April 2024
Fáinché wins Poster Prize
Congratulations to Fáinché for winning best poster at this years Scottish Dalton conference at the University of Glasgow. Her poster showcased her latest work on the diversity of NHC-Aluminium hydride reduction chemistry.
January 2024
We Are Hiring!
3 Year PhD and PDRA positions available to work on "Developing a Future Green Economy through Aluminium Bimetallics" funded by the EPRSC
The projects will design and develop new metal-metal bonded bimetallic systems, with the aim of accelerating understanding of how the two metals work in tandem to effect bond activations and catalytic turnover. This will provide an entry point into establishing new catalysts based upon sustainable earth abundant metal centres.
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Key Skills:
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Synthesis and Characterisation of air- and moisture-sensitive organometallic compounds
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Reactivity Studies and Mechanistic Insights
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Structure-Activity Relationships
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Homogeneous Catalysis
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Informal enquiries about the posts can be directed to Dr Catherine Weetman, (catherine.weetman@strath.ac.uk).
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October 2023
New Term, New Students!
Cameron and Madeleine join the team as part of their final year research projects.
August 2023
Poster Prize for Michelle
Congratulations to Michelle who won the Poster Prize at this years Dalton Younger Members Event at the University of Birmingham. Her poster showcased her recent work on the Synthesis of Alkali Metal Ureaphosphine complexes.
July 2023
New Investigator Award
Celebrations all round as Cath receives a EPSRC New Investigator Award. Funding will enable us to develop a Future Green Economy through Aluminium Bimetallics
PDRA and PhD positions to be advertised at the end of the year!
June 2023
Graduation
Congratulations to Taylor and Cameron on finishing your MChem degrees!
April 2023
Poster Prize for Fáinché
Congratulations to Fáinché who won the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Poster Prize at this years Dalton Joint Interest Groups Meeting at the University of Warwick. Her poster showcased her recent work on N-Heterocyclic stabilised Aluminium Halides and Hydrides.
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Cath also gave a talk on 'Development of Flexible NHC ligands for Main Group complexes' in the main group session.
