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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Boron researcher Chen Li from the @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social group was delighted to receive a BCSJ Award for his outstanding poster at this month's @iupac.org International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry in Munich. Congratulations Chen🎉

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our Boron: Beyond the Reagent researchers thoroughly enjoyed presenting their posters and talks at the IMEBoron-18 Conference in Tokyo last week. Thank you to the organisers for running such a fantastic conference!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Earlier this month Boron PI Prof Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS was in Hong Kong as a member of the Physical Sciences Panel for the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2026. Guy is pictured below with the other members of the panel. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Last month, Boron Co-I and PDRA Andrew Leach and Lia Sotorrios, along with fellow Leach Group member Nikeel Cull, had the pleasure of running a Molymods activity at the Onward Homes Brunswick Community Fun Day, great fun was had by all! www.onward.co.uk/sunshine-and...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's been a busy time for Boron researchers over the summer, here is a throwback to the UoE Joseph Black conference where Boron PhD student Tracy Huang from the McKeown group won the Best Poster Prize for his poster 'Towards Boron containing Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (B-PIMs). 🎉

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This summer Boron PDRA Lia Sotorrios and the Leach group at The University of Manchester welcome interns Isabelle Reid and Lin Hasan Abhari. Izzy is working on a boron reaction mechanism project, and Lin is working on an AI Drug Discovery project. Great to have you both!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Last week the Ingleson group had the pleasure of hosting S5 student Abdulmalik Babalola to find out more about what a career in a chemistry lab involves. It was inspiring to engage with such a dedicated and enthusiastic student, best of luck for your future studies Abdulmalik!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It was a double celebration for Boron PhD student Chen Li from @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social group last week. 🎉 Chen passed his viva and was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad for his Boroxines work published in JACS. Congratulations Chen!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Boron Co-I Mike Ingleson is looking forward to giving a lecture at the kick off meeting of the BoronPRO Collaborative Research Center at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg this week. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/boronpro/

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Boron Co-I Stephen Thomas thoroughly enjoyed presenting some boron chemistry at the EPSRC CDT in Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis Summer Conference earlier this month.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We are delighted to announce that Varinder Aggarwal, Dennis Hall, @rebeccamelen.bsky.social and Mary Watson will deliver the Plenary Lectures at our Boron 2027 International Conference. www.boron.ac.uk/news-1/annou...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Boron Co-I Mike Ingleson enjoyed presenting at the Core-to-Core annual conference organised by the @ezc-group.bsky.social at St Andrews yesterday. Mike's talk, 'Applying “novel” boron Lewis acids in the field of TADF materials' prompted some thought provoking questions during the Q&A session.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We have two @rsc.org prize winners in the Boron team - Lia Sotorrios has won the Dalton Horizon Prize as part of Team SMOM, and @chemguyeli.bsky.social has been awarded the Tilden Prize for Chemistry. Congratulations to all of the prize winners 🎉

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Boron researchers Anna and Mat presented their work at the @rsc.org Main Group Interest Group Annual Meeting & AGM last week. Anna's talk 'Two heads are better than one – Proximal diborylation of arenes' and Mat's poster were both very well received, prompting some great scientific discussions.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Boron PhD students Masha, Mia and Joanna had a great time at the Craigmillar Community Science Festival last week engaging with young people and their adults over some molymod and glovebox activities inspired by their research.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to his lectures at Indiana University next week. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

During the Feb break, Boron PhD Mia Harris had the privilege of running activities as part of the Discover! Programme. The Discover! programme is a community project that engages with young learners & their families that are underrepresented in higher education. education.gov.scot/resources/ch...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Lia Sotorrios had a fantastic time at the @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop in Vienna last week, her talk was very well received and she would like to thank all of the event organisers.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Congratulations to Kevin, Andy and Will on their @synlettjournal.bsky.social paper! www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Thank you to our industrial panelists who gave their time to join online Q&A sessions with researchers earlier this month. Researchers were given insights into some of the different careers paths of chemistry PhD holders and had their questions answered in engaging and interactive online sessions.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to hosting Tim Clark on Thursday for his lecture 'Developing Synthetic Tools in Organoboron Chemistry to Access Phosphonates and Phosphines.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for 2026 from the Boron: Beyond the Reagent team.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS is looking forward to speaking at the @rsc.org NMR Discussion Group Winter Meeting in Burlington House on Thursday. His talk will be "Mixing it up: mechanisms by NMR". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Prof Mike Ingleson enjoyed giving his final Dalton Mid Career Prize Lecture of the series at the School of Chemistry, University of Leicester last week. Many thanks to the organisers. @rsc.org

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Prof Steve Thomas enjoyed attending the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic chemistry poster symposium 2025 at Burlington House yesterday. He is pictured here with PhD student Julie Macleod and her poster 'Colourimetric Detection of Hidden Catalysis'. Read the Nature paper here: lnkd.in/eM2yWQxf

