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It’s been a good year for undergraduate students in the Ashley group.  Following research presentations earlier this week, Josh Sapsford has been awarded ‘1st Prize for MSci Research Project Presentation at the Catalysis Symposium’, while Jenny Zhang received an award for ‘Best Overall BSc Research Project Poster’, on top of one for ‘Best BSc Research Project Poster in the Inorganic Section’.  Congratulations to both!

Dan was recently interviewed for the weekly Nature podcast on the subject of gloveboxes, and their use by synthetic chemists.  The full podcast can be found here.

As part of winning the 2015 BASF catalysis award, Andy has given a talk at the Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis, on transition metal-free hydrogenation of C=O compounds.  During the visit, Andy was particularly excited to be shown the first reactor used to produce synthetic ammonia.

Andy has been awarded the 2015 BASF catalysis award, which will be presented at the Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis on June 12th.  The prize, awarded to an outstanding young researcher every two years, has previously been won by well-known names including Tobias Ritter (2011) and Melanie Sanford (2009).

The Ashley group has recently secured CASE award funding from AstraZeneca to support a 3-year PhD project studying ‘frustrated Lewis pair’-catalysed hydrogenation chemistry, to start in October 2015.

(Update:  This position has now been filled, however if you are still interested in joining the Ashley group please get in contact using the form here, or via email.)

Our latest paper, ‘Nonmetal Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Compounds’, has been highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News.

Congratulations to Tom, whose work has recently been published in both Angewandte Chemie and Chemical Communications.

Good news from Angewandte Chemie, which has accepted a communication from Dan, and identified it as a ‘hot paper’.

Congratulations to Duncan, who has been awarded the Evans medal for best inorganic research project.