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2023

  • 5/2023: Preprint published in ChemRxiv describing a blueprint for the stabilisation of subvalent heavy Group 2 complexes. Work led by Alex and in collaboration with Claire McMullin (Bath) and Inigo Vitorica (Manchester). Well done everyone!
  • 4/2023: The group attends the Dalton 2023 conference. Alex and Fabs give oral contributions, whilst Archie and Matthew present posters. Matthew is also one of the winners of the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize for best poster presentation – congratulations Matthew!
  • 4/2023: The group attends the inaugural Midlands Inorganic Discussions meeting in Warwick and Matthew gives an oral contribution.
  • 4/2023: Fabs is awarded an RSC Outreach grant to run a Chemistry Summer School at the University of Leicester.
  • 3/2023: Matthew attends the 19th BCA/CCG Intensive Teaching School in X-ray Structure Analysis in Durham.
  • 3/2023: Ajay and Becky finish their MChem projects and hand in their dissertations. Well done both of you!
  • 3/2023: Matthew passes his viva voce with flying colours and is the first PhD student to graduate from the group. Thanks to Prof. Rab Mulvey and Dr Sandy Kilpatrick for doing the honours. Well done Dr Stevens!
  • 3/2023: Alex, Archie, Elias and Matthew have all been awarded RSC travel bursaries to attend Dalton 2023 in Warwick. Well done everyone!
  • 1/2023: Alex attends the EPR workshop at the EPR National Research Facility in Manchester. Thanks to Prof. David Collison for the opportunity!


2022

  • 9/2022: Archie and Matthew attend XXXI Terrae Rarae in Leipzig and Matthew gives a talk.
  • 9/2022: Elias Alexopoulos (PhD), Ajay Khela (MChem) and Becky Sheppard (MChem) have joined the group – for Becky this is a comeback! Welcome everyone!
  • 9/2022: Fabs gives a talk at MICRA2022 in Durham. Thanks to James Walton for the organisation and fantastic hospitality!
  • 8/2022: Becky has finished her summer placement in the group (with three new crystal structures). Well done Becky!
  • 8/2022: Archie has been awarded an RSC travel bursary to attend Terrae Rarae XXXI in Leipzig. Well done!
  • 7/2022: Hannah receives a Head of School Honourable Mention for her MChem project. Fantastic work Hannah, well done!
  • 7/2022: Matthew presents a poster and Alex gives a talk at ICOMC in Prague. Well done both!
  • 7/2022: New group paper published in Molecules! Work led by Matthew in collaboration with Inigo Vitorica (Manchester) and Lia Sotorrios (Heriot-Watt).
  • 7/2022: First research paper from the group published in Dalton Transactions! Work led by Matthew in collaboration with Inigo Vitorica (Manchester), Stuart Macgregor and Lia Sotorrios (Heriot-Watt). Congratulations everyone!
  • 6/2022: Becky Sheppard has joined the group for her RSC-funded summer placement. Welcome Becky!
  • 5/2022: Alex and Matthew have been awarded travel bursaries from the RSC to attend ICOMC in Prague. Well done both!
  • 5/2022: Hannah and Kale have finished their MChem projects. Thank you both for all the hard work and best of luck with the future!
  • 4/2022: New paper published in Australian Journal of Chemistry from PDRA work with Dave Mills in Manchester, as part of a special issue in honour of Prof. Glen Deacon’s 85th birthday. Happy birthday Glen!
  • 3/2022: Alex, Archie and Matthew attend the ‘Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson: An anniversary celebration’ symposium at Burlington House, London.
  • 2/2022: Yu (Archie) Liu has joined the group as an EPSRC-funded PDRA. Welcome Archie!
  • 2/2022: New review article published in Chemical Reviews on ‘Rare Earth Starting Materials and Methodologies for Synthetic Chemistry’.
  • 1/2022: Fabs gives an invited seminar at the University of York – thanks to Dr Luke Wilkinson for the kind invitation and hospitality!

