6th Apr 2014 Congratulations to the SGD group football team who were 'unbeaten' in the annual Catalyst football tournament.
28th Mar 2014 Charlotte Zammit's paper on the asymmetric synthesis of C(5)-substituted transpentacins via a diasereoselective Ireland–Claisen protocol has been selected as a HOT article in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
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26th Feb 2014 Rushabh Shah's Organic Letters paper, on the asymmetric synthesis of the natural product nakinadine A, has been selected as an ACS Editors' Choice Article.
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21st Feb 2014 Steve was awarded the degree DR HONORIS CAUSA from the University of Salamanca. He is only the third chemist to receive this honour, the previous two recipients being Sir Derek Barton (1995) and Steve Ley (2005). The University of Salamanca is one of the oldest universities in the world and only awards three honorary doctorates per year.
27th Nov 2013 Rushabh Shah's paper on the synthesis of the marine natural product nakinadine C has been highlighted on the cover of Tetrahedron Letters. [View Journal Page]
20th Nov 2013 Part II Open Day. Download a copy of our poster here.
12th Nov 2013 Congratulations to Dr Rushabh Shah on the completion of his D.Phil.
8th Nov 2013 Congratulations to Kristína Csatayová who was selected to present a poster at the RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium 2013 in London.
31st Oct 2013 Congratulations to Aude Figuccia on being awarded a poster prize at the Pfizer Neusentis Symposium in Oxford.
1st Oct 2013 Congratulations to Aude Figuccia on being selected to attend the Syngenta Postgraduate Scholarships Workshop at Jealotts Hill.
12th Sep 2013 Congratulations to Marta Brambilla who was the only D.Phil. student from Oxford to be selected to attend a drug discovery workshop in Spain, hosted by Eli Lilly.
26th Jul 2013 Steve's walking tour of the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden highlighted the work of Sir Robert Robinson who was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids".