boron Co-Is Michael Ingleson, Stephen Thomas et al in Chemical Science, congratulations all!
"Ligand non-innocence and an unusual σ-bond metathesis step enables catalytic borylation using 9-borabicyclo-[3.3.1]-nonane"

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · May 6

We are looking forward to hearing visiting speaker Prof. Hong Geun Lee's seminar in the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry next week; 'Creation of Chemical Complexity via Controlled Functionalization of Organoboron Compounds'

Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Apr 30

On Monday we hosted Matthias Wagner (Goethe University Frankfurt) & Cate Anstoter (University of Edinburgh) for a mini boron symposium ahead of our Boron: Beyond the Reagent advisory board meeting. Both the symposium & board meeting were very informative & fruitful discussions were had by all!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Apr 23

We are looking forward to hearing visiting speaker Matthias Wagner, and University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry Christina Miller Fellow Cate Anstöter giving research seminars next week.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · Apr 8

Mathew Cross thoroughly enjoyed presenting his poster 'TADF at the extreme (of visible): Lewis acid tuning of fluorophores for 3rd gen OLEDs' at the Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Conference last week!

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