21/04/2023
Happy Birthday Anastasia!
The Polyzos Research Group is focussed on the discovery of catalytic organic reactions for complex m
The Polyzos Research Group is focussed on the discovery of catalytic reactions and the development of enabling technologies to address two frontier challenges in modern chemistry:
Firstly achieving the direct synthesis of structurally diverse and complex organic molecules with the enzyme-like efficiency observed in Nature, and secondly developing efficient, sustainable methods for molecular assembly.
21/04/2023
Happy Birthday Anastasia!
20/12/2021
Congratulations to Jose on submitting his thesis! An award-worthy effort. Awesome work Jose aka ‘Caveman’. 🥳🥳🥳
31/07/2021
A triple birthday celebration always a good start to group meetings. 🎉🎉🎉 Jose, Milena and Peter!
30/01/2021
And another milestone - congratulations Tyra who submitted her doctoral thesis today! No time to rest however, Tyra will be embarking on a post-doctoral fellowship within the Jones Laboratory. We are proud of you Tyra and we’ll miss you!
30/01/2021
Introducing Dr Nenad Micic who was awarded his PhD this week! We’re immensely proud of his research achievements and will miss him as he ventures into an industry career. Congratulations, Dr Micic!!!
17/12/2020
Welcome to the group Jared. Impressed?
20/07/2020
And another one - Happy Birthday Jose!! Celebrating a significant number and an Angewandte Chemie acceptance. Congratulations!!!
17/07/2020
Happy Birthday to Milena! (The Zoom birthday cake worked rather well..).
23/03/2020
Practicing our social distancing before lockdown.
24/02/2020
Congratulations to our inaugural Amgen Scholar, Tayla on completing her research placement with our lab. Tayla smashed the 3 minute thesis presentation at Queen’s College
- Well done Tayla!!
23/01/2020
We’re pleased that our latest contribution to palladium and visible light activated C-sp3-H halogenation is accepted in RSC Chemical Science. Congratulations to Milena, Geethi and Tyra!!!
Photoexcited Pd(II) Auxiliaries Enable Light-Induced Control in C(sp3)-H Bond Functionalisation - Chemical Science (RSC Publishing) We report a novel and general method for inert C(sp3)-H bond bromination, chlorination and iodination with alkyl halides. This protocol relies on the visible light irradiation of palladacycle intermediates derived from 8-aminoquinoline ligands, commonly used auxiliaries in C-H activation. The Pd(II)...
21/01/2020
Welcome to Masson Scholar, Vir who will be joining us over the summer. Vir will be investigating new flow photoredox methods💡. And it’s NMR time!