Sir Keir Starmer's Labour spent £1m trying to scrub from the internet a leaked internal investigation that revealed Labour HQ staff had secretly worked to destroy Corbyn's chances of winning the 2017 election electronicintifada.net/content/labour…

This week, Chemistry at Thieme #JournalAwardee Dr. David Nelson Nelson Group Chemistry - University of Strathclyde takes us through some of the key differences between palladium and nickel in catalysis! Full episode: youtu.be/P70tsMMnvHc Key paper: Synthesis 2020, 52, 565-573. doi.org/10.1055/s-0039…

Is there a public livestream for the Strath Spring Graduations today? Strathclyde Union Strathclyde Science

#RobSelects paper of the week J. Am. Chem. Soc.: Nucleophilic aromatic substitution from styrenes catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes via vinyl anion equivalents. #catalysis pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Really pleased our review on the aryne ene reaction will be published soon in Synthesis. Check out the accepted version here: bit.ly/3OCf8Bf Chemistry at Thieme Chemistry_QMUL

Our new two-component Minisci alkylation with photo-induced EDA activation requires only one mild additive and purple light! Many desirable functionalities, including bicyclo[1.1.1] pentyl motifs, are tolerated. See here: doi.org/10.1039/D2SC01… in Chemical Science

John Murphy (Strathclyde) braving the jet lag to deliver a lecture full of deep mechanistic insights at #RMC2022

From Mick Lynch. Solidarity RMT

Many thanks to all my students, my FSU colleagues, my friends and collaborators all over the world! This award would be impossible without you! news.fsu.edu/news/science-t…

my pet hate is big names in radical chemistry not even bothering to use fish hook arrows properly

WOW Rishi Sunak saying the quiet bit out loud… Boasting of his plans to take money from “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns. Via The New Statesman

Opatz, Alabugin, and co-workers Igor Alabugin Florida State University Universität Mainz report a theoretical study showing two paths to oxidative C-H Amination under basic conditions #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

We can’t wait to welcome you to #strathchem in 3 days for our on campus Open Day! Meet our staff and students, hear from our course experts, enjoy our live Whizz Bang Chemistry Show and explore our labs 🧪 Find out more strath.ac.uk/openday #openday

New from the group: Highly Selective α-Aryloxyalkyl C-H Functionalisation of Aryl Alkyl Ethers - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Is there shorthand for isopentyl? "i-Pen" lol?

Surely the list of analysis to bin starts with IR, not 13C NMR...

Murphy Group Xmas lunch! With current and former members of the group

The unusual behavior of KOtBu/hydrosilane continues to perplex us. No metal catalyst needed in this CF3-cleaving reductive defunctionalization of trifluoromethylpyridines. Just published in J Org Chem/Org Lett. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

#ProcterPOW: The Stuart group reports an alternative route to aryne intermediates via regioselective installation and ejection of a sulfonium group, allowing diversification of benzenoid rings with increased 📈functional group tolerance.🔗👇 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Day 3 of #PSRC10 in Kyoto - Prof. Murphy presenting work on Assaying Radical Pathways Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry