Thomas Group

Thank you to AstraZeneca Macclesfield for hosting us today. Great to see the site and give a talk about what our group has been working on. #ChemSky

Great to see Dr. Julie Macleod's work on hidden borane catalysis being featured in the latest issue of SciencEd! Thanks to Colleen He for writing this wonderful article. eusci.org.uk

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

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

Elisa presented her work at the RSC Dalton Community Scotland and USIC 2026 Conference at Herriot-Watt University last week. Thanks to @domrwillcox.bsky.social for organising a great conference!

Congratulations to Dr Julie MacLeod for passing her Ph.D. viva! Julie will be missed, and we wish her luck in her new job at BASF Pharma.🎓🎉

Excited to share our new paper 'Catalytic synthesis of saturated azacycles using transborylation' in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry with Mike Ingleson. doi.org/10.1039/d6ob...

Happy Canada day! 🫎🍁

I’m excited to join the TECS CDT 2026 Summer Conference at Bristol Chemistry!

Congratulations to Julie MacLeod for winning the Adam Crawford Prize! So proud of you Julie.😊

Good news, our collaboration with Dr Laura Winfrey, Dr Dominic Willcox and Prof Mike Ingleson has been published in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Read it below. doi.org/10.1002/anie... @domrwillcox.bsky.social #ChemSky

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

Good news! Julie MacLeod and Alastair Nimmo's manuscript titled 'Stereoselective, Borane-catalysed Synthesis of syn-β-Hydroxyketones from α,β-Unsaturated Ketones' has just been accepted into Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org.

Interested in applying for funded fellowships to start your independent research career? The Royal Society’s University Research Fellowship scheme provides an excellent opportunity for outstanding researchers to join us in Edinburgh. See the details at edin.ac/4uzOtcw and apply by 19 June.

Very interesting paper recently published in Catalysis Science & Technology doi.org/10.1039/D5CY...

Excited to share our new paper, 'Manganese-catalysed HIE of Arenes and Heteroarenes,' by Dr. Adrián Moreno González in Catalysis Science & Technology. doi.org/10.1039/D6CY...

Happy St. Patrick's day from the Thomas group ☘️

A very interesting highlight this week. Prof. Douglass Taber has used some of our work in conjunction with the Ingleson group and Dom Wilcox @domrwillcox.bsky.social in a total synthesis of Trichostatin A which is due to be featured in Org. Chem. Highlights next week! #chemsky #chemistry

It was wonderful to see a past visiting student of ours Federica who was back in Edinburgh on holiday! #chemistry #chemsky

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Congratulations to Dr Joseph Cockcroft who passed his PhD viva. Joe will be missed, and we wish him the best of luck.

Good news! Our paper with Joseph Cockcroft, 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation,' was included in the 15th anniversary collection for Chemical Science.

Great news! Joseph Cockcroft has just published his paper in Chemical Science, titled 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation.' Congratulations Joe! doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #chemsky

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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...

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

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!

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

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

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...

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!

A great read from Professor Antonio Togni on scientific communication. www.chimia.ch/chimia/artic...

Congratulations to our former group member @bismutolab.bsky.social on his most recent @acsjacs.bsky.social paper being highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News! cen.acs.org/materials/in...