Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant

Boron PhD student Baptiste Boyer from the Watson group, St Andrews thoroughly enjoyed sharing his research at the Edinburgh book launch event of Dr Stephen Mansell's popular science book 'Boron: In Search of the Real Fifth Element'.

Congratulations to Boron researchers Mat Cross, Michael Ingleson, @chemguyeli.bsky.social, Arnaud Osi and Emily Hanover from the Ingleson/Zysman-Colman group on their most recent @angewandtechemie.bsky.social paper published last week.🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Boron researcher Chen Li from the @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social group was delighted to receive a BCSJ Award for his outstanding poster at this month's @iupac.org International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry in Munich. Congratulations Chen🎉

Our Boron: Beyond the Reagent researchers thoroughly enjoyed presenting their posters and talks at the IMEBoron-18 Conference in Tokyo last week. Thank you to the organisers for running such a fantastic conference!

Luis and Nathan presented their posters at IMEBoron-18 in Tokyo today! Thanks to @makoto-b.bsky.social for organising. @epsrcboron.bsky.social #ChemSky

Several lectures today at the #IMEBORON18 symposium, before the excursions in Tokyo. S.P. Thomas ( @spthomasgroup.bsky.social ), M. Ingleson ( @epsrcboron.bsky.social ), G.-F. Fontaine ( @universitelaval )...

Ally presenting his work at IMEBoron-18! @epsrcboron.bsky.social #ChemSky

Discover the surprising world of boron with Dr Stephen Mansell, author of the forthcoming book Boron: In Search of the Real Fifth Element. Boron PhD student Baptiste Boyer will then give a short talk on his area of boron chemistry research. Wednesday 14th Oct: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Earlier this month Boron PI Prof Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS was in Hong Kong as a member of the Physical Sciences Panel for the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2026. Guy is pictured below with the other members of the panel. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Last month, Boron Co-I and PDRA Andrew Leach and Lia Sotorrios, along with fellow Leach Group member Nikeel Cull, had the pleasure of running a Molymods activity at the Onward Homes Brunswick Community Fun Day, great fun was had by all! www.onward.co.uk/sunshine-and...

It's been a busy time for Boron researchers over the summer, here is a throwback to the UoE Joseph Black conference where Boron PhD student Tracy Huang from the McKeown group won the Best Poster Prize for his poster 'Towards Boron containing Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (B-PIMs). 🎉

This summer Boron PDRA Lia Sotorrios and the Leach group at The University of Manchester welcome interns Isabelle Reid and Lin Hasan Abhari. Izzy is working on a boron reaction mechanism project, and Lin is working on an AI Drug Discovery project. Great to have you both!

Last week the Ingleson group had the pleasure of hosting S5 student Abdulmalik Babalola to find out more about what a career in a chemistry lab involves. It was inspiring to engage with such a dedicated and enthusiastic student, best of luck for your future studies Abdulmalik!

It was a double celebration for Boron PhD student Chen Li from @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social group last week. 🎉 Chen passed his viva and was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad for his Boroxines work published in JACS. Congratulations Chen!

Boron Co-I Mike Ingleson is looking forward to giving a lecture at the kick off meeting of the BoronPRO Collaborative Research Center at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg this week. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/boronpro/

Boron Co-I Stephen Thomas thoroughly enjoyed presenting some boron chemistry at the EPSRC CDT in Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis Summer Conference earlier this month.

We are delighted to announce that Varinder Aggarwal, Dennis Hall, @rebeccamelen.bsky.social and Mary Watson will deliver the Plenary Lectures at our Boron 2027 International Conference. www.boron.ac.uk/news-1/annou...

Very interesting to hear about Prof. Lloyd-Jones's journey in chemistry so far, highly recommend giving this interview a read www.nature.com/articles/s41... @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social #ChemSky

Boron Co-I Mike Ingleson enjoyed presenting at the Core-to-Core annual conference organised by the @ezc-group.bsky.social at St Andrews yesterday. Mike's talk, 'Applying “novel” boron Lewis acids in the field of TADF materials' prompted some thought provoking questions during the Q&A session.

We have two @rsc.org prize winners in the Boron team - Lia Sotorrios has won the Dalton Horizon Prize as part of Team SMOM, and @chemguyeli.bsky.social has been awarded the Tilden Prize for Chemistry. Congratulations to all of the prize winners 🎉

Check out our latest pre-print in @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) in collab/w the Ingleson group, where we show red-shifted emission in #mrtadf and #tadf emitters through the coordination of Boron-based LA's. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social @epsrcboron.bsky.social

Congratulations to Boron Co-I Michael Ingleson et al on their recent @rsc.org Journal of Materials Chemistry B paper 🎉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congratulations to Boron PDRA Alastair Nimmo and Boron PI Stephen Thomas et al on their recent Chemical Science Journal paper. 🎉 @rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congratulations to Boron Co-I Andrew Smith, Boron PhD student Martha Prindl and co-authors on their most recent @rsc.org Chemical Science paper 🎉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congratulations to Boron Co_I @chemguyeli.bsky.social on being elected a fellow of the @royalsoced.bsky.social 🎉 rse.org.uk/global-leade...

