Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant

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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.

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

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

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)'

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.

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

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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!

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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'.

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

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

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

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!

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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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'

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!

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.

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!

Prof Ingleson is looking forward to speaking at the University of Gothenburg on Monday 7th April!

Another PDRA is joining the Boron team! Welcome to Hua Guoxiong in the Russell Morris group at the University of St Andrews.

This week we are welcoming Edinburgh PDRA Dominic Taylor to the group!

Some of the Boron: Beyond the Reagent Scientific Committee came together this week on a sunny day in Edinburgh to discuss research highlights and generate new ideas for cross work package collaboration. A productive and enjoyable afternoon was had by all!

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