📢We are hiring!!📢 🧪One PhD position available in our group in the field of organic synthesis and photochemistry starting in January 2023! If you are interested, please send an email to Manuel Nappi with your CV, cover letter and degree transcript! nappichem.com

Congrats to Bo and Ala on publication of their multicomponent method for the synthesis of a-chloro alkylboronic esters in Cell Chem (Chem)! Ala now has her own group, drop her a follow Bunescu Lab for PhD and postdoc opportunities and great science! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Huge congrats to my friend and colleague Georgia Harris on her paper on asymmetric photocatalytic a-tertiary amine synthesis! It was a pleasure to work with her on the racemic reaction and awesome to see her hard work on the asymmetric version now out in print. Have a read 👇👇

This LGBTQ+ history month the Cambridge Queer in Chemistry Network have put together a poster exhibition celebrating LGBTQ+ chemists. If you’re in the department please check it out #QiCN 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Today we launched Cambridge Chemistry Gender Equality Network, a network promoting gender equality in chemistry. So grateful and excited to be part of this amazing community. Please give us a follow! #IWD2023

Benzylic oxetane and azetidine radicals generated by photocatalysis undergo an irreversible Giese-type reaction where typical unstrained benzylic radicals add reversibly. In #JOrgChem from Maryne Dubois Juan J. Rojas Alistair Sterling Francisco Duarte Bull Group Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

📢 Interested in pursuing PhD research in synthetic organic chemistry or computational organic chemistry? Several home fee PhD positions, starting 10/23, are available at the SynTech CDT University of Cambridge in Cambridge Chemistry. Contact us at [email protected] with CV and cover letter ASAP.

We are advertising for a postdoc to join our 4-membered rings project: jobs.ac.uk/job/DDX319/res… Come join us Imperial Chemistry! #oxetanes #bioisosteres #latestagefunctionalization

📣 Two new postdoc opportunities in the group 📣 looking at new synthetic methods for the modification of biomacromolecules such as RNA. 🧪🧬 Follow the link for more details and feel free to get in touch with us, or Matt directly, with any questions. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44334/

the latest chapter in our quest for a general alkylamine synthesis platform. Carbonyl alkylation amination to make secondary amines and some interesting applications. Congratulations to the team, led by Milo Smith and supporter by Ryan Kang. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Happy to share a preprint of my work on secondary amine synthesis with The Gaunt Group! Very grateful to Ryan, Roopender (The Kumar Lab) and Biswarup for their contributions, and Matthew Gaunt for his support and guidance. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Heterobenzylic amines made easy – a distinct variant of our multicomponent CAA methodology mediated by indium - preprint now available on ChemRxiv! 🎉 Congrats Alex (Alex Rafaniello) and Roopender (The Kumar Lab)! Check it out 👇 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

This week we continue our Advanced Organic Chemistry course as Georgia Harris gives us an introduction to radicals - check it out!! Link to the talk: youtu.be/MX8HsNE_GRo Thanks to Aidan Looby for hosting and Thomas Verheyen for a great problem set! synthesis-workshop.com/#problem-sets

We currently have a few posts available to join our team! If you know anyone interested in teaching practical chemistry please get in touch/show them the link! Oxford Chemistry my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Looking for your first step towards an independent career? We offer a 3-year-independent fellowship to support postdoc researchers from backgrounds under-represented in chemistry (e.g., women, minority ethnic, LGBTQI+, disabled, low-income backgrounds) shorturl.at/RBBpV

The group’s latest teaching paper is out. This time we show how we’ve used TLC-MS throughout our practical course.Craig Campbell doi.org/10.1002/rcm.98…

Our Carbonyl Azinylative amination (CAzA) for the synthesis of α-heteroaryl amines is now out in Angewandte Chemie! Congrats Alex (Alex Rafaniello), Roopender (The Kumar Lab) and Rachel!🎉 Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Now out in Chemical Science!! Thanks again to Ryan Kang, Roopender Kumar, Biswarup and Matthew Gaunt - check it out here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Very happy to share our last work: "Deoxygenative Z-selective olefination of aliphatic alcohols", now in ChemRxiv 🎉! Congrats Sai (Sai Narayanan ), Irene (Irene Sánchez Sordo), Carla (Carla Aira Rodríguez) and Emanuele (Emanuele Azzi), amazing work! Check it out 👇 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Congrats to Dylan and Stephen for their method to glycosylate cotylenol and access 14-3-3 protein-client molecular glues! tinyurl.com/2y45ck4n Donor linker design was aided by Stephen’s “autoDFT” and solved a common problem in terpenoid synthesis: contrasteric glycosylation.