PhD - St Andrews 2024 🏴 Medicinal Chemist
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6 Nov 2024
The rumours are true! Yesterday I passed my viva, concluding my time at St Andrews 🏴
Thank you to all the mentors who have guided me and to all the colleagues on this journey with me.
Now on to more chemistry…🧪
6 Nov 2024
A huge congratulations to the newly minted Dr McGuff on passing his viva yesterday to conclude a hugely successful PhD! @john_mcguff Big thanks to @RhPdCu and @SPThomasGroup for doing the honors!
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27 Jul 2024
Many thanks to the organisers at OSSC 2024! There were many fascinating discussions on chemistry, as well as insightful early career advise!
Group members @MashaMazhuga, @TimHilton98, and Tom presented their posters, with Masha picking up a poster prize! #OSSC2024
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14 Jun 2024
Fantastic day yesterday for the annual @RSCPerkin meeting, this year at @dundeeuni. Plenty of brilliant talks and posters, not least from our own @TimHilton98 and @MashaMazhuga!
@DDU_Dundee @StAndrewsChem
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27 May 2024
A fascinating dive into the chemistry of germanium. Thank you to colleagues, funding bodies, and collaborators who made this work possible.
@StAndrewsChem @BurleyResearch @StAndrewsXray
27 May 2024
A new element makes its way into the Watson Group repertoire!
Check out our first foray into the world of germanium in the context of CuAAC chemistry, in collaboration with @BurleyResearch!
The pre-print is available here on @ChemRxiv:
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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27 May 2024
A new element makes its way into the Watson Group repertoire!
Check out our first foray into the world of germanium in the context of CuAAC chemistry, in collaboration with @BurleyResearch!
The pre-print is available here on @ChemRxiv:
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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10 May 2024
Get to know John J. Molloy (@Johnjmol) in this #YoungCareerFocus 👨🔬. Discover the academic journey of this 2024 Thieme Chemistry Journals Awardee and explore the research that earned him this recognition 🎉:
📖 brnw.ch/21wJDWT
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9 May 2024
Great work from former group member @MattJAndrews within a fantastic team! Congratulations also to those from @BurleyResearch, @LloydJonesLab, and @GSK for providing fascinating mechanistic insights into ynamine-based CuAAC chemistry!
7 May 2024
Our latest publication from the group is out in @J_A_C_S .
Great collaboration with @allanjbwatson @LloydJonesLab and @GSK exploring t why ynamines are great click substrates. Work is supported by @LeverhulmeTrust @GSK @EPSRC @BBSRC
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9 May 2024
Congratulations to @john_mcguff and @_marekvarga, as their work on the synthesis of complex BOBs via Rh-catalysed [2 2 2] cycloaddition has been highlighted in @OPRD_ACS!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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7 May 2024
Our latest publication from the group is out in @J_A_C_S .
Great collaboration with @allanjbwatson @LloydJonesLab and @GSK exploring t why ynamines are great click substrates. Work is supported by @LeverhulmeTrust @GSK @EPSRC @BBSRC
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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3 May 2024
Very pleased to now be Dr Kane 🎉 a dramatic close to an incredible 3.5 years in the Watson lab, and it was great to meet @VarinderAggar11 in the process to talk all things boron 🧪
3 May 2024
Congratulations to our Boron Boii @KaneACB for passing his viva today and becoming Dr. Bastick! A traditional plunge into the sea marks the end of a great 3.5 years - not a bad effort for a Natural Scientist 😉
Many thanks to @VarinderAggar11 and @ADS10_StAndrews for examining!
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3 May 2024
One of the top cited #SYNLETT articles in 2023 you shouldn´t miss!
by Kane Bastick and Allan Watson @watson_group @StAndrewsChem
free access 👉 brnw.ch/21wJqT4
#boron #catalysis #chemoselectivity #homologation #diversityorientedsynthesis
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24 Apr 2024
Happy to share some recent work on a dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformation just out in @ChemicalScience with @ADS_StAndrews. Well done everyone involved, especially Aífe (now in Manchester @greaneygroup)!
#compchem @ADS_GroupStA @StAndrewsChem
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3 Apr 2024
Day 2 at Edinburgh Science Festival!
Happy to be here as a part of Boron:Beyond the reagent
@EPSRCboron @StAndrewsChem @EdSciFest @EdinburghChem @UoMPharmaOpt
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1 Apr 2024
Another chapter in the [2 2 2] odyssey! We investigate the substrate scope of internal alkynes in our process, metal-ligand recovery as well as catalyst reactivation.
18 Mar 2024
Congrats to @john_mcguff for publishing
this neat work in Synlett, assessing the scope and limitations of unactivated internal alkynes for Rh-catalysed [2 2 2] cycloadditions! @StAndrewsChem @thiemechemistry
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4 Feb 2022
Our second #PhDposition is in synthetic methodology playing with palladium and novel organoboron reagents - see our website to make informal inquiries watsongroup.wp.st-andrews.ac…
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29 Mar 2024
Congrats to @john_mcguff and @_marekvarga, whose stellar work on complex benzoxaborocycles (BOBs) has been highlighted in synfacts! @thiemechemistry
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Accessing Rare alpha-Heterocyclic Aziridines via Bronsted Acid-catalyzed Michael Addition/Annulation: Scope, Limitations, and Mechanism (Allan J. B. Watson and co-workers) @timhilton98 @allanjbwatson @watson_group @StAndrewsChem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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28 Feb 2024
Out now on synthesis workshop! The full story behind the development and applications of our Pd-catalysed boron homologation last year with @watson_group . Many thanks to @MatthewHorwitz1 for inviting me and Hamideh for editing! @EPSRCboron
28 Feb 2024
Today we have an exciting mid-week bonus talk from Kane Bastick @KaneACB (Watson group, Uni of St Andrews) who shares his work on palladium-catalyzed homologation strategies!
Link: youtu.be/-LV3bUHLaNI
@ACSCatalysis 2023, 13, 7013.
Synlett 2023, 34, 2029. @thiemechemistry
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9 Feb 2024
Always great to work with the @AndySuthLab group! Congrats all! @StAndrewsChem @EPSRCboron
9 Feb 2024
Congrats to @hollymcerlain (@UofGChem) and @MattJAndrews on the discovery of a copper pre-catalyst that allows a step-change in the radioiodination of arenes published in @JOC_OL. Another great collaboration with Sally Pimlott and the @watson_group. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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5 Feb 2024
Tim’s paper has found a home in @ChemEurope. Congratulations @TimHilton98 and @an_andrew_leach!
@watson_group @StAndrewsChem
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