
Samantha Lau
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Instrument tech @UniofBath. Ex-PDRA @GroupWebster and @chaplinlab. Trying to find a way to blow some scientific glass.
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30-06-2016 16:25:44
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PhD Available - We have a fully-funded GSK iCase Studentship co-supervised with Matthew N. Grayson to start in Sep 2021 - Looking at iron catalysis, synthesis and using machine learning to access new reactions! Closing date 14th March. More details in link⬇️findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

Review: Amine-Boranes as Transfer Hydrogenation and Hydrogenation Reagents: A Mechanistic Perspective by Ruth L. Webster et al. (University of Bath) #hydrogenation #TransferHydrogenation #mechanisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…


Fe salen-mediated hydroboration, unearthed by Sam, Cei and Alex, has been published in DaltonTransactions! Nice work all. 🧪 Samantha Lau pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I have a PhD position available in my lab exploring low oxidation state main group chemistry! Fully funded. Option for Feb/June 2022 start date. Sadly only UK/settled status applicants due to funding restrictions. Please retweet. King's Chemistry findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Happy New Year! Samantha Lau cooking up a treat in lab and kitchen! Mirela Johnson Thomas Hood Tom Linford-Wood


PDRAs Thomas Hood and Samantha Lau, Sam Neale, Josh Tibbetts, @BurgevinFannie Kyle Pearce organised the annual Bath Chemistry Researchers Symposium today! Great talks on show and fab organisation! Thanks to the sponsors and congrats Sam for winning best talk! Chemistry@Bath Uni


Huge congratulations Ruth! Hard work paying off. Ruth has received the Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship from the RSC for her work on Fe catalysis. #RSCPrizes Royal Society of Chemistry eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…


Adam’s work accepted in Angewandte Chemie! Collaboration with Martin Diefenbach and @vera_krewald! Check it out 👌 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Just out in ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal! Mirela Johnson’s work on dehydropolymerisation, co-supervised by Dr Sara Kyne. Congrats all 🎉 …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Work from the PDRA cooperative Samantha Lau and Thomas Hood just out in ACS Catalysis! A perspective covering challenges in catalytic hydrophosphination. Congrats both! 👏 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Our most recent work, a perspective on the chemistry of PH3, is online! An invited contribution to J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Great work Samantha Lau and Thomas Hood! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Do you know a researcher who might like to start a postdoc position this time next year and is interested in securing their own funding? Would they like to work on main group chemistry at UCD Chemistry in Dublin? Then please forward this information on to them...

The recent publication from Thomas Hood and Samantha Lau on Taming PH3 has featured on TOC ROFL!!! TOC ROFL pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

A new PhD position is available in iron catalysed functionalisation reactions funded by the The Leverhulme Trust !! For more information see: findaphd.com/phds/project/i… Chemistry@Bath Uni University of Bath #PhDposition #PhD

We are recruiting a postdoc in the Hooper group, UCD Chemistry Dublin!! The project is to synthesise low-valent phosphorus species and test them in bond activation processes with a focus on C-F activation. jobs.ac.uk/job/CWV620/ucd…

New publication from the Webster group on elucidating the mechanism of alkyne cyclotrimerization mediated by Fe(III)-μ-oxo(salen)! A collaboration with @vera_krewald Congratulations! 👏🏻Samantha Lau Thomas Hood Mary Mahon ACS Catalysis Chemistry@Bath Uni pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Capture of mechanically interlocked molecules by rhodium-mediated terminal alkyne dimerisation. Foray into supramolecular chemistry from Thomas Hood’s thesis with help from Samantha Lau. Out now in RSC Advances doi.org/10.1039/D4RA00…

New publication from our group in Inorganic Chemistry A series of Iron(II)-bisphosphine complexes reacted with PH3!! Congratulations Samantha Lau Mary Mahon 🎉Chemistry@Bath Uni Cambridge Chemistry #Iron #PH3 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Copper(I) Catalysed Diboron(4) Reduction of Nitrous Oxide. First paper from Thomas Hood’s postdoc available now in final form and open access Angewandte Chemie. Devised over a beer with David Liptrot at Dalton2023. doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…