Boron researchers Anna and Mat presented their work at the @rsc.org Main Group Interest Group Annual Meeting & AGM last week. Anna's talk 'Two heads are better than one – Proximal diborylation of arenes' and Mat's poster were both very well received, prompting some great scientific discussions.

Boron PhD students Masha, Mia and Joanna had a great time at the Craigmillar Community Science Festival last week engaging with young people and their adults over some molymod and glovebox activities inspired by their research.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to his lectures at Indiana University next week. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Great to see Acoziborole given a positive opinion by the EMA for the treatment of sleeping sickness. The drug was developed by @dndi.org. @ajbw.bsky.social et al are currently working on benzoxaboroles as part of EPSRC Boron: Beyond the Reagent. Read more about Allan’s work: www.boron.ac.uk

During the Feb break, Boron PhD Mia Harris had the privilege of running activities as part of the Discover! Programme. The Discover! programme is a community project that engages with young learners & their families that are underrepresented in higher education. education.gov.scot/resources/ch...

Boron Co-Is Prof Stephen Thomas and Prof Mike Ingleson's Angewandte Chemie paper has been cited in Douglass Taber's Org. Chem. Highlights column this week; 'Functional Group Interconversion: The Hale Synthesis of Trichostatin A'. www.organic-chemistry.org/Highlights/2...

Lia Sotorrios had a fantastic time at the @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop in Vienna last week, her talk was very well received and she would like to thank all of the event organisers.

Congratulations to Kevin, Andy and Will on their @synlettjournal.bsky.social paper! www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

@chemguyeli.bsky.social will be speaking at @innolae.bsky.social on Wednesday 18th February.

Thank you to our industrial panelists who gave their time to join online Q&A sessions with researchers earlier this month. Researchers were given insights into some of the different careers paths of chemistry PhD holders and had their questions answered in engaging and interactive online sessions.

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to hosting Tim Clark on Thursday for his lecture 'Developing Synthetic Tools in Organoboron Chemistry to Access Phosphonates and Phosphines.

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for 2026 from the Boron: Beyond the Reagent team.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS is looking forward to speaking at the @rsc.org NMR Discussion Group Winter Meeting in Burlington House on Thursday. His talk will be "Mixing it up: mechanisms by NMR". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Prof Mike Ingleson enjoyed giving his final Dalton Mid Career Prize Lecture of the series at the School of Chemistry, University of Leicester last week. Many thanks to the organisers. @rsc.org

Prof Steve Thomas enjoyed attending the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic chemistry poster symposium 2025 at Burlington House yesterday. He is pictured here with PhD student Julie Macleod and her poster 'Colourimetric Detection of Hidden Catalysis'. Read the Nature paper here: lnkd.in/eM2yWQxf

We have recently welcomed a new PhD student to the Boron team; Baptiste Boyer has joined the Watson Group in St Andrews working on boron-based methodology. Welcome Baptiste!

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS thanks his host, Prof Jin-Quan Yu, and the organisers of the @bristolmyerssquibb.bsky.social Lecture at @scripps.edu. Guy is pictured with Jennifer Riggs PhD, Head of Medicinal Chemistry West at BMS, Prof Yu and fellow academic staff. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Boron Co-I Prof. Russell Morris gave his views on the applications of MOFs in this @chemistryworld.com article. edin.ac/3JE6dlh PhD student Daniela Rocha is part of the 'Smart Materials' workstream in the Morris Group, St Andrews - seen here leading outreach at the 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to giving the Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture on Friday at Scripps Research. His talk is titled "Kinetics and Mechanism by NMR Spectroscopy". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social @scripps.edu

Boron PhD student Anna Schellbach presented her research last week as part of the Edinburgh School of Chemistry PhD Seminar series. Thank you to the organisers. Her talk was very well received with lots of excitement in the room regarding some recent results. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@chemguyeli.bsky.social is looking forward to taking part in the Wiley Online Advanced Summit next week. web.cvent.com/event/684b09...

Congratulations to Boron team members Chen Li, Lia Sotorrios, Patrick Boaler, Andrew Leach and Guy Lloyd-Jones et al on their JACS paper published last week! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social @an-andrew-leach.bsky.social

Boron PDRA John Marques dos Santos thoroughly enjoyed showcasing his research at the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium last month on Organic Semiconductor Materials in Germany. He presented his poster 'Synergistic Intergration of BINAP and MR-TADF Motifs for Enhanced OLED Performance'.

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to returning to Bath where he completed his PhD studies to give the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize Lecture @rsc.org

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