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We have recently welcomed a new PhD student to the Boron team; Baptiste Boyer has joined the Watson Group in St Andrews working on boron-based methodology. Welcome Baptiste!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS thanks his host, Prof Jin-Quan Yu, and the organisers of the @bristolmyerssquibb.bsky.social Lecture at @scripps.edu. Guy is pictured with Jennifer Riggs PhD, Head of Medicinal Chemistry West at BMS, Prof Yu and fellow academic staff. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Boron Co-I Prof. Russell Morris gave his views on the applications of MOFs in this @chemistryworld.com article. edin.ac/3JE6dlh PhD student Daniela Rocha is part of the 'Smart Materials' workstream in the Morris Group, St Andrews - seen here leading outreach at the 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to giving the Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture on Friday at Scripps Research. His talk is titled "Kinetics and Mechanism by NMR Spectroscopy". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social @scripps.edu

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Boron PhD student Anna Schellbach presented her research last week as part of the Edinburgh School of Chemistry PhD Seminar series. Thank you to the organisers. Her talk was very well received with lots of excitement in the room regarding some recent results. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

@chemguyeli.bsky.social is looking forward to taking part in the Wiley Online Advanced Summit next week. web.cvent.com/event/684b09...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Congratulations to Boron team members Chen Li, Lia Sotorrios, Patrick Boaler, Andrew Leach and Guy Lloyd-Jones et al on their JACS paper published last week! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social @an-andrew-leach.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Boron PDRA John Marques dos Santos thoroughly enjoyed showcasing his research at the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium last month on Organic Semiconductor Materials in Germany. He presented his poster 'Synergistic Intergration of BINAP and MR-TADF Motifs for Enhanced OLED Performance'.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to returning to Bath where he completed his PhD studies to give the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize Lecture @rsc.org

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Boron PhD student Salil Kumar Jana thoroughly enjoyed presenting his poster 'A Molecular Design Strategy for Solution-Processed MR-TADF Emitters via Nitrogen-Linked Boron Based Building Blocks' at last month's Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium in Frankfurt.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Happy #ResearchAdministratorDay to all of our lovely research administration staff across our institutions. Thank you for all you do! #ARMA #CelebratingResearch #BehindEveryDiscovery

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Congrats to PhD student Julie Macleod & Prof Stephen Thomas on their paper in Nature Portfolio Chemistry - 'Colorimetric Indication of Hidden Catalysis'. Special mention to Julie as the single experimental author on this paper! chem.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... @spthomasgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

During Postdoc Appreciation Week we are saying a huge thank you to all Boron PDRAs past and present. #NPAW #LovePostdocs

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Boron PhD Student Tracy Huang from the McKeown Group had a great time at the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry Organic Section Residential Meeting at Firbush last month. Tracy is pictured here with his poster 'Towards Boron Containing Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (B-PIMs)'

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Congratulations to Boron Co-PI @ajbw.bsky.social on his appointment as Deputy Head of the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews 🎉 Allan is pictured here with fellow Boron Co-Is @chemguyeli.bsky.social and Andy Smith.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Congratulations to Prof. Mike Ingleson et al on their most recent paper - Catalytic Transfer Zincation Using Ammonium Cations. pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Gregor Cargill presented some very successful work from his 'Borylation Directed Double Borylation' summer project in the Ingleson group, we look forward to seeing it in print soon!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Congratulations to Boron Co-I Steve Thomas who started as Head of Organic Chemistry within the University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry last week. @spthomasgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Last month the Leach Group thoroughly enjoyed attending the WATOC2025 conference in Oslo & would like to thank all of the organisers. Boron PDRA & PhD student Lia Sotorrios & Mauno Lius both presented posters which stimulated some great scientific discussions with delegates.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The Ingleson group have recently welcomed MChem student Gregor Cargill to the lab for the summer to work on 'Boron Directed Borylation', lovely to have you Gregor!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Boron PDRA Mat Cross from the Ingleson group enjoyed presenting his poster at the EaStCHEM ECR Conference earlier this month, thank you to the organisers for putting on a great event!

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Boron PhD students Mauno Lius & Chen Li had a great time presenting posters at the @rsc.org Physical Organic Chemistry Interest group Postgrad meeting at @astra-zeneca.bsky.social Macclesfield on Friday. Congratulations also go to Chen for winning the best poster prize! @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

There were lots of great talks and posters from PhD students at the UoE School of Chemistry Joseph Black Conference last week. Boron PhD student Chen Li from the @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social gave an interesting and well received talk 'The Boroxine-Boronic Acid Equilibrium'.

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Boron: Beyond the Reagent EPSRC Programme Grant @epsrcboron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Prof. Steve Thomas is looking forward to speaking at CANUK this week in Quebec. @rsc.org

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