Latest News
13/05/25 – Fabian and Gareth’s paper on aluminyls is published in Chemical Science.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DT01774A)
07/05/25 – Aidan celebrates the submission of his PhD! Congratulations Dr Matthews on this huge achievement!
31/03/25 – Becca and Caitlin start their PhDs in the group, and Max commences his Honours year.
20/02/25 – Liesa’s computational paper on carbon monoxide coupling is published in Organometallics.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DT01774A)
12/12/24 – Gareth and Fabi win poster prizes, and Emily wins the RACI Don Stranks Award. Great work from the group!
12/12/24 – Jamie is awarded the Alan Sargeson Lectureship. Congratulations Jamie!
08/12/25 – The group heads to Sydney to present at IC’24.
08/11/24 – Becca and Jess finish their Honours years. Congratulations to them both!
30/07/24 – Jamie has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship!
11/07/24 – Fabian, Aidan and Gareth’s paper on iron aluminyl complexes is published in Dalton Transactions.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DT01774A)
01/07/24 – The group welcomes our two new postdocs, Edgar and Liesa.
28/06/24 – Emily has cleaned her fumehood again!
18/04/24 – Becca and Jessica both receive an AINSE Pathway scholarship for their Honours year. Congratulations to them both!
20/02/24 – Ryan’s paper on the stabilisation of the [SiH6]2− anion is published in Chemistry – A European Journal. (https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202400662)
30/01/24 – The group welcomes new Honours students Jessica and Becca.
07/12/23 – Aidan receives a Best Student Talk Prize at the 14th Australasian Organometallics Meeting (OZOM14).
07/12/23 – Ryan receives a Best Poster Prize at the 14th Australasian Organometallics Meeting (OZOM14).
09/11/23 – Emily’s paper on a transiently generated boryl anion is published in Chemical Communications. (https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC05182J)
31/10-01/11/23 – Ryan and Emily attend the MX Chemical Crystallography workshop at the Australian Synchrotron.
27/08-01/09/23 – Jamie and Li Feng travel to New Zealand to present at ICCOC-GTL17.
01/08/2023 – Emily no longer has an excuse not to clean her fume hood. Looking good!
27/07/23 – Website goes live!
20/07/2023 – Li Feng wins the RACI Don Stranks Award, which ‘recognises outstanding performance in research within a current PhD candidature’
20/07/2023 – Jamie wins the RACI Organometallic Award.
16-21/07/2023 – The group are off to Adelaide to present their work at ICBIC20/IC23.
14/07/2023 – Liam’s paper on the reduction of BODIPY compounds is accepted in Dalton Transactions (https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DT02048G)
01/05/23 – Emily decides to make a group website to procrastinate on cleaning her fume hood.
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