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18/08/26 – Today, Gareth Nelmes submitted his PhD thesis titled “Synthetic and Computational Investigations of Low Valent Main Group Organometallics of Groups XIII and XIV”. Fingers crossed the examiners like it.
12/08/26 – Congratulations to Imogen, who has been awarded the inaugural Bruce Hall-Rotary Club of Belconnen Honours Scholarship.
27/07/26 – Welcome back to Lachlan Hoffman, who returns to the group to commence his PhD.
18/08/26 – End of ICCC, what an amazing conference! And the end of an era for the Hicks group. After 2 years, Liesa and Edgar say goodbye to the group and return to Germany. Good luck with your next adventure in Marburg.
Liesa’s parting gift was receiving the best talk prize at ICCC. Well done Liesa!
27/06/26 – The group (Max, Becca, Harry, Jamie, Caitlin, Liesa, Edgar) arrive in Odense for ICCC. Looking forward to a great week of chemistry.
02/06/26 – Lucas Hopewell joins the group on a 3-month exchange from TUM. Welcome to Australia!
20/04/26 – Emily’s paper on Xanthene-to-fluorene skeletal editing is published in Chemical Science (https://doi.org/10.1039/d6sc01056c)
20/04/26 – Welcome back to Imogen and Darshan, who join the group as Honours students. Imogen will be investigating unsymmetrical molecular calcium hydrides. Darshan will be studying mechanochemical synthesis of f-block metal complexes.
1/03/26 – Congratulations to Li Feng, who successfully submitted his PhD today. His thesis is titled “Di-Amido Xanthene-Stabilised Reactive Main Group Compounds for Small Molecule Activation”
27/01/26 – Welcome back to the group Harry, Max and Lucas. Harry and Max start their PhD research, and Lucas commences his Honours year.
23/10/25 – Congratulations to Harry Allwood and Max Les, who both successfully submitted their Honours theses today. Good luck both.
07/10/25 – Li Feng and Ryan’s paper on Superbasic Anionic Calcium Alkyl Complexes has just been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202514283)
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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