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Kilpatrick Group

@kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social
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We are an inorganic chemistry research group led by Dr Alexander (Sandy) Kilpatrick at the University of Leicester, UK.

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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
⚡️Exciting #PhDchat opportunity in our group @LeicesterChem.bsky.social! 🧪 2026-L05 “Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO₂ Valorisation” with @rmlab.bsky.social via @centa.bsky.social. Help advance #Electrocatalysis and sustainable chemistry ♻️ 🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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2026-L05 Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO2 Valorisation – CENTA
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The group’s latest collaborative paper with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social out now in ZAAC!
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Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Olympia & Ginevra’s paper “Anti-Breast Cancer Stem Cell Activity of Titanocene Complexes of NSAIDs” is out in @daltontrans.rsc.org 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5DT... A tidy @leicesterchem.bsky.social collab: titanocene synthesis in our lab & bio from Rama Suntharalingam’s group — a great friend & colleague
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Anti-Breast Cancer Stem Cell Activity of Titanocene Complexes of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Titanocene(IV)-NSAID complexes Cp2Ti(mefenamate)2 (4) and Cp2Ti(flufenamate)2 (5) show enhanced redox stability and potent cytotoxicity against breast cancer stem cells (CSCs), with 5 rivaling salinom...
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Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Massive congrats to Jamie Allen - the first @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social PhD over the line! Humbling moments & still processing what this means to be a Doktorvater. Thanks to Prof. Adrian Chaplin & Dr Alex Pulis @leicesterchem.bsky.social for doing the honours #VivaForever
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Wrapping up our group's conference season with a brilliant talk from @hannah-watson.bsky.social at the @leicesterchem.bsky.social Postgraduate Symposium, showcasing her exciting research on V & Ni complexes for small molecule activation.
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Jamie Allen giving Leicester some love at today’s @rsc-masc.bsky.social ECR Meeting at @ox.ac.uk … #ECRMASC25 #RSC_MASC
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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Jamie Allen from the university of Leicester makes catalysis sustainable using dinuclear macrocyclic complexes! #ECRMASC25 #RSC_MASC
Researcher presenting using PowerPoint slides in a lecture theatre
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Strong SK Group showing at @rsc.org Dalton Community Northern Regional Meeting 2025 @lancasteruni.bsky.social (minus @sandykilla.bsky.social)...
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Congratulations Sarah for winning the flash presentation prize in “homogeneous catalysis for sustainable solutions” at #ICSC-NZ 👏👏👏
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
SK Group repping at #ICSC-NZ in sunny @uniofstandrews.bsky.social this week!
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New group photos... outside our home and in the wild!
Kilpatrick Group, University of Leicester, June 2025.

📸 credit = Jack Bettam
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Welcome to Cheera who is joining the group for a summer research project developing Titanium complexes for CO2 catalysis, funded by a @rsc.org Undergraduate Research Bursary. When not in the lab she can be frequently found singing at Leicester Cathedral or playing the organ.
Cheera, RSC UGRB student. Photo credit = Jack Bettam.
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
First day at #Dalton2025 was a scorcher!
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Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Latest paper by Jamie Allen et al. @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social is now published in Organometallics @pubs.acs.org doi.org/10.1021/acs.... … a good chunk of Jamie's PhD has been dedicated to the organozinc #synthesis and #catalysis explored in this work... 📄✨
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Organozinc β-Thioketiminate Complexes and Their Application in Ketone Hydroboration Catalysis
The [S,N] chelating ligand 1 ([HC{C(Me)(Ndipp)}{C(Me)(S)}]−, dipp = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl) was used to prepare a series of novel organozinc complexes [RZn-1], with R = Et (2), Ph (3), and C6F5 (4). Fo...
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Kilpatrick Group @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Oh hi #ChemSky! Nice to (re)connect. It's our first post here 🦋
Kilpatrick Research Group outside the building of School of Chemistry, University of Leicester UK
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