2021

  • 11/2021: New paper published in Inorganics from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester.
  • 11/2021: Yuqing (Alex) Shao has joined the group on a CSC PhD scholarship. Welcome Yuqing!
  • 10/2021: Hannah Redmill and Kale Cooke have joined the group for their final year MChem projects. Welcome both!
  • 8/2021: New paper published in JACS from PDRA work on uranyl(V) photoluminescence done with Dr Louise Natrajan (Manchester) and in collaboration with Prof. Henry La Pierre (Georgia Tech), Prof. Karsten Mayer (Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Dr Andrew Kerridge (Lancaster).
  • 7/2021: New paper published in Inorganica Chimica Acta from a collaboration with Prof. Debashis Ray (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur – India).
  • 7/2021: Matthew, Alex and Fabs attend the Dalton 2021 Joint Interest Group meeting. Matthew and Alex present posters. Thanks a lot to the organisers for a fantastic event!
  • 6/2021: Fabs is one of the recipients of the 2021 Dalton Division Horizon Prize as part of the Molecular Magnetism Team.
  • 6/2021: Emily has finished her MChem project – best of luck with your future endeavours!
  • 5/2021: New preprint published on ChemRxiv on uranyl(V) luminescence, from PDRA work with Dr Louise Natrajan (Manchester) and in collaboration with Prof. Henry La Pierre (Georgia Tech), Prof. Karsten Mayer (Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Dr Andrew Kerridge (Lancaster).
  • 3/2021: New paper published in Dalton Transactions, from a collaboration with teams from the University of Sassari (Sardinia, Italy), ICIQ (Spain) and Warwick on Pd(II) and Pt(II) chemistry.
  • 2/2021: The group has been awarded a Royal Society Research Grant to study Ce photocatalysis.

2020

  • 12/2020: Matthew’s review on Rare Earth alkylidene chemistry is published in Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry vol. IV. Well done Matthew! (doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-820206-7.00002-0)
  • 09/2020: Alex Bowles (PhD) returns to the lab for his PhD studies, and Emily Spray (MChem) joins the team for her final year research project. Welcome both!
  • 04/2020: Sara and Alex finish their projects in the lab; Alex is awarded an EPSRC DTP studentship and will be joining the team again in September.
  • 04/2020: New paper published in Dalton Transactions from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester.
  • 04/2020: New perspective article on collaborative work in the field of molecular magnetism, in collaboration with Conrad Goodwin (Los Alamos) and Dani Reta (Manchester).
  • 04/2020: New paper published in Chemical Communications from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester.
  • 03/2020: New paper published in Chemistry – A European Journal from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester, in collaboration with Rodolphe Clerac (Bordeaux).
  • 03/2020: New paper published in Physical Review B from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester.
  • 03/2020: Alex has finished his MChem project in the lab – good luck with your future endeavours!
  • 03/2020: New preprint on collaborative work in molecular magnetism, in collaboration with Conrad Goodwin (Los Alamos) and Dani Reta (Manchester).
  • 01/2020: Sara Pischedda (PhD) has joined the group for her Erasmus+ placement. Welcome Sara!

2019

  • 11/2019: New preprint published in ChemRxiv from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester.
  • 10/2019: New paper in collaboration with teams from the University of Sassari and University of Cagliari (Sardinia, IT) on gold(I)-alkene complexes published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
  • 09/2019: Matthew Stevens (PhD) and Alex Bowles (MChem) have joined the group. Welcome both!
  • 06/2019: New review article written with David Mills on low-coordinate f-element chemistry, published as part of the Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths. 
  • 06/2019: Fabs moves into his new office at the Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester!
  • 05/2019: New paper published in Dalton Transactions from PDRA work with David Mills and Nick Chilton at Manchester.
  • 04/2019: New paper published in Chemistry – A European Journal from PDRA work with David Mills at Manchester.
  • 02/2019: Fabs will join the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in June!
  • 02/2019: PhD studentship available to join our group in September 2019.

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