Scott Research Group

The Mehta Group is recruiting a PhD student in Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis.
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me...

We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

If you are interested, apply!

The Pike Group visit Bath for the 2025 Big Research Day Out! We had a great time with the @scottchemistry.bsky.social and Phanopoulos Groups. Great talks from RAs, PhDs, Masters and summer project students. Excellent mini golf, followed by West-country cider and enormous pizzas!

One-pot synthesis of primary phosphines from white phosphorus Aryl and alkyl chlorides are inexpensive and readily accessible, making them ideal reagents for converting white phosphorus (P4) into primary phosphines RPH2. However, methods for achieving this…

Don't miss this recent #HOT Communication by Michael Mende, Jose Cammarata, @scottchemistry.bsky.social and @wolflab.bsky.social

"One-pot synthesis of primary phosphines from white phosphorus"

Read the full Communication here 👇

Yet more results from our work with
@wolflab.bsky.social, just accepted in @chemcomm.rsc.org.

Building on earlier work, we now show how useful primary phosphines can be prepared in one pot directly from P4.

Excellent work from all involved!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Thanks, Chris!

Thanks! Fascinating to see that the same solvent can apparently mediate similar redox transfers in both the oxidative and reductive directions.

Counterintuitive Photochemistry of an Isolated Acridinyl Radical: ConPET via Preassembly, Solvated Electrons, or a Long‐Lived Excited State? Photoredox chemistry has seen a dramatic rise in popularity in recent years, but mechanistic understanding has persistently lagged behind reaction development itself. This is particularly true for th...

New article in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!

A thorough look at an isolated acridinyl radical and its conPET-type photoreactivity, with an emphasis on understanding how SET takes place.

(Dynamic quenching? Preassembly? Solvated electrons? Read and see...)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Another new paper from our ongoing work on elemental phosphorus chemistry with @wolflab.bsky.social, just published in @inorgchemfront.rsc.org.
This time we show how our previously reported P4 hydrostannylation chemistry can be extended to analogues based on Ge and Si.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🚨PDRA position available
Applications for a 2 yr postdoc working on "TM-like" main group chemistry now formally open, deadline April 29th.
Full details in the link below, & happy to answer any questions.
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Counterintuitive Photochemistry of an Isolated Acridinyl Radical: ConPET via Preassembly Despite a Long-Lived Excited State Photoredox chemistry has seen a dramatic rise in popularity in recent years, but mechanistic understanding has persistently lagged behind reaction development itself. This is particularly true for the...

New preprint on ChemRxiv!
Our latest exploration of conPET/e-PRC #photoredox highlights preassembly and "anti-Kasha" reactivity, even in a system with a long ES lifetime.
Thanks to all involved, including collaborators at HUN-REN and Uni of Warwick.
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

We have an open 3rd year Research Associate position in the group to work on heterometallic complexes for C–H activation. Come join us and have fun playing with metals. Deadline to apply is 3rd of April. More details here. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ763/r...

📣Upcoming postdoc position📢

Thanks to @leverhulme.bsky.social we will soon be recruiting a new PDRA to study some unusual redox-active Lewis acid chemistry.
Full advert to follow soon, but in the meantime please feel free to get in touch if interested!